Software Engineering Manager

About the role

Join Firstup, a rapidly growing company focused on solving technology challenges for distributed workforces. As a Software Engineering Manager (Data), you will drive the strategy, design, and delivery of scalable data platforms, manage a distributed team of engineers, and ensure the health of your team's services. Enjoy benefits such as fully paid health coverage, flexible time off, retirement plans, professional development, family leave, and commuter benefits. Key missions: Drive the strategy, design, and delivery of scalable data platforms powering business intelligence, predictive analytics, and LLM capabilities across enterprise customers.. Manage, mentor, and grow a distributed team of software and quality engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.. Lead operational excellence initiatives to improve observability, resiliency, automation, and alignment with defined SLOs and enterprise SLAs. Profile: - Strong hands-on or architectural experience with modern data platform tooling, including but not limited to Apache Airflow, dbt, Kafka, AWS Glue, AWS Redshift, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Dynamo, AWS Quick Sight - 10+ years of professional software experience, including 3+ years managing teams of engineers developing data pipelines and analytics applications - Proven experience delivering customer-facing Enterprise Saas products at scale - Excellent communication skills and understanding of the realities of developing in a startup environment (i.e. you know the difference between small problems and big ones) - Knowledge of AI tools including Langchain, Open AI Agents, and MCP APIs - Strong knowledge of modern data architecture, ETL/ELT processes, and data modeling best practices - Strong knowledge of SQL, Python and Typescript - Success leading a data engineering team through complex challenges that are large in scope - Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field of study; or commensurate professional experience required - Experience scaling and evolving Enterprise SaaS platforms through periods of growth or technical transformation - Exposure to HR Tech or other regulated enterprise domains - Demonstrated experience leveraging Generative AI tools and coding agents in software development workflows