Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Own the architecture, scalability, and performance of the Liveboard platform, front-end, service layer, and query integration.
• Lead design reviews, drive engineering best practices, and ensure high-quality, maintainable code.
• Partner closely with Product to define the technical vision for Liveboard interactivity, performance optimizations, caching, personalization, and AI-driven insights.
• Guide the team through complex refactors and migrations (e.g., visualization library updates, Liveboard metadata changes, caching strategies).
• Drive observability, reliability, SLO/SLA definitions, and performance instrumentation for Liveboard usage patterns.
• Collaborate with AI/LLM teams to integrate intelligent insight generation, natural language interactions, and smart recommendations.

Execution & Delivery

• Lead a team of engineers in delivering capabilities across multiple releases with predictable, high-quality execution.
• Break down ambiguous feature requirements into technical plans, milestones, and deliverable workstreams.
• Improve iteration velocity through better tooling, CI/CD, testing automation, and standardization.
• Work closely with SRE to ensure smooth releases, on-call quality, incident analysis, and reliability improvements.

People Leadership

• Mentor, coach, and grow engineers; support career development through feedback, performance discussions, and empowerment.
• Create a high-performing engineering culture anchored on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders (Product, Design, QA, SRE, Customer Success) to align priorities and remove execution blockers.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2–4 years in a technical leadership/management role.
• Strong front-end engineering expertise: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, performance optimization, visualization frameworks.
• Solid backend/service fundamentals with experience in distributed systems, REST/GraphQL, caching, and performance patterns.
• Deep experience building complex data/analytics products or consumer-grade interactive UIs.
• Ability to lead architecture discussions, make technical decisions, and balance short-term vs. long-term trade-offs.
• Proven track record of mentoring engineers, driving execution, and leading teams through technical complexity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with analytics, BI, or data visualization products.
• Background integrating AI/LLM-based features or building intelligent UX workflows.
• Familiarity with Highcharts, D3, or custom charting libraries.
• Experience driving reliability, monitoring, and performance optimization in large-scale SaaS.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced product organization with cross-functional influence.

Hybrid Work at ThoughtSpot:

This office-assigned role is available as a hybrid position. Spotters assigned to an office are encouraged to experience the energy of their local office with an in-office requirement of at least three days per week. This approach balances the benefits of in-person collaboration and peer learning with the flexibility needed by individuals and teams.