Engineering Manager

About the opportunity

As an Engineering Manager at Contentful, you are responsible for advancing and maintaining healthy engineering teams, ensuring that we’re building a great product for our customers.

What to expect?

Lead a team of software engineers in implementing high-quality applications and services including design, development, and deployment of new business functionality

Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members. Help develop their careers and match them with projects tailored to their skill levels, personalities, work styles, and professional goals

With your team, develop technical and product roadmaps then identify, plan, and deliver against those roadmaps

Build a team culture that is collaborative, inclusive, and respectful. Encourage, empower, and celebrate

Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects and shipping things quickly

Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes

Work closely with the Contentful recruiting team to hire high potential engineers from diverse backgrounds

What do you need to be successful?

You already have previous experience in managing engineers

Very familiar with principles of APIs, stateful Web (Single Page) Applications, developer platforms (Github, Heroku), and latest platform trends like containers and serverless architectures

Experience with continuous improvement and the Agile software delivery process, particularly in collaboration with product, business

You have experience recruiting and hiring engineering talent, combined with bringing new starters up to speed

In-depth, proven software engineering background that allows you to establish credibility with brilliant engineers quickly

Excellent English communication skills, verbal and written (German not required)

What’s in it for you?

Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences

Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share ownership and the success of our company

We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, education days, and volunteer days

Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for information, support, discussion, and counseling for life’s challenges

Use your personal education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career. Join a free German class or one of our many internal learning initiatives!

Use your physical fitness budget to get away from your desk and support your physical wellness

Enjoy a full range of virtual events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties

A monthly phone/internet stipend and phone upgrade reimbursement after 2 years

Plus, Contentful socks! And other amazing swag as part of company events. Oh yeah!

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Who are we?

Contentful is the leading content platform that powers digital experiences for over 30% of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of global brands. Our platform unifies content in a single hub, structures it for use in any digital channel and integrates seamlessly with hundreds of tools through open APIs. It lets developers and content creators work in parallel, increasing team efficiency and happiness. Companies such as Shopify, Staples, Atlassian, Electronic Arts, Chanel, Roche, Vodafone use Contentful to build their mobile and web products, voice-controlled apps and more.

We’re growing rapidly and we have secured over $330 million in funding from top-tier partners such as Tiger Global, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, General Catalyst and Benchmark.

More than 750 people from 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, San Francisco, Denver and distributed around the world.

Everyone is welcome here!

Everyone is welcome here is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!

If you need reasonable accommodations at any point during the application or interview process, please let your recruiting coordinator know.

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