About the role:

We, at ThoughtSpot, are looking for an Engineering Leader - Backend to lead and grow the team based out of Bangalore. Come join a team of world-class engineers in the Search Data team building ThoughtSpot’s relational search engine. This team is responsible for building ThoughtSpot’s natural language relational search engine, personalised data exploration engine, universal object search engine, AI powered ranking and relevance engine, distributed in-memory search indexing infrastructure and much more.

In this role, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible to manage a team that designs, builds and scales to help millions of business-people make smarter decisions.

What you'll do:

• Manage and mentor backend engineers to be more effective at their work and grow their careers.

• Drive the quality and stability of the product by getting hands-on as required with code, design and test plan reviews, and debugging distributed systems issues

• Build a culture of operational excellence with a focus on observability, performance, scalability, cloud cost and security.

• Architect, design, develop and operationalize high performance, scalable, resilient and secure systems.

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across product and engineering teams, to establish KPI for different services and own end-to-end delivery and lifecycle management

• Identify and help implement the most appropriate technologies, protocols and frameworks leading to efficient solutions

• Defining strategy and technical roadmap for continuously improving release and deployment velocity, scale, performance and reliability of ThoughtSpot services

• Provide technical leadership, and lead initiatives across global team

• Recruit, inspire, and build world-class teams. Develop and grow leaders to continue pushing the boundaries of engineering excellence and execution for on-time delivery of projects with top quality

• Help evolve a culture of selfless-excellence in which each person does the best work of their lives and amplifies everyone around.

Required skills/qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related fields, with 8+ years of experience in software development, 3+ years of of experience in leading teams

• Prior expertise in building SaaS platforms and applications

• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

• Experience in architecting secure, highly available, and performant systems

• Experience in one or more programming languages C++, Java, Python, Go.

• Brings in a high level of self-motivation to solve complex problems and challenges

• You have experience in hiring, managing, and growing teams

• You love building and leading exceptional teams in a fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful

• You are obsessed with customer-experience and uncompromising engineering standards

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.

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.

What makes ThoughtSpot a great place to work?

ThoughtSpot is the experience layer of the modern data stack, leading the industry with our AI-powered analytics and natural language search. We hire people with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives—this balance-for-the-better philosophy is key to our success. When paired with our culture of Selfless Excellence and our drive for continuous improvement (2% done), ThoughtSpot cultivates a respectful culture that pushes norms to create world-class products. If you’re excited by the opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the business and make your mark on a truly innovative company, we invite you to read more about our mission, and apply to the role that’s right for you.

ThoughtSpot for All

Building a diverse and inclusive team isn't just the right thing to do for our people, it's the right thing to do for our business. We know we can’t solve complex data problems with a single perspective. It takes many voices, experiences, and areas of expertise to deliver the innovative solutions our customers need. At ThoughtSpot, we continually celebrate the diverse communities that individuals cultivate to empower every Spotter to bring their whole authentic self to work. We’re committed to being real and continuously learning when it comes to equality, equity, and creating space for underrepresented groups to thrive. Research shows that in order to apply for a job, women feel they need to meet 100% of the criteria while men usually apply after meeting 60%. Regardless of how you identify, if you believe you can do the job and are a good match, we encourage you to apply.