Engineering Manager, Vendelux
AI-powered B2B event intelligence
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AI-powered B2B event intelligence
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help companies discover the best events.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience in engineering leadership
- 5+ years of experience building complex applications using a modern language, like Python and/or Typescript
- Proven experience delivering software at scale
- Judgment to take on technical debt and risk where appropriate
- Demonstrated ability to coach and inspire engineers
- Strong communication skills and business acumen
- Comfort with modern AI tools to accelerate development
- The humor and humility to maintain perspective during fast-paced work
- Nice-to-have: Previous startup experience
- Nice-to-have: DevOps or platform/infrastructure experience (or deep interest)
- Nice-to-have: Experience with AI prototyping tools like v0, Lovable, Replit, etc
- Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above and that’s ok! We are open to great people from non-traditional backgrounds
What the job involves
- We're growing, and looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to help lead our expanding team of software engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable products
- This role balances people management, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to drive business outcomes
- The ideal candidate is both an empowering coach and a systems thinker who ensures the engineering team can execute efficiently and grow professionally
- Recruit, onboard, and develop top engineering talent
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development coaching
- Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and open communication
- Align individual growth with business needs and product direction
- Guide architectural decisions and ensure engineering best practices
- Collaborate with tech leads to plan, estimate, and deliver projects
- Encourage code quality through reviews, testing strategies, and documentation
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in reliability, scalability, and performance
- Own delivery of major product components end-to-end
- Translate business requirements into actionable technical roadmaps
- Balance short-term execution with long-term technical investment
- Remove blockers and ensure team velocity through process improvement
- Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, and other teams to align priorities
- Communicate engineering progress, tradeoffs, and timelines clearly
- Influence and support product strategy with technical insights
- Tech Stack
- Frontend: Typescript, React, MUI/Shadcn, Node.js
- Backend: Python, Django, Typescript, Node.js, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, GCP
- Data: Python, Dagster, Snowflake
- Other tools: Linear, GitHub, Datadog, Cursor / Claude Code
Our take
Event marketing enables companies to engage with potential buyers and showcase their offerings in real-time - providing an ideal platform to communicate ideas, thoughts, and brand identity. Vendelux offers a platform that empowers event marketers and CMOs to analyse customer and competitor behaviour, and in turn choose the best conferences to attend.
The company leverages AI to deliver insights on attendees and sponsors of over 160,000 global conferences, helping customers decide which events they should attend and sponsor for the largest return. It also allows collaboration with sales teams to book meetings with every possible lead, and ROI evaluation tools that prove the value of all event marketing activities.
Since founding, the company has amassed a growing customer base including the likes of Paypal and Calendly, and also raised several successful funding rounds. The most recent funding will allow Vendelux to broaden its reach, enhance product development, and further diversify its customer segments.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Oct 2022
$1.6m
SEED
Total funding: $18m
Company benefits
- Regular Retreats: We regularly meet up in beautiful locations around the world to discuss all things Vendelux
- Recharge Weeks: The company shuts downs two times a year so everyone can recharge without work piling up
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Alex Reynolds
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent over 6 years at Shutterstock, in Directorial, VP and Gm roles. Prior to that, they were a Director of Business Development at YP.
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