Engineering Manager, Curate

Engineering Manager, Curate – Linktree

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Linktree is on a mission to empower anyone to curate, grow, and monetize their digital universe. We created the “link in bio” category and are redefining how people connect with their communities, showcase their content and promote products—all in one link. Today, 70+ million users use Linktree.

We’re looking for a hands‑on Engineering Manager to lead our Curate pillar—a team behind how millions of users shape their Linktrees through identity, design, and content organization. This pillar owns surfaces and systems that bring expression, curation, and action together, from link appearance and layout to theming and creator tools.

You’ll guide a cross‑functional team of engineers, designers, and PMs to ship beautiful, performant, and reliable user experiences ’ll balance architectural depth with rapid prototyping, champion quality and maintainability, and ensure we deliver delightful features that reflect Linktree’s aesthetic bar.

• Lead and mentor a high‑performing squad focused on building expressive, high‑impact user surfaces.
• Architect and prototype new customization and curation features, contributing code when it unblocks progress.
• Drive technical excellence through thoughtful design reviews, testing practices, and operational reliability.
• Partner with Product and Design to translate user needs into scalable systems and elegant experiences.
• Set clear outcomes and prioritize effectively across multiple streams to maximize impact and velocity.
• Embed AI tooling and workflows to enhance developer productivity and accelerate delivery.
• Champion reliability, ensuring smooth on‑call coverage and continuous improvement in incident response.

• Experienced in modern web development and architecture (Type Script, React, Graph
  
  QL, AWS, PHP).
• Proven track record leading engineering teams in product‑led environments, ideally consumer‑facing or design‑forward products (e.g., Figma, Canva, Notion, Squarespace).
• Skilled at balancing strategic direction with hands‑on execution; you’re as comfortable in the code as you are in roadmap discussions.
• Collaborative and empathetic, with strong cross‑functional communication skills.
• Reliability‑first mindset with experience managing production systems and on‑call processes.
• Curious and AI‑forward, using automation and LLM tools to boost team velocity.

• Experience with growth or experimentation frameworks.
• Background working on creator platforms, personalization, or design tooling.
• Passion for helping users express themselves through beautiful, high‑performing digital experiences.

Linktree offers a fair and competitive package that includes cash, equity, and benefits. The base salary for this role is targeted at $220,000 - $250,000 for positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Final offers depend on location, experience, expertise, and role scope.

Benefits include an annual wellbeing allowance, full coverage for medical/dental/vision insurance, employer retirement contributions, generous time off, employee stock options, and more.

Our team is global and diverse, spread across London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and San Francisco. We work flexibly: fully remote or a hybrid mix of office and home.

We support you with an annual wellbeing allowance, broad health coverage, retirement contributions, generous time off, stock options, and a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

We’re a tight‑knit, passionate team building best‑in‑class tools that make online presence simple, powerful, and yours. If you’re excited about shaping a new category, setting the standard, and creating space for all to be seen and succeed, we’d love to meet you.

Linktree is an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience. If you require accommodations, please let us know at talent.