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CaptivateIQ is a leading sales commission platform — recognized by industry analysts and leading marketplaces. With backing from Sequoia, Accel, ICONIQ, and other investors, CaptivateIQ helps companies manage commissions. CaptivateIQ has been recognized as a best place to work by Glassdoor and Comparably.
About The Role
Behind every great software company is a collaborative engineering team. We are an engineering team of multicultural, highly collaborative, fully distributed, humble learners. We build best-in-class products powered by innovative technologies.
As an Engineering Manager in the Incentive Commission Plans (ICM) Pillar, you will lead the Payee team. This distributed team ensures that customers- incentive-compensated staff receive timely and accurate insights into their pay and earnings opportunities through a modern interface tailored to their needs. You will partner with the local Engineering Director to shape the culture and scale the organization in Europe.
Responsibilities
- Lead, inspire, and grow a distributed software engineering team, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety
- Develop engineering talent through effective coaching, mentorship, and performance management
- 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 execute on 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 distributed teams across time zones can collaborate effectively
Requirements
- 2+ years of Engineering Manager, people management and hands-on engineering management
- Extensive software development experience as an individual contributor or manager
- A strong product sense and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results across the full product lifecycle for B2B SaaS products, from backend services and APIs to user-facing workflows
- Demonstrated ability to provide technical depth, diving deep into complex architectural problems and guiding engineers to sound decisions
- Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, with the 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 grow
- High ownership and growth mindset; collaborative, humble learner who thrives in a fast-paced environment
Bonus points
- Experience with Python / TypeScript & React
- Experience in the B2B SaaS market
- Experience delivering high-performance, data-intensive user interfaces and robust APIs
Notice to Prospective Candidates
- Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted
- We are aware of recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name and will never request sensitive information or payments to be considered for a position
- We will only request sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime
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- Engineering and Information Technology
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- Software Development
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