DataHub, built by Acryl Data, is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises, including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility.
The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance, enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos.
Role Overview
We're seeking a seasoned Full-Stack Engineering Lead to architect and drive the development of our high-performance, consumer-grade data platform. In this role, you'll lead the technical direction of our user-facing products, focusing on building scalable, responsive applications that handle complex data visualizations and interactions for data discovery, data quality, and data governance. You'll work at the intersection of technical excellence and user experience, ensuring our platform maintains sub-second response times while processing large datasets.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and lead the development of high-performance web applications with a focus on scalability and user experience
- Mentor and guide a team of engineers, fostering best practices in code quality, testing, and performance optimization
- Drive technical decisions and architecture choices that enable rapid product iteration while maintaining system reliability
- Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to deliver seamless user experiences
- Establish performance metrics and optimization strategies for complex data visualizations and interactions
- Lead code reviews and technical discussions to ensure high-quality implementation
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role
- Proven track record of building and scaling consumer-facing web applications that handle significant user traffic
- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, a JS testing framework (cypress, enzyme, react-testing), and modern frontend architecture patterns
- Strong experience with performance optimization, including code splitting, lazy loading, and state management
- Expertise in GraphQL and frameworks like Apollo, with experience optimizing query performance and caching strategies
- Experience with real-time data visualization and complex UI interactions
- Strong background in building and maintaining microservices architecture
- Track record of leading architectural decisions and technical initiatives
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence within teams
- Familiarity with tools in the modern data and ML ecosystem
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with DataHub is a huge plus!
- Previous experience at an early stage startup
- Knowledge of data governance and security best practices
- Track record of implementing data quality frameworks
- Contributing to open-source projects
If you're passionate about technology, enjoy working with customers, and want to be part of a fast-growing company changing the industry, we want to hear from you!
This position is open to candidates in all time zones of the United States and can be done remotely.
Remote first. We're a fully distributed company, and our interaction culture is deliberately mixed between meeting culture and written. We're writing heavy because it forces clarity of thought; we have plenty of synchronous time to give space for collaborative ideation.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (99% coverage for employees, 65% coverage for dependents; USA-based employees)
- Carrot Fertility Program (USA-based employees)
- Remote friendly
- Work from home and monthly co-working space budget
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