Software Engineering Manager, Data

The role

You will lead a 12-person multidisciplinary team spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and data support. You will set technical direction for the data platform and partner with Engineering and Product to integrate data and machine learning capabilities into products.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary team
• Set the technical direction for Kard’s data platform
• Increase automation and self-service while reducing manual workflows
• Partner with Engineering and Product to integrate data, analytics, and machine learning capabilities
• Ensure go-to-market teams have timely access to accurate, actionable data
• Establish clear priorities, ownership, and delivery practices
• Guide architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs
• Build a healthy, accountable team through feedback and career development

Required qualifications

• Experience managing a technical team working across data engineering, analytics, data science, machine learning, or related software engineering disciplines
• Technical depth to assess system designs, review code and implementation approaches, and provide guidance to engineers and data practitioners
• Working fluency across modern data platforms, data modeling, pipelines and orchestration, analytics systems, machine learning lifecycles, cloud infrastructure, and production software practices
• A record of improving technical platforms, automating manual processes, and creating systems that scale
• Experience managing a team with a mix of platform work, product development, stakeholder-driven requests, and operational responsibilities
• Strong judgment about technical tradeoffs and business needs
• Ability to partner effectively with Engineering and go-to-market teams
• Experience setting expectations, managing performance, and developing senior technical individual contributors
• Communication and organizational skills to operate with a high degree of autonomy
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive work environment
• U.S. core business hours availability

Nice to have

• Experience working with fintech, payments, card-linked offers, loyalty, or other transaction-intensive products
• Experience operating production machine learning systems or integrating models into customer-facing products
• Experience with high-volume batch and real-time data systems
• Familiarity with technologies such as Databricks, dbt, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform

Benefits

• Flexible PTO with a minimum requirement to take one day off a quarter, ten days a year
• Observance of 11 Federal Holidays, plus an additional day each for Black Friday and Christmas Eve (US employees only)
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k with employer match (US employees only)
• Coworking space and WFH setup reimbursement
• Company Offsites for planning, team-building, and networking

About the company

Kard is building commerce media infrastructure that connects financial institutions, financial-services platforms, and merchants through data and merchant-funded rewards.