Software Engineering Manager (Data)

DailyPay; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Belfast is seeking a highly experienced Software Engineering Manager (Data) to oversee a team of Data Engineers. This role includes managing transitions to micro-services architecture and delivering high-quality technical solutions. The ideal candidate should have strong leadership experience, excellent communication skills, and a passion for continuous improvement and innovation. Competitive benefits offered, including equity ownership and private health insurance.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Opportunity for equity ownership

Private health insurance option

Generous PTO Allowance

5% Pension contribution

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in software development.
• 3+ years experience in managing and coaching teams.
• Ability to tackle technical difficulties effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coach the Engineering team to foster professional growth.
• Identify future personnel needs and collaborate on recruitment.
• Encourage innovation and continuous improvement within the team.

Skills

Building highly-scalable applications

Managing Engineering teams

Agile methodologies

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Kafka

Snowflake

Fivetran

Job description

About Us

DailyPay is transforming the way people get paid. As a worktech company and the industry’s leading on demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace. DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States as well as in Belfast. For more information, visit DailyPay's Press Center.

The Role

DailyPay is looking for a Software Engineering Manager (Data) to join our growing Engineering Team!

As a Software Engineering Manager in the data space, you will manage a distributed team of Data Engineers and MLOPs Engineers, while partnering closely with colleagues across Data, Engineering, and Product to help deliver the modernization of our data offerings and a scalable data ecosystem.

This includes overseeing your team’s support of our transition from a monolithic to a micro-services architecture, while optimizing affected pipelines to ensure robustness and overseeing the creation of new, high-value datasets that empower business users through data-driven insights.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Managing a team; coaching and assisting them with their career development.

• Identifying opportunities for team member’s professional development and collaborate with the right partners to make it happen.

• Anticipating future people requirements and working with the People & Talent to recruit, evaluate, and hire great new team members.

• Encourage innovation and foster an environment of continuous improvement.

• Providing performance feedback and complete performance evaluations for the team.

• Providing informal performance feedback on a frequent basis, recognizing achievement and flagging opportunities for growth.

• Providing advice and assistance to teams on technical difficulties that arise in the course of doing their work.

• Staying current in the development tools and technologies used at DailyPay.

• Use your technical experience to identify and mitigate risk such as scalability, performance, security, compliance and operational readiness.

What You Bring to The Team

• 8+ years experience building/supporting highly-scalable modern applications and services.

• 3+ years experience managing, coaching, and motivating Engineering teams.

• Experience in driving, executing, and delivering high-quality technical solutions.

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with the proven ability to communicate effectively at all levels.

• Experience delivering software using Agile (Kanban) methodologies.

• Experience recruiting, hiring and developing software engineers at all levels.

If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the qualifications.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building applications and/or cloud services in the fintech space.

• Experience using multiple agile software development approaches such as Kanban, Lean, Spiral, Scrum, etc.

• Experience in CI/CD environment and familiarity with cloud platforms and container orchestration.

• Experience with building, optimizing, and maintaining production-grade data pipelines using technologies like Kafka, Fivetran, or similar ETL/ELT tools.

• Understanding of data modeling techniques and hands-on experience implementing them in a cloud data warehouse.

• Familiarity with data governance, security best practices, and cost optimization in a cloud data warehouse like Snowflake.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation

• Opportunity for equity ownership

• Private health insurance option

• Employee Resource Groups

• Fun company outings and events

• Generous PTO Allowance

• 5% Pension contribution

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