Senior Director, Lead Software Engineering

About the Role

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies.

We’re looking for a Head of Engineering for a dashboard and data modeling interface. Must be an experience Sr leader, and also an operator proficient with modern tooling stacks and AI assistants. Will be responsible for organizing and implementing much of the work around a new highly integrated product offering and an open source repo.

You’ll also be responsible for ensuring the technical excellence of your team and owned services, by reviewing code, contributing to architectural designs, and mentoring your junior colleagues.

This is a full-time remote role.

Technologies You’ll Use

Python, Django, Javascript, Claude Code, MCPs, data warehouses, SQL, visualization libraries.

What You’ll Do

•  Manage small but world class all-star engineering team
• Own and implement many core product features
• Drive and execute deep integrations into existing products and platform
• Balance features, scope and speed

Skills We’re Looking For

•  Team leadership
• Architectural skill - able to see the simple and efficient paths
• AI coding tool proficiency and effectiveness
• Scope simplification

For example, our required AI competencies for Engineering:

• Understand how to use AI code assist and coding agents to automatically generate code for features, bugs, testing, and investigation
• Ability to use conversational AI systems (like Claude, ChatGPT, and internal chatbots) to support researching, authoring, reviewing, and synthesizing various SDLC artifacts such as TDDs, PRDs, Postmortems, Test Plans, and Proposals

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