Data Engineering Manager

Contentsquare is the all-in-one experience intelligence platform designed to be easily used by anyone who cares about digital journeys. With our flexible and scalable platform, organizations quickly get a deep understanding of their customers’ whole online journey.
We are a global leader in the experience analytics space, having secured $1.4 billion in funding and expanded to 15 offices worldwide. We’re here to stay—and we’re looking for team members that can help us further our growth.
Our aim is to create an inclusive workplace where everyone learns and succeeds. Contentsquare has built a community of individuals who are daring, understanding, and deliberate. We invite you to join us in making the complex simpler—for our customers, their customers, and each other.
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About the Job
As an Engineering Manager, you will join and lead the Identify team. This team is building a new service to unify user identities across devices and platforms, enabling cross-device analytics (web, mobile, email, etc.). They are migrating legacy tracking systems into a single, scalable pipeline while maintaining and evolving the existing Kafka-based infrastructure.
The team also plays a key role in knowledge sharing and is driving the deployment of this infrastructure in new regions, starting with Europe. Our tech environment includes JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Scala, Go, Kafka, and AWS, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and long-term scalability.

What You Will Do

• Lead a team of 4 senior backend engineers (including a Staff Engineer), fostering a collaborative, high-performing, and pragmatic engineering culture (team rituals, career development, recruitment, etc.).
• Use your technical background to support architectural decisions, review technical approaches, and help the team make thoughtful, scalable trade-offs.
• Drive the successful and timely delivery of high-impact, large-scale backend/data projects at the core of our platform.
• Help the team navigate technical and organizational challenges across distributed timezones (EU, US, AU), while maintaining focus and autonomy.

What You Will Need to Succeed

• Solid experience as a backend or data engineer, ideally in a data-intensive or high-scale environment.
• 2 to 3 years of experience in engineering management or technical leadership, with a strong focus on team delivery, structure and clear communication.
• A pragmatic and structured approach to engineering management, including mentoring, regular 1:1s, goal setting, and fostering a strong sense of ownership.
• Familiarity with technologies such as AWS/Azure, Kafka, Scala, Go, Python, Node.js is a plus – but not a requirement.

Why you should join ContentsquareWe invest in our people through career development, mentorship, social events, philanthropic activities, and competitive benefits. We are always assessing the perks we offer to ensure we’re aligned with the employees' needs.
Here are a few we want to highlight:- Virtual onboarding, Hackathon, and various opportunities to interact with your team and global colleagues both on and offsite each year- Work flexibility: hybrid and remote work policies- Generous paid time-off policy (every location is different)- Immediate eligibility for birthing and non-birthing parental leave- Wellbeing and Home Office allowances- A Culture Crew in every country we’re based in to coordinate regular activities for employees to get to know each other and bond outside of work- Every full-time employee receives stock options, allowing them to share in the company’s success- We have multiple Employee Resource Groups, that offer a safe space for individuals who share common identities, life experiences, or allyship to connect, support one another, and passionately advocate for the issues close to their hearts- And more benefits tailored to each country
Contentsquare is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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