About the RoleLob is building a suite of APIs to simplify and automate enterprise workflows. Our most popular product is our print and mail API that enables companies to send physical mail as effortlessly as sending emails. This API helps individuals and enterprise customers programmatically send physical mail at scale.&nbsp; Our second API focuses on address verification. Our long-term goal is to provide the building blocks for developers to <a href="https://lob.com/blog/vision-mission">automate the offline world through APIs</a>. We’re looking for great problem-solvers to help us figure out how. We offer remote working opportunities in CA, WA, OR, CO, TX, UT, MI, IL, PA, NY.&nbsp; You can also work onsite at our San Francisco headquarters.We’re building a team of not just strong problem-solvers but great collaborators—engineers who are excited to teach and learn from each other, share decisions and information freely, and work together on new problems that no other companies have solved before. As an early member of our Data team, you will help lay the foundation for a trusted and performant data platform that enables the entire company to make rapid data-driven decisions and ship scalable data-driven features. You will work with stakeholders across the company such as Sales, Finance, Marketing, Operations in addition to Product and Engineering.&nbsp; The role includes significant autonomy towards defining problem spaces and a mandate to build viable systems that are both internally- and externally-facing. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to have a large sense of ownership, grow extraordinarily in their career, and develop cross-functional skills to maximize impact in a fast-moving startup. As an Engineering Manager for the Data Team, you’ll...<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Lead, manage, mentor and grow the data team as a hands-on technical leader. Help the team make key technical decisions, unblock the team, and guide the team on execution. We expect managers in this role to review and write code when needed.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Grow the Data team at Lob through recruiting and hiring new team members.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Collaborate closely with product and other stakeholders to translate business challenges into scalable data architecture, pipeline and warehousing solutions.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Evangelize high quality software engineering practices towards designing, developing and operating data infrastructure and business critical pipelines at scale.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Establish processes - project management, code management, data quality - to help the team operate efficiently.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Manage to SLA metrics for production data sets, including availability and data quality</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Champion data governance, security, privacy and retention policies to protect end users, customers and Lob.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Work with our Engineering leadership and other Engineering Managers to support and grow the culture of our engineering team.</li>
</ul> For this role, we’re looking for...<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">5+ years experience working in business intelligence, analytics, data engineering, or a similar role.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">2+ years of hands-on experience as an engineering manager (or team lead or technical lead looking to take on a more formal manager role).&nbsp;</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Proven track record of building and leading incredible data engineering teams.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">3+ years of experience designing, developing and operating live production systems using Spark, Python and Relational SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL).</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Empathy and effective communication skills: you can empathize and advocate for stakeholders such as analysts and product managers. You can explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Effective project management skills: track record of working together with product managers to bring projects from inception to completion.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience with modern batch &amp; real-time data processing technologies.</li>
</ul> Bonus points for...<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience with a modern public cloud-based data stack on AWS, Snowflake, or other modern data warehouse systems.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience with Airflow, dbt, or other modern workflow management systems.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience with developing data architectures to support ML and/or DS needs.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Being able to maintain and operate data infrastructure with IaC tooling such as Terraform.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Bringing something new: Built a cool tool? Open source contributions? We’d love to hear and learn about them.</li>
</ul> We’re not just building a platform to make the world programmable. <a href="https://lob.com/blog/lobs-culture-values">We’re also designing a great place to work.</a> About LobLob was built by technical co-founders with a vision to make the world programmable. We offer two flagship APIs (print &amp; mail and address verification) that enable companies to send postal mail as effortlessly as sending emails. Lob is venture-backed by the most reputable investors in tech, and we are rapidly growing our team to shape the future of our company and meet the demands of a quickly growing customer base and dynamic product offerings. We give our employees a lot of responsibility and ownership of their work. You will have fun at work while engaging in challenging projects with the best and brightest. Perks<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Health benefits for you and your dependent(s)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Healthcare Flexible Spending Accounts</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Unlimited vacation policy</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Commuter &amp; Parking benefits (includes monthly stipend)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Remote/distributed, in-office and work from home accommodations</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Wellness program (includes monthly stipend)</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Paid parental leave</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">401K</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Dog-friendly office</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Ground floor opportunity as an early member of the Lob team; you’ll directly shape the direction of our company</li>
</ul> Our Commitment to DiversityLob is an equal opportunity employer and<a href="https://lob.com/blog/power-diversity-starts-data"> values diversity</a> of<a href="https://lob.com/blog/a-commitment-to-diversity"> backgrounds and perspectives</a> to cultivate an environment of understanding to have a greater impact on our business and customers. We encourage under-represented groups to apply and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws, including the <a href="http://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/Document/FCO%20Art.%2049%20Official%20Notice%20to%20print%202017.pdf">San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance</a>.

**About the Role**

Lob is building a suite of APIs to simplify and automate enterprise workflows.
Our most popular product is our print and mail API that enables companies to
send physical mail as effortlessly as sending emails. This API helps
individuals and enterprise customers programmatically send physical mail at
scale.

