Engineering Manager - Backend Architecture

Technical & Product Ownership :

• Build and evolve core platform features.

• Design and ship APIs, services, and integrations that power billing automation, usage metering, invoicing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting.

• Model complex financial workflows.

• Work deeply on pricing logic, proration, true-ups, multi-currency handling, approval workflows, and event-driven billing pipelineswhere small decisions have long-term consequences.

• Make architectural trade-offs.

• Balance ship it now against live with it forever while scaling systems that process high-volume usage data and real-time financial calculations.

• Stay technically fluent.

• You wont write code every day, but youll review PRs, catch subtle bugs, and guide design discussions with confidence.

Team Leadership & Management :

• Lead and grow the engineering team.

• Mentor and manage engineers across experience levels, setting clear expectations and raising the bar on ownership, execution, and quality.

• Create high-output systems.

• Establish clear problem definitions, focused execution cycles, code reviews that actually catch issues, and enough slack for engineers to thinknot just ship.

• Debug team dynamics like software.

• Observe signals, form hypotheses, intervene deliberately, and measure outcomeswhether the issue is delivery, alignment, or collaboration.

• Build the team intentionally.

• Design interviews that surface real problem-solving ability, not just pattern matching. At this stage, every hire shifts the average.

Cross-Functional Collaboration :

• Work closely with Product, Finance, and Customer Success to translate real-world contract terms into correct, scalable systems.

• Partner with stakeholders to solve ambiguous problems where requirements evolve and trade-offs are unavoidable.

• Ensure systems remain accurate, auditable, and compliant as the product scales.

Requirements :

• Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

• Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility.

• Must have directly managed 4-6+ engineers, including 1 : 1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

• Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

• Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems.

• Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

• Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments.

• Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement.