Sr. Manager, Software Engineering - Data Lake & Data Pipelines

Foureyes is an automotive data platform focused on enhancing the car-buying experience. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead engineering teams responsible for their customer data lake and data pipelines, ensuring high-quality data delivery and customer value.

Responsibilities:

• Lead two experienced engineering teams that own data pipelines and the customer-facing UX built on top of them
• Set clear expectations around ownership, quality, and delivery across backend and frontend work
• Build a culture where engineers think end-to-end: from raw data to customer experience
• Hire and onboard engineers as the teams and scope grow
• Partner with our Product and Data Science teams to deeply understand customer problems and workflows
• Translate customer needs into clear direction for data models, pipelines, and UX
• Ensure data freshness, correctness, and availability meet the needs of real product use-cases
• Treat data as a high-value customer feature that directly shapes product UX
• Own the technical vision for our data lake foundation and data pipelines
• Guide architecture and design decisions with a focus on: Data correctness, trust, and lineage, Scalability and reliability, Cost efficiency and performance, Long-term maintainability
• Act as a technical escalation point and design partner for complex system-level decisions
• Own planning, prioritization, and delivery across both teams
• Break customer-driven initiatives into executable plans with clear milestones
• Balance UX delivery with foundational data investments
• Ensure teams deliver on time without compromising quality
• Set expectations for test automation and data validation across pipelines and UX
• Ensure systems are observable, debuggable, and production-ready
• Lead incident response and postmortems with a blameless, learning-focused mindset

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years leading multiple teams or a senior, high-impact team
• Experience owning data lakes, data pipelines, or distributed data systems
• Strong experience with AWS-based data pipelines
• Experience integrating data lakes with Snowflake or similar warehouses
• Experience leading teams that own both backend systems and frontend UX
• Technically credible across backend and frontend
• Customer-minded: consistently works backward from real use-cases
• Clear, direct communicator who sets strong expectations
• Comfortable making trade-offs in fast-moving environments
• Strong planning and prioritization instincts
• Bias toward automation, testing, and operational excellence
• Track record of improving delivery predictability while raising the quality bar