About the Role
Role details below.
Responsibilities
- Own the Scan domain technical direction: connector architecture, ingestion reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Contribute directly with hands-on development (you will code regularly).
- Lead design reviews and establish shared practices (quality, testing, observability, maintainability).
- Turn product needs into clear technical plans, align stakeholders, and deliver iteratively.
- Build and maintain connectors integrating with third-party REST APIs and platforms (OAuth2/API keys, pagination, rate limits, retries, webhooks when relevant).
- Design reliable ingestion flows: incremental sync, idempotency, backfills, error recovery, reconciliation, and safe schema evolution.
- Normalize and map external data models into DataGalaxy’s internal model with good data quality and consistency.
- Maintain our desktop application written in Kotlin used for connector development/operations (configuration, debugging, validation workflows, diagnostics).
- Improve developer and operator experience: packaging, configuration, troubleshooting, and usability.
- Apply and promote testing practices (unit/integration; contract tests where relevant).
- Improve observability (logs/metrics/traces), monitor connector health, and lead investigations for production issues.
- Manage technical debt: refactoring, dependency upgrades, CI/CD improvements.
- Support the team’s growth through mentoring, pairing/mob sessions, and constructive feedback.
- Lead PR reviews and help the team make sound trade-offs.
- Coordinate with other squads when changes touch .NET services or Angular UI.
Requirements
- Solid technical foundations
- Strong delivery mindset
- Hands-on coding experience
- Ability to lead design reviews and establish shared technical practices
- Experience building and maintaining connectors to third-party REST APIs and platforms
- Understanding of authentication methods such as OAuth2 and API keys
- Experience handling API pagination, rate limits, retries, and webhooks
- Ability to design reliable ingestion flows including incremental sync, idempotency, backfills, error recovery, reconciliation, and safe schema evolution
- Experience normalizing and mapping external data models into internal models with data quality and consistency
- Proficiency in Kotlin (for maintaining and improving the desktop tooling)
- Experience with testing practices including unit, integration, and contract testing
- Experience with observability (logs, metrics, traces)
- Ability to monitor system health and lead production issue investigations
- Experience managing technical debt through refactoring, dependency upgrades, and CI/CD improvements
- Mentoring experience or ability to support team growth through pairing and feedback
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Reliability and ownership mindset
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams
Nice to Have
- Experience with desktop application development in Kotlin
- Familiarity with .NET services
- Familiarity with Angular UI
Team
Structure: The role leads the Scan Team, responsible for the connectivity and ingestion layer of DataGalaxy. The team works on connectors and ingestion engineering, with coordination required across squads involving .NET services and Angular UI.
Additional Information
- This is a lead-in-the-making role: not a Staff Engineer role, but for someone ready to grow into technical ownership and mentoring while staying hands-on.
- People management is limited, but leadership, communication, and reliability are essential.
- The role is remote and based in France.
- The company is committed to driving data culture and literacy by helping organizations deliver metadata to the agents and value to the people.
