Technical Leader and Manager, Platform & Data (TakeUp) at Jobgether

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Technical Leader and Manager, Platform & Data (TakeUp) at Jobgether. This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Technical Leader and Manager, Platform & Data (TakeUp) in United States.. As a Technical Leader and Manager, you will oversee and drive the development of core platform and data systems that power a high-impact SaaS product. You will lead a team of engineers while remaining hands-on in building scalable, reliable, and observable infrastructure. This role balances strategic vision with day-to-day execution, ensuring platform reliability, data quality, and performance. You will collaborate closely with Product, ML, and Customer Success teams, as well as external integration partners, to deliver resilient, cost-efficient solutions. The environment is remote, dynamic, and fast-paced, offering the opportunity to influence architecture, set engineering standards, and shape the team culture.. Accountabilities. . Own the architecture and reliability of core services and end-to-end data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and observability.. . Define and enforce engineering standards across platform and data systems, including CI/CD, code quality, documentation, and reproducibility.. . Set and maintain SLOs for system reliability, latency, and data freshness, implementing guardrails and automated quality checks.. . Translate product and roadmap goals into scoped engineering work with clear acceptance criteria, success metrics, and rollout plans.. . Build and operate observability stacks (logs, metrics, tracing, data quality monitors) with actionable alerts.. . Partner with external integrations, ensuring resilient interfaces and backfills for third-party systems.. . Lead, mentor, and manage engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance management, and development plans.. . Maintain current architecture diagrams, runbooks, documentation, and data lineage while fostering a “docs-as-code” culture.. . Communicate progress, risks, and strategic decisions to leadership and broader stakeholders through regular updates and demos.. . . 6+ years of experience building and operating production platforms and data systems in B2B SaaS, with at least 2 years leading engineering teams.. . Strong technical depth in Python, SQL, orchestration frameworks (Prefect, Airflow), ELT tools (dbt), cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery), event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), containerization (Docker, ECS/Kubernetes), and infra-as-code (Terraform).. . Proven experience setting engineering standards (CI/CD, code review, testing strategy) and delivering reliable, observable systems at reasonable cost.. . Skilled at defining and meeting SLOs, incident management, and continuous improvement processes.. . Comfortable designing and managing third-party integrations with resilience to schema drift and backfills.. . Excellent communication skills: able to simplify complexity, make trade-offs explicit, and align cross-functional teams.. . Start-up mindset: bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and willingness to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution.. . Nice-to-have: domain knowledge in pricing, demand modeling, or hospitality; prior start-up experience.. . Company Location: United States.