Engineering Manager, Full Stack & Data

Overstory

$120K — $150K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of management experience in software engineering or data engineering in a high-growth environment
  • Proficiency in React/Typescript, Python/FastAPI, PostgresDB, SQL, data pipelines, and orchestration tools
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor cross-functional teams effectively
  • Strong technical background with hands-on capabilities in architecture and data models
  • Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with stakeholders
  • Passion for climate-related initiatives and ongoing learning in technology

Responsibilities

  • Enable data engineers to deliver high-quality data platforms and pipelines
  • Attract and retain top talent for team growth
  • Cultivate an inclusive team culture that promotes high performance
  • Conduct regular coaching sessions to help team members achieve their goals
  • Collaborate with product managers and machine learning engineers on data architecture decisions
  • Ensure data architecture aligns with product and analytics objectives
  • Engage with Product & Engineering leaders to improve data engineering practices

Benefits

  • Flexible, autonomous working conditions emphasizing work-life balance
  • Home office stipend and ongoing education budgets
  • Opportunity to work on mission-driven projects addressing climate challenges
  • Company culture deeply aligned with core values
  • Annual team gatherings and occasional in-person collaboration opportunities
Full Job Description
Role & Team

As an Engineering Manager, Full Stack & Data, you will lead across several cross-functional teams, managing up to ~10 full stack software engineers, data engineers, and GIS specialists. You will support teams building our customer-facing product as well as teams working on our data processing and pipelines to enable our ML-powered product.

Our product teams are cross functional and will typically include product managers, designers, engineers and subject matter experts relating to the team's domain.

You will be accountable for the technical direction and delivery outcomes of your area. You will challenge your teams to pursue ambitious goals while providing a high level of support - growing engineering talent and fostering a highly collaborative, team-based environment where people can do great work.

Your primary focus will be on building high-performing teams and driving results through others. You will not be expected to spend significant time doing hands-on coding; however, you will be expected to dive deep technically when required and leverage your experience to support strong technical decision-making.

Time zone requirement: Europe (GMT/WET, CET) and Eastern North America (NST, AST, EST)
What You'll Do
  • Enable our data engineers to become highly productive members of their cross-functional teams, empowering them to ship high-quality, reliable data platforms and pipelines on a daily basis.
  • Grow the teams by attracting great talent from your network.
  • Foster an inclusive and caring culture where everyone can do their best work.
  • Provide regular 1:1 coaching and feedback to tap into the potential of all your team members and help them thrive and reach their aspirations.
  • Be a strategic partner to product managers, machine learning engineers, and other stakeholders within your domains and ensure that we are making the correct data architecture and platform decisions that balance short and long term goals.
  • Ensure suitability of the data architecture, pipelines, and data models within your domains to enable longer term product, analytics, and machine learning goals.
  • Work closely with the other Product & Engineering leaders on strategy, technology and people, including improving our data engineering practices and introducing capabilities that can accelerate data access, reliability, and unlock new product and data-driven opportunities
Skills & Experience
  • Experience working in a high growth scaleup environment
  • Passionate about climate
  • Product minded and able to demonstrate significant impact you have had on a business through the application of data platforms and data-driven systems
  • 2+ years experience leading and managing full-stack or data engineers across multiple teams
  • Experience working with the following (or similar) technologies: React/Typescript, Python/FastAPI, PostgresDB, data pipelines, SQL, data pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster), data warehouses/lakehouses
  • Ability to unblock your team by contributing at a senior engineering level (e.g., reviewing data models, debugging pipelines, guiding architecture). How hands-on you'll be in this role will depend on team size and maturity
  • Comfortable working in a build it, run it environment (GCP, cloud run, grafana, k8s) - or similar, with an understanding of data reliability, observability, and pipeline operations
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor and coach engineers at all levels
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team environment
  • Passion for learning and staying updated with evolving technologies and industry trends, particularly at the intersection of agentic coding and engineering and data infrastructur
Nice To Have
  • Experience working with maps/imagery/geospatial domains

Note: We believe that all people are capable of great things. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.
What We Offer
  • Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits
  • Flexible, autonomous and collaborative working environment rooted in trust - we build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
  • Home office stipend, coworking and ongoing education budgets
  • A company culture that genuinely embodies each of our core values
  • To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth's natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis

About Our Team

We are a group of 100 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team and at last count we speak fourteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, and Danish.

We work remotely from eleven countries and are looking for candidates that are living and working in one of them: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and Canada. We gather once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

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