engineering
Posted Mar 19Engineering Manager - Workflows (f/m/d)
at Contentful
London, United KingdomOn-site
Responsibilities
- Build and support high-performing, globally distributed teams, with a culture of collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Enable platform adoption across teams through clear interfaces, documentation, migration support, and predictable release practices.
- Evolve the orchestration platform (workflow APIs, execution semantics, integrations/actions, reliability/observability) to support approvals, tasks, triggers, and automation at scale.
- Strengthen operational practices with healthy on-call/support models, incident response, post-incident learning, and measurable reliability improvements.
- Coach and develop engineers across levels, supporting growth, feedback, and sustainable delivery habits.
- Collaborate with AI Enablement and product teams so AI-powered capabilities (e.g., AI Actions/Suggestions) integrate cleanly into workflows and UI foundations with clear boundaries and reliable behavior.
Requirements
- experience managing cross-functional development teams and delivering complex solutions with Product and Design partners.
- Experience with platform or foundational teams where success depends on adoption, stability, documentation, and thoughtful rollout/migration support.
- Familiarity with event-driven distributed systems concepts such as queues, orchestration, retries, idempotency, long-running workflows, and reliability—enough to guide discussions and support strong engineering decisions.
- Familiarity with modern AI-enabled product development and comfort supporting teams to use AI responsibly (for productivity and for product integration), with measurable outcomes and a strong quality bar. •
- Experience building workflow/automation platforms (state machines, orchestration engines, integration ecosystems) with strong operability requirements.
- Familiarity with security/compliance considerations for systems that execute actions and integrate with external services (auditability, permissions, data handling). What’s in it for you?
- By blending composability with native AI capabilities, Contentful enables dynamic personalization, automated content delivery, and real-time experimentation, powering next-generation digital experiences across brands, regions, and channels for more than 4,200 organizations worldwide.