Data Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• Lead and grow a team of data engineers, providing mentorship, technical guidance, and career development support.
• Own execution of customer integrations across multiple product lines (Store Ordering, RecsAPI, DC, Production Planning, and more), ensuring integrations are delivered on time and at a high quality bar.
• Build core dataflows that power new Afresh products, working closely with Product and ML teams to understand requirements and deliver reliable data foundations.
• Drive integration velocity: improve the speed and predictability of getting new customers from raw data landing to production-ready, leveraging AI tooling, standardized architecture, and strong contractor enablement.
• Continuously improve integration processes and shared code: identify patterns across customer integrations and invest in abstractions, templates, and automation that reduce per-customer effort over time.
• Collaborate deeply with Solutions Engineers, Product Managers, and customer-facing teams to scope integration work, unblock dependencies, communicate progress, and ensure integrations meet our customers’ needs.
• Improve data quality and pipeline reliability by investing in better alerting, self-healing patterns, and resilience to messy or incomplete customer data.
• Champion AI-forward engineering practices: evaluate and adopt AI tools and agentic workflows that accelerate development, automate repetitive tasks, and push the team to the bleeding edge of modern data engineering.
• Contribute technically: reviewing code and architecture decisions, pairing with engineers on complex problems, and staying close to the work.

Requirements

• 3+ years of engineering management experience
• Strong technical background in data engineering: experience with Python, PySpark, SQL, dbt, Airflow, and modern data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, or similar).
• Track record of shipping high-quality data integrations or ETL systems at scale, and a deep understanding of what makes data pipelines reliable.
• Experience managing execution across multiple concurrent projects with different customers or stakeholders, balancing competing priorities with clear communication.
• Demonstrated ability to improve team velocity through better tooling, process improvements, or automation.
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI-augmented engineering workflows. You've experimented with AI coding tools, agentic workflows, or similar approaches, and you have a vision for how they can transform data engineering and uplevel the team.
• Comfort working with messy, real-world data from enterprise customers, and the pragmatism to ship solutions that work without over-engineering.
• Strong collaboration skills: you're effective working across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams in a fast-paced environment.

Tech Stack

• Airflow
• ETL
• PySpark
• Python
• SQL

Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive environment & awesome people :)
• Work on challenging, real-world data problems that have a direct and visible impact on customers.
• Be part of an engineering culture that's genuinely AI-forward. We want to be on the bleeding edge.
• Lead a team at a pivotal inflection point: rapid customer growth means your work directly shapes how Afresh scales.
• Afresh provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.