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Engineering Manager - Content API (f/m/d)

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing, remote-firs🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-08-15

Core

Lead a remote-first API development team building and scaling REST and GraphQL APIs for a headless CMS platform.

Role type

Engineering Manager (API Platform)

Builds

Scalable, high-performance REST and GraphQL APIs for content management and delivery

Domain

SaaS / Headless CMS / API Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Team leadership, technical roadmap definition, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, performance optimization, scalability design, API architecture, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

Headless CMS experience, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, API-first platforms, data privacy/security best practices

Technologies

TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a globally-distributed API development team; Define the team roadmap for reliable and developer-friendly APIs; Oversee technical approach for integrating and scaling platform delivery and management APIs; Guide the team through solutioning, coding, testing, and deployment; Hire and mentor junior and senior developers; Oversee day-to-day development operations and capacity planning

Seniority

Manager, hands-on leadership

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