Head of Engineering, Lightdash
£120-160k
+ 0.1% – 0.3% equity
More information about location
Open source alternative to Looker
Open for applications
Open source alternative to Looker
1-20 employees
Open for applications
£120-160k
+ 0.1% – 0.3% equity
More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
Enabling everyone to answer their own data questions.
Role
Who you are
- We’re seeking an exceptional Engineering Manager to join our small and growing team
- You're a top-tier engineer with leadership experience who thrives in high-velocity startup environments
- You’ve built and scaled products, you bias towards action, and you’re excited about creating an environment where engineers can ship quickly and confidently
- A seasoned engineer who has already stepped into an EM role
- An ex-founder who built and shipped product to real users
- A startup tech lead who wants more ownership across team and architecture
- A pragmatic builder who prefers velocity over perfection
- Engineering leadership: You’ve led and coached engineers, helping them grow and move faster
- Deep technical expertise: You bring strong architecture instincts and solid security knowledge
- Startup DNA: You’ve built in early-stage environments where speed and ownership mattered most
- Velocity mindset: You thrive on iteration, delivering end-to-end value quickly and learning from feedback
- AI-first: You’re bullish on AI, and comfortable with vibe-coding (AI-assisted development)
- DevX focus: You know the impact of great developer experience and love creating best-in-class environments
- Execution focus: You spot and solve engineering problems early — monitoring, observability, performance are always on your radar
What the job involves
- This isn’t your typical EM role. We’re looking for a senior engineer who also knows how to lead
- You’ll coach and mentor our engineers, make architecture and security decisions, and help us build the fastest engineering team on the planet
- Mentor, coach, and unblock engineers — helping the team level up every day
- Drive architectural and security decisions that balance speed with long-term health
- Champion developer experience — build systems and workflows that keep us moving fast
- Own engineering velocity — set the standard for iteration speed and impact
- Take responsibility for application reliability and SLAs
- Collaborate across product and design to deliver rapid, end-to-end iterations
- Establish a culture where iteration > perfection, and shipping fast is celebrated
Our take
Lightdash was founded with the goal to help customers analyse their data by proposing relevant tests and thresholds to track, allowing users to customise queries by adding their own metrics. The platform currently supports most major data warehouses including Snowflake and BigQuery, with the plan to keep broadening coverage.
Founders Hamzah Chaudhary and Oliver Laslett’s background as data scientists and software engineers gives them a significant advantage when developing a tool that aims to simplify the day-to-day for these types of employees. Lightdash tests the quality of the data directly from the customer’s data warehouse and reports any potential issue, allowing the client to visualise the results on a customised dashboard that requires no coding skills.
Crucially, Lightdash is open-source. That means it prioritises integrations by default unlike Looker which, being owned by Google, has resulted in decreased interoperability with systems outside of GCP. Series A funding awarded in 2024 will be used to roll out its AI Analyst product available on its cloud.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$11m
SERIES A
Oct 2022
$6m
SEED
Total funding: $19.5m
Company benefits
- Salary - We're competitive with compensation!
- Equity - We provide meaningful equity to all team members so you own a part of the company
- Remote-first culture - We’re fully remote from anywhere +/- 3 hours from UK time. Choose to work from wherever you want, whenever you want.
- Team meetups - We organise regular team meetups around the world (We’re aiming to do at least 4 per year!). It’s a time for everyone to get to know each other, have those strategy sessions that just work better in person and bond as a team
- Time off - We have unlimited vacation days per year. But, at the minimum, we require that you take the standard number of vacation days + public holidays (28 days). We believe that taking breaks is important for our team to be the most effective!
- Set up - As well as a shiny new Macbook Pro, we'll cover any equipment you need and your work from home setup too. Prefer working in a co-working space? Sure thing!
- Learning and development - Personal development budget for whatever helps you be your best
Company values
- We build in public | Our community helps us build a better Lightdash
- We believe in autonomy | Only the best ideas win here.
- We are remote-first | Our culture is built around this.
- We love open source! | We believe it will play a massive part in the future of data tools.
- We bias towards impact | We’d rather build something to 80% and get it in front of users so we can iterate fast!
- We have incredible support | From our community to top investors & angels including Y Combinator.
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Hamzah Chaudhary
(CEO & Co-Founder)Software Engineer turned Product Manager. previously worked at Cytora as the director of Product Management. Also worked briefly at McKinsey and Deloitte.
Oliver Laslett
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously Data Scientist and Machine Learning Scientist at Cytora. PhD in computational physics
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