Engineering Manager, Destinations

Engineering Manager, Destinations

Who is Recruiting from Scratch: Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

Company Description: Our client is building the infrastructure layer that enables companies to activate customer data directly from their data warehouse. The platform powers hundreds of leading companies by connecting data warehouses to downstream systems such as CRMs, advertising platforms, analytics tools, and business applications through a large-scale integration ecosystem. Having raised over $320M and surpassed $100M ARR, the company has become a category leader at the intersection of customer data infrastructure, AI-powered marketing, and modern data platforms.

The platform powers:

Customer Data Activation

Reverse ETL Infrastructure

Data Sync Pipelines

API Integrations

Event-Driven Systems

Marketing Automation Infrastructure

AI-Powered Decisioning

Data Warehouse Connectivity

Customer Data Platforms

Enterprise SaaS Workflows

Engineering challenges include:

Managing 300+ production integrations

High-scale sync infrastructure

API reliability and failure handling

Parallelism and batching optimization

Rate-limit detection and mitigation

Distributed systems performance

Data pipeline scalability

Customer-facing infrastructure

Integration lifecycle management

AI-enabled developer productivity

The company operates at the intersection of modern data infrastructure and AI-powered software, providing engineers and leaders the opportunity to build systems that directly impact thousands of customers and millions of daily workflows.

The culture values:

Customer Obsession

Ownership

Fast Execution

Technical Excellence

Pragmatism

Mentorship

Curiosity

Continuous Learning

Accountability

High Autonomy

What You Will Do:

Lead the engineering team responsible for 300+ destination integrations

Manage and mentor a team of approximately 8 software engineers

Drive execution across customer-facing infrastructure projects

Balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical contributions

Prioritize new integrations, enhancements, and platform improvements

Partner directly with customers and integration partners

Improve sync speed, reliability, and performance across the platform

Drive initiatives involving parallelism, batching, and rate-limit optimization

Help scale integration infrastructure supporting thousands of daily syncs

Guide architecture and technical decision-making across the team

Coach engineers and raise the technical execution bar

Improve engineering processes, planning, and delivery velocity

Collaborate closely with product, customer success, and leadership teams

Evaluate technical tradeoffs balancing customer impact and long-term scalability

Drive adoption of AI tooling to improve engineering productivity

Contribute to hiring, team development, and organizational growth

Operate with high ownership and autonomy across critical platform infrastructure

Represent the team internally and externally when needed

Ideal Candidate Background:

6+ years of backend software engineering experience

1–3 years of engineering management experience

Experience managing and hiring software engineers

Strong platform engineering experience

Experience building API integrations and data infrastructure

Experience working in venture-backed startups during growth stages

Experience operating in fast-paced engineering organizations

Strong distributed systems fundamentals

Experience with performance optimization and scalability challenges

Experience building customer-facing infrastructure products

Strong system design skills

Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Comfortable remaining hands-on as an engineering manager

Experience mentoring and developing engineers

Ability to balance technical leadership with execution

Compensation & Benefits:

Base Salary: $200,000 – $320,000

Highly Competitive Equity Package

Visa Sponsorship Available

Fully Remote (US & Canada)

Significant Ownership and Autonomy

Opportunity to Lead a Core Product Team

Direct Customer Impact

High-Growth Environment

Category-Leading Product

Strong Engineering Culture

Mentorship and Leadership Growth

Exposure to AI-Powered Product Development

Why Join:

This is an opportunity to lead one of the most critical engineering teams at a category-defining data infrastructure company. Every Hightouch customer relies on destination integrations to activate and operationalize customer data. As the Engineering Manager for Destinations, you'll own the systems that serve as the connective tissue across hundreds of platforms and thousands of customer workflows. You'll combine hands-on technical leadership with people management, helping engineers grow while solving challenging distributed systems and integration infrastructure problems. If you enjoy platform engineering, mentoring teams, working directly with customers, and operating in a high-growth environment, this role offers exceptional scope, ownership, and career growth.