Engineering Manager

LTK is a leading global technology platform designed to empower lifestyle creators. They are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a fullstack squad focused on creator growth and onboarding, overseeing software development activities and team management in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and people leadership to guide your team’s development, reviews, and maintenance of new features, product requirements documents, technical design documents and functional specifications
• Influence the technical vision for your department through discussions with XFN peers and senior management
• Owns the delivery process and Agile ceremonies, ensuring proper backlog refinement and value delivery in every sprint
• Partner with senior management to identify appropriate metrics to monitor team performance
• Drive a culture of experimentation, leveraging A/B testing and data analytics to validate hypotheses and optimize the creator onboarding and reporting funnels
• Take an active role in hiring, goal setting, performance management, promotions, and retention strategies across your team
• Minimize retention risks and create effective development plans to prepare employees for their next role
• You focus on growing leaders – emphasizing all aspects of the employee lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and employee development)
• Work with the team and stakeholders to break down and prioritize work to reduce technical debt
• Identify and pursue improvements in engineering and organizational process, gathering and using data to support and guide continuous growth in product excellence and engineering productivity
• Drive integration and experimentation of enterprise AI tooling across your team’s workflows to realize new efficiencies and help LTK maintain a competitive advantage

Requirements:

• At least 2+ years in an engineering management role with a proven and consistent history of leading, hiring, coaching, and performance management of developers
• Experience managing a fullstack team
• Proven experience in rapid, continuous releases, used to shipping multiple times a day
• Able to drive productivity and motivate a team to full project completion
• Detail oriented, with proven methods for tracking project delivery and managing-up progress
• Proven ability to mentor and grow engineers across diverse technical backgrounds
• Ability to build, maintain, and influence XFN product and design relationships to accomplish team objectives
• 8+ years experience with software development, architectures and infrastructure
• Demonstrates consistent utilization of AI within daily workflows and actively experiments to discover novel applications to improve your reach
• Measures efficiency and quality gains from AI adoption, drives the feedback loop for continuous improvement based on the results
• Proven track record of delivering user-facing, high-visibility features
• Deep expertise in at least one stack (Backend, Web, or iOS) with a working knowledge and the ability to influence direction across the others
• History of building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment
• Experience working in a Dockerized environment
• Experience in building products and features in CI/CD environments
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, Glue (among others)
• Have built scalable internal and public facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP)
• Have built AI powered products
• Knowledge of affiliate advertising space
• Onboarding flows
• User performance analytics and reporting