Senior Engineering Manager, Database - MAX Digital

ACV Auctions - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

The Senior Engineering Manager in the Data Engineering department at ACV will lead a team responsible for the design, development, optimization, and maintenance of data platforms. This role is critical in delivering high-quality, scalable solutions that enhance customer data management and analysis. The position emphasizes collaboration, technical leadership, and mentoring within a dynamic, people-first company culture.

Responsibilities

• Support efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
• Lead architectural design and technical decision-making for SQL Server components.
• Design, develop, and implement complex features within SQL Server and MongoDB.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Manage and grow a team of data engineers responsible for maintaining existing data platforms and developing new data products.
• Evaluate, hire, and onboard candidates based on organizational needs and cultural fit.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical expertise and best practices.
• Evaluate SQL and MongoDB environments and produce plans to evolve the data architecture.
• Leverage monitoring tools to ensure high performance and availability.
• Ensure new development meets company standards for readability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with internal teams on transactional and analytical schema designs.
• Architect and build entire services, including data modeling and storage.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related field preferred.
• 6-8 years of relevant professional experience in Data Engineering for SaaS applications.
• 2 years of Operational DBA experience.
• 3-5 years of experience managing a team of engineers.
• Strong experience in relational database modeling and high-performance data-driven applications.
• Experience analyzing SQL queries for performance bottlenecks and optimizing them.
• Robust SQL and data-layer development experience; OLTP schema design.
• Expert understanding of SQL query execution fundamentals and optimization principles.
• Experience maintaining and extending an existing codebase.
• Experience implementing ETL workflows (SSIS, Airflow, C#, Python).
• Experience using and integrating with cloud services, specifically AWS RDS, S3, SQS, SNS.
• Experience integrating SQL & NoSQL (MongoDB) data stores.

Nice-to-haves

• OLAP schema design experience.
• Experience developing unit- and integration-tests using DBT or similar.

Benefits

• Multiple medical plans including a high deductible health plan that costs $0 out of your paycheck.
• Company-sponsored Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance.
• Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance.
• Generous paid time off options, including vacation time, sick days, Company holidays, floating holidays, parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and other forms of paid leave.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company.
• Retirement planning through the Company's 401(k).