Engineering Manager – Backend

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and coach a geographically dispersed backend engineering team.

• Foster a high-performing engineering culture that emphasizes ownership, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning.

• Conduct one-on-one meetings, offer constructive feedback, set development goals, and assist in career advancement.

• Oversee performance management, acknowledge outstanding contributors, and address any performance shortcomings.

• Engage in workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, and talent retention efforts.

• Take ownership of the planning and execution of engineering initiatives from requirement gathering and technical design to development, testing, deployment, and production support.

• Collaborate with Product Management to define project scope, assess trade-offs, and set delivery commitments.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Track sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, risks, and delivery commitments using engineering metrics.

• Balance feature development with considerations for technical debt, scalability, reliability, and engineering productivity.

• Provide technical leadership in system design, architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and performance.

• Guide design reviews, ensure code quality, promote automated testing, enhance observability, and prepare for operational readiness.

• Assist in resolving complex technical challenges, critical production incidents, perform root-cause analyses, and implement corrective actions.

• Work in collaboration with Product, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Architecture, Security, and other engineering teams.

• Manage cross-team dependencies and effectively communicate priorities, risks, delivery status, and trade-offs.

• Ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of a 24/7/365 enterprise SaaS platform.

• Lead efforts in monitoring, observability, incident response, capacity planning, production readiness, automation, and system resilience.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of software engineering experience, including substantial experience in developing enterprise or large-scale distributed backend systems.

• More than 5 years of experience in managing and nurturing software engineering teams.

• Proven experience in leading distributed engineering teams across various countries and time zones.

• Demonstrated ability to guide teams through the planning, execution, and delivery of intricate software projects.

• Strong expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies, encompassing sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, execution tracking, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.

• Extensive experience in cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, and other engineering teams.

• Solid technical foundation in backend and distributed systems, including architecture, design, debugging, and troubleshooting in production.

• Experience in building and managing multi-tenant SaaS applications.

• Strong grasp of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.

• Familiarity with Java and Spring Boot.

• Knowledge of AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache.

• Good understanding of relational databases, especially MySQL and SQL Server.

• Familiarity with distributed data technologies such as Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and DynamoDB is a plus.

• Experience in supporting highly available, business-critical production systems.

• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational readiness.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, and organizational skills.

• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical teams and business stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for career development and mentorship.

• Flexible, remote-friendly working environment.

• Chance to contribute to a growing leader in the iPaaS technology sector.

• Mission-driven organization focused on transforming essential API and integration processes.