[Hiring] Engineering Manager @VTEX

Role Description

You’ll lead the team that owns the product selection journey in e-commerce stores built with FastStore, VTEX’s storefront platform. This covers the shopper’s path to finding and choosing products, as well as the account experience after purchase. The team is moving toward a native AI platform, where stores are generated and edited with the help of agents.

You’ll be accountable for delivery, quality, and reliability. Your responsibilities include:

• Turning product priorities into a realistic plan.
• Balancing capacity across roadmap, sustaining work, and on-call.
• Tracking delivery, performance, and reliability metrics for the services you own.
• Leading people: 1:1s, feedback, career development, performance reviews, and hiring.
• Working closely with Product, Design, Product Services, and other engineering teams.
• Surfacing risks and dependencies, and helping make decisions with customers and partners.
• Contributing to architecture reviews and technical proposals.
• Encouraging the use of AI in day-to-day engineering.
• Helping evolve engineering practices across the company.

What you’ll deliver in the first 6–12 months:

• Focus on migrating to and adapting to the new framework.
• Drive customer adoption of the new version and deprecate older versions.
• Continuous improvements to components and journeys.

Qualifications

• Solid background in software engineering.
• Seasoned Engineering Manager with strong experience leading software engineering teams.
• Proven track record of growing people, managing performance, and delivering complex technical projects.
• Hands-on and curious about using AI/LLMs, automation, and modern dev tools.
• Advanced English proficiency.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field.

Requirements

• AI critical thinking is a must.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, global environment with distributed teams and cross-functional partners.

Benefits

• Annual profit-sharing program and equity eligibility.
• Health, dental, and life insurance with national coverage provided by VTEX.
• Annual budget for professional development in Tech.
• Language development incentive program (English, Spanish, Portuguese).
• Flexible meal allowance.
• Extended parental leaves.
• Child-care assistance.
• Flexible work schedule and remote-first culture.

Company Description

VTEX (NYSE: VTEX) is the composable and complete commerce platform that delivers more efficiency and less maintenance to organizations seeking to make smarter IT investments and modernize their tech stack. Through our pragmatic composability approach, we empower brands, distributors, and retailers with unparalleled flexibility and comprehensive solutions, enabling them to invest solely in what provides a clear business advantage and boosts profitability.

VTEX is trusted by 2,600 global B2C and B2B clients, including Carrefour, Colgate, Motorola, Sony, Stanley Black & Decker, and Whirlpool, having 3,500 active online stores across 43 countries (as of FY ended on December 31, 2023).

For more information, visit www.vtex.com .