Engineering Manager, Apps & APIs

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for an Engineering Manager, Apps & APIs in Switzerland.

This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of engineering management, product delivery, and developer-facing platform development. You will lead a distributed team responsible for building and evolving the customer-facing surface of a modern marketing mix modeling platform, including core web applications, public APIs, and emerging AI-driven interfaces. The role blends people leadership with strong technical involvement, requiring you to guide architecture decisions while enabling a fast-moving engineering team to deliver high-quality products. You will partner closely with Product and senior leadership to shape roadmap priorities, improve execution processes, and define what great looks like for a modern AI-enabled engineering organization. This is an opportunity to influence both product direction and engineering culture in a highly technical, async-first, global environment.

This role focuses on leading a high-performing engineering team while ensuring strong technical delivery across APIs, applications, and platform-facing systems.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of 4–7 software engineers, fostering strong collaboration, clarity, and accountability
• Define team structure, norms, and engineering culture that supports high performance and continuous improvement
• Own the execution roadmap, ensuring clear prioritization, effective delivery planning, and timely execution of engineering initiatives
• Partner closely with Product to align engineering efforts with business goals and product strategy
• Oversee development of customer-facing applications, including web apps, APIs, and AI-enabled interfaces
• Contribute to system architecture discussions and provide technical guidance without becoming a delivery bottleneck
• Drive the evolution of a production-grade public API strategy focused on reliability, scalability, and developer experience
• Support the development of emerging platform components, including agentic applications and AI-native systems
• Improve engineering processes, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery efficiency across distributed teams
• Ensure high-quality technical execution through code review oversight, architectural guidance, and engineering best practices

Requirements:

The ideal candidate combines strong engineering leadership experience with a solid technical background in APIs, web systems, and modern SaaS environments.

• Experience managing and mentoring globally distributed software engineering teams
• Strong technical background in web application and API development
• Experience working with modern backend technologies such as Ruby on Rails and Python-based services
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous product requirements into clear technical deliverables
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining production-grade APIs with external consumers
• Strong understanding of API reliability, versioning, scalability, and developer experience principles
• Ability to stay technically engaged in architecture discussions and code reviews without blocking delivery
• Experience working in fast-paced SaaS environments with iterative delivery approaches
• Strong communication skills, particularly in async-first and remote team environments
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering culture, set standards, and scale teams effectively
• Comfortable working in environments involving emerging technologies such as AI-driven systems and agentic workflows
• Strong collaboration skills with Product, Design, and senior leadership stakeholders

Benefits:

• Fully remote, async-first working environment with global flexibility
• Competitive salary with early-stage equity participation
• Opportunity to work with highly skilled, collaborative engineering teams
• Flexible working model with autonomy and outcome-focused culture
• Generous PTO policy, including mandatory minimum time off and local holidays
• Strong emphasis on documentation, independence, and low-meeting culture
• Opportunity to shape AI-native engineering practices and modern platform architecture
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies including APIs, AI systems, and scalable web platforms
• Leadership role with direct influence over product direction and engineering strategy