Engineering Manager - Workflows (f/m/d)

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.

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.