Engineering Manager - Customer Developer Experience

Constructor; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Fully remote team

Work from home stipend

Apple laptops provided

Training budget

Parental leave

Team offsites

Base salary: $80k–$120k USD

Stock options

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Constructor is hiring an Engineering Manager for the Customer Developer Experience (CDX) team. You will lead engineers supporting external developers integrating our platform and build open-source tooling that powers millions of devices and next-generation retail experiences.

You will set the technical strategy for open-source tooling, ensure reliability and quality of libraries, and own the developer experience from docs to reference examples.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of web development experience with leadership.
• 2+ years directly leading an engineering team.
• Proficiency with JavaScript & React; TypeScript a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience collaborating with customers and internal teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Experience contributing to open source is a plus.
• English at CEFR C1+.
• Willing to attend meetings between 2 and 8 pm UTC.
• Passion to help a high-growth startup.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, CS, data science, and engineering.
• Balance hands-on integration support with long-term tooling work.
• Own the hiring process for the team end-to-end.
• Mentor engineers and guide career development.
• Set technical direction and maintain high-quality tooling.
• Guide development of TypeScript/React UI libraries.
• Improve developer experience for external integrators.

Skills

JavaScript

React

Team leadership

Problem solving

Customer interaction

Open source

English proficiency

Communication

TZ availability

Tools

TypeScript

Job description

About Constructor

Launched in 2019, Constructor is an AI-first ecommerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager on the Customer Developer Experience (CDX) team, you’ll lead engineers whose work spans two fronts: partnering directly with the external developers integrating our platform to provide hands‑on technical guidance, and building the advanced open‑source tooling that makes those integrations effortless. Constructor’s open source technology is utilized on millions of end user devices and are crucial to powering the most innovative product discovery experiences in the industry.

You’ll set the technical strategy for our open‑source tooling and how it advances the experience of the external developers who build on our platform. Keeping their trust means keeping our libraries reliable, high‑quality, and well‑documented, and that ownership sits with you.

Challenges you will tackle

• Cross functional collaboration and prioritization: close collaboration with product, customer success, data science and other engineering teams to prioritize features and address customer needs effectively.

• Balancing support and delivery : allocating the team’s capacity across hands‑on integration support and long‑term tooling development, so that neither the customers in front of you nor the platform work that scales the whole business gets starved.

• Recruiting and hiring : owning the hiring process for your team end to end, from building a strong pipeline to running an effective interview loop and closing the engineers you want.

• Career growth : guiding the development of the engineers on your team, giving direct feedback, creating opportunities that stretch them, and helping them work through the obstacles that come up along the way.

• Technical direction and quality : setting the standard for the team’s tech stack, tooling, and testing practices, and holding a high bar for the quality of what the team ships.

• Open-source libraries : guiding the development of the cutting‑edge TypeScript/React UI libraries your team ships and maintains, which power next‑generation retail experiences worldwide.

• Developer experience : keeping DevX a first‑class priority for external integrators, driving the intuitive tools, comprehensive documentation, and reference examples that shorten their time to value.

Requirements

• 5+ years of web development experience, at least 2 years directly leading an engineering team.

• Proficiency with JavaScript & React (TypeScript experience a plus).

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to effectively triage issues and prioritize tasks.

• Interest in interacting with customers and solving new problems daily, working closely with internal teams.

• Ability to communicate with clarity in written and verbal context, comfortable engaging with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects is a plus.

• English onC1 level (CEFR) or higher.

• Able to attend regular meetings between 2 and 8 pm UTC.

• Passion to help fuel the continued success of our high‑growth startup.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all employees to take at least 3 weeks per year

• Fully remote team - choose where you live

• Work from home stipend - we want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office

• Apple laptops provided for new employees

• Training and development budget - refreshed each year for every employee

• Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees

• Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact

• Base salary: $80k–$120k USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results

• Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary

• Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor

At Constructor.io we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group.

Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed. Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of our listed qualifications.