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Software Engineering Manager (100% Remote)

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We're looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives on leading high-performing teams while staying close to the technical action. The successful candidate will have been a software engineer and has grown into a technical leader, will have product sensibility and likes to organize teams to get the job done. This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking, where you'll guide your team's technology decisions while representing their needs across the organization.

The Data Platform tribe includes three teams, with 4-5 people each. This tribe ensures Crunch reliably imports customer survey data via file uploads, streaming, and third-party API providers. They also build tools for data processing teams to clean and transform data in Crunch, and they develop our internal analytics engine to deliver interactive-speed analysis for customers.

• Manage and lead distributed teams across North America and Europe. Work with the technical leads to assign work, track completion, and equip the team with clear specs, direction, and resources.
• Provide technical expertise, lead technical discovery and trade-off analysis, and set engineering standards and best practices.
• Partner with product, sales, and customer success to define vision and write requirements. Work with the technical leads to turn requirements into a concrete technical design.
• Prioritize projects and developer capacity to meet company goals. Break work into epics and tickets, manage dependencies and critical paths, and set realistic timelines.
• Report status and development KPIs to leaders and stakeholders. Drive performance reviews, hiring, onboarding, training, mentoring, and career development.

• At least 5 years of experience as an individual contributor shipping quality software, and at least 4 years of project / team management in a software organization.
• Strong track record with 2-3 projects led to completion; ability to align technical work with product goals and deliver with a solid plan.
• Engineer / builder mindset; able to contribute code occasionally, run experiments, and create proofs of concept.
• Generalist who can participate in discussions across topics: CI / CD, container orchestration, product management, database selection, API performance, hiring processes, sprint planning.
• Ownership of teams and subsystems with empowerment and accountability.
• Strong communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentored others and demonstrated impact on their careers.
• Technical proficiency with Python, Flask / FastAPI, MongoDB, Apache Iceberg / Parquet, Kubernetes, AWS Glue / Athena, CircleCI.

• Knowledge of data models and databases; familiarity with key texts such as Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

Why join YouGov? Our global team helps make millions of people’s opinions heard for local, national, and international communities. We value diversity of background and perspectives. Life at YouGov focuses on fast, fearless, innovative work guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We strive to provide benefits for physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing and support a sense of belonging in a distributed, inclusive environment.

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