Engineering Manager

Vendelux helps companies discover the best events. Event marketers are the unsung heroes of successful companies. From generating leads to building world-class brands, event marketers make magic happen throughout the year. Vendelux is here to help maximize the impact of all the events that a company sponsors and attends.

We are a Series A SaaS company and provide the system of record for event marketing. Our software platform provides proprietary insights that helps high-growth companies find the highest ROI events, conferences and trade shows to attend and sponsor. We have built an AI-powered platform that customers describe as an event marketer’s dream.

Vendelux was founded in 2021, and our recent $14 million Series A was led by FirstMark, whose portfolio includes companies like Shopify, Pinterest, Discord, Airbnb, Draft Kings, Carta and Justworks (amongst others). Our leadership team includes alumni from Bain, ZoomInfo, Shutterstock, Compass, ModernLoop, Forter, Zulilly, NewtonX.

Data-driven marketers have plenty of tools to optimize their digital ad spend and verify that their ads showed where they were supposed to. We build the same kinds of tools, but for data-driven event marketers, who’ve previously been limited to scanning conference badges at their booth.

We're growing, and looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to help lead our expanding team of software engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable products. This role balances people management, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to drive business outcomes. The ideal candidate is both an empowering coach and a systems thinker who ensures the engineering team can execute efficiently and grow professionally.

This is a full-time position based out of NYC. We have a NYC HQ, and our preference is to have engineers come in a hybrid set up with an expectation of 4 days in office. It reports directly to our Head of Engineering.

Scope of Responsibilities

• People & Team Leadership

  • Recruit, onboard, and develop top engineering talent

  • Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development coaching

  • Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and open communication

  • Align individual growth with business needs and product direction

• Technical Leadership

  • Guide architectural decisions and ensure engineering best practices

  • Collaborate with tech leads to plan, estimate, and deliver projects

  • Encourage code quality through reviews, testing strategies, and documentation

  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives in reliability, scalability, and performance

• Execution & Delivery

  • Own delivery of major product components end-to-end

  • Translate business requirements into actionable technical roadmaps

  • Balance short-term execution with long-term technical investment.

  • Remove blockers and ensure team velocity through process improvement

• Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, and other teams to align priorities

  • Communicate engineering progress, tradeoffs, and timelines clearly

  • Influence and support product strategy with technical insights

• Tech Stack

  • Frontend: Typescript, React, MUI/Shadcn, Node.js

  • Backend: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP

  • Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake

  • Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor / Claude Code

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in engineering leadership

• 5+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript

• Proven experience delivering software at scale

• Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate

• Demonstrated ability to coach and inspire engineers

• Strong communication skills and business acumen

• Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development

• The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast-paced work

• Nice-to-have: Previous startup experience

• Nice-to-have: DevOps or platform/infrastructure experience (or deep interest)

• Nice-to-have: Experience with AI prototyping tools like v0, Lovable, Replit, etc.

Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above and that’s ok! We are open to great people from non-traditional backgrounds.

Vendelux is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.