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Vannevar Labs is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead their data platform engineering team. This role focuses on data pipelines, data warehousing, and APIs to support developers building tools for the US DoD. The Software Engineering Manager will lead a growing team responsible for structuring diverse multimodal datasets and providing access patterns for internal developers. This includes multi-media semantic search, entity search, and relational data primitives. This team plays a crucial role in powering most of Vannevar’s mature products, while also supporting new product initiatives.
What this role involves:
- Data Platform Development: Design and build scalable, reliable data pipelines, warehouses, and search capabilities for supporting internal developers.
- Technology Improvement: Identify opportunities for improving developer experience and time-to-market for product engineers building with core datasets.
- Collaboration: Work closely with engineers, DevOps, and product engineering teams, leveraging your communication skills to ensure effective teamwork.
- Team Building: Develop and lead a strong cross-functional team that forms strong partnerships with developers across the organization.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in leading platform engineering teams
- 5+ years of experience as a backend, data, or search engineer.
- Strong technical expertise in building ETL pipelines, data warehousing and designing APIs.
- Ability to deliver scalable and reliable platform solutions over a diverse collection of data types.
- High ethical standards for handling sensitive data, ensuring adherence to data privacy rules and compliance standards.
- Willingness to travel to offsite and team syncs ~4 weeks per year
- Excellent communication skills, teamwork abilities, and project ownership.
- Proficiency coding with Python, TypeScript, or similar
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL, or other relational databases.
- Proficiency with Elasticsearch, or other search engines.
- Proficiency with software development in AWS or other cloud services.
What Vannevar Labs offers:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% remote first culture.
- Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
- Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
