You are a dynamic Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager with a blend of 8+ years of Software Development and technical people leadership experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative team, where you will have a direct impact on the customer experience.

Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!

What you’ll do:

Lead and mentor engineers across core data and AI teams, fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture with clear guidance and resources.
Guide architectural and technical decisions, ensuring best practices in development, testing, and deployment while aligning platform strategy with business objectives.
Oversee the design, development, and delivery of web applications using technologies like Python, Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js, Postgres, and AWS.
Diagnose and resolve technical issues, emphasizing quality and maintainability through comprehensive tests, documentation, and automation.
Collaborate on system design for AI/ML services, working with data scientists to build scalable, data-driven products, drive AI-powered feature development, optimize data pipelines, and advance prompting strategies across LLMs.
Lead data pipeline creation and optimization with data warehouses like Redshift and Snowflake to support AI services.
Take ownership of team growth, contributing to interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
Allocate roughly 60% of the role to people management and 40% to hands-on coding and technical problem-solving.
Establish development best practices, foster continuous improvement, prioritize projects for timely delivery, and ensure technical excellence through code reviews and tool implementation.
Encourage innovation by nurturing ideas for advanced tech solutions that enhance the company’s competitive edge.
[Required] Demonstrate experience with data pipelines and data warehouses, and guide their optimization.
[Required] Show hands-on experience in AI/ML systems, including model design and deployment for actionable insights.

What you have:

Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, data pipelines and continuous development
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-10 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 5-7 years’ experience
2+ years leading technical teams
Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.)
Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
Experience working with relational databases and SQL

Extras you bring to the table:

Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant services
Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
Experience with functional/acceptance testing

Why join Polly?

We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates
We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms
Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility
Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders
Competitive salaries
100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance for full time employees
Flexible vacation
Hybrid environment; 3x weekly in an innovation hub in San Francisco or Dallas.

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