What you will do

About CaptivateIQ

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

Behind every great software company is the team building it. We are an engineering team of multicultural, highly collaborative, fully distributed, humble learners. We pride ourselves on building best-in-class products powered by innovative technologies.

As an Engineering Manager in the Incentive Commission Plans (ICM) Pillar, you will lead the Payee team. This distributed team ensures that our customers' incentive compensated staff receive timely and accurate insights into their pay and opportunities for earnings in a modern interface targeting their unique needs. You will partner with the local Engineering Director to shape the culture and scale the organization in Europe.

Responsibilities

• Lead, inspire, and grow a distributed software engineering team, fostering a culture of high trust and psychological safety.
• Develop engineering talent through effective coaching, mentorship, and performance management.
• Own the end-to-end delivery and operational excellence of your teams' portfolio, ensuring critical user-facing systems are reliable and secure at scale.
• Partner with Product, Design, and other cross-functional leaders to set a clear vision, prioritize roadmaps, and execute on a long-term strategy that optimizes for the entire organization.
• Provide technical leadership and direction by setting architectural guardrails and guiding major technical decisions without being a direct code contributor.
• Establish and uphold rigorous engineering standards, including SLAs/SLOs, security best practices, and QA processes to accelerate delivery and improve product health.
• Champion inclusive, async-first practices to ensure your teams, distributed across an ~8-hour time zone spread, can collaborate effectively.

What we offer

Bonus points:

• Experience with Python / Typescript & React
• Experience in the B2B SaaS market.
• Experience delivering high-performance, data-intensive user interfaces and robust APIs.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support, ensuring timely resolution of critical issues and maintaining system uptime.

Requirements

Requirements:

• 2+ years of Engineering Manager, people management and hands-on engineering management
• Extensive software development experience as an individual contributor or manager
• A strong product sense and a proven track record of delivering high-quality results across the full product lifecycle through lean, outcome focused rituals minimizing unnecessary process. Focused on timely customer value, refocusing efforts where necessary. This includes experience with B2B SaaS products, from backend services and APIs to the critical user-facing workflows they support.
• Demonstrated ability to provide technical depth, diving deep into complex architectural problems and guiding engineers to sound decisions.
• Exceptional interpersonal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners in a remote-first environment.
• A track record of hiring and developing senior talent, with a passion for helping engineers advance their careers.
• High sense of ownership and a strong growth mindset; you are a collaborative, humble learner who can thrive in a fast-paced environment.