Engineering Manager Integrations & Ecosystems

Sounds great what will I be doing

As our Engineering Manager youll lead a highly capable group of engineers responsible for building and scaling GWIs API platform. Your focus will be on reliability performance and security while ensuring our APIs are developer-friendly and enable integration into customer ecosystems and AI/LLM platforms.
This means overseeing delivery against the roadmap supporting your teams effectiveness and driving operational excellence. Youll work closely with Product and cross-functional partners to bring initiatives to life while creating the right environment for engineers to deliver at pace and with confidence.

Core responsibilities

• API delivery & operations: Oversee the design development and reliability of GWIs APIs.
• API lifecycle practices: Ensure strong documentation standards versioning error handling authentication and rate limiting.
• Ecosystem integrations: Deliver initiatives to integrate the API and MCP into customer platforms and AI/LLM agents (Claude ChatGPT Copilot).
• Security & compliance: Uphold strong data protection and authentication/authorization standards.
• Monitoring & performance: Drive observability incident readiness and continuous performance improvements.
• Monetization enablement: Partner with Product to implement rate limits quotas usage metering and entitlement enforcement.
• Team effectiveness: Set priorities remove blockers and maintain healthy sustainable ways of working.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work with Product Security Legal GTM and other Engineering teams to deliver roadmap items predictably and at high quality.

Its also fun; shaking things up is what working for a growing company is all about. So youll need to be flexible comfortable with continuous change and working in a high-tempo environment as we grow.

What do I need to bring with me

Youre an experienced engineering leader who combines technical credibility with delivery focus. You know how to get the best from senior engineers keep teams aligned and ensure APIs are built and operated to a high standard.

Heres what were looking for:

• Experience managing backend or API-focused teams in SaaS or platform companies.
• Solid technical background in backend engineering (Go Java or similar) and familiarity with scaling APIs.
• Strong grasp of the API lifecycle: OAuth2 JWT SSO versioning quotas rate limiting monitoring error handling.
• Comfort working in cloud-native environments (ideally Google Cloud) with microservices and CI/CD practices.
• Ability to balance delivery quality and sustainability while supporting team health.
• Track record of effective cross-functional collaboration with Product and other stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Experience with API monetization and entitlements.
• Exposure to AI/LLM integrations or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Familiarity with observability practices (Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry).
• Experience integrating APIs with enterprise SaaS systems.

Equally important is attitude. We want people who think big (to make an impact) ask why (to find a better way) and show respect (to everyone at every level all the time). Those are our values exemplified by our leadership team and theyre a big part of what were looking for in you.

Interview steps

Dont be alarmed if there are other stages in the process its all part of the plan for some of our roles.

What exactly is GWI

GWI is modernized consumer research; global on-demand and accessible to everyone not just data experts. Our platform is designed for companies looking for fresh and insightful data about their consumers values purchase journeys media usage and social media habits.

With data representing the views of nearly 3 billion people across 52 countries GWI has become the go-to for agencies brands and media companies that want to know what really drives their audience to action.

Since launching in 2009 weve grown at a healthy pace and to maintain this growth we need more extraordinary people. Hence this ad. Hence you.

Whats in it for me

Youll do the sort of work that got you excited about your career in the first place - not as a cog in a machine but as an individual whose contribution matters. So gigantic job satisfaction comes as standard but its only part of the package. Youll also get:

Global benefits :

Location-specific benefits :

Put all that together and GWI is the friendliest most fulfilling place any of us has ever worked.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

We take DE&I seriously. Not only is it obviously the right thing to do its also the bedrock of our value of show respect and at the heart of our company culture.

Were a global data business so its essential our data reflects the global reality. Putting diversity into practice like this literally makes our business stronger. Thats why we strive to make our offices - and our teams - as diverse as our data. Want to know more Take a look at our Life page on LinkedIn to learn more about our DE&I initiatives. The point is GWI is a place where you can genuinely feel at home express yourself and make your mark - whoever you are.

As a Disability Confident employer we encourage applications from disabled candidates and are dedicated to providing all relevant assistance during the application and interview also encourage individuals from all backgrounds including those from underrepresented and marginalized communities to join our team.

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