Platform Team Lead (Data Platform)

Datarails is a financial planning and analysis platform that automates financial reporting and planning while enabling finance teams to continue using Excels familiar spreadsheets and financial models.

Datarails applications run thousands of custom data pipelines daily and serve thousands of organizations worldwide.

Were looking for an experienced Platform Team Lead to drive the evolution of our Data Platform the backbone that powers analytics automation and scalability across our rapidly growing fintech ecosystem.

Youll lead a talented team of up to five developers guide architectural decisions and help shape the technical direction as we move from a monolithic setup toward a modern service-oriented platform

Our technology teams are the driving force of our business.

Our tech teams maintain a dynamic start-up atmosphere that fosters innovation and critical thinking. At Datarails youll collaborate with a diverse global team of engineers developers architects customer success and product manager leaders collectively shaping the future of our premier product suite and transforming financial planning and analysis for the future.

• Lead and mentor a team of data platform engineers fostering collaboration ownership and technical excellence.
• Drive the evolution of our platform from monolithic components to scalable service-based architecture.
• Design build and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes that enable reliable and high-quality data flows across the company.
• Collaborate closely with Product Architecture and DevOps teams to design and deliver reliable high-performance systems.
• Oversee the development of new features and platform capabilities ensuring code quality maintainability and on-time delivery.
• Guide the migration from Celery-based workflows to Temporal improving reliability and orchestration of data flows.
• Take part in shaping best practices around CI/CD monitoring and cloud-native development (Kubernetes).
• Encourage innovation and continuous improvement within the team.

• We offer a supportive agile and creative work environment with brilliant colleagues!
• Competitive compensation ongoing recognition and most of all a chance to learn contribute and develop your skills.
• Be part of a leading fintech startup solving complex technical challenges that directly impact thousands of users.
• Lead a small high-impact team with the autonomy to shape architecture and influence strategic direction.
• Work on cutting-edge technologies (Celery Temporal microservices data pipelines analytical databases).
• Collaborate with passionate engineers in a culture that values innovation curiosity and getting things done.
• Opportunity to join an explosive industry a successful and growing organization and an unmatched leadership team that is passionate about their employees!
• Most of all we will give you fun enthusiasm support a passion for healthy living and never a dull moment!

Requirements:

• 7 years of experience in software development with a strong background in Python.
• 3 years in a leadership or management role mentoring engineers and driving team success.
• Hands-on experience with Celery and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Temporal (advantage) or other workflow orchestrators.
• Proven experience building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Solid understanding of data platforms and database technologies including analytical databases column-based storage/indexing and how they differ from traditional relational databases (OLTP).
• Strong understanding of FastAPI Django and data access patterns.
• Experience designing scalable systems and working on refactoring monolithic architectures.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines not necessarily deep expertise but enough to collaborate effectively with DevOps.
• Excellent communication leadership and problem-solving skills.