Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Engineering Manager, Backend
• Work model: Remote-first, distributed team
• Focus: iPaaS and API management platform engineering

Description

Lead a distributed backend engineering team delivering critical components of an iPaaS and API management platform. Own people leadership and engineering execution—from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and production support—while balancing scalability, reliability, and technical debt. Maintain hands-on technical depth to guide architecture, troubleshoot complex production issues, and drive operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a geographically distributed backend team
• Drive predictable execution: Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, delivery tracking
• Partner with Product and stakeholders to translate business priorities into engineering plans
• Provide technical leadership on architecture, scalability, security, performance, and engineering practices
• Support root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions after incidents
• Collaborate with Product, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Architecture, and Security
• Ensure operational excellence for a 24x7x365 enterprise SaaS environment
• Improve monitoring, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and production readiness
• Promote automation to reduce recurring operational work and improve resilience

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise or large-scale distributed backend systems
• 5+ years managing and developing software engineering teams
• Demonstrated experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple countries and time zones
• Proven ability to lead planning, execution, and delivery of complex software initiatives
• Strong Agile/Scrum experience (sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, retrospectives, continuous improvement)
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Product, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, and DevOps/SRE
• Strong technical foundation in backend and distributed systems (architecture, design, debugging, production troubleshooting)
• Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems
• Experience or familiarity with Java and Spring Boot
• Experience or familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache

Benefits

• Career development and mentorship
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment