Firstup · 18 hours ago
Manager, Software Engineering (Data)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $195K/yr
10+ years expFirstup is a company dedicated to improving the employee experience through its intelligent communication platform. They are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager (Data) to drive the strategy and delivery of scalable data platforms while managing and mentoring a distributed team of engineers.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Drive the strategy, design, and delivery of scalable data platforms powering business intelligence, predictive analytics, and LLM capabilities across enterprise customers, built on modern microservices architecture
Drive the successful completion of complex projects that span multiple domain teams as data is core to our platform
Provide senior technical leadership through architecture decisions, design reviews, and code reviews, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
Drive the thoughtful adoption of Generative AI tools and coding agents to increase developer productivity, improve code quality, and accelerate innovation
Partner closely with Product Management and Design to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions
Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
Own production health for your teams’ services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews in a 'you build it, you run it' environment
Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with defined SLOs and enterprise SLAs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field of study; or commensurate professional experience required
10+ years of professional software experience, including 3+ years managing teams of engineers developing data pipelines and analytics applications
Proven experience delivering customer-facing Enterprise Saas products at scale
Strong hands-on or architectural experience with modern data platform tooling, including but not limited to Apache Airflow, dbt, Kafka, AWS Glue, AWS Redshift, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Dynamo, AWS Quick Sight
Success leading a data engineering team through complex challenges that are large in scope
Strong knowledge of modern data architecture, ETL/ELT processes, and data modeling best practices
Strong knowledge of SQL, Python and Typescript
Knowledge of AI tools including Langchain, Open AI Agents, and MCP APIs
Excellent communication skills and understanding of the realities of developing in a startup environment (i.e. you know the difference between small problems and big ones)
Preferred
Experience scaling and evolving Enterprise SaaS platforms through periods of growth or technical transformation
Demonstrated experience leveraging Generative AI tools and coding agents in software development workflows
Exposure to HR Tech or other regulated enterprise domains
Benefits
Excellent PTO program
Great health benefits
Casual and friendly environment
Remote work
Company
Firstup
The Firstup Intelligent Communication Platform equips organizations to improve productivity, retention, labor efficiency, safety compliance, and revenue performance by activating their workforce.
201-500 employees
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Chief Technology Officer
Shelley Cowan, SHRM-SCP
Chief of Staff to the CTO
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