Director of Software Engineering, Data Platform
Product and Technology highlights
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Tech Stack: Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Spark on Databricks, AWS
What you'll be doing:
Reporting to our Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the Director of Software Engineering - Data Platform will lead and scale the data platform team and technologies globally. This will be our first technical hire in our Pune office and will influence the growth and structure of the India Engineering team.
You will:
Commit to hire, retain, grow, and lead a team of software engineers working on our next-generation data platform powered by Databricks. You will be responsible for recruiting top engineering talent and building a well-developed people management philosophy to drive team performance.
Have technical accountability in the data platform group and will guide the team as they support and maintain data processing pipelines, create new ones, while evolving and improving our platform.
Be ready to collaborate closely with the North American teams to establish support and enforce best practices for existing customers and onboard new ones.
Develop recommendations and standardizations in how we design and implement new building blocks on our data platform to streamline popular use cases and allow for local differences where advantageous.
Provide consistent communication with product management and customer onboarding teams to understand customer needs to productize the team’s work (e.g., new tools, repeatable processes, automation, etc.).
Be in our Pune office 3-days a week (hybrid)
What we're looking for:
Have 10+ years of experience in software development.
Ability to build successful peer partnerships working with leaders across Engineering, Product, and Professional Services.
Prior experience leading a product-focussed Engineering team where you have worked through the startup & growth stage and succeeded in navigating the complexity, chaos, and excitement
Strong people leadership capabilities in mentoring and coaching teams of around 10-20 engineers with prior experience leading managers and/or leads.
Demonstrates technical depth with Python, relational databases, and data platform scaling that will enable you to guide and support the engineering team.
In a past life, a software engineer with heavy exposure to data. Note this is not a hands-on coding role, but you should be able to dive into technical details as needed.
Nice to have:
Background in building data platforms with Spark (ideally on Databricks) and a background in traditional relational database and ETL technologies.
Previous experience working at a start-up.
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