Manager, Data Engineering

Thumbtack helps millions of people confidently care for their homes through its app and AI tools. The company is seeking a Manager, Data Engineering to lead a team building durable, well-modeled datasets and trustworthy financial data foundations that support reporting, governance, and cross-functional product work. This role focuses on partnering with Finance and business teams, improving pipeline reliability, and leading and growing a team of data engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver well-modeled, durable datasets for requests, projects, pros, and customers that the rest of the company builds on without asking who owns them
• Partner with Finance so revenue models reconcile, hold their definitions under upstream change, and are auditable
• Partner with the Supply Acquisition and Business Platforms teams on their roadmaps, and turn their priorities into yours without waiting to be handed tickets
• Raise the reliability floor on the core pipelines: dbt tests, CI, anomaly detection, and clear contracts so a definition change three hops upstream doesn't quietly move a reported number
• Hire and grow mid-level and senior data engineers, and develop TLs who can own a domain end-to-end
• Set the engineering standards for a team that's still forming, including review, testing, and how the team decides what not to build
• Lead as a technical manager. You'll make and defend modeling and architecture decisions, not just route them

Requirements:

• 2+ years managing engineers, or experience as a tech lead ready to step into first-line management
• 6+ years building data or software systems in production
• Depth in SQL and dimensional and event modeling, and comfort in Python. You'll be in code reviews, in the DAG when something breaks, and in modeling design discussions
• Experience owning datasets that other teams depend on, with the testing, contracts, and versioning discipline that requires
• Track record of translating ambiguous business questions into durable models and metric definitions
• Strong collaboration and written communication. Most of this team's leverage comes from working well with partner teams that have their own priorities
• Commitment to building inclusive teams and team culture