Engineering Manager, Backend APIs & Integrations
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Job Location:
Quebec City - Canada
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Wunderkind:
Wunderkind isa performance marketing solution that uses AI and data to help brands acquire and retain customers through one-to-one personalized messages across websites email text and ads guaranteeing a lift in revenue. Founded in 2010 Our goal is to scale a brands ability to create and grow customer relationships through websites email text and believe individuals should have the freedom to choose the kind of internet they want. An internet that fosters genuine relationships with brands. An internet that treats humans like real people instead of web also believe in empowering brands to treat their customers as individuals satisfying their unique needs with tailored experiences and thoughtful communication. By expertly personalizing automating and scaling beautiful one-to-one experiences Wunderkind helps brands acquire new customers at scale and keep them loyal for life.
The Role:
Were looking for an Engineering Manager with deep experience in backend API development and third-party integrations to lead a team building the infrastructure that powers Wunderkinds marketing messaging platform.
This team is responsible for the services and APIs that integrate with external systems to support real-time marketing via email SMS Social Platforms and more. Youll play a key role in scaling these services making them more flexible performant and extensible to support a wide array of client use cases and communication channels.
What Youll Do:
- Lead a team of backend engineers building robust high-performance APIs and services that drive Wunderkinds marketing communication stack.
- Design and scale integration services that connect Wunderkinds platform to external systems such as email service providers SMS gateways customer data platforms and e-commerce platforms.
- Define the architecture and roadmap for backend APIs and event-driven systems that support marketing automation real-time triggering and personalized content delivery.
- Work closely with Product and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Ensure that services are resilient observable and maintain high uptime and throughput across all supported channels.
- Drive best practices in API versioning documentation testing and developer experience.
- Support the growth and development of your team through mentoring performance feedback and technical guidance.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Customer Success Data) to align technical development with customer needs and product goals.
- Monitor performance metrics and system health to proactively identify and resolve issues.
Required Qualifications:
- 23 years of engineering management experience ideally with a background as a backend or platform engineer.
- Proven experience leading teams that build and maintain APIs and services used in production environments.
- Strong technical background in backend technologies and programming languages such as Go Java Python etc.
- Deep understanding of building event-driven systems asynchronous messaging and integrating with external APIs.
- Experience with distributed systems architecture microservices and message queues (e.g. Kafka Pub/Sub RabbitMQ).
- Familiarity with modern deployment practices (e.g. containers CI/CD infrastructure-as-code).
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make architectural decisions that balance scalability performance and maintainability.
- Excellent communication and leadership skillsyou can work across teams and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs.
Who You Are:
- A backend-focused leader who is passionate about building scalable APIs and reliable systems.
- Motivated by solving customer problems through thoughtful integrations and technical execution.
- Someone who thrives in a fast-paced product-focused environment.
- Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to support your team technically when needed.
- Excited to contribute to a collaborative engineering culture centered around quality learning and ownership.
The base salary range for this role is CAD 105000 to CAD 155000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each specific candidate; including but not limited to skill set depth of experience applicable certifications and geographic work location. This may vary depending on living location and market rate.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Wunderkind is a global performance marketing solution that helps brands acquire new customers at scale and keep them loyal for life. Unlock a new revenue channel today.
