Senior Engineering Manager – Backend

Location: Remote, United States

Company

hirify.global provides iPaaS, API Management, low-code application, and B2B solutions for automating critical enterprise business processes through a scalable SaaS platform.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, mentor, and retain a geographically distributed backend engineering team across multiple countries and time zones.
• Own engineering planning and execution from requirements and technical design through development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Partner with Product Management and cross-functional teams to define scope, manage trade-offs, coordinate dependencies, and deliver complex initiatives.
• Guide architecture, design, scalability, reliability, security, performance, code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness for a multi-tenant SaaS platform.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, production readiness, and continuous improvements for a 24x7x365 enterprise environment.
• Use engineering metrics, Agile practices, and feedback loops to improve delivery predictability, quality, and team effectiveness.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building enterprise or large-scale distributed backend systems.
• 5+ years of direct experience managing and developing software engineering teams, including distributed teams across multiple countries and time zones.
• Proven ability to lead teams through planning, execution, and delivery of complex software initiatives.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum, including sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, execution tracking, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Architecture, Security, and other engineering teams.
• Strong technical foundation in backend and distributed systems, including architecture, design, debugging, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications, cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience or strong familiarity with Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache.
• Understanding of relational databases, particularly MySQL and SQL Server; experience supporting highly available, business-critical production systems.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, operational readiness, and effective communication with technical and business stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and other distributed data technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first, collaborative environment with team members across multiple countries and time zones.
• Culture focused on ownership, accountability, transparency, technical excellence, continuous learning, and inclusive collaboration.
• Career development, mentorship, and opportunities to develop future technical and team leaders.
• Flexible, remote-friendly workplace at a growing iPaaS technology company.