Senior Engineering Manager, Partner Data Ingestion

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the Partner Data Ingestion team through the remainder of a multi-vertical platform migration and into steady-state operations.

• Transition ingestion processes from batch-job schedules to event-driven and hourly processing.

• Take ownership of migrating off legacy ingestion systems to a unified platform while ensuring continuous revenue flow and reconciling partner data.

• Recruit, lead, and nurture engineers at various levels, including full-time employees and contractors.

• Ensure revenue accuracy by aligning partner files, pricing rules, and warehouse figures with Finance recognition.

• Facilitate the migration of verticals and partners from legacy ingestion to the modern platform.

• Develop new connectors for partner API portals and phase out the old methods once the new ones are validated.

• Collaborate with Business Development, Finance, Product, and vertical engineering leaders to prioritize tasks and resolve discrepancies.

• Oversee sprint planning, project timelines, and delivery commitments.

• Promote the adoption of AI-assisted development with human oversight for revenue-impacting changes.

• Guide technical decisions related to pipeline design, data modeling, and pricing logic.

• Implement best practices for code review, testing, documentation, and job operability.

• Identify and escalate potential delivery risks before they translate into revenue losses.

• Ensure the reliability, freshness, completeness, and clear ownership of data issues in ingestion processes.

• Mentor engineers, including staff engineers and contractors.

• Report directly to the VP of Engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant software engineering experience.

• At least 5 years of experience managing an engineering team.

• Proven success in overseeing production data pipelines or an ingestion platform where accuracy is critical, such as revenue, billing, or payments.

• Experience leading migrations from legacy systems to new platforms while both systems are operational.

• Proficient in SQL and Python.

• Familiarity with Snowflake and AWS.

• Understanding of workflow orchestration tools like Airflow or Step Functions.

• Experience with relational databases such as Postgres.

• Knowledge of pipelines that are idempotent, observable, and safe to rerun.

• Familiarity with data quality practices, including reconciliation, anomaly detection, and source discrepancy investigation.

• Experience collaborating with finance, business development, or other non-engineering stakeholders on data relevant to financial decisions.

• Ability to mentor engineers at various levels, including senior and staff engineers, providing clear and actionable feedback.

• Proven ability to balance delivery timelines with the technical quality of systems that must not silently drop or double-count data.

• Track record of utilizing automation, including AI-assisted development, to enhance team productivity.

• Strong written communication skills when addressing discrepancies and decisions to non-engineering personnel.

• Must reside in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision healthcare plans for employees and their dependents.

• Flexible Vacation Time Off.

• 11 holidays observed.

• Company-wide holiday shutdown.

• New Parent Leave for employees welcoming a newborn child or adopting a child or for foster care placements.

• Mental health support services.

• Paid sabbatical after 5 years of service.

• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly contributions from NerdWallet.

• Monthly Wellness Stipend.

• Cell Phone Stipend.

• Wifi Stipend for remote team members.

• Work from home equipment stipend for remote team members.

• Co-working space subsidy for remote team members.

• Employee Resource Groups.

• Hackathons and team-building events.

• Company-wide events.

• 8 hours of volunteer time off each quarter.

• Company matching for charitable donations.

• 401K plan with a 4% company match.

• Early access to new financial products and tools.

• Financial wellness guidance and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner through Northstar.

• Disability and Life Insurance with premiums covered by the employer.

• Equity opportunities.