About Wunderkind:

Wunderkind is a performance marketing solution that uses AI and data to help brands acquire and retain customers through one-to-one, personalized messages across websites, email, text, and ads, guaranteeing a lift in revenue. Founded in 2010, Our goal is to scale a brand’s ability to create and grow customer relationships through websites, email, text, and ads. We believe individuals should have the freedom to choose the kind of internet they want. An internet that fosters genuine relationships with brands. An internet that treats humans like real people instead of “web traffic.” We also believe in empowering brands to treat their customers as individuals, satisfying their unique needs with tailored experiences and thoughtful communication. By expertly personalizing, automating, and scaling beautiful one-to-one experiences, Wunderkind helps brands acquire new customers at scale and keep them loyal for life.

The Role:

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager with deep experience in backend API development and third-party integrations to lead a team building the infrastructure that powers Wunderkind’s marketing messaging platform.

This team is responsible for the services and APIs that integrate with external systems to support real-time marketing via email, SMS, Social Platforms, and more. You’ll play a key role in scaling these services, making them more flexible, performant, and extensible to support a wide array of client use cases and communication channels.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead a team of backend engineers building robust, high-performance APIs and services that drive Wunderkind’s marketing communication stack.
• Design and scale integration services that connect Wunderkind’s platform to external systems such as email service providers, SMS gateways, customer data platforms, and e-commerce platforms.
• Define the architecture and roadmap for backend APIs and event-driven systems that support marketing automation, real-time triggering, and personalized content delivery.
• Work closely with Product and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Ensure that services are resilient, observable, and maintain high uptime and throughput across all supported channels.
• Drive best practices in API versioning, documentation, testing, and developer experience.
• Support the growth and development of your team through mentoring, performance feedback, and technical guidance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Customer Success, Data) to align technical development with customer needs and product goals.
• Monitor performance metrics and system health to proactively identify and resolve issues.

Required Qualifications:

• 2–3 years of engineering management experience, ideally with a background as a backend or platform engineer.
• Proven experience leading teams that build and maintain APIs and services used in production environments.
• Strong technical background in backend technologies and programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, etc.
• Deep understanding of building event-driven systems, asynchronous messaging, and integrating with external APIs.
• Experience with distributed systems architecture, microservices, and message queues (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ).
• Familiarity with modern deployment practices (e.g., containers, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make architectural decisions that balance scalability, performance, and maintainability.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills—you can work across teams and clearly articulate technical tradeoffs.

Who You Are:

• A backend-focused leader who is passionate about building scalable APIs and reliable systems.
• Motivated by solving customer problems through thoughtful integrations and technical execution.
• Someone who thrives in a fast-paced, product-focused environment.
• Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to support your team technically when needed.
• Excited to contribute to a collaborative engineering culture centered around quality, learning, and ownership.

The base salary range for this role is CAD 105,000 to CAD 155,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each specific candidate; including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, applicable certifications, and geographic work location. This may vary depending on living location and market rate.