Director of Engineering Platform

CircleUp is a data insights company that uses a unique combination of data aggregation and machine learning technology to discover and accelerate the growth of the world’s best businesses. We power every stage of private investing from sourcing and diligence to value creation. We are dedicated to bringing the data-driven investment decisions that have transformed public market investing to the private market, starting with consumer and retail. Ultimately, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs with the funding and support that they need to thrive.

Powered by Helio, CircleUp has deployed $1B+ capital to date, provides Helio as an application to external customers who want to invest in private companies, and has supported over 275 successful brands including LiquidIV, Halo Top, and Super Coffee. Helio is our comprehensive data and insights offering for consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry players, tracking 2M+ brands over time amounting to 700TB of data. 

Decision-making in the private markets has historically been opaque, reliant on personal networks, and heuristics-driven. Using Helio means we remove human heuristics and biases from the investment process. We aren’t reliant on personal networks to find great companies and are able to identify entrepreneurs and businesses who have traditionally been overlooked. CircleUp launched in 2012, and is backed by top investors including Canaan Partners, GV, Maveron, QED Investors, Rose Park Advisors, Temasek and Union Square Ventures. CircleUp has been named one of the Top 5 Most Disruptive Companies in Finance by CNBC, 50 Best FinTech Innovators by KPMG, Top 3 Most Innovative Companies within Data Science by Fast Company and America's Most Promising Companies by Forbes.

We are looking for senior engineers leaders who can help us scale a complex machine learning data pipeline and platform. We currently lean heavily on technologies like Python, Spark, scikit-learn, Hive, and Airflow. We are looking for excited software engineers who are comfortable working across the full stack and lifecycle of predictive data products.

Responsibilities

• Oversee development of our core data platform including ongoing innovation supporting multiple lines of business
• Manage software programs and projects across multiple teams and practice continuous improvement of practices for delivering those programs
• Build technical strategies that align with the broader technical vision and company strategy
• Hire and onboard engineers, build sustainable systems for professional growth and development
• Manage a team building reliable services for gathering, augmenting and making available data from a wide variety of sources
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to understand data needs
• Manage software engineering quality and testing in a fast-paced, agile software engineering environment
• Mentor engineering leaders and lead by example in demonstrating software engineering leadership best practices

Responsibilities

• Work experience as a director of engineering or similar senior engineering leadership position
• Hold a B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent degree
• 3+ years of proven working experience in engineering management leading teams building data and ML platforms
• Extensive experience with agile software development and diffusion of best practices across an organization
• Excellent software architecture skills and strong foundations in architectural patterns appropriate for data and ML oriented systems
• Experience managing engineering operations and MLOps
• Leadership development skills and experience building leadership teams
• Hands on experience building systems in object-oriented languages and functional languages
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with stakeholders in engineering, data science, and product

If you got to this point, we hope you’re feeling excited about the job description you just read! Even if you feel that you don't meet all of the requirements and qualifications, we still encourage you to apply. We’re eager to speak with those who share our passion to help entrepreneurs thrive - not just those who match every bullet point in our job descriptions.

CircleUp is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status (including registered domestic partnership status), sex and gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity and gender expression (including transgender individuals who are transitioning, have transitioned, or are perceived to be transitioning to the gender with which they identify), age, sexual orientation, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status and any other consideration protected by federal, state or local law. We encourage those who really want to make an impact to apply for our open positions.