Engineering Leader, Core Syncing Engine

Our Core Syncing Engine team sits at the center of our Reverse ETL technology as the team is responsible for all of the scheduling, planning, and executing of data syncing. The team’s work includes building new features for our syncing engine, ensuring syncs are scalable and reliable as we grow quickly, and maintaining the infrastructure supporting our entire engineering organization.

We’re looking for a leader for our Core Syncing Engine team to be responsible for the team’s direction and output. This is a high growth position as we expect the team to grow into multiple teams over time, with the opportunity for this role to manage managers as we scale.

• Product Development: Lead the team in roadmapping and executing successful development of significant features and products as required to drive the business forward. Uphold a high technical bar, while making pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Pace: Through a combination of leadership and technical expertise, improve the pace of execution of the team.
• Recruiting: Be responsible for growing the team, including identifying needs, deciding how to evaluate candidates, and ensuring we hire high impact team members
• Reliability: Against the uphill battle of high growth/scale, up-level the team on reliability, resulting in fewer incidents, catching our own issues before our customers do, and a strong incident management hygiene
• People: Foster growth of team members and ensure strong engagement and motivation

• Have been responsible for setting roadmap and developing software with meaningful business/company impact.
• Strong backend server development background, ideally in situations with high scale, complex business domains (interface challenges), distributed systems, and critical reliability and correctness constraints.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
• An eye for simplicity and maintainability, and the knowledge (or ability to ask questions to figure out) when something is overly complex. Can see around corners and mitigate risk.
• Ability to understand an end goal, what are the key drivers of the goal, and determine the right levers to pull to move the drivers. Can ask insightful questions to break a problem down.
• Strong efficient execution mindset.

Even if your experience does not line up perfectly, we are still excited to have you apply. The best hires do not always check off every box of a job description.