Software Development Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high‑performing team of software and data engineers
  • Partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Drive hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development for a growing engineering organization
• Design and operate cloud‑native data architectures on AWS
  • Leverage services such as EKS, S3, RDS/Aurora Postgre
    
    SQL, and Terraform for repeatable, auditable deployments
  • Manage cost optimization, security, and performance across cloud data workloads in partnership with platform engineering teams
• Containerize data workloads on Amazon EKS
  • Define standards for deploying and operating data services on Kubernetes, including autoscaling, resource governance, and CI/CD integration
  • Champion observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and alerting across data services
• Develop data‑centric APIs and operate data services at scale
  • Architect and guide the development of low‑latency, reliable APIs that serve downstream consumers
  • Establish data quality frameworks, including validation, anomaly detection, and monitoring across critical data products
• Drive adoption and evolution of the Databricks platform
  • Cluster management, governance, and optimization of Spark workloads
  • Adopt dbt as the standard transformation layer and establish modeling, testing, and documentation standards
• Orchestrate data pipelines with Apache Airflow
  • Ensure pipelines are reliable, maintainable, and aligned with SLA expectations
• Execute effective software development methodologies and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Own velocity, quality, and reliability metrics and recognize that they are complementary and mutually reinforcing
  • Resolve root causes of systemic issues across technology, process, and team dynamics
• Contribute to product roadmaps by balancing near‑term business impact with long‑term platform health and scalability
  • Collaborate with product, analytics, and platform teams to define data strategy and translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions
• Integrate AI coding agents into engineering workflows
  • Fluent and opinionated use of AI agents, continuously raising the bar on how they are used and overseeing quality of agent‑produced code

• ~7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years leading and mentoring engineering teams
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field
• Strong experience designing and operating cloud‑native data platforms on AWS, including Kubernetes‑based workloads and API services
• Deep technical knowledge of modern data stacks, including Databricks, dbt, Airflow, relational databases, and SQL performance optimization
• Systems‑engineering mindset, understanding end‑to‑end data flows and driving improvements across ingestion, processing, and serving layers
• Track record of delivering commitments, balancing speed, quality, and long‑term maintainability
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence product, engineering, and business stakeholders
• Continuous learning mentality, regularly evaluating new tools and technologies to improve engineering effectiveness and data capabilities

• Base salary range:
  New York $240,519‑$384,830, Seattle $226,893‑$363,029
• Individual annual performance bonus and Capital profitability bonus
• Retirement plan with 15% company contribution
• Competitive health benefits, flexible work options, 2‑for‑1 matching charitable donations, and annual grants to support personal interests and non‑profit causes

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and strongly support a culture of inclusion and diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in a workforce free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, gender, age, or a protected status under applicable law. We also provide accommodations for individuals experiencing a disability to apply.