Engineering Team Lead, Data Engineer

Canopy•Draper, UT

About The Position

Canopy is seeking an Engineering Team Lead to lead engineering efforts on its Embedded Analytics team. The role combines technical expertise, leadership, and a product-driven mindset. The lead will guide a cross-functional squad of Full Stack Application Engineers, Data Engineers, and QA Engineers building and evolving systems for customer-facing reporting and analytics. The position spans hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, and people development. The team is transforming embedded analytics toward AI-enabled business intelligence, with the goal of delivering high-performing, trustworthy, actionable reporting at greater scale and speed. The lead owns the squad’s product area and technology stack, partners with Product and Systems Architecture, and promotes quality, stability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional experience in software development and/or data engineering.
At least 2 years in a technical leadership or management capacity.
Deep understanding of SQL, data modeling, and analytics/reporting.
Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes.
Demonstrated success leading technical teams and mentoring engineers at varied seniority levels.
Experience with or strong enthusiasm for AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to bridge technical and non-technical audiences.
Strategic thinking and the ability to connect engineering priorities to product and business outcomes.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Deep understanding of microservice architecture, RESTful API design, distributed systems, and modern frontend frameworks.
Strong hands-on proficiency in one or more of Python, Java, Kotlin, and TypeScript/React, with the ability and willingness to learn and work across the stack.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop a cross-functional engineering and data team, fostering technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
Own end-to-end delivery for the squad’s product area, from product discovery and design validation through implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release monitoring.
Own the stack and collaborate with systems architects to design an effective data and analytics platform.
Write and review code, architect solutions, understand the codebase, make informed tradeoffs, and unblock the team.
Partner with Product to validate technical feasibility, challenge unrealistic scope, and advocate for quality and stability alongside new features.
Balance feature work with bugs, technical debt, performance, and reliability, and work with Product leadership to allocate engineering time to customer stability and performance needs.
Drive architectural decisions that balance innovation, scalability, and delivery speed.
Promote engineering best practices, including clean architecture, testing, monitoring, and performance optimization.
Help the team break down work, manage workflow, and enable design, engineering, and QA to operate in parallel.
Champion code quality through design reviews, code reviews, and robust CI/CD pipelines using Docker, GitHub Actions, and Kubernetes.
Define completion standards so work is tested, stable, monitored, and maintainable.
Coach engineers on career growth, system design, and collaboration, providing immediate and work-grounded feedback.
Drive adoption of AI and agentic coding tools within the squad, lead by example, partner with the Platform team on standards and guardrails, and help the team use AI effectively.
Build an inclusive, motivated team culture centered on transparency, ownership, and impact.
Collaborate with recruiting to attract and retain engineering talent.
Establish performance goals, track key metrics, and ensure operational excellence in delivery.

Benefits

Flexible paid time off, with employees encouraged to use it, plus 10 company holidays.
Medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus an HSA match.
401(k) match of 100% up to 3% of the employee’s contribution, with immediate eligibility and 100% vesting.
Access to Impact Suite and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Paid new parent leave and birthing parent leave.
Company-paid basic life and AD&D insurance, plus long- and short-term disability coverage.
Nectar peer-to-peer employee recognition program.
Company events, including monthly company-wide meetings and summer parties.
ERG committees focused on continuing education, community outreach, recruiting, onboarding, and more.
Fully stocked kitchen.