Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

• Team: Distributed, remote-first backend engineering team

• Focus: iPaaS and API management platform

Description

Lead and coach a geographically distributed team of backend engineers building and operating critical iPaaS and API management components. Own planning and execution from requirements and design through development, testing, deployment, and production support, while partnering closely with Product and cross-functional engineering groups. Stay technically engaged to guide architecture, challenge assumptions, and help resolve complex production and reliability issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop distributed backend engineers; run 1:1s, feedback, performance management, and hiring/onboarding

• Plan and deliver engineering initiatives; manage Agile ceremonies and delivery predictability using metrics

• Provide technical leadership across system design, scalability, reliability, security, and performance for a multi-tenant SaaS environment

• Collaborate with Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Architecture, and Security; communicate risks and trade-offs

• Drive operational excellence: monitoring, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvements

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience building enterprise or large-scale distributed backend systems

• 5+ years managing and developing software engineering teams

• Experience leading distributed teams across multiple countries and time zones

• Proven ability to lead complex software planning, execution, and delivery

• Strong Agile/Scrum experience (planning, backlog refinement, estimation, retrospectives)

• Cross-functional collaboration experience with Product, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, and DevOps/SRE

• Strong backend and distributed systems technical foundation for architecture/design/debugging/production troubleshooting

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS applications

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

• Strong familiarity with Java and Spring Boot

• Strong familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache

• Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly MySQL and SQL Server

• Familiarity with Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and DynamoDB is a plus

• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production systems

• Knowledge of CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational readiness

Benefits

• Career development and mentorship

• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment

• Mission-driven work within the iPaaS and API management space