Engineering Manager – Backend

Jitterbit

. Lead, coach, and mentor a geographically distributed backend engineering team across multiple countries and time zones .

Posted 11/9/2026full-timeRemote • Washington • United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading and mentoring distributed backend engineering teams, with a strong focus on Agile methodologies, technical excellence, and operational readiness in a SaaS environment. Proficient in managing complex software initiatives from planning through delivery while ensuring system reliability and performance.

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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 TestingObservabilityMicroservicesAPIsEvent-Driven Systems

Soft Skills

Problem-SolvingAnalytical SkillsCommunication SkillsOrganizational Skills

Tools & Technologies

AWSDockerKubernetesLinuxTomcatApacheMySQLSQL ServerRedisKafka

Industry Keywords

SaaSEngineering MetricsTechnical LeadershipOperational ImprovementsIncident Response

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBElasticSearchJavaKafkaKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesMySQLRedisSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, coach, and mentor a geographically distributed backend engineering team across multiple countries and time zones
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, workforce planning, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and retention
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 including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement
Track sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, risks, and delivery commitments using engineering metrics
Balance feature development with technical debt, scalability, reliability, and engineering productivity
Provide technical leadership on system design, architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and performance
Guide 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 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 communicate priorities, risks, delivery status, and trade-offs
Ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance for a 24x7x365 enterprise SaaS environment
Partner on monitoring, observability, incident response, capacity planning, production readiness, and operational improvements
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
Proven ability to lead 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 company transforming business-critical API creation and integration processes