Engineering Manager – Backend (Remote)

Location: Remote, United States; listed location: San Jose, CA

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead, coach, mentor, hire, and develop a geographically distributed backend engineering team.
• Own 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, and deliver complex initiatives predictably.
• Guide architecture, design, scalability, reliability, security, performance, code quality, testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Drive incident response, root-cause analysis, production readiness, capacity planning, and continuous improvements for a 24x7x365 enterprise SaaS platform.
• Coordinate dependencies and communicate priorities, risks, delivery status, and technical trade-offs across Engineering, Product, Support, QA, DevOps/SRE, Security, and Architecture.

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.
• Experience leading complex software initiatives through planning, execution, and delivery, with strong Agile/Scrum and continuous-improvement practices.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems foundation, including architecture, design, debugging, production troubleshooting, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications and highly available, business-critical production systems.
• Experience or strong familiarity with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience or strong familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, particularly MySQL and SQL Server, plus software development lifecycle, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, remote-first environment with colleagues across multiple countries and time zones.
• Culture centered on ownership, accountability, transparency, technical excellence, continuous learning, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Career development, mentorship, and opportunities to grow future technical and team leaders.
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment at a growing iPaaS company.