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At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀 ClickUp is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our fullstack team responsible for building and scaling our flagship products. As the leader of the team that owns the APIs and core experiences powering ClickUp, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our platform. You will guide engineers working across the stack, from frontend experiences to backend infrastructure. Your focus will be on driving the development of new features, addressing performance and reliability challenges, and ensuring operational excellence as we continue to grow. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on our core product while fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration. The Role: Technical Leadership : Provide hands-on technical guidance to the team, ensuring best practices in software development, architecture, and design. Team Management : Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Product Development : Drive the development of new features and enhancements, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability. Collaboration : Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to align on goals, prioritize initiatives, and deliver exceptional user experiences. Code Quality : Oversee code reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and advocate for clean, maintainable, and testable code. Innovation : Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in collaborative editing, cloud infrastructure, and web development, and apply them to improve our produ

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world's largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Revenue and Financial Automation Sub-org within Revenue and Financial Automation: Billing. The Revenue and Financial Automation team at Stripe builds software tools that accelerate the economic and technological growth of global businesses by helping them operationalize their commercial relationships with customers. Our offerings include a billing platform, SaaS analytics, data services, and finance automation products that our customers creatively combine to support various revenue models. Team Matching: exact team matching for one of the subteams will begin during final stages. Please note we may also consider you for different orgs based on your experience, location, etc. More information on our team matching process can be found here. What you'll do We're looking for engineers who want to build the distributed systems, APIs, and backend services that power Stripe's revenue and billing platform. You'll focus on API design and performance, service reliability, and distributed systems challenges, while collaborating across the stack to ship complete solutions for millions of businesses. Responsibilities Scope, architect, and lead technical projects to build and scale distributed backend systems and APIs Design, build, and maintain reliable, high-performance APIs and backend services Own service reliability, including setting performance targets and driving improvements across the stack Debug production issues across distributed services

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As Engineering Manager for the Agent Execution group , you'll lead more than 10 engineers who build foundations for AI agents to run safely and effectively across GitLab. You'll give the group clarity, remove obstacles, and help teams move quickly while protecting what matters. You'll contribute to design reviews on sandboxing and agent observability, work alongside staff engineers, and use modern AI coding tools and agent harnesses in your work. What you’ll do Lead the Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution teams across frontend, backend, and AI engineering, with each team anchored by a s

At Lyft, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive. The Rider Loyalty team is where riders become members. We build the membership, rewards, and benefits products that give people a reason to choose Lyft on every trip, and we make sure the value a rider has earned shows up at the moment it matters. Loyalty sits inside the Rider Loyalty, Partnerships, and Rider Pay (PLP) group. You will lead a team of engineers across iOS, Android, and Server. You will own the membership and rewards platform end to end and work daily with Product, Design, Data Science, and Partnerships. Responsibilities: Own the Loyalty roadmap from strategy through delivery. Turn goals like member growth and retention into an engineering plan, and manage the dependencies that run through Partnerships and Rider Pay. Build and scale the systems behind membership, rewards earning and redemption, and benefit delivery. Hold a high technical bar through architecture reviews, tech debt management, observability, reliability, and on-call. Grow engineers by matching people to the right opportunities, setting clear expectations, and giving feedback early. Experience: 5+ years building software professionally, including 2+ years directly managing engineers. You have managed a team that shipped both mobile and backend work, and you can still read and review code in at least one of those areas. You have owned a consumer product used by millions of people each month. You use AI tools in your own work and have a clear view of where they help and where they do not. BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Benefits: Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits Mental health benefits Family building benefits Child care and pet benefits Access to a Lyft funded Health Care Savings Accou

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. Summary: Lead the Switchboard team, which owns the Tenant management product for Dedicated environments. This team is diverse in skills (Frontend, Backend and Reliability engineers) and owns the product end to end. The product enables self-service and workflow automations for customers and internal operators of our large scale Dedicated tenant fleet. Key Responsibilities: Lead the fullstack Switchboard team responsible for GitLab Dedicated’s customer-facing control panel, and set clear direction for how the team delivers and evolves that product. There is a strong coordination with the assigned Product Manager. Hire and develop a

MongoDB is seeking an Engineering Manager to join the Atlas Growth Team. The team is responsible for improving and creating new features for MongoDB Atlas, our developer data platform that accounts for 65% of the company’s revenue. Atlas allows users to deploy fault-tolerant, secure, globally distributed MongoDB clusters in just minutes. The Atlas Growth team focuses on improving the customer experience via new product experiences and refinements to existing user flows. The team works closely with cross-functional partners, as well as other MongoDB engineering teams to bring new visions to life. We are constantly challenged to design features such as new onboarding flows, monetization improvements, and advanced cluster management tools for our large B2B customer base. We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Dublin for our hybrid working model. What You’ll Do Manage a team of engineers to design, build and test new features for MongoDB Atlas Contribute to and lead complex technical projects Work with cross-functional stakeholders to design the team's roadmap, defining delivery dates that balance technical feasibility with the pace of the market Work closely with product, design and analytics teams, considering the user’s perspective while building technical solutions Collaborate with team members to develop our codebase, best practices, and design principles Learn from and mentor an impassioned array of team members We’re Looking for Someone Who Has at least 5 years of professional software development experience Has at least 2 years of people management experience Is skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.) Is comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application (e.g. React, TypeScript, React Testing Library) Has experience with at least one major cloud provider technology (AWS, Azure, GCP) Has a deep understanding of product analytics Has experience with A/B testing and

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE 1touch.io is a technology company focused on automated, real-time discovery, mapping, and tracking of sensitive personal data. Its AI-powered platform helps enterprises improve data privacy, security, and governance across complex on-premises and cloud environments. Together, 1touch.io and Everpure transform enterprise data from passive storage into an intelligent, context-aware, and governed foundation - making it AI-ready at the source so organizations can securely understand, trust, and activate their data at scale. As a Java Engineer, you will design and deliver core platform capabilities that help organizations discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across complex environments. You will work on highly scalable backend systems, collaborating with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to solve challenging technical problems where performance, resilience, and precision matter. WHAT YOU'LL DO Design and build software that discovers, classifies, and safeguards sensitive data across diverse environments and platforms. Lead the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement of platform capabilities. Develop reliable, scalable, and high-performing backend systems designed for complex, real-world operating environments. Extend platform capabilities by integrating new data sources, storage systems, and services. Solve engineering challenges related to scale, concurrency, perf

Level Up Your Career with Zynga! At Zynga, we bring people together through the power of play. As a global leader in interactive entertainment and a proud label of Take-Two Interactive, our games have been downloaded over 6 billion times—connecting players in 175+ countries through fun, strategy, and a little friendly competition. From thrilling casino spins to epic strategy battles, mind-bending puzzles, and social word challenges, our diverse game portfolio has something for everyone. Fan-favorites and latest hits include FarmVille™, Words With Friends™, Zynga Poker™, Game of Thrones Slots Casino™, Wizard of Oz Slots™, Hit it Rich! Slots™, Wonka Slots™, Top Eleven™, Toon Blast™, Empires & Puzzles™, Merge Dragons!™, CSR Racing™, Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells™, Match Factory™, and Color Block Jam™—plus many more! Founded in 2007 and headquartered in California, our teams span North America, Europe, and Asia, working together to craft unforgettable gaming experiences. Whether you're spinning, strategizing, matching, or competing, Zynga is where fun meets innovation—and where you can take your career to the next level. Join us and be part of the play! Position Overview: Come join our team at Zynga making an impact across all of the company’s games - Mobile Game Tech (MGT). Lead the FinOps team by setting technical direction, crafting and implementing backend services for our games. We’re looking for outstanding engineers with a passion for technology and the desire to work in a team with dynamic strengths. This unique position will challenge you to tackle situations across a broad set of technical stacks, to soak up internal business logic from all kinds of teams, and to drive cost efficiency improvements across the organization. This FinOps team expands beyond just AWS and GCP and investigates cost optimization and unit economics for a variety of technology vendors. What You'll Do: Lead all technical aspects of the FinOps team’s software development an