  

Our second API focuses on address verification. Our long-term goal is to
provide the building blocks for developers to [automate the offline world
through APIs](https://lob.com/blog/vision-mission). We’re looking for great
problem-solvers to help us figure out how. We offer remote working
opportunities in CA, WA, OR, CO, TX, UT, MI, IL, PA, NY.

  

You can also work onsite at our San Francisco headquarters.

We’re building a team of not just strong problem-solvers but great
collaborators—engineers who are excited to teach and learn from each other,
share decisions and information freely, and work together on new problems that
no other companies have solved before.

  

As an early member of our Data team, you will help lay the foundation for a
trusted and performant data platform that enables the entire company to make
rapid data-driven decisions and ship scalable data-driven features. You will
work with stakeholders across the company such as Sales, Finance, Marketing,
Operations in addition to Product and Engineering.

  

The role includes significant autonomy towards defining problem spaces and a
mandate to build viable systems that are both internally- and externally-
facing. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to have a large
sense of ownership, grow extraordinarily in their career, and develop cross-
functional skills to maximize impact in a fast-moving startup.

 ****  

 **As an Engineering Manager for the Data Team, you’ll...**

  * Lead, manage, mentor and grow the data team as a hands-on technical leader. Help the team make key technical decisions, unblock the team, and guide the team on execution. We expect managers in this role to review and write code when needed.
  * Grow the Data team at Lob through recruiting and hiring new team members.
  * Collaborate closely with product and other stakeholders to translate business challenges into scalable data architecture, pipeline and warehousing solutions.
  * Evangelize high quality software engineering practices towards designing, developing and operating data infrastructure and business critical pipelines at scale.
  * Establish processes - project management, code management, data quality - to help the team operate efficiently.
  * Manage to SLA metrics for production data sets, including availability and data quality
  * Champion data governance, security, privacy and retention policies to protect end users, customers and Lob.
  * Work with our Engineering leadership and other Engineering Managers to support and grow the culture of our engineering team.

****  

**For this role, we’re looking for...**

  * 5+ years experience working in business intelligence, analytics, data engineering, or a similar role.
  * 2+ years of hands-on experience as an engineering manager (or team lead or technical lead looking to take on a more formal manager role). 
  * Proven track record of building and leading incredible data engineering teams.
  * 3+ years of experience designing, developing and operating live production systems using Spark, Python and Relational SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
  * Empathy and effective communication skills: you can empathize and advocate for stakeholders such as analysts and product managers. You can explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  * Effective project management skills: track record of working together with product managers to bring projects from inception to completion.
  * Experience with modern batch & real-time data processing technologies.

****  

**Bonus points for...**

  * Experience with a modern public cloud-based data stack on AWS, Snowflake, or other modern data warehouse systems.
  * Experience with Airflow, dbt, or other modern workflow management systems.
  * Experience with developing data architectures to support ML and/or DS needs.
  * Being able to maintain and operate data infrastructure with IaC tooling such as Terraform.
  * Bringing something new: Built a cool tool? Open source contributions? We’d love to hear and learn about them.

  

We’re not just building a platform to make the world programmable. [We’re also
designing a great place to work.](https://lob.com/blog/lobs-culture-values)

 ****  

 **About Lob**

Lob was built by technical co-founders with a vision to make the world
programmable. We offer two flagship APIs (print & mail and address
verification) that enable companies to send postal mail as effortlessly as
sending emails. Lob is venture-backed by the most reputable investors in tech,
and we are rapidly growing our team to shape the future of our company and
meet the demands of a quickly growing customer base and dynamic product
offerings.

  

We give our employees a lot of responsibility and ownership of their work. You
will have fun at work while engaging in challenging projects with the best and
brightest.

 ****  

 **Perks**

  * Health benefits for you and your dependent(s)
  * Healthcare Flexible Spending Accounts
  * Unlimited vacation policy
  * Commuter & Parking benefits (includes monthly stipend)
  * Remote/distributed, in-office and work from home accommodations
  * Wellness program (includes monthly stipend)
  * Paid parental leave
  * 401K
  * Dog-friendly office
  * Ground floor opportunity as an early member of the Lob team; you’ll directly shape the direction of our company

****  

**Our Commitment to Diversity**

Lob is an equal opportunity employer and[ values
diversity](https://lob.com/blog/power-diversity-starts-data) of[ backgrounds
and perspectives](https://lob.com/blog/a-commitment-to-diversity) to cultivate
an environment of understanding to have a greater impact on our business and
customers. We encourage under-represented groups to apply and do not
discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender,
sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or
criminal history in accordance with local, state, and/or federal laws,
including the [San Francisco’s Fair Chance
Ordinance](http://sfgov.org/olse/sites/default/files/Document/FCO%20Art.%2049%20Official%20Notice%20to%20print%202017.pdf).

