AI-Driven Engineering Manager – Scalable E‑Commerce Backend

Company Confidential; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Company Confidential in Kuwait City is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead backend teams responsible for large-scale e-commerce services. You will steer technical direction across Java-based distributed systems and microservices, and participate in architecture discussions with architects and tech leads.

The role emphasizes scalability, performance, security and reliability, with ownership of on-call, incident reviews and continuous delivery improvements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in Engineering Manager, Technical Manager, Engineering Lead or equivalent leadership positions.
• Experience with large-scale, high-traffic transactional platforms (E-commerce/Merchant platforms preferred).
• Strong Java and Spring Boot expertise.
• Ability to design scalable architectures and lead cross-functional teams.
• Proven incident investigation and root-cause analysis capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering teams building large-scale e-commerce services.
• Provide technical direction across Java-based distributed systems and microservices.
• Take part in architecture discussions with architects and technical leads.
• Review and challenge designs for scalability, performance, security, maintainability and cost.
• Guide teams on service boundaries, APIs, asynchronous workflows, event-driven systems, caching strategies and data models.
• Identify architectural risks, debt and bottlenecks early before production.
• Balance pragmatic delivery with long-term platform quality.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

Microservices

API design

Kafka

Redis

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

SQL & NoSQL

AWS / cloud

Docker / Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability & APM

AI-assisted development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software/Engineering

Master's degree (advantage)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Elasticsearch

Redis

SQL/NoSQL databases

APM tools

Job description

Company Confidential in Kuwait City is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead backend teams responsible for large-scale e-commerce services. You will steer technical direction across Java-based distributed systems and microservices, and participate in architecture discussions with architects and tech leads.

The role emphasizes scalability, performance, security and reliability, with ownership of on-call, incident reviews and continuous delivery improvements.