Data Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Contentsquare as an Engineering Manager and lead a team of backend engineers within the data infrastructure unit. You will be responsible for fostering a collaborative engineering culture, supporting architectural decisions, and driving the delivery of large-scale backend/data projects. The role requires navigating technical and cultural challenges across distributed time zones. Success in this position demands solid backend or data engineering experience and at least two years of engineering management experience. Contentsquare offers competitive benefits, including flexible work arrangements, generous paid time off, parental leave, wellbeing allowances, stock options, and employee resource groups.

Requirements

• Solid experience as a backend or data engineer, ideally in a data-intensive or high-scale environment
• A t least 2 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 5 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, cultural and organizational challenges across distributed timezones (EU, US, AUS), while maintaining focus and autonomy

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with technologies used in our technical stack such as AWS/Azure, Kafka, Scala, Go, ClickHouse, Singlestore is a plus – but not a requirement

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