Engineering Team Lead

We are Ataccama, and we are on a mission to empower organizations to maximize the transformative potential of data and AI. Our product enables both technical and less technical ‘data people’ across their organizations to create high-quality, governed, safe, and reusable data products. It’s what made us a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant® for Data Quality Solutions™, and what inspired Bain Capital Tech Opportunities to invest in our future growth.

Our vision is to be the leading AI-powered cloud data management company and to do that, we’re making Ataccama a great place to work and grow. Our people are located across the globe. They succeed by collaborating as a team and thrive in our company culture defined by these core values:

Aim High

Customer Focused

ONE Team

Candid and Caring

Challenging Fun

Ataccama Product & Engineering is at the forefront of a transformative journey, transitioning from an on-premise enterprise solution to a fully managed multi-cloud platform. We cater to Fortune 500 companies with stringent security and compliance requirements. Simultaneously, our clients expect a user-friendly, rapidly deployable collaborative data management platform that seamlessly adapts to their organizational needs.

As an Engineering Team Lead at Ataccama, you will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and transforming our product into a more scalable and efficient Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. Your main mission will be to build and extend our data processing capability, with focus on pushdown processing to cloud warehouse engines and analytical platforms.

Your Challenge

• Lead and coordinate the development of a key component of our SaaS product, ensuring its high quality, and timely delivery.
• Oversee the complete technical aspects of the owned functionality, from analysis through implementation to production.
• Drive the development process within the team and continually improve it.
• Take a hands-on approach in writing code, its testing, debugging and tuning, to deliver new features and their improvements.
• Design, develop, and maintain back-end systems heavily interfacing with data sources via SQL, utilizing the powerful jOOQ library, and therefore mainly using Java and Kotlin, commonly with Spring Boot; deploying with containers orchestrated through Kubernetes, on top of public clouds.
• Provide robust solutions supporting both technical and business-oriented users in development of rules and checks maintaining Data Quality across their whole data landscape.
• Work with modern cloud database, warehouse, data lake, lakehouse, and analytical platforms, leveraging their capabilities to evaluate Data Quality efficiently at a big scale.
• Integrate with our data processing framework and contribute to our native data processing engine.
• Implement unit, integration, contract, performance testing and other strategies and approaches to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to understand product requirements and translate them into technical specifications. Take ownership of features and components from the design phase through the production deployment up to operational support.
• Engage in code reviews, offering constructive feedback in a supportive and collaborative manner to help the team improve and grow.
• Possess comprehensive knowledge of each team member, including their career opportunities, preferences, technical expertise, and other skills, utilizing the company-wide GPS framework.
• Plan and monitor team capacity, making decisions regarding the recruitment of new team members.
• Collaborate closely with other team leaders, engineering and product managers, and circle leaders.

Is This You?

• Motivated to lead a small team, enhance productivity, and support individual development.
• You have proven experience in backend development with Java or Kotlin.
• You thrive on tackling complex data-oriented problems and enjoy application of research done by you or your colleagues to produce efficient solutions.
• You have a passion for building secure cloud SaaS applications.
• You have a desire to improve your understanding of modern database technologies and data management systems, and how they are implemented.
• Learning and sharing knowledge with others is something you genuinely enjoy.
• You are unafraid to take ownership of end-to-end software engineering and operations competency.

Our General Tech Stack

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, GraphQL, jOOQ
• Storage: Aurora, Postgres, Elastic, Minio
• Infrastructure: GitLab CI/CD, Gradle, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Apollo, Nx, MobX..
• Big Data: Spark, Redshift, Snowflake

Work equipment

• Company laptop
• Company mobile phone + SIM card & package of mobile data

Perks & Benefits

• Long-Term Incentive Program
• "Bring Your Friend" referral program
• Flexible working hours & flexible working setup
• The Global Family Support Program - A paid leave program to help all parents focus on the new addition to their family
• 25 days of vacation, 2 sick days, and 1 personal day for each calendar year with Ataccama (up to 5 in total)
• Flexipass or Multisport card (after finishing your probation period)
• Annual package for mental health support
• Shared company cards for free entrance to Prague Zoo & Botanical Garden
• Company bikes, longboards, e-scooters
• Online company language courses
• Conference tickets to the best industry events of the year
• Online courses & company access to Udemy to hone your skills
• Company library, where you can even suggest the best educational books for us to order
• Kitchens stocked with fresh fruit and juice, teas, and the best coffee




While we highly value cooperation with all our business partners, we don’t accept unsolicited resumes from any sources other than directly from a candidate. We reserve the right not to pay any fee for sending an unsolicited offer containing the details or resume of a job candidate, even if the relevant candidate is employed by our company. 

Work equipment

- Company laptop

- Company mobile phone + SIM card & package of mobile data

Perks & Benefits

- Long-Term Incentive Program

- "Bring Your Friend" referral program

- Flexible working hours & flexible working setup

- 25 days of vacation, 2 sick days, and 1 personal day for each calendar year with Ataccama (up to 5 in total)

- Flexipass or Multisport card (after finishing your probation period)

- Annual package for mental health support

- Shared company cards for free entrance to Prague Zoo & Botanical garden

- Company bikes, longboards, e-scooters

- Online company language courses

- Conference tickets to the best industry events of the year

- Online courses & company access to Udemy to hone your skills

- Company library, where you can even suggest the best educational books for us to order

- Kitchens stocked with fresh fruit and juice, teas, and the best coffee

While we highly value cooperation with all our business partners, we don’t accept unsolicited resumes from any sources other than directly from a candidate. We reserve the right not to pay any fee for sending an unsolicited offer containing the details or resume of a job candidate, even if the relevant candidate is employed by our company.