Engineering Manager - Remote
CARTO, Spain

CARTO leads the world of Location Intelligence (LI), empowering organizations to discover insights hidden in their location data and turn them into business impact. We use LI to accelerate innovation, find efficiencies and disrupt traditional business models. We are the leading geospatial platform where you can solve spatial problems with the best data and analysis.
With an exceptionally diverse team of almost 200 people spread across the US and Europe, CARTO (backed by Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, among others) is changing the way companies analyze location data - making it simple to do this straight out of modern, cloud data warehouses. Redefining its category, the company has grown rapidly in recent years providing a compelling alternative to legacy GIS software.

Why are we opening this position?
As the organization matures we believe now is the right moment to invest in a solid management foundation for our engineering team. Right now, the engineering team in Professional Services is composed of 30 engineers and we’re organized into 3 different teams: backend, frontend, and data, with 4 team leads and a Director of Engineering. To successfully expand our team, we need to hire an experienced Engineering Manager that helps us grow and be more efficient.
We’re looking for someone passionate about data analytics and, if possible, maps. This is a fast-changing market, and therefore we want someone with experience managing engineering teams with the right balance of research and development.
Site Planning is an example of a product created by our team in 2021-2022, using state-of-the-art algorithms in geo data science + curate data from premium providers + cutting edge technology on the frontend side (deck.gl + webgl), it allows a business user with no knowledge in geospatial to decide what’s the best place to open a new store. It has became one of the best-seller products from CARTO in 2022. Companies like Gap, Taco Bell, Goiko, Mars are using this product in production today for their decision making.
Since its inception, CARTO has been based on PostgreSQL. This worked well and many of our customers are still using this version of the platform. We saw some limitations with this architecture, and we evolved the CARTO product, adapting it to current market needs. In October 2021, we launched a new version of our platform that provides a fully cloud-native experience, extending the spatial capabilities of the leading data warehouse platforms: BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, and Redshift.
Some of our current challenges are solving problems like design high scalable platform to calculate optimized routes of pipelines over terabytes of spatial data and hundreds of constraints in seconds, predicting revenue for simulated stores in a whole country applying ML techniques, or process, aggregate and enrich billions of transactions across the globe to serve them in a real-time application.Our expectation with this new position is:

• To create a productive and high-quality engineering team developing world-class software.
• Someone that builds the next-generation geospatial apps running on top of the most popular data warehouses: BigQuery, Snowflake, DataBricks, Redshift, and Aurora.
• You will be working very closely with our Director of Engineering, helping the dev team to simplify our products and technology with a growth mindset.
• You will be involved in the definition of new features for the CARTO product roadmap. Listening to the needs of the engineering team, every quarter, you will plan which features our product should cover, and you will be in deep contact with the product team in order to discuss them (together with the product managers, tech leads, and CTO).
• Supervision of the development cycle for several products we develop for our customers. Supervise and help the technical/project management team accomplish each sprint’s goals.
• You will be involved in the suite of productized solutions. This team creates and maintains products created on top of CARTO platform for specific verticals: transport and logistics, site planning, and much more coming in 2022. We have a challenge here to boost our location intelligence platform to meet specific use cases in a cloud native approach. See an example: https://carto.com/solutions/site-selection
• Lead our development partners and customers on how to develop their products on top of CARTO
• Evaluation of new technologies for incorporation into our stack
• Recommend improvements to the development team, and pass them books, talks, and videos. Help them to learn and grow.
• Work on cutting-edge technology, building something unique in the geospatial world to bring full native capabilities for geospatial analytics to the top data warehouses. Push BigQuery,