Data Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Contentsquare as an Engineering Manager and lead the Identify team, responsible for building a new service to unify user identities across devices and platforms, enabling cross-device analytics. You will guide a team of senior backend engineers, support architectural decisions, drive the delivery of high-impact projects, and navigate technical challenges across distributed timezones. This role requires solid experience as a backend or data engineer, 2 to 3 years of engineering management experience, and a pragmatic approach to leadership.

Requirements

• Solid experience as a backend or data engineer, ideally in a data-intensive or high-scale environment
• 2 to 3 years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership, with a strong focus on team delivery, structure and clear communication
• A pragmatic and structured approach to engineering management, including mentoring, regular 1:1s, goal setting, and fostering a strong sense of ownership

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 4 senior backend engineers (including a Staff Engineer), fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and pragmatic engineering culture (team rituals, career development, recruitment, etc.)
• Use your technical background to support architectural decisions, review technical approaches, and help the team make thoughtful, scalable trade-offs
• Drive the successful and timely delivery of high-impact, large-scale backend/data projects at the core of our platform
• Help the team navigate technical and organizational challenges across distributed timezones (EU, US, AU), while maintaining focus and autonomy

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with technologies such as AWS/Azure, Kafka, Scala, Go, Python, Node.js is a plus – but not a requirement

Benefits

• We invest in our people through career development, mentorship, social events, philanthropic activities, and competitive benefits
• Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year
• Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies
• Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)
• Immediate eligibility for birthing and non-birthing parental leave
• Wellbeing and Home Office allowances
• A Culture Crew in every country we’re based in to coordinate regular activities for employees to get to know each other and bond outside of work
• Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success
• We have multiple Employee Resource Groups, that offer a safe space for individuals who share common identities, life experiences, or allyship to connect, support one another, and passionately advocate for the issues close to their hearts
• And more benefits tailored to each country