Senior Software Engineering Manager, AI and Developer Productivity
Instacart
Engineering Manager – Business Services
Contentful
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇮🇪 Ireland
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Lead and grow a high-performing, globally-distributed engineering team, ensuring a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Work closely with senior stakeholders across the business to understand business strategy and goals and drive technical alignment.
- Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to define the roadmap for AI-enabled marketing solutions.
- Build scalable, high-performance products that integrate AI capabilities into marketers’ daily workflows, focusing on usability, automation, and business impact.
- Drive innovation and experimentation while ensuring secure, reliable, and performant systems.
- Mentor and develop engineers across levels, fostering technical excellence and leadership growth.
- Guide the team through solution design, coding, testing, deployment, and operations.
- Ensure alignment between technical execution and business objectives, with clear communication of progress and priorities.
- Act as an entrepreneur inside Contentful: shape vision, culture, and execution for a new Business Services team.
- Work with internal teams and external partners to ensure technical architecture, tech stack, and development strategy are aligned to deliver business impact.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience leading development teams, with a track record of delivering complex, high-impact technical solutions.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments, balancing short-term impact with long-term strategy.
- Experience building or integrating AI-powered products (e.g., LLM-based systems, recommendation engines, personalization features).
- Technical depth in modern web technologies and AI/ML-enabled applications, with hands-on experience to guide solutioning and challenge technical decisions.
- Experience optimizing performance and scalability, handling complex content structures and large datasets.
- Ability to balance innovation with immediate impact while overseeing technical delivery and team capabilities.
- Strong collaboration across Product, Design, Data, and Engineering to align technical work with business goals.
- Strong mentoring track record, fostering continuous learning, technical excellence, and quality within distributed teams.
- Embrace continuous learning and stay up to date with industry trends.
- Familiarity with martech ecosystems, marketing workflows, and integrations (bonus).
- Experience working in entrepreneurial or incubation environments, such as starting new teams or products from scratch (bonus).
- Knowledge of data privacy, compliance, and security best practices in SaaS and AI-enabled applications (bonus).
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.
- A generous amount of paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, education days, compassion days for loss, and volunteer days
- 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
- 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
ATS Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AI-powered productsLLM-based systemsrecommendation enginespersonalization featuresweb technologiesAI/ML-enabled applicationsperformance optimizationscalabilitysolution designcoding
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationmentoringcontinuous learningcommunicationinnovationproblem-solvingadaptabilityentrepreneurial mindsetstrategic thinking
