Front-End Engineering Manager

Who you are

• You are passionate about building software effectively and for the long term, balancing technical quality, velocity, and business impact
• BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience
• You have 6-8+ years of hands-on software development experience building and operating highly available, full-stack SaaS products at scale, and a strong understanding of modern web architectures and scalable, multi-tenant design patterns
• You have 5+ years of experience as an engineering manager, leading high-performing teams that deliver complex, cross-team initiatives over multiple quarters using an agile, iterative approach
• You are an AI-native technical leader. You have hands-on experience using modern AI tools and workflows (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) in your own work and enabling teams to do the same. You are excited to use and experiment with various AI tools to increase team productivity and innovation
• You are comfortable setting technical direction and standards, partnering with peers and senior leadership to evolve architecture, development practices, and shared engineering processes
• You have a strong track record of end-to-end ownership, from design through delivery and deployment, including estimating work, managing risks, and ensuring teams reliably meet their commitments
• You have experience building tools and workflows to support Marketing teams, especially generating marketing collateral (copy, images, translations) using AI automated workflows
• You have hands-on experience with front-end development using TypeScript & React, including diagnosing and improving application performance
• You have experience using and integrating with CMSs like Sanity and Contentful
• You have hands-on experience doing Internationalization (I18N) and Localization (L10N) at scale, especially using AI and tools such as Smartling
• You are an effective cross-functional leader and communicator, serving as a clear interface between engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align priorities and drive execution
• You are a people-first leader and coach, experienced in hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and developing engineers through constructive feedback and growth opportunities, while fostering a healthy, collaborative team culture
• You enjoy leading teams that build internal platforms, tools, or systems that improve end-user productivity, automation, and operational efficiency
• You like to question convention, continuously improve how work gets done, and thrive in small, autonomous teams that ship early and often in close partnership with product and business stakeholders
• Experience building internal tools and automations for developers and/or non-technical stakeholders as well as operational systems that improve reliability and productivity
• Experience with experimentation, A/B-testing, personalization platforms such as Optimizely, AB Tasty, Adobe Target, etc
• We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying

What the job involves

• The Amplify team builds the internal platforms, automation, and AI-driven systems that power how Klaviyos work every day. As an Engineering Manager, you will:
• Lead multiple engineering teams and set the technical vision for internal tools and platforms that drive efficiency, automation, and productivity
• Own a portfolio of internal systems supporting Sales, Marketing, Customer Service & Success, and R&D, including AI-powered workflows, internal web applications, data and event pipelines, 3rd party integrations, and support tooling
• Balance technical leadership and people leadership, setting direction, modeling best practices, and enabling teams to deliver efficiently
• Partner closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and senior internal stakeholders to translate organizational challenges into scalable, high-quality software solutions
• Learn and evolve Klaviyo’s end-to-end internal workflows, scaling platforms and processes to support the company’s next phase of growth
• Foster a culture of innovation, systems thinking, technical excellence, and an AI-first mindset
• Make a direct, visible impact on how thousands of Klaviyos get their work done every day
• Transform workflows by putting AI at the center, building smarter systems and ways of working from the ground up
• Klaviyo’s platform is primarily built with Python and React and runs on AWS. New hires join us from a wide range of technical backgrounds and are supported in learning our stack. Core technologies for the Amplify team include:
• Python / Django / FastAPI
• Typescript / React / Astro
• Sanity CMS
• Optimizely
• Figma
• Smartling
• Hubspot
• Tableau
• Cloudflare Pages/Workers
• MySQL / Redis / Memcached
• AWS

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Lifestyle spending account
• Commuter benefits
• Modern Health - wellness platform
• Parental leave
• Company equity
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible paid time off (FPTO)
• 13 company holidays
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Pension
• Financial coaching
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Annual leave - up to 25 annual leave days
• 10 company holidays (8 bank holidays + 2 recharge days)
• Family leave
• Cycle to Work benefit
• Mental health benefits