engineering manager for the data platform

Preply provides online learning experiences that connect learners with tutors. Its Data Platform team builds a trusted, scalable data foundation for analytics, machine learning, and product features, supporting learning products used worldwide.

• Lead and grow a high-performing data engineering team, fostering ownership, continuous improvement, and technical excellence
• Coach and develop engineers through regular feedback, mentorship, and career development, while building an inclusive, collaborative team environment
• Define and drive the long-term vision for the data foundation, including the Lakehouse, ingestion layers, data contracts, enrichment, and governance
• Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities with Analytics, ML Platform, Data Science, and Product teams
• Own execution and delivery, turning strategy into realistic plans while balancing platform investment and consuming teams’ needs
• Provide technical leadership across batch and streaming ingestion, data modeling, quality, and governance
• Establish SLOs, observability, and incident response for data pipelines
• Improve code quality, operational excellence, development processes, and technology
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to align priorities, data ownership, standards, and outcomes
• Own hiring quality, team composition, and the operating model, evolving team boundaries as needs change

• 8+ Years of software or data engineering experience, including 5+ years in engineering management and experience leading data or platform engineering teams
• Strong technical judgment and systems thinking
• Experience hiring, coaching, and retaining high-performing teams, including senior engineers
• Ability to partner with Analytics, Data Science, ML, and Product teams to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and drive measurable outcomes
• Clear communication and stakeholder leadership; ability to align teams, make decisions with incomplete information, and revisit assumptions
• Track record of driving team performance and measurable business-focused goals
• People-centric leadership, with empathy, transparency, accountability, and a commitment to psychological safety and helping engineers grow
• Будет плюсом: familiarity with Spark, Flink, Kafka, Debezium, Airflow, dbt, cloud platforms such as AWS/GCP, and modern DevOps practices; experience building data platforms for multiple teams in fast-growing companies; experience running a data platform as a product; experience with data governance, privacy, and compliance; familiarity with feature stores, ML data pipelines, GenAI/RAG data preparation, and Agentic AI

• Monthly allowance for lessons on Preply.com
• Learning & Development budget and time off for self-development
• Competitive financial package with equity, leave allowance, and health insurance
• Relocation package to join the Barcelona Hub
• Free mental health support platforms
• Access to Gympass-partnered wellness and gym centers throughout Spain