# Engineering Manager - Data Engineering & Insights at Otter.ai

> United States · Manager · Data engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aotter%3A8527107002 (read 2026-11-07).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Otter.ai](https://alderhq.app/companies/otter-ai)
- Location text: Seattle, WA; Seattle
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Seattle, WA; Seattle")
- Posted: 2026-06-04 (155 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/otter/jobs/8527107002
- Skills listed (inferred): TypeScript, React, Java, Kotlin, Scala, dbt

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (Seattle, n 12): p25 $189k, median $208k, p75 $227k
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 19, median offered wage $188k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))

## Description (the employer's text)

### Who we are

In the past, to be a successful restaurateur, you simply had to have a passion for food and a passion for people - but to succeed as a digital restaurateur you also need to have a passion for technology. We believe in the joy of serving others, and that's why we created Otter – to help restaurateurs succeed in online food delivery. Restaurants around the world, both large and small, including Chick-fil-A, Ben & Jerry’s, KFC, and Eataly trust our software to power their delivery business. We increase sales, reduce order issues, and decrease delivery headaches.

### Role

We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to spearhead our evolution from traditional analytics to a next-generation intelligence platform. This is a great opportunity to lead a team managing the data behind roughly 80% of all online food orders in the US, and modernize our ecosystem by building an impeccable data foundation that moves beyond static charts into live, conversational insights.

The Impact: Empower merchants with fast, trustworthy, and actionable metrics that change how they run their businesses every single day.

### What you’ll do

- Own Otter Insights End-to-End: Lead the strategy for everything inside Business Manager (pipelines and datasets to the semantic modeling layer and customer-facing embedded analytics).
- Manage Ingestion to Serving: Drive both real-time and batch pipelines, ensuring canonical datasets and robust APIs are built to empower other internal teams.
- Scale the Semantic Layer: Oversee frameworks (like Cube/SQLMesh) to ensure metrics and dimensions remain consistent across batch and real-time processing.
- Drive Data Governance: Establish analytics engineering standards and ensure adoption across broader product teams to maintain high data quality.
- Ship High-Performance Products: Deliver data-intensive, customer-facing applications including the Analytics App, Analytics Studio, automated reports, and data-sharing APIs.
- Deploy Safe AI Insights: Build automated AI insights on top of governed metrics, implementing strict guardrails, observability, and customer-impact triage.
- Build and Coach the Team: Hire, mentor, and retain a cross-functional team of analytics engineers and full-stack/frontend engineers while setting technical direction across the stack.
### What we’re looking for

- Blended Team Leadership: 4+ years of experience leading engineering teams across both data/platform and product domains
- Cross-Functional Team Building: Proven track record building and scaling diverse teams (backend, analytics engineering, and full-stack/frontend)
- Modern Data Modeling: A strong background in data modeling and semantic layers, alongside a history of delivering B2B or customer-facing analytics products
- Pragmatic Data Governance: Experience implementing data lineage, catalogs, compliance, and quality frameworks
- Product & Executive Partnership: Ability to collaborate closely with PMs, designers, and executive stakeholders w
- Full-Stack Accountability: Comfort owning end-to-end operational health, monitoring incidents, and managing on-call rotations from the data pipeline down to the user interface.
- Forward-Looking Mindset: A genuine interest in establishing AI-ready data foundations and building AI-enabled insights on top of certified metrics and metadata.
### Desirable Technical Skills

### Data Platform & Analytics Engineering

- Hands-on experience with SQLMesh, dbt, and Cube.
- Pipeline CI/CD, data observability, and orchestration (Flink / or similar batch tools)
- ClickHouse, Pinot, or Trino
- Data access controls, platform hardening, and permissioned sharing
### Applications & Insights (Full-Stack)

- Engineering experience across React, TypeScript, and Java (or Kotlin/Scala)
- Building dashboards, custom charts, automated report scheduling, and data exports
- Designing and implementing secure, permissioned data-sharing APIs
### Preferred Domain Experience (A Plus, Not Required)

- Restaurant, marketplace, or delivery analytics.
- Familiarity with Otter Business Manager is a plus.
### Why join us

- Demand for online food delivery is growing really fast! In the last 5 years, just in the US, the overall market has expanded 10X from $10B to $100B, and could expand to $500bn- $1T by 2030.

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