Engineering Manager - Supply Selection Visuals team

In November 2024, Printful and Printify came together as two equals and merged to form a global on-demand powerhouse. This role will involve working across our two platforms and brands, a unique and special challenge. To learn more about the merger, check out our blog post.

Both Printify and Printful are pioneering production on-demand companies and platforms established in Latvia but with a global customer base.

Printify is bringing the dream of financial freedom and business ownership to the world by connecting e-commerce entrepreneurs with over 100 print-on-demand facilities around the globe. 

Printful has built world-class in-house production facilities and helps people to build their brands, empowering thousands of businesses—including iconic names like Coca-Cola and MTV. 

Our team is at the heart of our success. You’ll be part of a culture where everyone is respected, included, and encouraged to grow. We value continuous learning, uphold a high work ethic, and have fun along the way.

The Supply Selection Visuals (SSV) team works on building the solutions that turn our merchant designs into beautiful and realistic mockups, and mapping the design from what’s created within the limited realm of browser into large high-resolution graphics that can be sent to our suppliers without losing any detail.

You will oversee team members and collaborate with Product Managers and other Engineering Managers across different teams to define project goals, requirements, and technical specifications. Your leadership and technical expertise will be crucial in shaping our engineering projects and helping us achieve our overall objectives.

Ongoing professional development is vital within the team, and ensuring engineers’ growth is essential. Our practices include pair programming, refactoring, code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, TDD/BDD, A/B testing, and continuous delivery.

• Lead and support a team of engineers, ensuring they have the resources, mentorship, and technical guidance to excel.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineering teams, to align goals and drive scalable, high-performance rendering solutions.

• Champion best practices in graphics engineering, from accurate color management to optimized rendering pipelines, ensuring the team delivers robust, maintainable, and performant systems.

• Stay ahead of industry trends, bringing insights from the latest in rendering technology, PBR, ICC profiles, and Rust development to continuously elevate our engineering standards.

• Define and track engineering success metrics, ensuring the team’s progress aligns with the company’s vision and technical excellence goals.

• Drive technical hiring efforts, attracting and retaining top-tier Rust and PHP engineers with a passion for graphics programming.

• Foster an inclusive, high-performance culture, where collaboration, learning, and innovation are at the core of how the team operates.

• Ensure the engineering team has a clear roadmap, balancing long-term architecture goals with near-term execution.

• Minimum 3 years experience as an Engineering Manager, Team Lead, or similar role.

• At least 5 years experience in software engineering.

• Collaboration skills to build tight-knit relationships across the organization.

• Empathy, integrity, and the capacity to develop and maintain a healthy team environment.

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.

• A track record of delivering complex projects within deadlines.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and conflict-resolution skills.

• Experience in prioritizing and managing planned and unplanned work effectively. 

• Problem-solving skills, with the ability to find the best paths for your team, domain, and the company.

• Flexibility and openness to new approaches when faced with challenges.

• Excellent written and spoken English.

• Rust, Axum, Serde, Tokio, Rayon, resvg, wgpu

• TypeScript, NodeJS

• PHP 8+, Symfony, Doctrine, and Laravel

• Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch

• Cypress, Insta, Mockito and Postman

• MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL

• AWS, Lambdas, Kubernetes, Docker, Git

• Be part of a friendly, inclusive, and global team

• An opportunity to work remotely or in a modern and welcoming office in Rīga or Tallinn, or our co-working space in Barcelona

• Flexible working hours (start your day as late as 11 a.m.)

• Health insurance

• Access to mentorship, internal meetups, and hackathons both on-site and online

• Exciting team-building events and parties you’ll never forget! 

• Free and healthy lunch if you work from the Rīga office

• Design and order your own merch using our platforms with employee discount

• Apple MacBook laptop as your standard work equipment

We are an equal-opportunity workplace. We’re committed to diversity and inclusion and make hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and work experience.

If you think you’d excel in this role, send us your resume in English, showing us why you are the right person for the job. 

Interested, but don’t think this is the right fit for you? Feel free to share it with friends and check out other open positions at our career site. We’re always looking for creative and driven minds to join our ever-growing team!