Engineering Manager, Integrations
Engineering Manager, Integrations
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About Zapier
Were humans who simply think computers should do more work.
At Zapier were not just making softwarewere building a platform to help millions of businesses globally scale with automation and AI. Our mission is to make automation work for everyone by delivering products that delight our customers. Youll collaborate with brilliant people use the latest tools and leverage the flexibility of remote work. Your work will directly fuel our customers success and as they grow so will you.
Location: AMER EAST or CENTRAL
Hi there!
Were looking for an Engineering Manager to join the team at Zapier. Were on a mission to make everyone more productive at work. Zapier has helped millions of people build businesses through the power of automation.
Zapiers Integrations team is on a mission to ensure that Zapier has integrations for the AI apps in the market and to expand and maintain the by Zapier tools. This team has a close relationship with top stakeholders in the industry to keep up with the new AI apps launched every day. This role offers a unique opportunity to guide a team working on high-visibility high-impact projects that are fundamental to Zapiers mission of democratizing automation. Youll collaborate with product and engineering leaders across the company to evolve our editor from a powerful tool into an indispensable platform that our users cant imagine working without.
Were a globally distributed team working together to make Zapier the trusted go-to partner for business automation. If youre interested in advancing your career at a fast-growing profitable impact-driven company then read on
About You
You are a skilled engineering leader. Youve got a strong background in leading a team of Engineers working in our stack (ideally Typescript & JavaScript with a side helping of Python Django AWS infrastructure). You understand how your teams services work and can provide feedback on designs proposed by your engineers. You hold a high standard for operational excellence monitoring service health and addressing issues.
You are energized by platforms and integrations. You understand the power and challenge of building against APIs. You are passionate about making integration development easier faster and more reliableespecially when AI can augment or accelerate this work.
Youre passionate about AIs potential in engineering workflows. Youre excited about a world where tools like generative AI improve developer experience automate common maintenance tasks and help expand the integration ecosystem with less manual work.
You are an effective team builder. This isnt your first rodeo. You have at least four years of experience managing teams of at least 5 engineers Backend & Frontend Engineers. You know how to hire train and develop engineers from all backgrounds. You understand the benefits of building a diverse and inclusive engineering team.
You are energized by no-code innovation. You see the transformative potential in making automation accessible to everyone and you bring that enthusiasm to your partnerships with product and design teams. Your engineering expertise gives you unique insights into building powerful yet intuitive no-code tools. Youre excited about the intersection of automation and emerging technologies like generative AI and youre eager to explore how these advances can empower users to build more sophisticated workflows with less complexity.
You can keep track of prioritize and lead multiple projects. Theres no shortage of things you could be doing in a day. Youll carve out time for functional projects and make sure they solve real problems the team faces -- ideally making development even easier.
You have excellent communication skills. You regularly work with engineers and other stakeholders from various disciplines balancing engineering concerns such as technical debt with product concerns. Ideally you find solutions that address both the team and user needs but if not help build understanding around difficult decisions.
You have experience with experimentation. Utilizing experiments to drive continuous improvements. These include a combination of bold changes and smaller improvements. You understand how to optimize for rapid experimentation and follow-up iteration.
You have a service/platform mindset. You understand that shipping new functionality in this space involves collaborating with stakeholders to understand requirements and building functionality in such a way that it can be reused across multiple product verticals.
Things Youll Do
Lead a distributed team of engineers responsible for Zapier apps and AI apps owned by Zapier.
Communicate and coordinate with members in different time zones. The team members are located in EST and EU and theres a strong culture of asynchronous organization but we share at least 1 hour to sync when its required.
Work closely with your engineering function peer design function and product function to create a trio that tackles user problems and solutions.
Collaborate on strategy with others automating the creation/expansion/maintenance of integrations with AI maintaining the quality of the integrations (fix bugs and implement new features) and ideating with the platform teams to enable others
Develop effective ways to communicate monitor and lead your team through weekly one-on-ones and team meetings.
Keep the leadership team informed on your teams progress in ways that are easy and enjoyable to receive like one-on-ones update posts and regular team hangouts.
Build rapport with each member of the Engineering Team and support them through coaching and mentorship to help level up their skills.
Drive continuous improvement through sprint retros process improvements and removal of technical blockers.
Ensure your team defines and executes technical solutions in alignment with Zapier security requirements architectural guidelines system design principles and engineering best practices.
Collaborate across various disciplines (Product Managers Designers Researchers) to help set quarterly roadmaps that will achieve business goals through engineering best practices.
Actively recruit onboard and train new engineers at Zapier. This might involve tweaking the skills portions of interviews or writing better documentation.
Keep in touch with customer needs by reviewing or participating in customer interviews design reviews sales calls and user testing sessions.
Be tenacious about the quality of our product and set up principles and practices that make sure we deliver highly polished experiences for our enterprise customers.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
