We are on a path to become the single largest provider of commercial intelligence and automation across the travel and transportation industry.

Starting with airlines, we provide the Cirrus Revenue Operating System™ that reshapes how travel and transportations businesses plan their commercial operation. We displace legacy data, forecasting, pricing, and reporting solutions with a single enterprise SaaS platform that leverages the latest advancements in deep learning, cloud computing, and user experience.

Our hyper-accurate contextual forecasts enable the most effective scheduling, marketing, and leadership decisions while directly managing the pricing for billions of dollars worth of product and revenue.

To achieve this vision, we’re looking for a talented Director of Software Engineering with a background in data intensive software  to lead our Data Platform software group. 

Our Data Platform group is responsible for the software to support data at FLYR.   All of FLYR’s  software development and data science teams depend on the data models, pipelines, and tools owned by our Data Platform team to bring leading-edge ML-based products to market.   Our Data Platform group manages the processes and tools to manage our core product data models  and evolve our warehouse data model to support product feature evolution.  As a software tools team, the group owns schema change management and the standardized frameworks for data quality systems and  data pipelines used across FLYR, and the tools used by our customer-facing Delivery teams to build customer data pipelines and ingest new customer data.    

Our Data Platform group works on mission-critical projects that have an instant meaningful impact for FLYR’s core product, Cirrus, into production for reputable airline brands.  

This role is remote-flexible, but our ideal candidate would be in Los Angeles, California

What will your destination look like at FLYR?

• Grow and lead a new organization within FLYR of approximately 20 software engineers across three scrum teams in the United States and Krakow Poland.  
• Directly hire managers and senior technical leaders in your organization. 
• Lead an organization of software engineers, data architects, and analysts. 
• Provide technical mentorship and training, and promote success in their career path at FLYR. 
• Partner closely with product management to define and execute on a product roadmap for the development of software frameworks and tools for data management. Lead your organization in delivering enhancements to FLYR’s data platform needed to support new product features. 
• Define processes and build tools to support onboarding and ingest of new data sources, and support and coordinate with customer implementation team managers in standardization of practices and processes on data pipelines.   
• Coordinate with DevOps and Site Reliability teams on defining infrastructure requirements and practices for production data pipelines. 
• Advocate for and lead process improvement within our fast-growing engineering organization. 

What should you bring on this trip?

• Experienced people leader. Previous experience as an engineering manager leading a high caliber team
• Experience as an engineering manager leading development teams delivering complex software products and tools
• Experience in planning a roadmap of initiatives against execution capacity
• Ability to clearly communicate status, blockers, risks and dependencies to peer managers  and executive stakeholders. Experience operating software and data services in production.  Must have experience leading software development on a SaaS product or service delivery environment
• Experience managing distributed
• Excellence in leadership, team building and people management skills

Cirrus™, our Revenue Operating System, is deployed by major commercial airlines both internationally and domestically. Cirrus leverages an extensive data- and deep learning infrastructure that was built from the ground up to solve airlines’ most complex commercial challenges.

 

Founder Alex Mans started FLYR in 2013, initially with the intent to remove inefficiencies in airline pricing for travelers. Since then, we've shifted focus to address the forecasting and pricing problems at the core of major airlines, and we have built a team with a wide range of experiences in enterprise technology, aviation, and entrepreneurship. We are a dynamic and fast-growing travel tech start-up headquartered in the SoMa neighborhood in San Francisco with a European development hub in Krakow, Poland.

Impact of COVID-19

While the effects of COVID-19 on commercial aviation (our primary client base) have been widely publicized, demand from airlines around the globe has exceeded all expectations. On the back of incredible outperformance compared to legacy incumbents in our space, we are on track for an exceptionally strong 2021 and beyond. While the road to travel recovery isn’t easy, you won't find any other industry as dedicated to continuous improvement and reinvention.

Our Commitment to Fairness

At FLYR, we are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and embrace a commitment to have our teams better reflect the world around us as we scale the business.