The Engineering Manager will lead and grow a software engineering team, design and maintain systems, and contribute to product development while mentoring engineers.
CaptivateIQ is the leading Sales Performance Management solution, recognized by Forrester and G2, and trusted by customers including Affirm, Gong, and Figma. With solutions for Sales Planning and Incentives, we help revenue teams automate processes, hit revenue targets, and adapt with business change, ultimately driving efficient growth. It's time to rethink ROI - your return on incentives - with CaptivateIQ.
With backing from Sequoia, Accel, ICONIQ, Sapphire Ventures, and other leading investors, CaptivateIQ is on a mission to enable every company to improve their return on incentives and sales planning.
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.
CaptivateIQ offers the smartest, most flexible way to automate sales commissions and track sales performance - two critical processes that power every successful sales organization on the planet. The Modeling team is responsible for building the first-class modeling experience that powers our customers’ commissions processes.
You will be leading a fast-paced team that ships incrementally and iteratively, using data to drive decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Recruit, inspire, manage and grow a team of software engineers
- Serve as a tech lead/manager, helping drive the team while also delivering on smaller functionality as an IC
- Design, build, and maintain user-facing components, APIs, services, and systems to solve problems and delight users from end-to-end
- Mentor the professional development of each engineer through personal and performance management and coaching
- Work closely with product owners to set priorities, objectives and clarify direction for the engineering team
- Build and evangelize best practices, high engineering and security standards, and continuously improve our codebases and team processes
Requirements:
- 8+ years software development experience as an individual contributor or manager
- 1+ years of Engineering Manager, people management and hands-on engineering management
- Hands on experience as an IC within the last 3 years
- Strong product sense to bridge the gap between product, design, and engineering
- Experience building and shipping market-leading products that delight customers
- Experience building and delivering a product from zero to one
- Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills
- Previous experience in a startup environment
- Strong inclination towards data-driven decision making and measuring impact
- High sense of ownership and accountability with a proven track record of driving top-notch execution
- Collaborative, humble, learner with a strong growth mindset
Bonus points:
- Experience with Python
- Experience in the SaaS market
- Financial modeling experience
Notice to Prospective Candidates:
- Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted.
- We are aware of active recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name, in which individuals pose as our recruiters and post fake remote job openings and make fake job offers on the Internet. Please note, we will never do the following:
- Attempt to correspond with a candidate using a free web-based account, such as an email address that ends in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.
- Make an offer of employment without conducting multiple rounds of interviews face-to-face using secure video-conferencing technology.
- Ask candidates to cash checks to buy equipment on behalf of CaptivateIQ.
- Ask candidates to make a payment in order to be considered for a position.
- Make early requests for candidates' personal information such as date of birth, passport details, credit card numbers, bank details and social security number, etc.
- Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.
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