Manager/Senior Manager

What you’ll do:

• Lead and mentor engineers across core data and AI teams, fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture with clear guidance and resources.
• Guide architectural and technical decisions, ensuring best practices in development, testing, and deployment while aligning platform strategy with business objectives.
• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of web applications using technologies like Python, Django, JavaScript/TypeScript, Vue.js, Postgres, and AWS.
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues, emphasizing quality and maintainability through comprehensive tests, documentation, and automation.
• Collaborate on system design for AI/ML services, working with data scientists to build scalable, data-driven products, drive AI-powered feature development, optimize data pipelines, and advance prompting strategies across LLMs.
• Lead data pipeline creation and optimization with data warehouses like Redshift and Snowflake to support AI services.
• Take ownership of team growth, contributing to interviewing, hiring, and onboarding.
• Allocate roughly 60% of the role to people management and 40% to hands-on coding and technical problem-solving.
• Establish development best practices, foster continuous improvement, prioritize projects for timely delivery, and ensure technical excellence through code reviews and tool implementation.
• Encourage innovation by nurturing ideas for advanced tech solutions that enhance the company’s competitive edge.
• [Required] Demonstrate experience with data pipelines and data warehouses, and guide their optimization.
• [Required] Show hands-on experience in AI/ML systems, including model design and deployment for actionable insights.

What you have:

• Proven track record of success in large enterprise SAAS Software, distributed systems, scalability, data pipelines and continuous development
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 6-10 years’ experience OR Master’s degree and 5-7 years’ experience
• 2+ years leading technical teams
• Senior level skill-set with core programming languages (Python, Java, C#, C/C++, etc.)
• Experience working with distributed systems, inter-service communication protocols, and APIs (e.g. REST, NSQ, etc.)
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL

Extras you bring to the table:

• Deploying into a public cloud service (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant services
• Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
• Experience with functional/acceptance testing

Why join Polly?

• We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates 
• We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms 
• Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility 
• Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders 
• Competitive salaries
• 100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance for full time employees
• Flexible vacation
• Hybrid environment; 3x weekly in an innovation hub in San Francisco or Dallas.