About Craft:
Craft is the leader in supplier risk intelligence, enabling enterprises to discover, evaluate, and continuously monitor their suppliers at scale. Our unique, proprietary data platform tracks real-time signals on millions of companies globally, delivering best-in-class monitoring and insight into global supply chains. Our customers include Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, SMEs, and global service platforms. Through our configurable Software-as-a-Service portal, our customers can monitor any company they work with and execute critical actions in real-time.
We’ve developed distribution partnerships with some of the largest integrators and software platforms globally.We are a post-Series B high-growth technology company backed by top-tier investors in Silicon Valley and Europe, headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in Seattle, London, and Warsaw. We support remote and hybrid work, with team members across North America and Europe.We're looking for innovative and driven people passionate about building the future of Enterprise Intelligence to join our growing team!
About the Role:
Craft is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead one of our core engineering teams. This role focuses on leadership and people; we’re looking for someone who has experience with building process, scaling engineering teams, and leading teams within successful engineering organizations.You will be actively involved in technical design and architectural discussions. You must possess the depth to challenge engineering decisions, ask the hard questions, and guide your team toward better solutions.
Your ability to engage in these deep technical debates will be a primary tool you use to mentor your engineers and help them grow. This role is supported by an amazing product manager, where the two of you will partner to deliver on our mission, and together establish our data vision.This is a remote role, but we have a strong preference for individuals located in Warsaw, as we have a co-working space and several team members based in Warsaw.
What You'll Do:
- Define and execute the team’s technical strategy, holding full accountability for roadmaps, planning, and on-time delivery.
- Work closely with your Product Manager counterpart, defining and aligning on priority and execution
- Oversee end-to-end engineering projects, taking ownership from initial concept design through to final implementation.
- Build and nurture a high-performing, diverse, globally distributed engineering team through active hiring, empathetic mentoring, and career coaching.
- Serve as the primary technical bridge between Product Management, Engineering, and Business groups to align goals and deliverables.
- Provide strong architectural guidance and leadership to your direct reports and partner teams.
Who You Are:
- Have a proven successful track record of leading and empowering software development teams for data intensive SaaS products.
- 7+ years of software development experience, including at least three years leading engineering teams.
- You have a good understanding that partnering with the business to deliver real value is a key motivator for keeping your teams happy and healthy.
- You practice radical responsibility and accountability, with a positive attitude, and a strong emphasis of keeping your teams from getting blocked.
- Show curiosity through asking questions, digging into new technologies, and always trying to grow.
- Strong team player, great listener, able to facilitate discussion and assimilate diverse opinions towards clear decisions.
Our current technology stack:
- Applications: React, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, Apollo
- Cloud: AWS and Databricks
- Data Engineering & Backend: Python, SQL, Pandas, Pydantic, Apache Airflow, FastAPI
What We Offer:
- Option to work as a B2B contractor or full-time employee
- Competitive salary at a well-funded, fast-growing startup
- PTO days so you can take the time you need to refresh!
- Full-time employees: 20- 28 PTO days allotted (dependent on experience and seniority) + paid public holidays
- B2B contractors: 15 PTO days allotted + paid public holidays
- 100% remote work (or hybrid if you prefer, we have coworking place in center of Warsaw)
A Note to Candidates:
We are an equal opportunity employer who values and encourages diversity, equity and belonging at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, caste, or disability status.Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Craft, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply.
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