About CaptivateIQ
CaptivateIQ is a leading sales commission platform — recognized by industry analysts, including Forrester, as well as reputable marketplaces like G2. We are trusted by category leaders and innovators like Gong, Lattice, and DataRobot.
With backing from Sequoia, Accel, ICONIQ, and other leading investors, CaptivateIQ is on a mission to enable every company to take control of commission management. Come and see why Glassdoor and Comparably have recognized CaptivateIQ as a best place to work!
About the Role
Behind every great software company is the team building it. We are an engineering team of multicultural, highly collaborative, fully distributed, humble learners. We pride ourselves on building best-in-class products powered by innovative technologies.
As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Platform Pillar, you will lead two foundational teams: Core Platform and Integrations & IAM (IIAM). These distributed teams are at the heart of our product, responsible for everything from our core event-driven architecture, APIs, and data connectors to identity, access management, and authentication workflows. This is a high-impact, strategic role for a leader who is passionate about building the scalable, reliable, and secure foundation that enables the entire engineering organization to deliver value to our customers. You will be a key leader in our growing Polish engineering hub, partnering with the local Engineering Director to shape the culture and scale the organization in Europe.
Responsibilities
- Lead, inspire, and grow multiple distributed software engineering teams, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety.
- Develop engineering talent through effective coaching, mentorship, and performance management, with a focus on growing senior and staff-level engineers.
- Own the end-to-end delivery and operational excellence of your teams' portfolio, ensuring critical user-facing systems are reliable and secure at scale.
- Partner with Product, Design, and other cross-functional leaders to set a clear vision, prioritize roadmaps, and align a long-term strategy that optimizes for the entire organization.
- Provide technical leadership and direction by setting architectural guardrails and guiding major technical decisions without being a direct code contributor.
- Establish and uphold rigorous engineering standards, including SLAs/SLOs, security best practices, and QA processes to accelerate delivery and improve product health.
- Champion inclusive, async-first practices to ensure your teams, distributed across an ~8-hour time zone spread, can collaborate effectively.
Bonus points:
- Experience with Python.
- Experience in the B2B SaaS market.
- Demonstrated experience with modern, event-driven systems and scalable worker frameworks.
- Strategic experience designing and scaling an API/Open API to foster a robust integrations ecosystem.
- Experience building and operating complex data connector ecosystems, including with iPaaS solutions like Workato.
- Experience building Identity, Authentication, or Access Management (IAM) solutions
Requirements:
- Extensive software development experience as an individual contributor, and a proven track record as an Engineering Manager leading multiple, distributed software engineering teams.
- A strong product sense and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results across the full product lifecycle. This includes experience with B2B SaaS products, from backend services and APIs to the critical user-facing workflows they support.
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical depth, diving deep into complex architectural problems and guiding senior engineers to sound decisions.
- A strategic thinker, comfortable setting technical vision over a 6-12 month horizon and managing a complex portfolio of projects.
- Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners in a remote-first environment.
- A track record of hiring and developing senior talent, with a passion for helping engineers advance their careers.
- High sense of ownership and a strong growth mindset; you are a collaborative, humble learner who can thrive in a fast-paced environment.
