Engineering Manager

Impact Analytics (Series D Funded) delivers AI-native SaaS solutions and consulting services that help companies maximize profitability and customer satisfaction through deeper data insights and predictive analytics. With a fully integrated, end-to-end platform for planning, forecasting, merchandising, pricing, and promotions, Impact Analytics empowers companies to make smarter decisions based on real-time insights rather than relying on last years inputs to forecast and plan this years business. Powered by over one million machine learning models, Impact Analytics has been leading AI innovation for a decade, setting new benchmarks in forecasting, planning, and operational excellence across the retail, grocery,
manufacturing, and CPG sectors. In 2025, Impact Analytics is at the forefront of the Agentic AI revolution, delivering autonomous solutions that enable businesses to adapt in real time, optimize operations, and drive profitability without manual intervention.
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Impact Analytics builds AI-powered, Cloud-Native products and platforms. As we tackle increasingly complex backend challenges, we are looking for seasoned backend architects to collaborate with product and engineering teams in shaping the future of enterprise software.
Meet the Team: Rooted in AI and Engineering first principles, our cross-functional teams of ML and AI Engineers and Data Scientist thrive in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment. We emphasize collaboration, continuous learning, and high-impact delivery. Our backend teams specialize in modern frameworks, data platforms, infrastructure engineering, DevOps practices, and scalable service architectures. Top performers are recognized, valued, and supported with ample growth opportunities.
Role Overview: This is a senior-level, individual contributor role focused on hands-on technical leadership in backend architecture. The role is centered around three core areas:

• Drive complex backend architecture initiatives that span across multiple engineering and technology domains.
• Lead strategic R&D efforts to evaluate new backend technologies, frameworks, and methodologies, and champion their adoption company-wide.
• Spearhead our Multi-Cloud & Hybrid-Cloud backend strategies, ensuring scalable, secure, and resilient architecture patterns.
  

What Our Ideal Candidate May Look Like

• 14+ years of software development experience, with at least 4 years as an Architect or Staff Engineer role, particularly in backend systems.
• A backend technology expert with in-depth, hands-on experience in building and scaling enterprise SaaS with distributed architecture, In depth knowledge of Rest and Event driven architecture with low latency and high-throughput in memory systems.
• Designing stateful backend to handle large data including message broker, distributed queue, caching. Good understanding of High Availability and Disaster recovery for the critical production system.
• In depth understanding of Async, Multi Threading and Multi Processing Architecture to ensure our system efficiently use the programming principle for higher concurrency support
• Proficiency in following programming languages (Python, Rust), with a strong foundation in software engineering principles. Knowledge of Rust is a strong plus, especially in the context of high-performance, memory safety and ownership.
• Deep understanding of system design, database architecture (SQL & NoSQL), microservices, observability, resilience engineering, and secure coding practices.
• Exposure to big data platforms, stream processing, machine learning infrastructure, and multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) is preferred.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proven experience mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions at scale.
  

What We Offer

• Opportunity to lead large, high-impact projects for global Fortune 500 clients.

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• Work in a high-growth startup environment with a flat, collegial culture.
• Best-in-class remuneration and benefits.
• A platform for personal and professional growth with ownership and autonomy.
  

Some Of Our Accolades Include

• Ranked as one of Americas Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
• Ranked as one of Americas Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
• Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software Leader Board 2024 report.
• Ranked #72 in Americas Most Innovative Companies list in 2023by Fortunealongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
• Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
• Recognized in multiple Gartner reports, including Market Guides and Hype Cycle, spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.