Manager, Engineering, Big Data

About Us:

Headquartered in beautiful Santa Barbara, HG Insights is the global leader in technology intelligence. HG Insights uses advanced data science methodologies to help the world's largest technology firms and the fastest growing companies accelerate their sales, marketing, and strategy efforts.

We offer a competitive salary, growth potential, and a casual yet professional environment. Get your sweat on at one of our fitness classes or go for a run along the beach which is two blocks away. You can find employees riding bikes to lunch in the funk zone or hanging out in one of our collaboration spaces. We are passionate about our jobs with a get-it-done attitude, yet we don't take ourselves too seriously. While we work very hard, we also enjoy all that the Santa Barbara coast has to offer. This role is open to remote candidates residing in the U.S. except within the state of Colorado.

What You'll Do:

We're searching for an experienced engineering leader who's passionate about developing products that are simple, intuitive, and beautiful. This is a hands-on role and requires modern SaaS, API, and Big Data experience particularly working with enterprise applications for B2B. This position will be responsible for leading our customer-facing product development teams. You will be working with both onshore and offshore development teams.

We are a rapid growing company with small focused engineering teams who are delivering innovative features in a fast growing market. We build big-data systems utilizing cutting edge technologies and solutions that allow for our developers to learn and develop while shipping amazing products.

What You'll Be Responsible For:

• You will collaborate with the Product team, CTO, VP of Engineering, and Director of QA, as well as other engineering teams to build scalable solutions at a fast pace.
• You will help to scale teams and mentor individuals to be highly successful.
• You will lead highly technical teams to develop products that are used via internal teams and external customers.
• Attend stand-up meetings, planning sessions, encourage others, and collaborate at a rapid pace.

What You'll Need:

• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Math, or related technical discipline
• Proficiency in Java, Ruby, or Elixir and JavaScript
• Understand RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Understand best-practice UI / UX design
• Comfortable in an agile development environment
• 5+ years programming, 2+ years in a leadership role
• Must have experience leading highly technical teams
• Managers at HG serve the team and must be good coaches that can effectively clear blocks and inspire their teams
• Must have experience mentoring and leading individuals' career development
• Must have a proven track record of collaborating with product teams and other engineering teams, outside of your management responsibility.
• Must understand modern CI/CD.
• Experience with Docker or similar container technologies
• Must be a proponent of quality.
• Must have solid SDLC knowledge, preferably Agile Scrum.
• Must have experience deploying and managing applications hosted in AWS.
• Must have solid understanding of APIs & Microservices, SaaS, and at least one horizontally scaling Big Data technology.
• Must have experience with at least one modern JavaScript framework (React, Vue, Angular)
• Thrive in a fast growing environment
• Excellent written and spoken English communication

Nice-to-haves:

• You have a proven record leading teams to successful outcomes
• You've worked on Enterprise grade SaaS applications
• Familiar with web development design patterns and frameworks such as MVC and MVVM
• Experience with Erlang/Elixir
• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with NewRelic or other Application Performance Monitoring tools
• Familiar with ElasticSearch
• Familiar with Snowflake or other Data Warehouse technologies
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, RDS, EMR, ELB etc.)
• Good knowledge of SQL
• Data Driven UX Design

Our Santa Barbara office is open! Employees are welcome to work from the office on a voluntary basis. We are following all local and state guidelines while in office. Employee safety is of utmost importance and we are taking all necessary precautions. For more information on how we are doing this, please speak with one of our HR team members.

HG Insights Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Please note that HG Insights does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event of a recruiter or agency submitting a resume or candidate without a signed agreement being in place, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire such candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of HG Insights