--- title: 'Engineering Manager - Customer Developer Experience at Constructor' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-customer-developer-experience-constructor-remote-v1y9wfa27acx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Engineering Manager - Customer Developer Experience at Constructor - **Company:** Constructor - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/constructor/9a30482e-60da-4df4-8f6f-f0c6b0941d57 ## Job description ## About Constructor Launched in 2019, Constructor is an AI-first ecommerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains. ## About the Role As an Engineering Manager on the Customer Developer Experience (CDX) team, you'll lead engineers whose work spans two fronts: partnering directly with the external developers integrating our platform to provide hands-on technical guidance, and building the advanced open-source tooling that makes those integrations effortless. Constructor’s open source technology is utilized on millions of end user devices and are crucial to powering the most innovative product discovery experiences in the industry. You'll set the technical strategy for our open-source tooling and how it advances the experience of the external developers who build on our platform. Keeping their trust means keeping our libraries reliable, high-quality, and well-documented, and that ownership sits with you. Challenges you will tackle - Cross functional collaboration and prioritization: close collaboration with product, customer success, data science and other engineering teams to prioritize features and address customer needs effectively. - Balancing support and delivery: allocating the team's capacity across hands-on integration support and long-term tooling development, so that neither the customers in front of you nor the platform work that scales the whole business gets starved. - Recruiting and hiring: owning the hiring process for your team end to end, from building a strong pipeline to running an effective interview loop and closing the engineers you want. - Career growth: guiding the development of the engineers on your team, giving direct feedback, creating opportunities that stretch them, and helping them work through the obstacles that come up along the way. - Technical direction and quality: setting the standard for the team's tech stack, tooling, and testing practices, and holding a high bar for the quality of what the team ships. - Open-source libraries: guiding the development of the cutting-edge TypeScript/React UI libraries your team ships and maintains, which power next-generation retail experiences worldwide. - Developer experience: keeping DevX a first-class priority for external integrators, driving the intuitive tools, comprehensive documentation, and reference examples that shorten their time to value. ## Requirements - 5+ years of web development experience, at least 2 years directly leading an engineering team. - Strong full-stack development experience, including JavaScript & React. - Experience with software critical to production environments and/or data/ETL pipelines. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to effectively triage issues and prioritize tasks. - Interest in interacting with customers and solving new problems daily, working closely with internal teams. - Ability to communicate with clarity in written and verbal context, comfortable engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects is a plus. - English onhttps://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/table-1-cefr-3.3-common-reference-levels-global-scale or higher. - Able to attend regular meetings between 2 and 8 pm UTC. - Passion to help fuel the continued success of our high-growth startup. ## Benefits - 🏝️ Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all employees to take at least 3 weeks per year - 🌎 Fully remote team - choose where you live - πŸ›‹οΈ Work from home stipend - we want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office - πŸ’» Apple laptops provided for new employees - πŸ§‘β€πŸŽ“ Training and development budget - refreshed each year for every employee - πŸ‘ͺ Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees - 🧠 Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact - πŸ’΅ Base salary: 100-130K USD, depending on knowledge, skills, experience, and interview results - πŸ“ˆ Stock options - offered in addition to the base salary - πŸŽ‰ Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Constructor At [Constructor.io](http://Constructor.io) we are committed to cultivating a work environment that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome individuals of all backgrounds and provide equal opportunities to all applicants regardless of their education, diversity of opinion, race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or affiliation in any other protected group. Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every one of the qualifications listed. Our primary interest is in finding the best candidate for the job. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of our listed qualifications. ## About Constructor ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered ecommerce search and product discovery (SaaS) - **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise ecommerce brands, retailers, distributors, and marketplaces - **Mission/purpose**: To automate the rich complexity required for a modern search experience behind a simple, elegant SaaS solution, helping shoppers find what they want to buy using natural language and AI. ## Products & Services - **AI Shopping Agent**: Natural language conversational agent that helps shoppers discover products and answer questions. - **Search & Browse**: Personalized search and category browsing with reinforcement learning. - **Recommendations**: Product recommendations for onsite, email, SMS, and mobile notifications. - **Retail Media**: Sponsored products and ads that don’t sacrifice customer experience. - **Merchandiser Controls**: Tools for merchants to manage rankings, promotions, and experiments. - **Insights & Automations**: Dashboards, reports, and automated attribute enrichment using GenAI. - **Answer Engine Assistants (Beta)**: Integration with ChatGPT and other answer engines for offsite discovery. - **Merchant Intelligence Agent (Beta)**: Research and fix ranking issues. - **Product Insights Agent**: Generate personalized product questions to help shoppers buy with confidence. - **Collections**: Dynamic, curated product pages. - **In-Store**: Extend online intelligence to physical stores. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: $40.0M annual revenue (LinkedIn estimate); $86.1M total funding across 4 rounds - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not named in provided sources, but clients include Sephora, Under Armour, Petco, and many others. - **Growth Signals**: - 336 employees (LinkedIn) / 375+ team members (company site), +48% YoY headcount growth - 400+ billion requests powered per year - 98.5% average client retention rate over the last three years - Named a Leader in Forrester Wave (Commerce Search & Product Discovery, Q3 2025), Gartner Magic Quadrant (Search & Product Discovery, 2025), and IDC MarketScape - Top rated on G2 Crowd and Gartner Peer Reviews (4.9 and 4.8 respectively) - 94% team member retention rate ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native from day one**: Built on clickstream data and advanced AI, not bolted onto legacy keyword search. - **Reinforcement learning across touchpoints**: Every interaction (search, browse, agent) makes the system smarter. - **API-first, headless, composable, platform-agnostic**: Easy integration with any tech stack. - **Ecommerce-specific optimization**: Sole focus on commerce metrics (revenue, conversion, profit), consistently delivering $10M+ revenue lifts for customers. - **Only vendor named a Leader by three independent analyst firms (Forrester, Gartner, IDC)**. ## Strategic Focus - **AI agents and reasoning**: Expanding AI Shopping Agents, Answer Engine Assistants, and Merchant Intelligence Agents. - **Offsite discovery**: Enabling discovery via email, SMS, and answer engines like ChatGPT. - **In-store integration**: Extending online intelligence to physical retail. - **Continued investment in personalization and automation** to reduce setup time (8 weeks or less). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Remote-first, 100% remote – choose where you live. Collaborative, empathetic, and problem-solving environment. Rated top 5% on RepVue and a Will Reed Top 100 award recipient. - **Benefits**: - Company pays 99% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for US team members. - Unlimited PTO and vacation time (minimum 3 mandatory weeks off per year). - Paid parental leave. - Yearly Remote Work Stipend + one-time $500 New Hire Setup Stipend. - Yearly Learning & Development $500 Stipend. - Stock options for every team member. - Company-issued Apple laptop. - **Growth**: Fast-growing startup with opportunities to work on challenging AI/ML problems used by millions of shoppers. Mentorship, autonomy, and career development. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Committed to DEI with an internal ERG. - **Team**: 94% retention rate; described as collaborative, brilliant people who enjoy solving hard problems. ## Sources 1. [Constructor Careers Page](https://constructor.com/about/careers) 2. [Constructor Main Website](https://constructor.com/) 3. [Constructor LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/constructor-io) 4. [Constructor About Page](https://constructor.com/about) 5. 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