Manager, Delivery Engineering

CaptivateIQ is transforming the way companies plan, manage, and optimize sales performance. We started by revolutionizing incentive compensation management, and now we're expanding our platform to solve broader sales planning challenges. Recognized by industry analysts like Forrester and G2 and backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia, ICONIQ, Accel, and Sapphire Ventures, we empower high-growth companies like Netflix, Figma, and Stripe with the flexibility and insights needed to drive revenue performance. Join a talented, fast-growing team committed to solving some of the most complex and impactful problems in sales performance management.

About the Role

At CaptivateIQ, Delivery Engineering (DE) is part of the Reliability, Infrastructure and Quality (RIQ) pillar. The Delivery Engineering’s mission is to continually improve the way our engineering organizations builds and delivers our SaaS products. The team owns CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks and local developer experience. The team also works with teams throughout the organization to improve product quality and contributes to agentic development tooling and scale.

Location

Poland, Remote

Responsibilities

Lead and Inspire

Lead, inspire, and grow a distributed team of Engineers, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety.

Developer Experience

Contribute to strategic investments in the software engineering lifecycle that will make CaptivateIQ’s developer experience world class.

Quality Assistance

Partner with engineering teams to improve products by coaching them on testing strategies and leveling up their thinking regarding software quality.

Technical Leadership

Provide technical direction by setting architectural guardrails for test automation and delivery pipelines across the organization.

Strategic Partnership

Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to prioritize roadmaps and execute a long-term strategy that optimizes for product health and reliability.

Talent Development

Develop engineering talent through effective coaching, mentorship, and performance management, with a passion for helping engineers advance their careers.

Operational Excellence

Own the end-to-end delivery of the DE team’s portfolio, ensuring internal solutions and frameworks are reliable and secure at scale.

Evangelism

Act as a strong advocate for our engineering best practices, explaining the "why" behind different methodologies to various stakeholders across the company.

Async Collaboration

Champion inclusive, async-first practices to ensure the team, distributed across Poland and other regions, can collaborate effectively.

Requirements

Management Experience

2+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager or in a formal people management role (M-level).

Developer Experience

Contribute to our bigger software lifecycle, using your experience to discern what improvements will drive meaningful impact to the broader organization.

Quality Expertise

Deep expertise in software quality, QA, or SDET practices with a demonstrable background in leveling up testing standards.

CI/CD Expertise

You’ve been responsible for the health of CI/CD pipelines at a mid-sized SaaS company using GitHub/GitHub Actions.

Engineering Depth

Extensive software development experience as an individual contributor or manager, with a focus on quality and testability.

Technical Stack

Proficiency with (or ability to guide) teams using Typescript, React, Python, and Django.

SaaS Experience

Experience using modern testing methodologies to support a large B2B SaaS product.

Communication

Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to have "tough conversations" and navigate complex situations.

Testing Frameworks

Experience with modern test automation frameworks such as Vitest, Pytest and PlayWright.

Growth Mindset

High sense of ownership and a collaborative, humble learner mindset.

Bonus Points

PM Background

Background in Product Management to help address problem-solving and feature definition.

Monolith Codebases

You’ve supported and scaled an engineering org with a monolithic code base.

Performance Testing

Expertise in Performance Testing to add value to existing engineering efforts.

Agentic Development

Experience developing methodologies for evaluating new approaches to software engineering work, and supporting their adoption.

Infrastructure Knowledge

Experience with Github Actions pipelines, Deployment Processes, and improving Developer Experience.

Architecture

Understanding of Single Page Applications (SPAs), micro front-end architectures (MFAs), and CDNs.

Notice for Prospective Candidates

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