# Engineering Manager, Data Platform at Parafin

- Company: Parafin
- What the company does: Parafin partners with platforms to deliver seamless, flexible access to financing, giving small businesses the capital they need to grow with confidence. Backed by Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.parafin.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $290K to $330K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/parafin/98c6dc98-22a1-497f-a888-ade3a4d507f0
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/parafin-engineering-manager-data-platform/

## About the role

Manage and grow a team of 5-6 engineers spanning Data storage and schema, Feature Store/ML Platform, and Underwriting Platform, including hiring, mentorship, and career development. Set and drive execution and technical strategy for the team's three areas: warehouse/data infrastructure (Databricks, Airflow, dbt), the feature store and ML dev lifecycle (feature materialization, training, batch/real-time inference, model registry), and underwriting pipelines

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership or engineering management role, ideally in data infrastructure, ML platform, or a similar backend/data domain
- Ability to stay close to the team’s execution, review/discuss technical designs and trade-offs
- Strong understanding of modern data/lakehouse stacks: Spark/PySpark, Databricks, Airflow, and cloud infra (AWS)
- Experience with ML infrastructure concepts: feature stores, model training/serving pipelines, model registries, batch and real-time inference
- Track record of managing engineers with empathy, giving direct feedback, and building a healthy, high-ownership team culture
- Experience building strong teams by hiring to a high technical bar and actively growing engineers' careers

Tags: Engineering