Drive measurable growth with Kard’s commerce media network powered by predictive AI and first-party data to deliver personalized rewards that convert. Backed by Techstars.
About the role
As Software Engineering Manager, Data, you will lead a 12-person multidisciplinary team spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and data support. Together, these functions own the systems and workflows that move, model, analyze, and operationalize Kard’s data, while supporting both customer-facing product development and the day-to-day needs of our go-to-market teams.
What they're looking for
- Experience managing a technical team working across data engineering, analytics, data science, machine learning, or related software engineering disciplines
- The technical depth to assess system designs, review code and implementation approaches, and provide credible guidance to experienced engineers and data practitioners
- Working fluency across modern data platforms, data modeling, pipelines and orchestration, analytics systems, machine learning lifecycles, cloud infrastructure, and production software practices
- A record of improving technical platforms, automating manual processes, and creating systems that scale with the needs of the business
- Experience managing a team with a mix of foundational platform work, product development, stakeholder-driven requests, and operational responsibilities
- Strong judgment about when to build reusable capabilities, when to solve an immediate business need, and how to make those tradeoffs clear to stakeholders
More about this role
Kard is building commerce media infrastructure that connects financial institutions, financial-services platforms, and merchants through data and merchant-funded rewards. As our reach expands, we are building for a step-change in scale, and for opportunities ranging from more relevant rewards and marketer intelligence to new commerce and distribution models.
As Software Engineering Manager, Data, you will lead a 12-person multidisciplinary team spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, machine learning engineering, and data support. Together, these functions own the systems and workflows that move, model, analyze, and operationalize Kard’s data, while supporting both customer-facing product development and the day-to-day needs of our go-to-market teams.
Reporting to the Director of Data & Platform, you will have significant autonomy to shape the team, set technical direction, and determine how we invest across platform development, product integration, automation, and stakeholder support. This is a technical management role: you will not necessarily write production code every day, but you should be able to evaluate architecture, review code and technical...
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