Engineering Manager

Job Details

Title: Engineering Manager (Java / Spring Boot, AWS)

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Summary

We're looking for a passionate and technically adept leader with a deep understanding of modern software development to join our leadership team and guide two critical teams:

- Market Positioning Team: Owns feature development that defines our market position.

- Integrations Team: Focuses on seamless integration with partners and third-party applications.

As Engineering Manager, you’ll guide your teams to achieve ambitious goals with clarity and vision. You'll set the tone for technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

About the Opportunity

Guide our micro-service platform and mentor a remote backend team. You’ll blend hands-on technical ownership with people leadership—shaping architecture, driving cloud best practices, and coaching engineers.

Key Responsibilities

1. Architecture & Delivery

- Define and evolve backend architecture (Java 17+, Spring Boot 3, AWS, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, etc.)

- Lead design/code reviews; enforce best practices (CI/CD, observability, security, etc.)

- Drive scalability and uptime.

2. Team Leadership & Growth

- Manage a team of 6–10 backend engineers.

- Set objectives, give feedback, coach in AI-assisted development (e.g., GitHub Copilot).

3. Stakeholder Collaboration

- Liaison between Product, Frontend, SRE, and Data teams.

- Communicate technical concepts to all audiences.

4. Technical Vision & Governance

- Own standards, architectural principles, and tool evaluation (GenAI, cloud-native).

- Balance tech debt vs. feature delivery using data-driven decisions.

Required Qualifications

- 8+ years backend experience with Java & Spring Boot.

- Experience mentoring or managing engineers.

- Expert in AWS, cloud-native design patterns.

- Proficiency with Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis.

- Scaled systems to millions of users/billions of events.

- Strong DevOps practices (Docker, CI/CD, observability).

- Excellent communication skills in remote environments.

Nice-to-Have

- Experience with Datadog (APM, Logs, RUM).

- Startup exposure; multitasking across projects.

- Previous title: Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Engineering Manager.

- Experience with AI-assisted dev tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor).