Tech Lead / Manager, Full Stack

1 Month ago • 7 Years + • Full Stack Development • $225,000 PA - $300,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

DataHub is seeking a Tech Lead / Manager, Full Stack to join their engineering team. This role involves leading technical architecture decisions for DataHub's user-facing products, ensuring scalability and reliability. Responsibilities include hands-on development across the full stack (Java/Spring Boot backend, React/TypeScript frontend, Python ingestion), maintaining high code quality, and performance optimization. Additionally, the role requires engineering management duties such as hiring, mentoring, conducting performance reviews, and fostering a collaborative culture. The Tech Lead will also work closely with Product Management, Customer Success, and Sales Engineering, and engage with the open-source community. The ideal candidate should have 7+ years of technical expertise in frontend (React, TypeScript), API design (RESTful, GraphQL), backend (Java, Spring Boot), and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), along with 3+ years of management experience.
Must have:
  • 7+ years frontend experience with React, TypeScript
  • Strong API design skills (RESTful, GraphQL)
  • Expert Java/Spring Boot backend development
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • 3+ years of engineering team management experience
  • Experience with hiring and mentoring engineers
  • Familiarity with modern data stack tools
Good to have:
  • Metadata management understanding
  • Open-source contributions
  • Startup experience
  • Enterprise sales support experience
  • Data engineering background
  • Computer Science degree
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity for everyone
  • Hybrid work
  • Location flexibility with coworking stipend
  • Comprehensive health coverage (99% medical, dental, vision for employees)
  • Flexible savings accounts (FSA)
  • Support for every path to parenthood (Carrot Fertility)
  • Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Job Details

DataHub 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.

Tech Lead / Manager, Full Stack, Bay Area Hybrid

The Challenge

As AI and data products become business-critical, enterprises face a metadata crisis:

  • No unified way to track the complex data supply chain feeding AI systems
  • Engineering teams struggling with data discovery, lineage, and governance
  • Organizations needing machine-scale metadata management, not just human-browsable catalogs

The Role

We're seeking an exceptional Tech Lead / Manager to join our engineering team and help scale DataHub's impact across thousands of enterprises worldwide. This role combines deep technical leadership with people management to drive product excellence, engineering culture, and team growth in our mission to make data reliable and discoverable.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

  • Architecture & Design: Lead technical architecture decisions for DataHub's user facing products, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability for enterprise deployments
  • Hands-on Development: Contribute directly to critical features across the full stack - Java/Spring Boot backend services, React/TypeScript frontend, and Python ingestion framework where appropriate
  • Code Quality: Establish and maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and documentation across multiple programming languages and frameworks
  • Performance Optimization: Establish performance metrics and optimization strategies for complex data visualizations and interactions

Engineering Management

  • Team Building & Culture: Hire, onboard, and mentor world-class engineers while fostering a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture that balances innovation with operational excellence
  • Performance & Career Development: Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and create individual development plans aligned with company goals to help engineers grow from mid-level to senior and staff levels
  • Process & Delivery: Implement engineering processes, workflows, and best practices while ensuring teams deliver high-quality features on time
  • Release & Quality Management: Oversee regular releases, comprehensive testing strategies, and incident response for both open-source DataHub and enterprise offerings

Cross-functional Collaboration

  • Product Partnership: Work closely with Product Management to translate business requirements into technical solutions and realistic delivery timelines
  • Go To Market Support: Collaborate with Customer Success and Sales Engineering teams to understand enterprise customer needs, address technical questions during pre and post sales cycles, and provide expertise for complex deployments
  • Community Engagement: Contribute to the open-source DataHub community through technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions

Required Qualifications

Technical Expertise (7+ years)

  • Frontend Development: Strong experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web development practices. Proven track record of building and scaling consumer-facing web applications that handle significant user traffic
  • API Design: Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and GraphQL services for complex data applications
  • Backend Development: Expert-level proficiency in Java and Spring Boot ecosystem, with experience building scalable microservices architectures
  • Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), containerization (Docker), and familiarity with orchestration (Kubernetes)

Management Experience (3+ years)

  • Team Leadership: Proven track record of managing and growing engineering teams of 5-15 engineers
  • Hiring: Experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring top engineering talent across multiple disciplines
  • Mentorship: Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and help them advance their careers
  • Process Management: Experience implementing engineering processes, agile methodologies, and development workflows

Data Domain Knowledge

  • Data Infrastructure: Familiarity with modern data stack tools and technologies (data warehouses, ETL/ELT tools, BI platforms)
  • Enterprise Software: Experience building and scaling enterprise software products with complex deployment requirements

Preferred Qualifications

  • Metadata Management: Understanding of data cataloging, metadata systems, data lineage, and data governance principles
  • Open Source Experience: Contributions to major open-source projects or experience building open-source communities
  • Startup Experience: Previous experience at high-growth startups, particularly in the data or developer tools space
  • Enterprise Sales Support: Experience working with enterprise customers and supporting complex technical sales cycles
  • Data Engineering Background: Hands-on experience as a data engineer or platform engineer in data-intensive environments
  • Academic Background: Computer Science degree or equivalent technical education

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!

Location and Compensation

Bay Area (hybrid, 3 days in Palo Alto office)

Salary Range: $225,000 to $300,000

Benefits and Perks

We invest in people so they can do their best work and enjoy doing it. Our benefits reflect the way we build: practical, thoughtful, and designed to support long-term growth.

Competitive compensation

We offer salaries that reflect your skills, experience, and the impact you make. You bring value—we make sure you're recognized for it.

Equity for everyone

Every team member receives an ownership stake in the company. When we grow, you grow with us.

Hybrid work

This is a hybrid role with the expectation that you will work from our Palo Alto office a minimum of three days per week.

Location flexibility

Home office, coworking space, or something in between? We support your ideal setup. You’ll receive a monthly coworking stipend to use whenever you need a change of pace or in-person collaboration time.

Comprehensive health coverage

Your well-being matters. We cover 99% of medical, dental, and vision premiums employees, and 65% for dependents.

Flexible savings accounts

We offer FSAs to help cover planned or unexpected healthcare costs. You can also opt into a Dependent Care FSA to support family needs.

Support for every path to parenthood

Through Carrot Fertility, we provide inclusive fertility benefits and family-forming support. All U.S. employees have access, regardless of age, gender identity, or family structure.

Time off that works for you

We trust you to take the time you need. Our unlimited PTO and sick leave policy is designed for flexibility, rest, and real life.

 

Why Join Us

DataHub is at a rare inflection point: we’ve achieved product-market fit, earned the trust of leading enterprises, and secured backing from top-tier investors like Bessemer Venture Partners and 8VC. The context platform market is expected to grow from $1B to $9B in the next five years—and we’re leading the way.

By joining our team, you’ll:

  • Tackle high-impact challenges at the heart of enterprise AI infrastructure
  • Ship production systems that power real-world use cases at global scale
  • Collaborate with a high-caliber team of builders who’ve scaled some of the most influential data tools in the world
  • Build the next generation of AI-native data systems, including conversational agents, intelligent classification, automated governance, and more

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!

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