Engineering Manager - Content API (f/m/d)

Contentful; City Of London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital experience platform in London is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a remote-first API development team. The ideal candidate will have over 2 years of experience in a leadership role, optimizing API performance, and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. This role offers opportunities for mentorship and significant impact on the development of scalable solutions.

Benefits

Stock Options

Generous paid time off

Education budget

Wellbeing stipend

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience leading development teams.
• Track record of delivering complex technical solutions.
• Strong mentoring track record fostering continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a globally-distributed API development team.
• Define team roadmap focused on developer-friendly APIs.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Performance Optimization

Collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

APIs

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Job description

Engineering Manager - Content API (f/m/d)

London, England, United Kingdom

About the Opportunity

We are looking for an Engineering Manager (f/m/d) to lead a high-performing, remote-first API development team based in Europe who are driving Contentful’s REST and GraphQL APIs that enable customers to manage and deliver content at scale.

The role will focus on continuously evolving our platform with advanced observability, automation, and AI-driven capabilities. We aim to help customers accelerate innovation, reduce operational complexity, and unlock new growth opportunities through a secure, performant, and extensible API ecosystem.

You’ll partner closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between technical goals and business objectives, driving scalable, high-performance APIs that power Contentful’s website and user experiences.

What to expect?

In this role you’ll get to work closely with senior stakeholders across the business to understand business strategy & goals, and work with internal teams and external partners to ensure our technical architecture, tech stack and development strategy are aligned to drive success for our site visitors and internal site users, and deliver impact against business goals.

• Lead and grow a globally-distributed API development team, ensuring a culture of high performance, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Mentor and develop team members across all levels.
• Define the team roadmap, with a particular focus on reliable, intelligent, and developer-friendly APIs that seamlessly connect content, data, and AI. Be accountable for collaborating with Product and Design to craft the roadmap and ensuring its successful execution.
• Work closely with stakeholders in Product, Design, Research, Infrastructure, and Security to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Oversee the technical approach for integrating and scaling the platform's delivery and management APIs. Ensure that the architecture remains performant, secure, and scalable as user needs grow.
• Guide the team through solutioning, coding, testing, and deployment. Ensure adherence to best practices in coding, architecture, and testing. Foster a collaborative, innovative development environment.
• Hire and mentor junior and senior developers, promoting technical excellence and helping to build individual and team growth through hands-on leadership and ongoing feedback.
• Oversee day-to-day development operations, ensuring that the team has the capacity to cover all technical tasks, maintenance, and new feature development, all while ensuring global coverage for continuous web operations.
• Work with Product Managers to define, prioritize, and execute the roadmap, balancing user impact with business objectives. Ensure clear communication of goals, progress, and blockers to stakeholders.

What you need to be successful

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Engineering Manager who is excited to build a cutting-edge web experience. To succeed in this role, you:

• Have 2+ years of experience leading development teams, with a track record of delivering complex, high-impact technical solutions.
• Excel at optimizing performance and scalability, with experience handling complex content structures and large datasets.
• Balance innovation with immediate impact, overseeing technical delivery while driving team capabilities and capacity. You’re eager to work with the latest technologies and products.
• Collaborate effectively across teams (Product, Design, Data, Engineering), aligning technical work with business goals.
• Have a strong mentoring track record, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and quality within a distributed team.
• Have a strong mentoring track record, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and quality within a distributed team.
• Embrace continuous learning, staying up to date with industry trends and encouraging growth within your team.

Bonus:

• Experience with API-first platforms.
• Familiarity with GraphQL
• Knowledge of data privacy and security best practices in web technologies.
• PostgreSQL knowledge, including designing, optimizing, and maintaining relational databases, with a focus on ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance of data-driven applications

What’s in it for you?

• Join an ambitious tech company reshaping the way people build digital experiences
• 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.
• We valueWork-Life balanceandYou Time!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, supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
• 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. Get the gear you need to work at your best.

Who are we?

Contentful is a leading digital experience platform that helps modern businesses meet the growing demand for engaging, personalized content at scale. By blending composability with native AI capabilities, Contentful enables dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across brands, regions, and channels for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide. More than 700 people from more than 70 nations contribute their energy and creativity to Contentful, working from hubs in Berlin, Denver, San Francisco, London, New York, and distributed worldwide.

Everyone is welcome here!

“Everyone is welcome here” is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful, we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability, or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!

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