Engineering Manager

LTK; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company matching

Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance

Flexible PTO

Job summary

LTK is seeking a Manager of Engineering for Creator Growth & Onboarding. The role involves leading a full-stack squad to enhance user experiences and streamline onboarding processes across LTK. Key responsibilities include mentoring engineers, driving team performance, and integrating AI tools into workflows. The position is remote with a focus on fostering a productive work culture and offers competitive compensation and benefits including 401(k) matching and flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• At least 2+ years in an engineering management role.
• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with full-stack team management.

Responsibilities

• Lead development activities for onboarding and creator growth.
• Drive a culture of experimentation and use data analytics.
• Manage team performance and minimize retention risks.

Skills

Engineering management

Full-stack development

Agile methodologies

AI integration

Team leadership

Tools

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Position Title

Manager, Engineering - Creator Growth & Onboarding

Location

Remote from the U.S.

About the role

We are searching for an engineering leader to manage a full‑stack squad (iOS, Web, Backend) responsible for the user experiences and systems used to onboard and drive creator growth across LTK, one of the largest creator‑guided shopping and brand marketing platforms in the industry. As the leader of one of our development teams, you will conduct, lead, and coordinate software development activities throughout the product lifecycle and manage day‑to‑day development activities within an Agile environment.

How you will make an impact

• Provide technical and people leadership to guide your team’s development, reviews, and maintenance of new features, product requirements documents, technical design documents and functional specifications.
• Influence the technical vision for your department through discussions with XFN peers and senior management.
• Own the delivery process and Agile ceremonies, ensuring proper backlog refinement and value delivery in every sprint.
• Partner with senior management to identify appropriate metrics to monitor team performance.
• Drive a culture of experimentation, leveraging A/B testing and data analytics to validate hypotheses and optimize the creator onboarding and reporting funnels.
• Take an active role in hiring, goal setting, performance management, promotions, and retention strategies across your team.
• Minimize retention risks and create effective development plans to prepare employees for their next role.
• Emphasize all aspects of the employee lifecycle (recruiting, onboarding, performance management, and employee development).
• Work with the team and stakeholders to break down and prioritize work to reduce technical debt.
• Identify and pursue improvements in engineering and organizational processes, gathering and using data to support continuous growth in product excellence and engineering productivity.
• Drive integration and experimentation of enterprise AI tooling across your team’s workflows to realize new efficiencies and help LTK maintain a competitive advantage.

What you will bring to LTK

Leadership Qualifications

• At least 2+ years in an engineering management role with a proven history of leading, hiring, coaching, and performance management of developers.
• Experience managing a full‑stack team.
• Proven experience in rapid, continuous releases, used to shipping multiple times a day.
• Able to drive productivity and motivate a team to full project completion.
• Detail oriented, with proven methods for tracking project delivery and managing‑up progress.
• Proven ability to mentor and grow engineers across diverse technical backgrounds.
• Ability to build, maintain, and influence XFN product and design relationships to accomplish team objectives.

Technical Skills

• 8+ years experience with software development, architectures, and infrastructure.
• Demonstrates consistent utilization of AI within daily workflows and actively experiments to discover novel applications to improve outcomes.
• Measures efficiency and quality gains from AI adoption, driving the feedback loop for continuous improvement based on the results.
• Proven track record of delivering user‑facing, high‑visibility features.
• Deep expertise in at least one stack (Backend, Web, or iOS) with a working knowledge and ability to influence direction across the others.
• History of building highly scalable distributed systems and processes in a cloud environment.
• Experience working in a Dockerized environment.
• Experience in building products and features in CI/CD environments.
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, RDS, Redshift, Glue (among others).
• Built scalable internal and public‑facing APIs (RESTful, JSON, HTTP).

Nice to have

Have built AI powered products, knowledge of affiliate advertising space, onboarding flows, user performance analytics and reporting.

What we offer

• The opportunity to be part of the leading global company in creator commerce.
• A remote‑first, productivity‑first environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family.
• 401(k) with LTK company matching.
• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance.
• Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Paternity Leave.
• Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO.

EEO Statement

LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of LTK are considered the property of LTK and are not subject to payment of agency fees.

LTK believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental obligations that strengthen our team.

We are not offering new sponsorship opportunities at this time for persons requiring employment visas, such as an H‑1B; authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.