Head of Engineering, Lightdash
£120-160k
+ 0.1% – 0.3% equity
More information about location
Agent BI platform for modern data teams
Open for applications
Agent BI platform for modern data teams
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£120-160k
+ 0.1% – 0.3% equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To use AI to build and manage analytics so teams can focus on strategy while the business gets trusted, self-serve insights.
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 analyze their data by proposing relevant tests and thresholds to track, allowing users to customize queries by adding their own metrics. The platform currently supports most major data warehouses including Snowflake and BigQuery, with planms 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 visualize the results on a customised dashboard that requires no coding skills.
Crucially, Lightdash is open-source. That means it prioritizes integrations by default unlike Looker which, being owned by Google, has resulted in decreased interoperability with systems outside of GCP. On top of this, the company secured Series A funding in 2024, which is being 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 HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Hamzah Chaudhary
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Lightdash in 2021, Hamzah was a Faculty Advisor at Founders Academy. They also spent 3 years at Cytora as a Data Engineer, Product Manager and Director of Product Management.
Oliver Laslett
(Co-Founder & CTO)Oliver previously worked at Stack More Layers as a Machine Learning Engineer. Prior to that, they spent nearly 4 years at Cytora as a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Scientist.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lightdash
- We're lucky to have access to a large network of people in tech. We provide underrepresented employees with the resources and intros they need to connect with external mentors in their group to provide support and promote growth
- Being remote-first gives us the opportunity to "let folks have a life outside of work". We want that, and we understand that for certain groups of people, it's a requirement to be able to work from somewhere that isn't an office and have more flexible working hours.
- We ask ourselves regularly if we're doing enough in hiring a diverse team. Then, we ask ourselves if we're doing enough to promote diversity once someone is part of the team. We talk openly about what we're doing to promote diversity. We want our team to be able to question our efforts and talk about what we can do to improve.
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