Contentful - Engineering Manager - Workflows and UI Foundations (f/m/d)
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Requirements
• We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who enjoys platform environments where success depends on adoption, stability, and strong partnership with many internal customers. To succeed in this role, you should: • 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional development teams and delivering complex solutions with Product and Design partners. • 2+ years of experience managing cross-functional development teams • Comfortable working in ambiguity and change, bringing structure and clarity while balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform strategy. • ambiguity and change • Experience with platform or foundational teams where success depends on adoption, stability, documentation, and thoughtful rollout/migration support. • platform or foundational teams • Technical breadth across modern web platforms and backend distributed systems; able to review architecture, ask strong questions, and help teams make good tradeoffs (app shell/navigation, design systems, shared packages, APIs, workflow engines, event-driven execution). • modern web platforms and backend distributed systems • Familiarity with event-driven distributed systems concepts such as queues, orchestration, retries, idempotency, long-running workflows, and reliability—enough to guide discussions and support strong engineering decisions. • event-driven distributed systems concepts • Strong quality mindset for platforms: observability, incident readiness, performance, safe rollout practices (versioning, backwards compatibility, migrations, deprecations). • quality mindset for platforms • Experience supporting accessibility and localization work in a way that becomes part of normal engineering practice (not a one-off effort). • accessibility and localization • Product-minded: able to translate early ideas into workable technical options and tradeoffs, especially where flexibility and simplicity need careful balance. • Product-minded • Strong collaboration across many stakeholders and teams, helping align on priorities, dependencies, and sequencing with transparency. • collaboration across many stakeholders and teams • People leadership strength: hiring, coaching, feedback, and creating an inclusive environment where engineers can do their best work. • People leadership • Familiarity with modern AI-enabled product development and comfort supporting teams to use AI responsibly (for productivity and for product integration), with measurable outcomes and a strong quality bar. • modern AI-enabled product development • Experience with B2B SaaS and enterprise expectations (security, compliance, reliability) is a plus. • Bonus: • Bonus: • Experience leading design system adoption and governance at scale (contribution models, versioning strategy, migration playbooks). • Experience building workflow/automation platforms (state machines, orchestration engines, integration ecosystems) with strong operability requirements. • Familiarity with security/compliance considerations for systems that execute actions and integrate with external services (auditability, permissions, data handling). • 700 people • 70 nations • Everyone is welcome here!
Benefits
• Full-time employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company • Fertility and family building benefits, including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family. • We value Work-Life balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days • Work-Life balance • You Time • Time off to care for and focus on your growing family • Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career • Enjoy a full range of virtual and in-person events, including workshops, guest speakers, and fun team activities, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties • An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical, financial, or emotional health • A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement. • New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best. • Who are we? • Who are we? • Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities, Contentful enables dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across brands, regions, and channels for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver, San Francisco, London, New York, and distributed worldwide.
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