Senior Manager, Backend Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary development team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Drive significant improvements to core systems and business processes to support company/division goals for profit, growth, and customer satisfaction.
• Architect solutions for high application performance, data security, and future scalability.
• Leverage AI/ML Platforms to personalize and optimize delivery to drive engagement and retention.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into effective technical designs.
• Facilitate and participate in technical design discussions.
• Oversee the implementation, unit testing, integration testing, and support of software applications and services.
• Conduct code reviews and peer inspections to ensure code quality and best practices.
• Direct multiple technology projects and teams in support of IT initiatives.
• Develop strategic and tactical plans for technology and people resources to ensure successful completion of large-scale projects.
• Lead technical activities across estimation, planning, design, build, testing, and deployment phases.
• Provide guidance, feedback, and professional development to developers, evaluating performance and identifying strengths and growth areas.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and apply them effectively to solve business challenges.

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field required.
• 8 years+ of experience in web application development.
• Hands-on experience with Java EE/Spring, HTML, XML, JSON, and PL/SQL with relational databases.
• Proven people management and leadership experience.
• Experience building and managing applications on cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure also valued).
• Experience building data processing pipelines.
• Preferred:
  Experience with B2B marketing automation platforms such as Hub Spot, Marketo, Eloqua, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success in leading the design and deployment of large-scale solutions.
• Experience across all phases of the systems development lifecycle.
• Strong fundamentals in software development and object-oriented design, with a background in architecting software applications.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.