Job description
Engineering Manager
Company Overview
At SPD Technology, we bring together a team of like-minded people who are driven by the desire to bring value through their work, united in their commitment to high performance and delivering custom, cutting-edge tech solutions that drive clients’ growth. We empower our people with a culture of excellence and enable them with the opportunity to uphold their accountability to contribute on each level. We value humanity and collaboration, encourage professional and personal growth, and foster a supportive and flexible work environment where everyone’s contribution is welcomed.
Job Summary
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join us as part of our team.About the roleAre you passionate about building the systems that power the financial world? PitchBook is a leading financial data and software company that is revolutionizing the private and public equity markets. We provide our clients with the most comprehensive, reliable, and actionable data, research, and insights to help them make informed investment decisions and stay ahead of the competition.As an Engineering Manager in PitchBook’s team, you will be responsible for providing software delivery capabilities by building and growing software engineering teams, supporting them during changes, enabling talents and forming productive relationships with the entire organization. You will utilize your extensive background for working with talented engineers and insightful product managers to build exceptional solutions relied upon by thousands of PitchBook customers (many of them have big names, and the team is proud to work for their needs).If you love growing strong teams, build customer-centric solutions, can drive and embrace changes, strive for excellence every day, are adaptable and focused, and believe work should be fun, come join us!Team setup: Team 1 (Lead, 8 BE, 2 FE, 1 SDET), Team 2 (Lead, 5 BE, 2 FE, 2 SDET).Tech Stack: Java 21, k8s/Gitops, Spring Boot, OpenAPI, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis.Work Environment: Flexible schedule with mandatory attendance for core team ceremonies (daily stand-ups, retros, and sprint planning). The environment emphasizes autonomy, deep technical ownership, and close collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Own engineering outcomes for DataTech teams
- Be accountable for engineering capabilities, velocity, quality, reliability and scalability for your DataTech SATs.
- Ensure engineering work is aligned with DataTech strategy and product roadmap.
- Lead and grow engineers and SDE Leads
- Manage engineers and SDE Leads (coaching, feedback, growth, performance and compensation input).
- Build and evolve teams: hiring, onboarding, shaping skill/seniority mix, and handling exits when needed.
- Maintain healthy team dynamics and address people issues early.
- Plan and manage capacity
- Own short-and long-term capacity and capability planning for your teams.
- Allocate people across initiatives in line with DataTech priorities and constraints.
- Surface capacity risks and drive mitigation (hiring, re-prioritization, internal moves, enabling teams).
- Ensure strong SDLC execution and technical quality
- Make sure teams execute effectively across the SDLC: refinement, design, estimation, implementation, testing, deployment and support.
- Enforce PitchBook engineering standards and non-functional requirements.
- Partner with SDE Leads on solution design and architecture, involving Architecture / Platform / SRE Enablers where appropriate.
- Optimize existing SDLC processes by integrating Generative AI tools
- Own product quality, reliability and operations
- Be ultimately responsible for stability, reliability, performance and overall quality of services your teams own.
- Work with SDE Leads and enabling teams on observability, SLIs/SLOs and incident reduction.
- Drive continuous improvement of technical health and operational excellence.
- Strengthen ways of working and collaboration
- Evolve engineering practices in your teams (code review, CI/CD, testing, incident response, etc.).
- Partner closely with Product, Data and other domains to align plans and manage dependencies.
- Contribute to domain-level planning with Senior EMs/Directors and support cross-SAT collaboration.
Requirements / Qualifications
- Proven engineering leadership experience managing multiple software/data engineering teams, ideally as an Engineering Manager or equivalent.
- Strong people-management skills: coaching, performance management, conflict resolution and building/scaling teams.
- Track record of delivery in agile, product-led environments, including capacity planning and prioritization.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ownership mindset: focus on long-term quality and maintainability, not just delivery.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in DataTech-like domains (data ingestion, processing, curation).
- Familiarity with Stream-Aligned Teams / Team Topologies.
- Experience working with Architecture, Platform, SRE and other enabling teams.
- Experience improving observability, reliability and incident management for backend/data services.
Location
European Union, Remote: True
Employment Type
Full Time
Salary & Benefits
- Reveal great tech solutions
- Join the team of experts who create custom, cutting-edge tech solutions for world-renowned businesses, fueling client growth. Unleash your potential, tackle new challenges, and be part of a team that values your skills and contributions. Focus on long-term impact and building tailored, long-lasting partnerships with our clients.
- Experience an agile and flexible working environment
- Enjoy the freedom of fully remote work with a flexible working schedule. Empower yourself with a stable workload and a stable income, supported by provided laptops and licensed software. We focus on lasting cooperation and unite result-oriented individuals who stand on a high-performance approach to work.
- Embrace the opportunity for personal and professional growth
- Benefit from performance and merit reviews, elevate your skills with personal development plans, and individual learnings through the corporate library, public speaking support, and more.
- Be among like-minded people
- Work with a team of one mind who cares about what they do and how they do. Collaborate with top-notch experts who are always ready to help and support you through any challenges. Join company-wide tech and cultural events, and contribute to meaningful CSR initiatives that resonate with your values. Feel supported by your HR, and take advantage of our referral bonus program.
