Engineering Manager - Data Engineering

Company Description

About Carousell Group 

Carousell Group is the leading multi-category platform for secondhand in Greater Southeast Asia on a mission to make secondhand the first choice. Founded in August 2012 in Singapore, the Group has a leading presence in seven markets under the brands Carousell, Carousell Media Group, Cho Tot, Laku6, LuxLexicon, Mudah.my, OneShift, REFASH and Revo Financial, serving tens of millions of monthly active users. Carousell is backed by leading investors including Telenor Group, Rakuten Ventures, Naver, STIC Investments, 500 Global and Peak XV Partners (formerly known as Sequoia Capital India). Visit here for more information.

We are looking for a passionate engineer to join the Platform Engineering team. The role can be based in any of our development centres, Singapore and India.

Job Description

About the role

We are looking for a deeply technical, customer-focused, empathetic Engineering Manager to join us in India or Taiwan on this exciting journey. You will manage a talented team of Software Engineers while partnering with Product Managers, Data Scientists and Analysts. Being the owner of platforms, tools and solutions built the team - constantly improving the current ones and building new ones and also responsible for planning and stakeholder management. 

You will:

• Lead the development of high-quality, impactful, scalable platforms, tools and solutions that delight the users and achieve business goals

• Operate these systems in production at high availability and reliability levels, while minimizing infrastructure cost

• Build deep knowledge in the Data domain and related platform engineering. Use it to build innovative features for our users.

• Hold your team to high standards in engineering and quality practices, speed of delivery, architecture and design, and code quality

• Attract, develop and retain great engineers, who thrive working in an innovative, user-focused, fast-paced environment

• Work closely with engineering managers and engineers across multiple platforms and domains. 

• Set clear measurable goals for your team delivery and engineers

• Foster a culture of continuous growth and improvement through coaching, mentoring, feedback and clear measurable outcomes.

• Contribute to improving and scaling the engineering organization. Mentor engineers in the organization, imparting technical knowledge, industry best practices and leadership skills.

You will have demonstrated:

Attitudes and Behaviors

• User obsession and empathy.

• Focus on impact and results. You work on the right things and get them done

Functional Skills

• 10+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years experience as a hands-on,  engineering manager.

• Good knowledge of open source, cloud-native software and distributed systems in various programming languages. Go preferred as that’s what we use, but not required. 

• Strong CS foundation and practical experience with software development, architecture and design. Excellent knowledge of distributed system concepts, problems and solution patterns. 

• Experience working with the following software architectures, techniques and technologies: Data Ingestion and processing bulk/streaming, Data Governance, Columnar storage, vector handling, MLOps, microservices, Prometheus, Kafka, and PostgreSQL. 

• Business and product mindset. Ability to identify, evaluate and convey engineering and technology choices and trade-offs. 

• Drive and resourcefulness to persevere and overcome obstacles to achieving challenging goals.

• Good technical judgment. Willingness and ability to take smart risks and fail forward.

• Ability and motivation to roll up the sleeves and dive deep to help the team 

• Track record of successfully solving complex and ambiguous problems. 

• High integrity and ability to positively collaborate with others.

• Ability to speak and write succinctly and clearly.

Additional Information

Good to have

• Exposure working with Kubernetes and Service Mesh architecture

• Experience building and leading platform teams

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