Engineering Manager, Front-end (Amplify MarketingTeam)
Boston · USD 176,000-264,000 · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Sep 30, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- Boston
- Salary
- USD 176,000-264,000 · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
About the role
- At Klaviyo, the Engineering Manager for Front-end on the Amplify Marketing Team leads multiple engineering teams and sets the technical vision for internal tools and platforms.
- The Amplify team builds internal platforms, automation, and AI-driven systems that power how Klaviyos work every day, solving operational problems with practical, well-designed software.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- BA or BS Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent experience.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Comfortable setting technical direction and standards, partnering with peers and senior leadership to evolve architecture, development practices, and shared engineering processes.
- 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.
- Experience building tools and workflows to support Marketing teams, especially generating marketing collateral (copy, images, translations) using AI automated workflows.
- Hands-on experience with front-end development using TypeScript & React, including diagnosing and improving application performance.
- Experience using and integrating with CMSs like Sanity and Contentful.
- Hands-on experience doing Internationalization (I18N) and Localization (L10N) at scale, especially using AI and tools such as Smartling.
Preferred qualifications
- 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.
Benefits
- Annual cash bonus plan
- Variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles
- Equity
- Sign-on payments
- Comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits
Workplace
- This role is based in Boston, Massachusetts and follows a hybrid working model.
- This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events.
Skills
- Python
- Django
- FastAPI
- TypeScript
- React
- Astro
- Sanity CMS
- Optimizely
- Figma
- Smartling
- Hubspot
- Tableau
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