Engineering Manager, Product Catalog

Job title: Engineering Manager, Product Catalog
Location: US-Remote  #LI-Remote
Reports to: VP, Engineering 

About the role
We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead our Product Catalog efforts. The Product Catalog services is the backbone of LTK’s Creator-Driven Shopping App. This service will contain millions of items, powering scenarios such as semantic similarity, personalization, exact matching, and interest based search, ranking, and similar product scenarios.  A key challenge in this service is the scale as we expose posts and products to shoppers. We're looking for a skilled Engineering Manager with a passion for building seamless and intuitive catalog experiences. As a key member of our team, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our backend services and working with the front end teams to design the right experience for our customers. Your expertise will help us deliver high-quality, user-friendly services and apps that meet the evolving needs of our users. This highly visible position will have you working closely with the VP of engineering and other departments to ensure the success of LTK. 

How you will make an impact

• Lead the building and scaling of a Product Catalog Service.
• Bring a strong command of Golang, Python, Vector Databases, and AI technologies.
• Have expertise in designing and building complex systems, architecture, and solutions. 
• Provide inputs on engineering and operational excellence and help complete critical engineering projects on time, within budget, and at high quality.
• Identify and evaluate new technologies and tools to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering team.
• Innovation: Demonstrate your ability to solve complex technical challenges, provide innovative solutions, and influence technical direction.
• Excellence: Create and maintain technical documentation, including architectural diagrams, design documents, and project plans.
• System Design: Design, develop and deploy software solutions that meet the needs of the business.
• Problem Ownership: Willingness to take ownership of complex issues, drive problem resolution, and act as a technical leader in crises.
• Build a first-class engineering team that will scale as the company and business grows, identifying and filling any organizational gaps.
• Builds and/or sources methodologies, processes, tools to implement consistent, automated testing
• Provides coaching and oversight to other engineers to ensure productivity and quality
• Acts as a mentor to less-experienced team members

What you will bring to LTK
Leadership:

• 4+ years in leadership roles with a proven and consistent history of leading engineers
• Leadership: Proven leadership skills, including mentoring and guiding engineers, leading technical initiatives, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Project Management: Ability to lead projects from conception to completion and manage timelines, resources, and priorities effectively.
• Continuous Learning: A commitment to staying up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and methodologies and a passion for sharing knowledge with peers.
• Mentor and coach teams within the department.

Work Management/Communication:

• Highly developed negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills to mediate priority conflicts in an effective and collaborative manner
• Must work well under pressure, be sensitive to deadlines, be able to interact in a team environment, be able to adapt quickly to change, and possess good customer service skills.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including other technical  leaders and teams
• Communication: Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical concepts, collaborate with non-technical stakeholders, and guide technical decisions.
• Influence: Ability to influence technical decisions across teams and mentor others in technical skills and practices.
• A mindset focused on seizing opportunities and moving with urgency.
• Dedication to fierce prioritization and operational excellence.
• Adaptability to a dynamic, fast-moving environment.
• A growth mindset and openness to feedback.

Technical Skills:

• ​​Experience: more than 7 years demonstrating a deep understanding of distributed systems and software development principles, architecture, and best practices.
• Degree: A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is preferred, although relevant work experience can sometimes compensate for formal education.
• Design, develop, and deploy software solutions that meet the needs of the business.
• Ensure that the engineering team adheres to coding standards, best practices, and compliance requirements.
• Have some experience with AI technologies 

Nice to have: 

• Data Storage: Expertise in working with various data storage technologies, including relational databases, NoSQL databases and Vector databases.
• Data Processing: Strong understanding of data processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Beam, or Hadoop MapReduce. Experience in designing and optimizing data processing pipelines for performance and scalability is important.
• Streaming Data: Knowledge of stream processing frameworks like Apache Kafka or Apache Pulsar is valuable for handling real-time data streams.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and their big data services (e.g., Amazon EMR, Azure HDInsight, Google Cloud Dataproc).
• Containerization and Orchestration: Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes) for deploying and managing big data applications.
• Data Modeling and ETL: Understanding of data modeling concepts and experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes for transforming and moving data between systems.
• Optimization: Proficiency in optimizing big data applications for performance, throughput, and resource utilization.