Engineering Manager, API

The role

You will lead the team responsible for Runway's product platform and API. You will manage a team of 4-6 platform engineers and work with product, management, and finance teams to build low-latency, high-reliability APIs and infrastructure.

What you will do

• Drive platform strategy and architecture for TypeScript-based API infrastructure
• Own the public API domain end-to-end from technical architecture to revenue growth
• Manage data and analytics infrastructure for data integrity, security, and accessibility
• Lead and grow a team of 4-6 platform engineers
• Partner with Product Engineering teams to unblock new feature launches
• Own critical data pipelines and metrics for Finance, Support, and Product
• Work cross-functionally with leadership to set priorities and align platform investments

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in an engineering manager or team lead role
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience
• Expertise operating TypeScript services in the cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Strong product sensibility and business acumen
• Experience owning revenue-generating platforms or products
• Understanding of API economics, usage-based pricing, and developer experience
• Solid foundation in data engineering and analytics
• Experience with metrics pipelines, data modeling, and business intelligence tooling
• Database expertise in managing production databases at scale, data migrations, and data integrity
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration
• Empathetic and inclusive leadership style

About the company

Runway is building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. The team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people determined to change the world.