Own delivery, operational excellence, and outcomes of your team's portfolio, ensuring the critical systems you're responsible for remain performant, reliable, and secure at scale.
Provide technical leadership by setting architectural guardrails and guiding major technical decisions, without being a hands-on contributor.
Manage processes to help engineers work efficiently, effectively, and interface well with the rest of the company.
Lead by example in demonstrating and upholding Captivate's core values.
- Contribute to the broader engineering leadership team, partnering with peer EMs on org-wide initiatives beyond your own team.
- Requirements
- 5+ years of experience managing software engineers, preferably in a remote-first B2B SaaS or startup environment.
8+ years of full-time software development experience, preferably in product engineering or full stack roles.
A demonstrated track record of hiring and developing talent, with real investment in helping engineers grow their careers.
Strong customer-focus with a track record of delivering high quality, impactful features across the full product lifecycle.
Demonstrated technical depth: Comfortable diving into complex architectural problems and guiding senior engineers toward sound decisions
Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to build trust with cross-functional partners in a remote-first environment.
- High ownership and a growth mindset — collaborative, humble, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
- Benefits
- Comprehensive Healthcare: 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision for all FTEs, with roughly 75% coverage for dependents.
Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation days plus quarterly mental health days to ensure you have the space to recharge.
Annual Stipends: Dedicated funds for your professional development and caretaking needs.
Work Anniversary Bonuses: Annual bonuses to celebrate your milestones and contributions to the CaptivateIQ team that grow as your tenure does.
Retirement Savings (US-Only): A 401(k) plan to help you invest in and secure your future.
Premium Tools: The latest Apple hardware to empower you to do your best work.
- Inclusive Community: Active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that celebrate shared identities and support our DEI goals by fostering an environment where diverse talent thrives.
- Notice to Prospective Candidates
- Only emails from @captivateiq.com should be trusted.
We are aware of active recruitment scams using the CaptivateIQ name, in which individuals pose as our recruiters and post fake remote job openings and make fake job offers on the Internet. Please note, we will never do the following:
Attempt to correspond with a candidate using a free web-based account, such as an email address that ends in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.
Make an offer of employment without conducting multiple rounds of interviews face-to-face using secure video-conferencing technology.
Ask candidates to cash checks to buy equipment on behalf of CaptivateIQ.
Ask candidates to make a payment in order to be considered for a position.
Make early requests for candidates' personal information such as date of birth, passport details, credit card numbers, bank details and social security number, etc.
Please note that we’ll only ask for more sensitive personal information in connection with background checks after an offer is made.
Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime.