Engineering Manager, Destinations

Role overview

Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for 300+ destination integrations in Hightouch’s marketing and customer data platform. This role blends people leadership with hands-on engineering to ensure the team delivers high-value improvements and maintains excellent technical execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor an engineering team focused on destination integrations.
• Drive prioritization of new destination requests and enhancements to existing integrations, balancing quick wins with long-term strategy.
• Improve sync speed and reliability when customers send large data volumes to destinations using diverse protocols (e.g., HTTP APIs, file transfers, data warehouses).
• Work on performance optimizations including parallelism, batching, rate-limit detection, and algorithmic improvements.
• Collaborate with customers and integration partners to solve new use cases.
• Raise the team’s technical bar and maintain focus on highest-value deliverables while shipping quickly.
• Explore how AI can increase developer productivity and quality.

Requirements (About you)

• Strong motivation to deliver customer value quickly.
• Evidence of impact and growth potential; leadership ability is more important than years of experience.
• Ability to mentor newer engineers and cultivate excellence.
• Enjoy a hands-on + people leadership blend.
• Strong reasoning using first principles and a habit of seeking ground truth.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing or scaling integrations with high-volume sync workloads and multiple third-party destination types.
• Demonstrated technical execution and performance/throughput optimization experience.