Movable Ink

Platform for personalized, integrated marketing content

Engineering Manager - Orchestration

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeToronto, ON, CanadaRemote

About the Job

Requirements

Seven or more years of software engineering experience, including three or more years managing engineers, with a track record of recruiting, mentoring, and growing high-trust engineering teams.
A player-coach leadership style, with the ability to guide engineers while contributing to technical work, architecture, design, and implementation.
Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems that are fault tolerant, highly available, and highly concurrent.
Strong systems thinking and sound architectural judgment around event-driven, stateful, real-time decisioning systems.
Experience building and operating backend services in a modern cloud environment.
Hands-on experience with microservice and service-oriented architectures, including synchronous, event-sourced, orchestrated, and asynchronous inter-service communication patterns.
A strong foundation in Python.
Practical experience evaluating and designing for distributed systems fundamentals, including partitioning, replication, back-pressure, idempotency, and failure handling.
Exemplary software engineering practices, including system design, code review, testing, and continuous integration and continuous delivery.
A strong focus on operational excellence, including observability, incident response, and healthy on-call practices.
Ability to translate technical tradeoffs into practical decisions with product and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Recruit, mentor, and grow a founding team of engineers building the orchestration platform, and foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
Partner with the Lead Engineer and senior technical stakeholders to converge on system architecture, scope, and milestones, establishing a path from prototype to production.
Drive key initiatives from concept to delivery, translate product goals into technical plans, and ensure the team ships high-quality, reliable systems.
Lead development of a scalable, event-driven, fault-tolerant system that processes high-volume, real-time messaging decisions across workflows and channels.
Provide hands-on technical leadership for complex distributed, stateful, and real-time decisioning problems, contributing directly to architecture and design.
Collaborate with Product, Machine Learning, Data Platform, and adjacent engineering teams to ensure the orchestration layer integrates into the broader product.
Ensure the platform operates reliably at scale through observability, metrics, incident response practices, and shared on-call responsibilities for business-critical services.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with Elixir; experience with Erlang, Scala/Akka, Go, or Clojure is also transferable.
Experience with workflow orchestration systems such as Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, or Temporal.
Experience building, operating, or integrating with machine-learning-driven decisioning or scoring systems.

Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility. Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Movable Ink is standing up a new Orchestration team to build the next-generation AI decisioning layer that coordinates every message a brand sends across email, mobile, and other channels. We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this team, hire its first engineers, and partner with a Lead Engineer and senior technical stakeholders to take the system from prototype to production. This is a hands-on, player-coach role at the intersection of distributed systems and machine learning, with high executive visibility and the opportunity to shape one of the most strategic engineering investments at the company.

This role will be reporting to the Director of Engineering (AI/ML).

Responsibilities:

Lead People: recruit, mentor, and grow a founding team of engineers building the orchestration platform. Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement
Shape the Technical Direction: partner with the Lead Engineer and senior technical stakeholders to converge on architecture, scope, and milestones for the system, with a clear path from prototype to production
Deliver Production Value: drive key initiatives from concept to delivery, translating product goals into clear technical plans and ensuring the team ships high-quality, reliable systems
Build the Platform: lead development of a scalable, event-driven, fault-tolerant system that processes high-volume real-time messaging decisions across workflows and channels
Guide System Design: provide hands-on technical leadership for complex distributed, stateful, and real-time decisioning problems, contributing directly to architecture and design
Partner Across the Platform: collaborate closely with Product, Machine Learning, Data Platform, and adjacent engineering teams to ensure the orchestration layer integrates cleanly into the broader product
Drive Operational Excellence: ensure the platform operates reliably at scale through strong observability, metrics, incident response practices, and shared on-call responsibilities for business-critical services

Qualifications:

7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineers, with a track record of recruiting, mentoring, and growing high-trust engineering teams
A player-coach leadership style — comfortable guiding engineers while staying close to the technical work and contributing to architecture, design, and implementation when needed
Deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems that are fault tolerant, highly available, and highly concurrent
Strong systems thinking, with sound architectural judgment around event-driven, stateful, real-time decisioning systems
Experience building and operating backend services in a modern cloud environment (we use Google Cloud Platform)
Hands-on experience with microservice and service-oriented architectures, including the inter-service communication patterns that compose them — synchronous, event-sourced, orchestrated, and asynchronous (we use gRPC and Kafka)
Strong foundation in Python
Experience with Elixir — which we use for building concurrent, fault-tolerant services — is a strong plus. Experience with Erlang, Scala/Akka, Go, or Clojure also transfers well
Practical experience evaluating and designing for distributed systems fundamentals: partitioning, replication, back-pressure, idempotency, and failure handling
Exemplary software engineering practices (system design, code review, testing, CI/CD)
Strong focus on operational excellence, including observability, incident response, and healthy on-call practices
Clear communicator and collaborator who can translate technical tradeoffs into practical decisions with product and business stakeholders
(Nice to have) Experience with workflow orchestration systems (e.g. Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, Temporal)
(Nice to have) Experience building, operating, or integrating with ML-driven decisioning or scoring system

The base pay range for this position is $152K - $200KCAD/ year, which can include additional bonus depending on the position ultimately offered, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. The base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Studies have shown that women, communities of color, and historically underrepresented people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture where all Inkers can thrive. If you’re excited about the role but don’t meet all of the abovementioned qualifications, we encourage you to apply. Our differences bring a breadth of knowledge and perspectives that makes us collectively stronger.

We welcome and employ people regardless of race, color, gender identity or expression, religion, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ethnicity, family or marital status, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, disability, Veteran status, or other protected characteristics. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

About the Company

Movable Ink

Platform for personalized, integrated marketing content

Movable Ink helps brands deliver personalized marketing content by connecting with existing marketing tech via an Integrations Exchange. It sells subscriptions to a platform that lets marketers create customized experiences across digital channels. The product works by integrating with widely used marketing tools, pulling audience data, and generating dynamic, personalized messages and visuals that are delivered through emails, webpages, or ads. What sets Movable Ink apart from competitors is its emphasis on seamless integrations with a broad set of marketing technologies and a library of ready-made templates and workshops that help teams accelerate value from their current tech stack. The company’s goal is to help marketers stand out in a crowded digital landscape by making it easy to craft engaging, personalized content at scale and to extract insights and trends via reports and workshops.

Company size: 501-1,000
Company stage: Series D
Total funding: $97.3M
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Founded: 2010

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