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Okta is The World’s Identity Company. We free everyone to safely use any technology - anywhere, on any device or app. Our Identity as a Service solution enables secure yet flexible access, authentication, and automation that transforms how people move through the digital world, putting Identity at the heart of business security and growth. At Okta, we celebrate a variety of perspectives and experiences. We are not looking for someone who checks every single box - we’re looking for lifelong learners and people who can make us better with their unique experiences. The Engineering Opportunity Okta's Workforce Identity Cloud (WIC) secures billions of global logins every day. The Resilience Team within WIC maximizes service availability by building foundational, high-scale systems. Our engineers solve complex distributed-systems challenges - from database proxies to traffic shaping - to ensure the platform remains trustworthy and reliable for every customer. We are seeking a Staff Back-End Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives and own the reliability of our expanding Identity as a Service platform. In this role, you will develop microservices, build innovative frameworks, and optimize our cloud-native environment. You will champion reliability during design phases and collaborate across teams to address technical gaps. We value iterative development, automated testing, and individual ownership. Join our creative, fast-paced team to work on impac

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Java Developer to join our Credit Risk Technology team. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying robust, high-performance, and large-scale software solutions for Counterparty Credit Risk Management. You will be at the forefront of firm-wide initiatives, leveraging best-in-class software stacks and cutting-edge AI tools to solve complex challenges. You will lead a team of talented engineers, providing technical guidance, fostering innovation, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and resilient software. The ideal candidate is passionate about modern software development practices, proficient with contemporary tech stacks, and eager to utilize artificial intelligence to manage Citi’s exposure to financial institutions, governments, and corporates. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by contributing to critical systems that provide an integrated view of trades, collateral, and market data from numerous sources. Key Responsibilities: Technical Leadership & Hands-On Development: Lead by example, actively contributing to the design, architecture, and hands-on development of critical software components for Counterparty Credit Risk Management leveraging AI tools such as Devin and Co-Pilot Drive technical excellence, ensuring best practices in coding, testing, and deployment are followed for high-performance and large-scale applications. Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and mentor team members in advanced development techniques. Team Leadership & Management: Supervise work of a team of software engineers Foster a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive team environment focused on tackling challenging firm-wide initiatives. Allocate resources effectively to meet project deadlines an

This is Adyen Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster. Team Lead - Software Engineer As a Software Engineering Team Lead based in Singapore, you will lead a team of highly skilled software engineers responsible for building and evolving Adyen's Global Cards platform for the APAC region. Your team plays a critical role in developing scalable, reliable, and resilient payment capabilities that power card transactions for merchants across APAC. You'll work closely with Product Managers, Architects, and Engineering teams to deliver new functionality across the Cards domain, while continuously improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of our platform. As a people leader, you'll coach and develop engineers, foster a culture of ownership, and help shape the technical direction of one of Adyen's core payment domains. As part of Adyen's global engineering organisation, you'll collaborate closely with teams across Europe, APAC, and North America to build products that scale globally. What you'll do Lead, coach, and develop a team of Software Engineers, supporting both their technical and professional growth. Foster a high-performing engineering culture built on ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning. Partner closely with Product Managers to translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions. Drive the technical direction of the team, balancing product de

About OfficeSpace: OfficeSpace Software provides the leading AI operating system for the built world, that helps teams plan, connect, and perform in the workplace. As a performance-based, PE-backed company, we hire based on merit and a willingness to do what it takes to succeed long-term. You’re a great fit for the role if you’re entrepreneurial, passionate, motivated by building at light speed, and an Agentic AI early adopter. Our world-class teams operate in the US, Canada, and Costa Rica in a culture of trust, respect, growth, and impact. About the role As a Lead Software Engineer at OfficeSpace, you'll shape the future of our workplace platform by building scalable products, leading technical execution, and raising the engineering bar across the team. You'll combine deep technical expertise with strong engineering leadership. From architecting distributed systems to mentoring teammates and designing AI-powered engineering workflows, you'll help us deliver enterprise software that is reliable, secure, and built to scale. This is a hands-on leadership role. We provide the platform. You drive the impact. What you'll do - Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of high-performance applications using Ruby on Rails, React, and modern cloud technologies. - Build scalable, maintainable software that supports enterprise customers across a rapidly growing platform. - Design AI-assisted engineering tools, workflows, and automation that improve developer productivity, code quality, and customer outcomes. - Own projects end-to-end—from technical discovery through production deployment and long-term ownership. - Shift quality left by embedding automated testing, code quality practices, and continuous validation early in the development lifecycle. - Drive predictable delivery by managing scope, balancing technical debt, protecting sprint commitments, and reducing reactive work. - Establish performance benchmarks and continuously optimize application spe

