Engineering Manager - Marketing Platforms

Lightricks, an AI-first company, is revolutionizing how visual content is created. With a mission to bridge the gap between imagination and creation, Lightricks is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge technology to the creative and business spaces.

Our advanced AI photo and video generation models, including our open-source LTXV model, power our apps and platforms including Facetune, Photoleap, Videoleap, and LTX Studio, allowing creators and brands to leverage the latest research breakthroughs, offering endless control over their creative potential. Our influencer marketing platform, Popular Pays, provides creators the ability to monetize their work and offers brands opportunities to scale their content through tailored creator partnerships.

The Marketing Platforms team empowers Lightricks’ marketing and sales teams by building intelligent and scalable tools that boost efficiency and performance. We combine AI-driven innovation, seamless automation, and strategic integrations.

Our ideal candidate is someone with a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills, a sense of ownership and drive. Someone who is as passionate as we are about the craft of software engineering and system architecture, and understands the challenges of building complex backend systems. Someone who believes in writing resilient code and reliable infrastructure, but can still appreciate the realities of business and can deliver on a tight schedule in a fast-paced environment. An individual who loves learning, understands the value of teamwork and cherishes the feedback of other talented engineers.

What you will be doing

• Lead a team of 6–8 engineers, providing mentorship, guidance, and support in their professional development and daily work.
• Take ownership of the team’s delivery and execution, from planning and prioritization to quality and production stability.
• Remain hands-on and contribute to the codebase when needed, especially in complex or high-impact areas.
• Design highly available, mission-critical microservices and APIs.
• Architect and implement scalable data pipelines that integrate with multiple internal and external data sources.
• Drive the development of internal tools, campaign automation systems, dashboards, and reports to empower end users.
• Promote and implement engineering best practices for code quality, testing, observability, and deployment.
• Collaborate closely with relevant stakeholders to shape solutions from idea to delivery.
  
  

• 2+ years of experience leading and mentoring a technical team.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, and optimizing scalable and highly available backend systems.
• Proficiency in backend development in any high-level programming language.
• Experience working in or managing teams in a startup-like, fast-moving environment.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams across time zones.
• A track record of delivering complex technical projects on time.