Leads backend engineering teams, owns delivery of complex initiatives, drives architecture for scalable systems, and guides API, microservices, database, messaging, and cloud infrastructure design. Partners with Product and business teams on priorities, mentors senior engineers, develops future leaders, and manages hiring, performance, and team growth.
This is a remote position.
Shuru is a technology and AI-focused engineering company building scalable digital products across fintech, payments, eCommerce, data, and AI.
We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager- Backend to lead a team of senior backend engineers and own delivery, technical strategy, and team development across complex systems.
- Lead and mentor backend engineers across one or more squads.
- Own delivery of complex backend initiatives and cross-team dependencies.
- Drive architecture for scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems.
- Guide design across APIs, microservices, databases, messaging, and cloud infrastructure.
- Partner with Product and business teams on roadmap and priorities.
- Mentor senior engineers and develop future engineering leaders.
- Drive hiring, performance management, and team growth.
Requirements
- 4+ years of engineering management experience.
- Strong backend engineering background with Java or Go.
- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, APIs, SQL/NoSQL, Kafka or messaging queues.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud platforms.
- Strong system design, scalability, reliability, and stakeholder management skills. FinTech, Payments, Banking, or eCommerce experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Work on complex, high-impact engineering and product challenges.
- Lead experienced engineering teams with significant ownership and autonomy.
- Collaborate directly with senior product, technology, and business leaders.
- Remote-first working environment.
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