Engineering Manager, Upside
Data Engineering
$185-215k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Mobile reward application for retail spending
Be an early applicant
Mobile reward application for retail spending
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-215k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance the economic power of people living and working in the real world.
Role
Who you are
- Create a safe, collaborative team environment. You name problems and invite open discussion, which motivates your team to do their best work
- Operate with a first-team mindset. You lean in when important areas need help, regardless of whether it's “your” domain, and prioritize the success of the whole organization
- Raise the bar. You identify and influence improvements in quality, performance, speed of execution, and engineering standards
- Grow talent. You coach your engineers, recognize their achievements, and help them develop skills that will benefit them and Upside for years to come
- Set clarity and empower autonomy. You ensure expectations and direction are clearly articulated so that individuals and teams can operate with independence, confidence, and creativity
- You aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo when it makes the team and business better. You learn from those around you while utilizing data to advocate for informed change
- You thrive at the intersection of systems and storytelling, not only building robust solutions but also communicating their purpose, impact and rationale, so teams can experiment, iterate, and act confidently
- You care about building resilient systems that scale. You bring a mindset of continuous improvement, and know when to invest in observability, automation, or new infrastructure to reduce toil and improve outcomes for the team and end users
- You believe that pulling quality upstream starts with engineering. You champion best practices, encourage early testing and validation, and work closely with peers to build a culture of quality from the ground up
- Have 3+ years of experience managing data, analytics, or ML engineering teams, and at least 3+ years of hands-on experience as an individual contributor building data products, pipelines, or ML systems
- Are proficient with modern data platforms and tooling, including Snowflake, dbt, and Dagster, and are fluent in core concepts like modeling, orchestration, and data transformation
- Have hands-on experience or deep familiarity with MLOps practices, such as model versioning, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and reproducibility
- Thrive in environments where you’re asked to scale teams, elevate systems, and bring clarity to ambiguity
- Are comfortable designing and reviewing solutions in AWS environments, and make thoughtful tradeoffs to balance performance, cost, and maintainability
- Are eager to integrate generative AI tools into development workflows to accelerate delivery and improve the developer experience
- Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical audiences, and can advocate effectively for platform investments that support long-term business value
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Data Engineering team, the owners of Upside’s core data platform
- This team provides the ingestion, modeling, orchestration, and tooling capabilities that power analytics and data-driven decisions across the company
- You’ll combine technical acumen with people-first leadership to scale our platform, foster engineering growth, and drive data accessibility and trust across internal teams
- This role will also help close a strategic gap in our technical organization by guiding the evolution of MLOps practices to support the development, deployment, and monitoring of machine learning models used in personalization and optimization features
- Co-Create and drive the vision and roadmap for Upside’s data platform, shaping the strategy for data across Upside in alignment with company goals
- Ensure our data stack, which includes Snowflake, dbt, and Dagster, enables scalable, self-service, and trustworthy workflows for reporting, analytics, and experimentation
- Drive strategic data platform initiatives that improve reproducibility, reliability, and analytics enablement—such as modernizing legacy infrastructure, implementing tools like Snowflake Semantic Views and Cortex, and transforming 3rd-party data into trusted, production-ready assets
- Define and track key platform health metrics, including pipeline reliability, SLA adherence, cost-efficiency, and model deployment readiness
- Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and GTM stakeholders to ensure the data platform supports current and emerging business needs
- Represent Analytics Engineering in company-wide planning forums, technical councils, and cross-functional working groups
Our take
Loyalty systems, vouchers, and other special offers have a proven track record at winning over new customers for businesses. However, customers can be reluctant to sign up due to the sheer number of these schemes. Upside exists to unify these loyalty schemes with a single flexible reward app.
While retail reward platforms are nothing new, Upside functions more like a marketplace, linking participating businesses to potential customers. It also rewards customers with cash back on eligible purchases, a more flexible reward than is traditional in loyalty schemes.
With over 50,000 businesses enrolled and 30 million app users, Upside has grown into a major player in this sector. The company is well-funded and ever-expanding its offering, with a product that is increasingly appreciated by consumers in an expensive world, as well as the businesses who depend on their custom.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2022
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $65m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness - We’re happy to provide our team members with generous health, vision, and dental insurance options
- Lunch - We cover the cost of lunch everyday for team members onsite to enhance our team building and encourage collaboration. Plus local restaurants appreciate it!
- Stock Options - Our team’s success is our company’s success, and we should all have a stake in that. We’re glad to offer our team members valuable stock options
- Unlimited PTO - Yes, you read that right. When you need time off, we’ve got you covered
Company HQ
Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
Leadership
Alex Kinnier
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Group Product Manager for Google from 2005 to 2008. Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering for Opower from 2012 to 2015.
Wayne Lin
(CPO & Co-Founder)Experience as Product Manager for Google from 2005 to 2010. Vice President of Product Management & Analytics for Opower from 2010 to 2015.
Rick McPhee
(Co-Founder)Experience as Vice President of Engineering for HP's Fortify Software from 2008 to 2012. Senior Vice President of Engineering for Opower from 2012 to 2015.
Joanna Kochaniak
(Engineer & Co-Founder)Experience as Programmer Analyst for the Institute for Physical Sciences from 2007 to 2010. Lead Software Engineer for Opower from 2010 to 2015.
Jan Rubio
(Designer & Co-Founder)Experience as Research Assistant for George Washington University from 2009 to 2011. Senior Software Engineer for Opower from 2011 to 2016.
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