Databricks

Engineering Manager - UI Platform

Databricks • $182K — $247K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in web frontend development, particularly with React-based applications
  • 2+ years leading and managing a high-performing engineering team
  • Strong passion for infrastructure, tooling, developer productivity, and performance optimization
  • Demonstrated capability to mentor and develop engineering talent
  • Experience in setting and achieving ambitious team goals aligned with company objectives
  • Proven track record in attracting, hiring, and retaining high-quality engineering talent
  • Experience managing distributed teams across multiple locations
  • Adaptability in a fast-paced, evolving tech environment

Responsibilities

  • Lead a talented engineering team focused on enhancing the frontend developer experience
  • Oversee recruitment of top-tier talent and foster team development
  • Build processes to implement product vision and strategies aligned with organizational goals
  • Develop high-quality, easy-to-operate software solutions
  • Manage technical debt and make long-term technical architecture decisions while balancing the product roadmap

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and perks that cater to the diverse needs of employees
  • Potential eligibility for an annual performance bonus
  • Opportunity to participate in equity programs
  • Supportive work environment that promotes talent development
Full Job Description
P-1413

We are the UI Platform team, responsible for enabling all frontend developers at Databricks to build amazing features. We support hundreds of developers working in the frontend every week, making sure that they can use AI tooling to build features, can quickly ship them to production, and have best-in class monitoring and observability of what they build.. We own all aspects of the dev loop, relying on industry-standard technology like Typescript, React, GraphQL, yarn, node and more!

We're seeking a dedicated Engineering Leader for our Developer Experience team. This team is responsible for the entire life cycle of a feature: dev loop, submitting, pushing, monitoring... everything needed to ensure smooth delivery of code from the developer's head to production!

You will report directly to the Senior Manager of Engineering.

The main responsibilities include:
  • You will lead a talented engineering team in UI Platform focused on making our frontend developer experience amazing.
  • You will oversee sustained recruitment of top-tier talent, and developing talent on the team.
  • You will build processes to implement product vision and strategy, according to organizational goals and priorities.
  • You will build software that is not just high quality, but easy to operate.
  • You will manage technical debt, including long-term technical architecture decisions, and balance product roadmap.

What we look for:
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in web frontend development, with a strong preference for React-based applications
  • 2+ years leading and managing a high-performing engineering team.
  • A passion for infrastructure, tooling, developer productivity, or performance optimization and the ability to drive technical initiatives that improve overall team efficiency and code quality
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and develop engineering talent at various levels
  • Ability to drive technical initiatives that improve overall team efficiency and code quality
  • Experience in setting and achieving ambitious team goals aligned with company objectives
  • Strong track record of attracting, hiring, and retaining top engineering talent
  • Experience managing distributed teams across multiple locations.
  • Adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving tech environment


Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

Local Pay Range

$182,400-$247,000 USD

BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

About Databricks

Databricks is a unified analytics platform that provides data engineering, collaborative data science, and machine learning capabilities. The company was founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark, a popular open-source big data processing engine. Databricks provides a cloud-based platform that allows data teams to collaborate and build data pipelines, run machine learning models, and perform advanced analytics. The company has raised over $1 billion in funding and is valued at $38 billion as of November 2021.
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2,000 employees
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Founded
2013

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