Senior Manager, Back-End Engineering

About the role

In this role as a Senior Manager Engineering, you will help build and develop high‑performing teams, support a rapidly growing business, and ensure delivery of highly available, reliable, and extensible products. You will collaborate closely with product and business partners to balance growth and profitability.

Key responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical direction to build scalable, fault‑tolerant systems.
• Hire experienced individual contributors and grow a high‑performance organization.
• Partner with Business, Product, and Engineering leaders to identify growth opportunities and improve efficiencies.
• Drive mission‑critical projects and solve complex business problems.
• Proactively identify and address critical system issues before they impact customers.
• Foster an innovative culture through Agile/Scrum practices and continuous product iteration.
• Own operational excellence by defining, measuring, and reporting key metrics.
• Mentor and coach managers and technical leaders on career development.

Required profile

• 12+ years of industry experience with increasing responsibility leading engineering teams.
• 5+ years of hands‑on software development and architectural experience delivering innovative, mission‑critical systems.
• Proven ability to create vision, influence cross‑functional stakeholders, and drive technology organizations toward ambitious goals.
• Experience leading global distributed teams and scaling high‑performance engineering groups.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Required skills

• Java
• AWS
• big data