Data Engineering Manager - Financial & Product Data Platform

Thumbtack; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Health insurance

Remote work stipend

Wellness programs

Job summary

Thumbtack's Data organization builds the foundations of our marketplace data, including event taxonomy, core entity models for requests, projects, pros, and customers, and the financial models used for reporting. You will lead a two-subteam data-engineering group, partner with Finance and Supply Acquisition, and own datasets that the rest of the company relies on.

You’ll drive reliability with dbt tests, CI, and anomaly detection.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building data or software systems in production.
• 2+ years managing engineers, or experience as a tech lead ready to step into first-line management.
• Experience owning datasets that other teams depend on, with testing, contracts, and versioning discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow mid-level and senior data engineers, and develop TLs who can own a domain end-to-end.
• Set the engineering standards for a team that’s still forming, including review, testing, and how the team decides what not to build.
• Lead as a technical manager with modeling and architecture decisions, not just routing tickets.
• Partner with Finance to ensure revenue models are auditable and resilient to upstream changes.

Skills

SQL

Dimensional modeling

Event modeling

Python

Code reviews

Communication

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Airflow

MetricFlow

Job description

Thumbtack's Data organization builds the foundations of our marketplace data, including event taxonomy, core entity models for requests, projects, pros, and customers, and the financial models used for reporting. You will lead a two-subteam data-engineering group, partner with Finance and Supply Acquisition, and own datasets that the rest of the company relies on.

You’ll drive reliability with dbt tests, CI, and anomaly detection.