Data Engineering Team Lead - Recommendations Platform

In this role, youll own the engineering backbone that enables our data engineers & data scientists to experiment, innovate, and deploy production-ready models, ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and future-proof.

What You'll Actually Do:

Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and collaboration.
Define and drive the teams technical roadmap, standards, and best practices for data modeling, performance, and reliability.
Design, build, and evolve scalable embedding pipelines and recommendation infrastructure, from algorithm tuning and training workflows to production deployment.
Manage and optimize vector db, ensuring efficient indexing strategies, search performance, and low-latency retrieval.
Lead the development of retrieval services leveraging Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN/KNN) techniques such as HNSW, IVF, and Product Quantization (PQ).
Ensure reliability, observability, and scalability across all real-time data systems powering our recommendation engine.
Collaborate with Data Science, Product, and Analytics to operationalize models, validate KPIs, and translate technical insights into actionable product improvements.