About Clutch Clutch is Canada's largest online used car retailer, delivering a seamless, hassle-free car-buying experience to drivers everywhere. Customers can browse hundreds of cars from the comfort of their home, get the right one delivered to their door, and enjoy peace of mind with our 10-Day Money-Back Guarantee. Named one of Canada's Top Growing Companies two years in a row and awarded a spot on LinkedIn's Top Canadian Startups list, we're looking to add curious, hard-working, and driven individuals to our growing team. Headquartered in Toronto, Clutch was founded in 2017. Clutch is backed by world-class investors including Canaan, BrandProject, Real Ventures, D1 Capital, and Upper90. To learn more, visit clutch.ca Technology Full TypeScript stack for front- and back-end, with some legacy JavaScript Front-end: ReactJS app with functional components and context API Back-end: ExpressJS with PostgreSQL database and Sequelize ORM Microservices architecture using Docker, Terraform, AWS ECS, and other AWS services Interservice communication via RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka About the role Clutch is seeking a Team Lead, Software Engineering to lead a team of engineers building and scaling our platform. This is a player-coach role: you'll split your time roughly evenly between hands-on engineering and team leadership, mentoring engineers, owning team delivery, and partnering with product to ship work that moves the business forward. You'll partner closely with other engineering leaders on technical direction and cross-team initiatives while owning the health, growth, and execution of your team. What you'll do Lead a team of 3–5 engineers, owning their growth, performance, career development, and day-to-day delivery Stay hands-on, contributing roughly half your time to code, architecture, and technical design across the stack Partner with Product, Design, and Data to translate business priorities into a clear roadmap and well-scoped engineering work Drive execution and de

About Ema Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. Who you are We're looking for an innovative and passionate Machine Learning Engineers to join our team. You are someone who loves solving complex problems, enjoys the challenges of working with huge data sets, and has a knack for turning theoretical concepts into practical, scalable solutions. You are a strong team player but also thrive in autonomous environments where your ideas can make a significant impact. You love utilizing machine learning techniques to push the boundaries of what is possible within the realm of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and related Machine Learning technologies. Most importantly, you are excited to be part of a mission-oriented high-growth startup that can create a lasting impact. You will: Conceptualize, develop, and deploy machine learning models that underpin our NLP, retrieval, ranking, reasoning, dialog and code-generation systems. Implement advanced machine learning algorithms, such as Transformer-based models, reinforcement learning, ensemble learning, and agent-based systems to continually improve the performance of our AI systems. Lead the processing and analysis of large, complex datasets (structured, semi-structured, and

InnoPhase Inc., DBA GreenWave Radios™, is at the forefront of innovation in Open RAN digital radios. Our cutting-edge solutions, powered by the Hermes64 RF SoC, are designed to enhance network energy efficiency while dramatically reducing operational expenses, with purpose-built silicon that is the heart of ORAN-based active antenna arrays. Headquartered in San Diego, California, GreenWave Radios™ has established itself as a pioneer in delivering power-efficient digital-to-RF solutions. The company is supported by a talented team of over 100 engineers spread across four global R&D facilities. With an extensive portfolio of more than 120 global patents, GreenWave Radios™ continues to push the boundaries of radio technology and innovation. To learn more about GreenWave Radios™ and hear what our employees have to say, visit the GreenWave™ certification profile at GreatPlacetoWork.com or explore our Home - GreenWave Radios website. InnoPhase Inc., DBA GreenWave™ Radios, is at the forefront of innovation in Open RAN digital radios. Our cutting-edge solutions, powered by the Hermes64 RF SoC, are designed to enhance network energy efficiency while dramatically reducing operational expenses, with purpose-built silicon that is the heart of ORAN-based active antenna arrays.Based in San Diego, California, GreenWave Radios has earned a reputation for delivering power-efficient digital-to-RF solutions. Our commitment to innovation is backed by a robust team of more than 100 talented engineers spread across four R&D facilities worldwide and an extensive portfolio of over 120 global patent filings, underscoring our dedication to pushing the boundaries of radio technology. InnoPhase Inc., DBA GreenWave™ Radios and Synergic Emergence have a co-employment relationship. For over three years, GreenWave Radios has partnered with Synergic Emergence, a professional employment organization provider, to offer our employees the best benefits and services. Thi