Data Engineering Manager

Hi! Before diving into the job details, let's give you some context on who we are and what to expect when joining the team.

Typeform has seen significant change since it was founded 10 years ago. We’re expanding from a small Barcelona-based business to a truly international and remote company. We can hire in Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal. The location is to be subjected to change, depending on the role.

Our vision is a world of more personal business relationships. We believe we can create that world by living our mission: To bring people closer with better conversations.

To do so, we look for people who are curious, ready to own their objectives, and passionate about taking organizations to their next chapter. But we are aware it’s not for everyone, our environment is perfect for those willing to become a change agent and roll up their sleeves to build our rocket ship.

About the role

At Typeform, the Data team is making data our #1 asset. And we know how important that is— our product helps people collect information in the best way possible, by making the user experience as human and conversational as it can be.

That’s why we need you. We’re looking for a Data Engineering Manager to work within our Data Enablement pillar to manage the Data Engineering Team. We work closely with the Data Warehouse team and the Tracking team to enable Data and other departments at Typeform (such as Product, Marketing, Customer Success and Software engineering), providing them with the data they need to drive the business forward and push our product to the next level. 

The role will directly manage members of the Data Engineering team and will be committed to people development, mentoring and support. The role will communicate and work with senior directors, managers and individual contributors across Typeform.

 Experience in a dynamic start-up/scale-up environment is great, but equally important is experience of strong governance and scalable practices learnt from an established business.

This is a dream job for an experienced and motivated individual to join the Data Team of such an exciting business with such a gorgeous product.

Job description

• Be responsible for the near real time transfer of data from source systems to the Data Lake, between systems within Typeform and to/from external tools
• Responsible for designing, engineering, developing, and delivering an information technology infrastructure that supports the whole Data Team
• Guide the development of scalable data architecture by a team of data engineers who populate and maintain Typeform’s Data Lake
• Leading and supporting Typeform’s engineering teams in design, development and rollout of Data systems and services
• Partnering with system architects, functional managers and program managers to deliver mission critical data to where it is needed
• Build infrastructure and services that have immediate impact on our colleagues and Customers
• Management of assigned staff development (performance management, merit, promotions, growth) and policy compliance, all aspects of staff hiring, resource planning, assignments
• Be responsible for the Data Team’s technical strategy and roadmap – creating success metrics in close collaboration with internal customers
• Work with engineering tech leads and senior engineers to gather data/system requirements, review new feature proposals and large system improvements
• People management and communication are key skills for this role

Essential

• Strong Data Architecture mindset
• 5+ years of experience in the Data field, with a proven track record of technical ability
• 1+ years of experience in engineering management, preferably in a data engineering role
• Leadership, change management and support & inspiration for team members
• Hands-on experience with cloud data infrastructure, as used for ingestion, processing, warehousing, orchestration and modeling
• Experience with modern cloud data warehouses (AWS Redshift, GCP BigQuery, Azure Synapse or Snowflake)
• Strong problem solving skills and stakeholder management abilities
• Strong communication skills and fluency in English

Desirable

• Previous experience in using event-driven architecture with Kafka
• Experience with Apache Spark (in both batch and streaming)
• Experience with a job orchestrator (Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Flyte, Prefect, Dagster…)
• Hands-on experience with AWS

To fulfill our vision (Bring people in) and mission (To bring people closer with better conversations), our 500 remote Typeformers from 55 different countries come together to live up and deliver on that promise.

In addition to being a validation of what we've built, our recent $135 million Series C funding round will fuel us to accelerate our product development, nurture emerging technologies, expand headcount, and deepen strategic partnerships across our platform with this investment.

Why? Simply because 89% of companies say online is their principal customer interaction channel.

Yet, only 34% of companies treat customers as unique individuals.

Are you ready to join us and make a difference?

* Typeform drives hundreds of millions of interactions per year, powering conversational, human-led experiences all over the world. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not tolerate discrimination and harassment of any kind, regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We believe that by celebrating our differences, we can win together.