Engineering Manager; Backend

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of talented engineers building high-performance APIs and microservices
• Partner with Product Managers to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Drive architectural decisions for distributed systems handling real-time financial data flows
• Champion best practices for API design, database optimization, and service reliability
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, code quality, and technical excellence
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between services
• Balance hands‑on technical contribution with people management and strategic planning
• Guide the team through technical challenges while maintaining project velocity and quality
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and performance benchmarks for mission‑critical services
• Build strong relationships across engineering teams to promote knowledge sharing

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years in a leadership role
• Deep expertise in building and scaling API-driven architectures and microservices
• Strong background in database design and optimization (SQL and No
  
  SQL)
• Hands-on experience with real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures
• Proven track record of leading teams delivering complex backend systems
• Excellence in technical communication – able to explain complex concepts simply
• Experience with distributed systems patterns and their trade-offs
• Natural ability to mentor engineers and help them grow their careers
• Comfortable making architectural decisions that balance innovation with stability
• Strong project management skills with experience in agile methodologies

• Proficiency in designing RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
• Experience with microservices orchestration and service mesh technologies
• Understanding of database technologies (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc.)
• Knowledge of message queuing and streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
• Familiarity with containerization and cloud-native development
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools

• Node.js or C#/.NET development – hands‑on experience with our client’s stack.
• Financial services or high-frequency trading systems
• Web Socket implementations and real‑time bidirectional communication
• Event sourcing and CQRS patterns
• Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
• Performance tuning for low-latency systems
• Building teams from scratch or scaling existing teams
• CI/CD pipeline design and Dev Ops practices
• Data pipeline architecture and ETL processes
• Chaos engineering and resilience testing
• Leading remote or distributed engineering teams