Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the world's leading brands. We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales, share, and profit. With teams across the Americas, Europe and APAC, we offer a career with real impact, endless growth opportunities and the support you need to be the best you can be.
As the Engineering Manager for our Data Acquisition team, you will lead a talented group of engineers responsible for building and maintaining our data pipelines, API integrations, and web scraping infrastructure. This role requires not only strong technical expertise but also a strategic, product-oriented mindset to shape the team’s vision and architecture. You'll play a key role in building "data acquisition as an infrastructure product" that supports all our client-facing products and powers our business. We’re looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of engineering leadership, architecture, and product thinking, with a passion for building scalable, efficient, and innovative data systems.
What You'll Do
Leadership & People Management:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented engineers, fostering a culture of innovation,collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support team members in their
- professional development.
Technical Strategy & Architecture:
- Drive the design and implementation of scalable, maintainable, and efficient data pipelines, API integrations, and web scraping solutions.
- Ensure systems are robust, reliable, and capable of handling ever-growing volumes of data.
- Stay up to date with industry best practices and emerging technologies, leveraging them to improve our systems.
Product & Strategic Thinking:
- Collaborate closely with product managers, stakeholders, and other engineering teams to align on priorities and define roadmaps.
- Shape the team’s work into a platform that supports multiple client-facing products, ensuring seamless integration and scalability.
Operational Excellence:
- Establish and maintain high operational standards, including system monitoring, alerting, and proactive maintenance.
- Drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, processes, and tools.
- Ensure data quality, security, and compliance across all systems.
Who You Are
- Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, preferably in the data engineering space.
- Strong technical background in building and maintaining data pipelines, API integrations, and/or
- web scraping solutions.
- A deep understanding of distributed systems, data architecture, and cloud-based infrastructure
- (AWS)
- A product mindset with the ability to think about data acquisition as a core infrastructure
- product and align engineering efforts with business goals.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs in a fast-paced
- Environment.
- You have strong software engineering fundamentals, including systems architecture, algorithms, problem-solving and experience building web-based SaaS products
- You understand how the Web and Cloud work and have experience working in AWS using IAC
- You have at least 7 years of experience in software development using Java stacks
- You have at least 2 years of team leadership experience
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We are proud to offer all Flywheelers a competitive rewards package and unparalleled career growth opportunities and a supportive, fun and engaging culture.
- We have office hubs across the globe where team members can go to feel productive, inspired, and connected to others - team members go into Hub Offices 3x a week
- Flexible vacation time
- Great learning and development opportunities
- Benefits that help you live your best life
- Parental leave and benefits
- Volunteering opportunities
- If you’re looking to connect with teammates on a topic of inclusion and identity, chances are there’s an ERG for that.
- So you know: The hired candidate will be required to complete a background check
- Learn more about us here: Life at Flywheel
The Interview Process:
Every role starts the same, an introductory call with someone from our Talent Acquisition team. We will be looking for company and values-fit as well as your professional experience; there may be some technical role-specific questions during this call.
Every role is different after the initial call, but you can expect to meet several people from the team 1:1 and there might be further skill assessments in the form of a Take Home Assignment/Case Study Presentation or Pair Programming/Live Coding exercise depending on the role. In your initial call, we will walk you through exactly what to expect the process to be.
Inclusive Workforce
Flywheel Commerce Network’s goal is to create a culture where all individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable in bringing their authentic selves to work. We want all people to feel included and empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals. Flywheel Commerce Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. All applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
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