Engineering Manager – Backend

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

📋 Description

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

• Cultivate a high-performing engineering culture rooted in ownership, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and ongoing learning.

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

• Oversee performance management, workforce planning, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and employee retention.

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

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

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

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

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

• Provide guidance on architecture, design, scalability, reliability, security, performance, code quality, automated testing, observability, deployment, and operational readiness.

• Investigate complex technical issues and assist in resolving critical production or customer-impacting problems.

• Lead root-cause analyses and implement corrective and preventive measures following significant incidents.

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

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

• Ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of a 24x7x365 enterprise SaaS platform.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• At least 5 years of experience managing and nurturing software engineering teams.

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

• Expertise in planning, executing, and delivering complex software projects.

• Strong background in Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Extensive cross-functional collaboration experience 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.

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

• Proficiency or strong familiarity with Java and Spring Boot.

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

• Comprehensive understanding 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 workplace.

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

• Join a mission-driven company that is transforming essential business processes.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.