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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading and mentoring distributed backend engineering teams, with a strong focus on Agile methodologies, cloud-native architectures, and operational excellence in enterprise SaaS environments.
Highest-signal resume keywords
10+ Years Software Engineering Experience5+ Years Managing Software Engineering TeamsAgile/Scrum MethodologiesCloud-Native ArchitecturesJava and Spring Boot
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Hard Skills
Backend SystemsDistributed SystemsMulti-Tenant SaaS ApplicationsRelational DatabasesCI/CD PracticesAutomated TestingObservabilityPerformance ManagementRoot-Cause AnalysisTechnical Design
Soft Skills
Problem-SolvingAnalytical SkillsCommunication SkillsOrganizational SkillsCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
AWSDockerKubernetesLinuxTomcatApacheMySQLSQL ServerRedisKafka
Industry Keywords
Enterprise SaaSAgile CeremoniesTechnical DebtScalabilityReliabilityIncident ResponseCross-Team CollaborationPerformance MetricsContinuous ImprovementSoftware Development Lifecycle
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBElasticSearchJavaKafkaKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesMySQLRedisSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead, coach, and mentor a geographically distributed backend engineering team
- Build a high-performing engineering culture based on ownership, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning
- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, establish development goals, and support career growth
- Manage performance, recognize strong contributors, and address performance gaps
- Participate in workforce planning, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and retaining engineering talent
- Own planning and execution of engineering initiatives from requirements and technical design through development, testing, deployment, and production support
- Partner with Product Management to define scope, evaluate trade-offs, and establish delivery commitments
- Lead Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, execution, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement
- Track sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, risks, and delivery commitments
- Use engineering metrics and data to improve predictability, quality, operational performance, and team effectiveness
- Balance feature development with technical debt, scalability, reliability, and engineering productivity
- Guide architecture and design discussions involving scalability, reliability, security, and performance
- Ensure practices for design reviews, code quality, automated testing, observability, deployment, and operational readiness
- Dive into complex technical issues and work alongside engineers during critical production or customer-impacting problems
- Drive root-cause analysis and completion of corrective and preventive actions after significant incidents
- Collaborate with Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Architecture, Security, and other engineering teams
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and technical initiatives
- Communicate engineering priorities, risks, delivery status, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of a 24x7x365 enterprise SaaS platform
- Partner on monitoring, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and production readiness
- Promote automation and practices that reduce recurring operational work and improve system resilience
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building enterprise or large-scale distributed backend systems
- 5+ years of experience directly managing and developing software engineering teams
- Experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple countries and time zones
- Experience leading teams through planning, execution, and delivery of complex software initiatives
- Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, execution tracking, retrospectives, and continuous improvement
- Strong cross-functional collaboration experience with Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, and other engineering teams
- Strong technical foundation in backend and distributed systems
- Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems
- Experience or strong familiarity with Java and Spring Boot
- Experience or strong familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache
- Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly MySQL and SQL Server
- Familiarity with Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, and other distributed data technologies is a plus
- Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production systems
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle practices, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and operational readiness
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, communication, and organizational skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with highly technical teams and business stakeholders
Benefits
Comp & perks- Career development and mentorship
- Flexible, remote-friendly company
- Opportunity to work for a growing leader in the Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tech space
- Mission-driven work transforming business-critical API creation and integration processes