Software Engineering Manager, Data

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and nurture a multidisciplinary team of 12 professionals specializing in data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and data support.

• Define the technical vision for Kard’s data platform, enhancing its scalability, reliability, maintainability, and overall organizational value.

• Drive automation and self-service initiatives, minimizing manual workflows and recurring operational tasks.

• Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to embed data, analytics, and machine learning functionalities into products and production systems.

• Ensure that go-to-market teams have prompt access to precise and actionable data.

• Transform recurring stakeholder requests into sustainable, scalable solutions.

• Establish priorities, ownership, and delivery methodologies across platform, product, analytical, and operational tasks.

• Advise on architectural decisions and technical trade-offs related to pipelines, analytics systems, production models, internal tools, and data services.

• Foster an accountable team environment through clear expectations, constructive feedback, career development, hiring, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

• Report directly to the Director of Data & Platform and help shape team structure, technical strategy, and investment priorities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience managing a technical team that operates across data engineering, analytics, data science, machine learning, or similar software engineering fields.

• Technical proficiency to evaluate system designs, review code and implementation strategies, and guide skilled engineers and data professionals.

• Working knowledge of modern data platforms, data modeling, pipeline orchestration, analytics systems, machine learning lifecycles, cloud infrastructure, and production software methodologies.

• Demonstrated success in enhancing technical platforms, automating manual processes, and developing scalable systems.

• Experience managing a team responsible for platform operations, product development, stakeholder requests, and operational duties.

• Strong decision-making skills in balancing reusable capabilities with immediate business requirements.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with Engineering and go-to-market teams.

• Experience in setting expectations, managing performance, supporting career advancement, and developing senior technical individual contributors.

• Excellent communication and organizational abilities to work independently while ensuring alignment with company and engineering leadership.

• Commitment to promoting an inclusive work environment and enhancing team growth and cohesion.

• Availability during U.S. core business hours and willingness to travel for company meetings.

• Bonus: Experience in fintech, payments, card-linked offers, loyalty programs, or transaction-heavy products.

• Bonus: Background in operating production machine learning systems or integrating models into customer-facing applications.

• Bonus: Experience with high-volume batch and real-time data systems.

• Bonus: Familiarity with Databricks, dbt, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO policy, requiring a minimum of one day off each quarter, totaling ten days per year, to support mental health.

• Recognition of 11 Federal Holidays, plus an additional day each for Black Friday and Christmas Eve (for U.S. employees only).

• Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

• 401k plan with employer matching (for U.S. employees only).

• Reimbursement for coworking space and work-from-home setup expenses.

• Company offsite events for strategic planning, team-building, and networking.

• A remote-first work culture that allows team members to influence the company’s direction and culture.