In the time it takes you to read this job ad, around 100 new Linkers will have signed up to Linktree. Since 2020, Linktree has 🚀 from 4M to 30M+ accounts, scaling from 20 to over 200 team members, and bringing a marketplace, new brand, and iOS and Android apps to Linkers along the way.

To learn more about how we work (and get the 101 on our amazing, flexible benefits offering), keep reading.

The Role:

Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Engineering, you will lead manage a squad of engineers. You will utilize your strengths in people and technical leadership to develop and grow teams of 5-10 engineers building critical product features that are the future of Linktree. As their manager, you drive your team and the individuals within to do the greatest work of their career together, and your technical expertise will level everybody up around you.

You will partner closely with product management and design teams to ensure that engineering is aligned with the product vision and design objectives. You will collaborate with product managers to prioritize and plan product roadmaps, and work with designers to ensure that our product has an intuitive and user-friendly interface. Through this triad partnership, you will have strong influence on Linktree’s product direction and make an impact on Linktree’s millions of users across the globe.

What You Will Own:

Product development - Oversee the overall product development life-cycle, from design/planning to implementation and support to maintain a high standard of software quality and delight Linktree customers.
Product ownership - Be an active driver of the Linktree product direction by collaborating and being an equal thought partner with Product and Design functions.
Technical Leadership - Shape Linktree’s architectural vision and drive sound technical decisions with other engineering leaders to build a scalable and quality product. Define and embed best Engineering practices to up-skill Linktree’s Engineering function.
People leadership - Lead, manage, and guide a team of Product Engineers and grow their careers.

Want to know what a day could look like here?

We use Javascript end to end with React, Node.js and the rest of our stack includes Typescript, Storybook, Elasticsearch, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, and Snowflake.
We use AWS as the hosting infrastructure.
We use Statsig as the experimentation platform.
We run system design and architecture reviews and knowledge sharing forums to ensure that we build our product with high availability and resilience at scale.

What We Are Looking For:

Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
Proven experience leading and growing a high performing engineering team of size 5 or more
Strong collaboration mindset and skills
Experience with modern software development and DevOps practices
Passionate about growth and scale, with an understanding of the ambiguity that can come with this.

Where How We Work

We are a global, diverse group across age, gender, and race and offer a truly flexible and family friendly work environment. Kids, pets, and the occasional delivery person are all actively encouraged to appear on our Zoom screens. All of us at Linktree work either fully remote or a hybrid "remote, but in-office sometimes" approach and that will continue even when COVID is behind us.

We currently have offices in Melbourne, Sydney and LA is coming next, but our team is spread across Australia, United States, and New Zealand. Growing from 20 people in early 2020, to 50 in 2021 and over 200 in 2023, Linktree is still growing!

Being globally distributed doesn't mean working to one timezone and we offer autonomy and flexibility in how you structure your days and weeks. There will be the need for some collaboration outside of a "normal" 9-5 being a global company, but we aim to work asynchronously where possible.

Our Culture Benefits

Linktree's company culture and values are based around collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and flexibility. Those are all nice words but to give you some more specific examples:

We recognize that our team are individually unique and have designed our benefits with this in mind. Each person has an annual allowance of $4,900 USD (pre-tax, pro-rata based on start date) to use on things like (but not limited to) fitness memberships, development courses, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, green energy - the choice is theirs!
401k matching up to 6%
We provide top-flight medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance - we cover 100% of your monthly premiums (and 80% for your dependents).
Employee Stock Option Program - we want each and every employee to share in the company’s success as we go further together.
We have a paid 18-week parental leave program that is inclusive of birth and non-birthing parents and supports the whole parenting lifecycle. We also offer 4 weeks of paid leave for early pregnancy loss and the full parental leave for later pregnancy loss, in addition to a support program.
We are proud to offer all regular full-time and part-time employees 20 hours paid volunteering leave per calendar year.
Flexibility is at the core of Linktree, so whether you prefer fully remote, the office, or a bit of both, the choice is up to you. We trust you to get the work done.
We have several diversity and inclusion initiatives underway, including a DI council, training for all staff on neurodiversity, unconscious bias, and the incorporation of a transpositive inclusion policy.
We prioritize our team's mental health, with all employees having free access to Headspace and Uprise, including 1:1 coaching sessions from qualified psychologists or counsellors.

The Linktree Story

We created and defined the “link in bio” category in 2016 to solve a common pain point for creators, brands and businesses: they had no way to consolidate their content and digital identities. The internet was becoming increasingly fragmented, so we launched a simple tool that allows anyone to manage their corner of the digital universe. We’re giving our users control of how the world discovers them – because why should you be defined by only one link?

Fast forward to 2023: Linktree is now used by some of the world’s biggest brands including TikTok, The LA Clippers, The UN Environmental Program, Manchester United, and Wear it Purple, as well as celebrities including Selena Gomez, Alicia Keys, Shawn Mendes, and Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

With close to 40,000 signups per day (and no sign of stopping), we’re on a mission to empower anyone to curate and grow their digital universe – come join us for this ride!

P.S. If you don’t tick every box in this ad, please don’t rule yourself out just yet. We’ve seen the research that people from underrepresented backgrounds tend to only apply when the checklist is all ticks. We take pride in inclusion and hiring incredible human beings with great potential over ticking boxes – so if this role resonates with you, hit that apply button!

At Linktree, we celebrate and support everyone’s perspective and background, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We aim to foster a diverse and inclusive environment where all team members have a sense of belonging, because we believe in going further together. Linktree welcomes all people regardless of sex, gender identity, race, ethnicity, disability, pregnancy, age, or other lived experience.

Engineering Manager