Engineering Manager, API
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Requirements
• 2+ years of experience in an engineering manager or team lead role, with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams • 2+ years of experience in an engineering manager or team lead role • 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, with specific expertise operating TypeScript services in the cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) • 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience • Strong product sensibility and business acumen – you understand how technical decisions impact revenue, customer satisfaction, and company metrics • Strong product sensibility and business acumen • Experience owning revenue-generating platforms or products, with an understanding of API economics, usage-based pricing, and developer experience • Experience owning revenue-generating platforms or products • Solid foundation in data engineering and analytics, including experience with metrics pipelines, data modeling, and business intelligence tooling • Solid foundation in data engineering and analytics • Database expertise, particularly in managing production databases at scale, data migrations, and ensuring data integrity • Database expertise • Excellent cross-functional communication skills – you can translate technical concepts for business teams, explain business constraints to engineers, and build consensus across diverse stakeholders • Excellent cross-functional communication skills • Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration – you can make smart trade-offs between perfect and good-enough in a fast-moving startup environment • Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration • Empathetic and inclusive leadership style that empowers engineers to do their best work • Empathetic and inclusive leadership style • Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide. • There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range. • Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.
Responsibilities
• Drive platform strategy and architecture for our TypeScript-based API infrastructure, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and scalability as we grow • Drive platform strategy and architecture • Own the public API domain end-to-end, from technical architecture to revenue growth, ensuring it's a high-quality, revenue-generating platform that developers love • Own the public API domain end-to-end • Manage our data and analytics infrastructure, ensuring data integrity, security, and accessibility for teams across the company • Manage our data and analytics infrastructure • Lead and grow a team of 4-6 platform engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement • Lead and grow a team of 4-6 platform engineers • Partner with Product Engineering teams to unblock new feature launches, providing platform support and ensuring smooth integration between frontend experiences and backend capabilities • Partner with Product Engineering teams • Own critical data pipelines and metrics that power business decisions across Finance (cost-of-sales, revenue attribution), Support (usage analytics, error tracking), and Product (feature adoption, performance metrics) • Own critical data pipelines and metrics • Work cross-functionally with leadership to set priorities, communicate progress, and align platform investments with business goals • Work cross-functionally with leadership
Benefits
• Working at Runway • Working at Runway • Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you. • We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.