Sr Manager, Backend Engineering

About the role

Our mission is to create effortless, customer-centric, habit-forming digital experiences that enable clients to solve their mission critical priorities. We are seeking a hands-on technical leader to guide a multi-disciplinary development team responsible for building and maintaining our core platform for personalized email and notifications delivery, driving digital engagement with our clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary development team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Drive significant improvements to core systems and business processes to support company/division goals for profit, growth, and customer satisfaction.
• Architect solutions for high application performance, data security, and future scalability.
• Leverage AI/ML Platforms to personalize and optimize delivery to drive engagement and retention.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into effective technical designs.
• Facilitate and participate in technical design discussions.
• Oversee the implementation, unit testing, integration testing, and support of software applications and services.
• Conduct code reviews and peer inspections to ensure code quality and best practices.
• Direct multiple technology projects and teams in support of IT initiatives.
• Develop strategic and tactical plans for technology and people resources to ensure successful completion of large-scale projects.
• Lead technical activities across estimation, planning, design, build, testing, and deployment phases.
• Provide guidance, feedback, and professional development to developers, evaluating performance and identifying strengths and growth areas.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and apply them effectively to solve business challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field required.
• 8 years+ of experience in web application development.
• Hands-on experience with Java EE/Spring, HTML, XML, JSON, and PL/SQL with relational databases.
• Proven people management and leadership experience.
• Experience building and managing applications on cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure also valued).
• Experience building data processing pipelines.

Qualifications

• Preferred: Experience with B2B marketing automation platforms such as HubSpot, Marketo, Eloqua, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success in leading the design and deployment of large-scale solutions.
• Experience across all phases of the systems development lifecycle.
• Strong fundamentals in software development and object-oriented design, with a background in architecting software applications.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Skills

• Ability to work and collaborate with multiple teams spread across diverse geographical locations.
• Ability to drive successful project delivery.
• Ability to coach and mentor team.
• Ability to learn and apply new technologies.
• Project work delivered on-time within budget.

Benefits

Limitless growth and learning opportunities. Ongoing mentorship and apprenticeship; Leadership courses, development programs, technical courses, certification opportunities and more!

A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.

A chance to make an impact – your work will contribute directly to our strategy.

Hybrid Work Environment - enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.

20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.

Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.

401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.

Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.

Parental leave.

Tuition reimbursement.

Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Employee Assistance Program.

Gartner Gives Charity Match.

And much more!

Pay

Competitive compensation. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 116,000 USD - 170,000 USD.

Schedule

Hybrid Work Environment - enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.