Engineering Manager, Data

Who we are looking for:

As the Engineering Manager you will be leading, managing, recruiting, mentoring, and empowering your team to deliver world-class solutions to software problems. 

The role involves actively supporting efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience, managing an experienced software engineering team, developing engineering solutions with a data platform team, leading and contributing to the development of software engineering standards, best practices, metrics, and tooling, evaluating, hiring, and onboarding candidates.

You will bring deep technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, an action-based philosophy to solving hard software engineering problems as well as leadership skills to the role.

What you will do:

• Lead and mentor data engineers, ensuring that best practices are implemented for data optimization, database & development best practices, data architecture, data quality, and related activities.

• Oversee your team's daily performance, ensuring clarity, addressing obstacles, removing blockers, and highlighting their impact. Responsible for day-to-day tactical team decisions

• Grow your team’s knowledge of their domain and of the technical expertise required to support the ACV Auctions business.

• Evaluate, hire, and on-board engineers based on organizational need, technical skill set and cultural fit.

• Provide career development plans and guided performance feedback.

• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, reaching out others for assistance, providing work estimates/timelines.

• Work with product partners to ensure that work is scoped, prioritized, and assigned appropriately to integrate solutions into ACV to meet business objectives and schedules.

• Discover areas for continuous improvement within both our systems and teams.

• Guide and participate in architecture discussions and system designs.

• Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the bar high.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

What you will need:

• 5+ years’ experience in software or database experience

• 3+ years’ experience in an engineering leadership or management role

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English

• Experience architecting, developing, and delivering software products

• Deep experience with product lifecycle management and improving software products through metrics and experimentation

• Deep understanding and use of Agile practices

• Prior experience working large multi-faceted data sets

• Prior experience working in a cloud-native environment such as AWS or Google cloud

• Preferred hands-on expertise with python, RDBMS systems, REST APIs, and Jira/Confluence #LI-NX1