Point Wild helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo, Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst, Point Wild is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future.
Join us for the ride!
About the Role:
Point Wild is building Lat 61, a platform that ingests, normalizes, and enriches diverse data sources to power AI agents, analytics, and decision-making systems. As Engineering Manager, you will guide the engineering team responsible for building and scaling Lat 61, ensuring that the platform is robust, performant, and ready to support the next generation of intelligent applications.
You will shape engineering practices, grow and mentor a high-performing team, and drive delivery of core platform features. From scalable ingestion pipelines and resilient APIs to data enrichment services and integration layers, your work will ensure Lat 61 remains a reliable foundation for both customer solutions and internal innovation.
Day to Day:
- Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and technical excellence.
- Engineering Delivery: Translate product priorities into execution plans, ensuring the team delivers high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code on time.
- Platform Development: Oversee the design and build of core Lat 61 components, including data pipelines, APIs, and enrichment workflows.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Data, and AI leaders to align technical direction with business needs, ensuring seamless integration across the platform.
- Technical Practices: Establish and enforce best practices around code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native operations.
- Scalability & Reliability: Ensure the platform can handle diverse data sources, high-throughput ingestion, and mission-critical workloads.
- Innovation & Growth: Stay ahead of emerging technologies and frameworks, bringing modern tools and approaches into the engineering team.
What you bring to the table:
- 5+ years experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead leading front-end and back-end engineering teams that deliver production-grade systems at scale.
- Engineering or Management experience in a B2B SaaS organization.
- Experience working on 0-1 products.
- Strong background in software engineering and cloud-native architectures (AWS).
- Hands-on experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., APIs, microservices, distributed data systems, containerization).
- Experience mentoring and growing engineering teams; comfortable setting technical direction and ensuring accountability.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align engineering execution to product strategy.
- Business-oriented mindset: able to prioritize engineering work that creates measurable impact.
Bonus Points:
- Engineering management experience in an AI or Cybersecurity product organization.
- Expertise in data pipelines, streaming, or large-scale data processing is a strong plus.
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As part of Point Wild, you will:
Solve real customer problems. Point Wild’s point solutions allow consumers to address their immediate cyber protection needs. Our mandate is to continuously anticipate our customers’ evolving digital security needs to create best-in-class solutions aimed at keeping them safe.
See your impact. We are a scrappy, nimble organization where individual contributions are needed and valued. You will see your impact every day.
Accelerate your career. As we expand, you will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, products, and markets in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
Most importantly, you’ll get to work with other talented people at a company where people matter. If you want to put your fingerprint on an organization and leapfrog your growth, this is the place for you.
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories,” Point Wild is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Point Wild.
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