Engineering Manager, API

2+ years of experience in an engineering manager or team lead role , with a track record of building and scaling high-performing teams

5+ years of hands-on engineering experience , with specific expertise operating TypeScript services in the cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Strong product sensibility and business acumen – you understand how technical decisions impact revenue, customer satisfaction, and company metrics

Experience owning revenue-generating platforms or products , with an understanding of API economics, usage-based pricing, and developer experience

Solid foundation in data engineering and analytics , including experience with metrics pipelines, data modeling, and business intelligence tooling

Database expertise , particularly in managing production databases at scale, data migrations, and ensuring data integrity

Excellent cross-functional communication skills – you can translate technical concepts for business teams, explain business constraints to engineers, and build consensus across diverse stakeholders

Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration – you can make smart trade-offs between perfect and good-enough in a fast-moving startup environment

Empathetic and inclusive leadership style that empowers engineers to do their best work

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

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