What You'll Be Doing

• Lead, support, and develop a team of data and backend engineers, fostering an inclusive environment for growth.
• Collaborate with product managers, business partners, and engineering teams to prioritize and build data products enhancing subscription experiences.
• Guide development of reliable, scalable data pipelines and backend services supporting targeting, messaging, personalisation, and machine learning.
• Help the team make informed technical decisions balancing data quality, reliability, business needs, and maintainability.
• Provide regular feedback, coaching, career development, and opportunities to share knowledge with engineers.
• Collaborate across teams to manage dependencies, resolve challenges, and build shared data solutions.
• Improve engineering practices including service reliability, sustainable on-call processes, and responsible data management.
• Explore opportunities to use AI and automation to simplify workflows, improve data quality, and support team efforts.

Requirements

• Experience leading data or backend engineering teams with a focus on engineer development.
• Background in software or data engineering with ability to lead technical discussions on data architecture, distributed systems, scalability, and reliability.
• Ability to balance team development, technical decisions, and delivery priorities to achieve impactful results.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines, data platforms, or backend services; familiarity with Google Cloud, BigQuery, Apache Beam, Dataflow, dbt, Flyte, Airflow, Scala, or Java is valuable.
• Capability to navigate changing priorities, make informed decisions, and guide the team through ambiguity.
• Strong communication skills and ability to build effective partnerships across product, business, and engineering teams.
• Commitment to valuing diverse perspectives, encouraging feedback, and fostering a respectful and supportive environment.

Nice to Haves

• Interest in new technologies, especially AI and automation, and enthusiasm for improving team workflows and value delivery.

Perks and Benefits

• Flexible work location within the EMEA region (excluding France due to on-call restrictions).
• Collaboration aligned to Central European and GMT time zones.