Technical Leader and Manager, Platform & Data (TakeUp)

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Technical Leader and Manager, Platform & Data (TakeUp) in United States.

As a Technical Leader and Manager, you will oversee and drive the development of core platform and data systems that power a high-impact SaaS product. You will lead a team of engineers while remaining hands-on in building scalable, reliable, and observable infrastructure. This role balances strategic vision with day-to-day execution, ensuring platform reliability, data quality, and performance. You will collaborate closely with Product, ML, and Customer Success teams, as well as external integration partners, to deliver resilient, cost-efficient solutions. The environment is remote, dynamic, and fast-paced, offering the opportunity to influence architecture, set engineering standards, and shape the team culture.

Accountabilities

• Own the architecture and reliability of core services and end-to-end data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and observability.
• Define and enforce engineering standards across platform and data systems, including CI/CD, code quality, documentation, and reproducibility.
• Set and maintain SLOs for system reliability, latency, and data freshness, implementing guardrails and automated quality checks.
• Translate product and roadmap goals into scoped engineering work with clear acceptance criteria, success metrics, and rollout plans.
• Build and operate observability stacks (logs, metrics, tracing, data quality monitors) with actionable alerts.
• Partner with external integrations, ensuring resilient interfaces and backfills for third-party systems.
• Lead, mentor, and manage engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and development plans.
• Maintain current architecture diagrams, runbooks, documentation, and data lineage while fostering a “docs-as-code” culture.
• Communicate progress, risks, and strategic decisions to leadership and broader stakeholders through regular updates and demos.

• 6+ years of experience building and operating production platforms and data systems in B2B SaaS, with at least 2 years leading engineering teams.
• Strong technical depth in Python, SQL, orchestration frameworks (Prefect, Airflow), ELT tools (dbt), cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery), event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), containerization (Docker, ECS/Kubernetes), and infra-as-code (Terraform).
• Proven experience setting engineering standards (CI/CD, code review, testing strategy) and delivering reliable, observable systems at reasonable cost.
• Skilled at defining and meeting SLOs, incident management, and continuous improvement processes.
• Comfortable designing and managing third-party integrations with resilience to schema drift and backfills.
• Excellent communication skills: able to simplify complexity, make trade-offs explicit, and align cross-functional teams.
• Start-up mindset: bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and willingness to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Nice-to-have: domain knowledge in pricing, demand modeling, or hospitality; prior start-up experience.

• Competitive compensation with salary and performance-based incentives.
• Flexible remote work with opportunities for in-person collaboration and travel as needed.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage, with wellness programs.
• Professional development support, including mentorship and learning budgets.
• Generous leave policies for vacation, sick time, and parental/family care.
• Opportunity to shape team culture and engineering standards in a mission-driven SaaS company.

Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.

When you apply, your profile goes through our AI-powered screening process designed to identify top talent efficiently and fairly.

🔍 Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analyzing your skills, experience, and achievements.
📊 It compares your profile to the job’s core requirements and past success factors to determine your match score.
🎯 Based on this analysis, we automatically shortlist the 3 candidates with the highest match to the role.
🧠 When necessary, our human team may perform an additional manual review to ensure no strong profile is missed.

The process is transparent, skills-based, and free of bias — focusing solely on your fit for the role. Once the shortlist is completed, we share it directly with the company that owns the job opening. The final decision and next steps (such as interviews or additional assessments) are then made by their internal hiring team.

Thank you for your interest!

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