4666 – 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

Required Qualifications and Key Competencies:
Must Have Skills:
– 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 NoSQL)
– 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

Technical Skills:
– 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

Preferred Skills (great if you have experience with):
– Node.js or C#/.NET development – hands-on experience with our client’s stack.
– Financial services or high-frequency trading systems
– WebSocket 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 DevOps practices
– Data pipeline architecture and ETL processes
– Chaos engineering and resilience testing
– Leading remote or distributed engineering teams