Who you are:
You are a dynamic Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager with a blend of 8+ years of Software Development and technical people leadership experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative team, where you will have a direct impact on the customer experience.
Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!
What you’ll do:
- Lead and mentor engineers across core data and AI teams, fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture with clear guidance and resources.
- Guide architectural and technical decisions, ensuring best practices in development, testing, and deployment while aligning platform strategy with business objectives.
- Oversee the design, development, and delivery of web applications using technologies like Python, Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js, Postgres, and AWS.
- Diagnose and resolve technical issues, emphasizing quality and maintainability through comprehensive tests, documentation, and automation.
- Collaborate on system design for AI/ML services, working with data scientists to build scalable, data-driven products, drive AI-powered feature development, optimize data pipelines, and advance prompting strategies across LLMs.
- Lead data pipeline creation and optimization with data warehouses like Redshift and Snowflake to support AI services.
- Take ownership of team growth, contributing to interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
- Allocate roughly 60% of the role to people management and 40% to hands-on coding and technical problem-solving.
- Establish development best practices, foster continuous improvement, prioritize projects for timely delivery, and ensure technical excellence through code reviews and tool implementation.
- Encourage innovation by nurturing ideas for advanced tech solutions that enhance the company’s competitive edge.
- [Required] Demonstrate experience with data pipelines and data warehouses, and guide their optimization.
- [Required] Show hands-on experience in AI/ML systems, including model design and deployment for actionable insights.
What you have:
- Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, data pipelines and continuous development
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-10 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 5-7 years’ experience
- 2+ years leading technical teams
- Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.)
- Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL
Extras you bring to the table:
- Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant services
- Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
- Experience with functional/acceptance testing
Why join Polly?
- We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates
- We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms
- Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility
- Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders
- Competitive salaries
- 100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance for full time employees
- Flexible vacation
- Hybrid environment; 3x weekly in an innovation hub in San Francisco or Dallas.
Top Skills
What We Do
The secondary market for mortgages accounts for over $1T in annual volume and impacts 20% of GDP. Yet, the pricing and loan trading of mortgages is still often done with antiquated technology, excel spreadsheets, phone calls, and physical paper. Billions of dollars are lost to inefficiency and mistakes.
Polly is transforming the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem that includes an advanced Product & Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, Analytics Platform, and Partner Platform. Our mission is to help capital markets and secondary teams operate smarter, more efficiently, and more profitably with best-in-class, end-to-end technology that is configured for each of our customers’ unique workflows and business needs.
Polly is based in San Francisco, California. Please visit www.polly.io to learn more.
