Remote PIM Platform Lead Engineer

Lakefusion; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (USA)

Job summary

Lakefusion is seeking a senior technical leader to drive the implementation of a PIM product atop an MDM platform. The role blends hands-on coding with architecture design, mentoring a distributed team, and guiding data modeling for taxonomy-driven attributes.

You will design schemas, build backend services in Python, and collaborate with an offshore team in India, delivering a scalable catalog system with complex hierarchies and provenance tracking.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software or data engineering with hands-on leadership.
• Deep data modeling for complex relational, hierarchical, and EAV-style structures.
• Experience managing large taxonomies, ontologies, or graph-backed data in production.
• Strong Python backend development experience with SQLAlchemy or similar ORM.
• Production SQL expertise with indexing, optimization, and transactional patterns.
• Familiarity with Databricks or Apache Spark and lakehouse integrations.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical architecture for the PIM product within the MDM core.
• Write production code daily for backend services and data pipelines.
• Set technical direction, review designs, and unblock engineers.
• Design data structures for large, nested taxonomies and governance systems.
• Mentor engineers, including offshore team members in India.
• Collaborate with product management to scope features for enterprise catalogs.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

Graph data structures

Leadership

Mentoring

Architecture design

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

SQLAlchemy

FastAPI

Node.js

Job description

Lakefusion is seeking a senior technical leader to drive the implementation of a PIM product atop an MDM platform. The role blends hands-on coding with architecture design, mentoring a distributed team, and guiding data modeling for taxonomy-driven attributes.

You will design schemas, build backend services in Python, and collaborate with an offshore team in India, delivering a scalable catalog system with complex hierarchies and provenance tracking.