Engineering Manager – Backend

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

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and coach a backend engineering team that is distributed across various locations.

• Foster a high-performance engineering culture grounded in ownership, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and ongoing learning.

• Conduct regular one-on-ones, provide constructive feedback, set development objectives, and support career advancement.

• Manage performance, acknowledge top contributors, and address any performance deficiencies.

• Engage in workforce planning, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and retaining engineering talent.

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

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

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

• Monitor sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, risks, and delivery commitments.

• Utilize engineering metrics and data to enhance predictability, quality, operational performance, and team efficacy.

• Balance the development of new features with technical debt, scalability, reliability, and engineering productivity.

• Steer discussions on architecture and design regarding scalability, reliability, security, and performance.

• Ensure adherence to best practices for design reviews, code quality, automated testing, observability, deployment, and operational readiness.

• Tackle complex technical challenges and collaborate with engineers during critical production or customer-impacting issues.

• Lead root-cause analysis and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions following significant incidents.

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

• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and technical initiatives.

• Communicate engineering priorities, risks, delivery status, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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

• Collaborate on monitoring, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and production readiness.

• Advocate for automation and practices that minimize recurring operational tasks and enhance system resilience.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• More than 5 years of experience directly managing and developing software engineering teams.

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

• Experience guiding teams through the planning, execution, and delivery of intricate software projects.

• Strong background 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.

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

• Comprehensive understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.

• Experience or strong familiarity with Java and Spring Boot.

• Experience or strong familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache.

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

• Familiarity with Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and other distributed data technologies is advantageous.

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

• Profound understanding of software development lifecycle practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational readiness.

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

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for career development and mentorship.

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

• Chance to be part of a growing leader in the Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) technology sector.

• Engage in mission-driven work that transforms critical business API creation and integration processes.