Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
### Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Integrations sit at the centre of how modern SaaS products expand their footprint, and an Engineering Manager dedicated to this area typically influences both platform strategy and customer-facing capability. This role stands out because it is explicitly focused on building and coordinating an integrations function across multiple regions, a common operating model for SaaS companies serving global customers and partner ecosystems.
For SaaS career development, leading integrations work builds durable expertise in API design, reliability expectations, and the operational realities of connecting to third-party systems. The remit also points to roadmap ownership and cross-functional alignment, which are core skills for engineering leaders in subscription businesses where platform leverage and time-to-value matter. The mix of leadership and occasional hands-on contribution can strengthen both management craft and technical judgement in a domain that tends to grow in scope as products mature.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Your role
As an Engineering Manager of the Integrations team, you will lead a team of 6+ mid-senior full-stack engineers based in London & India. Your role will involve closely collaborating with other engineering managers & teams, also focusing on integrations to achieve alignment & efficiency while delivering multiple simultaneous projects with cross-functional stakeholders. Although this is primarily a leadership position, given the current small team size, some technical IC tasks may also be performed. This team is expected to grow in both size, scope & impact, with strong potential for additional career opportunities & responsibilities.
This position reports to our Director of Engineering, who is based in Canada and is looking for someone to join the team in our London office. Please note, this is a hybrid position with an expectation to be in the office 2-3 times per week.
Candidates are expected to be flexible with their working hours, ensuring overlap with the IST and PST time zones for team meetings, discussions & escalations.
What you’ll do
- You’ll have direct reports ranging from mid-level to highly experienced engineers and will support their performance and career growth through regular one-on-ones, performance reviews, coaching, and mentoring.
- Help to define a 1-3 year roadmap & vision for the integrations team.
- Consistently work with your direct reports to support their career growth.
- Assist in evaluating technical design & architecture documents and proposals on an ongoing basis, in anticipation of increased scale and ever-evolving technology to meet the demands of rapidly growing business needs.
- Work with geographically distributed peers, including engineering managers, technical leaders, product managers, designers, support engineers, and other stakeholders to align on engineering-wide priorities.
- Own large projects end-to-end, including requirements gathering, planning, resource allocation, and sometimes execution.
- Drive effective engineering processes and policies.
- Scale the team by recruiting candidates from diverse backgrounds.
- Get hands-on when necessary and assist with technical implementations.
- Assist with emerging Agentic AI technologies & initiatives.
Skills you'll bring
- 3+ years of experience leading a high-performing team of engineers, including managing and shipping cross-functional or multi-team projects.
- 10+ years of professional experience as an engineer or engineering leader.
- Experience with the development of integrations & APIs.
- Hiring & interviewing skills.
- Onboarding & mentorship experience.
- Agentic AI experience.
- Proficiency with ETL data pipelines.
