Sr. Engineering Manager

Craft is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Data Platform team responsible for defining and implementing standards for data storage in Databricks using a medallion architecture defining patterns for interacting with our data using automation methods to track and monitor all data and creating tools for data operations. All to power our supplier risk management products and services.

The data platform team(s) aka DISCoE is growing and covering areas of the business that in the past were afterthoughts. DISCoE’s mission is to make our data a first class citizen of the business from sourcing and ingestion to structure and consumption.

This role is supported by an amazing data product manager where the two of you will partner to deliver on our mission and together establish our data vision.

The team has members in the US and Poland. This is a remote role but we have a strong preference for candidates based in Eastern or Central time zones due to the current team members’ time zones.

What You'll Do

• Lead up to two globally distributed teams with members in the US Poland and possibly LATAM.

• Work closely with your Product Manager counterpart defining and aligning on priority and execution.

• Recruit and retain top talent leading with empathy and accountability.

• Build a culture of continuous improvement in the team's code architecture and processes and use metrics to measure change.

• Help lead and contribute to engineering-wide initiatives with your engineering leadership colleagues.

• Build beautiful well-tested pipelines and data structures.

• Have unlimited opportunity for taking ownership of areas with increasing scope and for technical and leadership growth.

Who You Are

• Have a proven successful track record of leading and empowering software development teams for SaaS products.

• Have experience and a desire to build data lakes and assembled data structures including data pipelines.

• 7+ years in the software industry including at least three years leading engineering teams.

• You have a good understanding that partnering with the business to deliver real value is a key motivator for keeping your teams happy and healthy.

• You practice radical responsibility and accountability with a positive attitude and a strong emphasis of keeping your teams from getting blocked.

• Show curiosity through asking questions digging into new technologies and always trying to grow.

• Strong team player great listener able to facilitate discussion and assimilate diverse opinions towards clear decisions.

Our current technology stack is:

• Applications: React TypeScript Node.js GraphQL Apollo

• AWS Services: Batch Athena Lambda Kinesis Kafka and others

• Data Pipelines: Python SQL Pandas Dask aws-data-wrangler Papermill Airflow Prefect

• Data Storage: Databricks RDS / Aurora Postgres DynamoDB AWS S3

What We Offer

• Competitive salary starting at $180000 USD/ year. This starting number can be increased based on levels of expertise location cost of living taxes market experience etc.

• Equity at a well-funded fast-growing startup

• Unlimited vacation time so you can take what you need when you need it

• 99% covered Health + Dental + Vision insurance for employees and dependents

• 401K through Empower with options to invest how you want it

• $200 monthly wellness/ learning stipend (Gym memberships meals snacks books classes conferences etc.)

About Craft:

Craft is on a mission to illuminate the path to global supply chain resilience. We empower businesses to strengthen their supplier networks and supply chains with the industry's most trusted and comprehensive data fabric and advanced risk mitigation engine. Our easy-to-use platform provides 360-degree visibility to quickly explore and evaluate supplier networks AI-driven insights to detect and mitigate disruptions and collaborative tools to optimize supply chain strategies. With Craft procurement and supply chain professionals from commercial and governmental organizations can confidently navigate regulatory environments uphold ethics and drive business continuity.

We are a well-funded technology company with leading investors including Greycroft Uncork High Alpha ServiceNow Ventures Sam Palmisano Freddy Kerrest but are not your typical data or SaaS startup. Our CEO is a seasoned entrepreneur and Juilliard-trained cellist. The Craft team is globally distributed with headquarters in San Francisco and an office in London. We have team members across North America and Europe. We are looking for curious intelligent collaborative people from diverse backgrounds who are passionate about building delightful software and creating a world connected by resilient sustainable intelligent supply chains to join our rapidly growing team!

A Note to Candidates:

We are an equal opportunity employer who values and encourages diversity equity and belonging at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status caste or disability status.

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Craft we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!