API Engineering Manager — Lead Delivery & Architecture

RS Group; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension/retirement

Life assurance

Medical plans

Holiday / paid time off

Employee assistance programme

Cycle to work

Lunch vouchers

Job summary

RS is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead one of our API teams. You will mentor a 6–10 person group, drive technical design, and ensure delivery at pace within a product-domain environment.

You will evangelise a clear technical vision, champion modern back-end architectures and CI/CD, and collaborate with product owners, architects, and scrum masters to build scalable, reliable services. Occasional production support may be required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering with 3+ years leading teams in agile, product-focused setups.
• Proven delivery of cloud-native, CD, and modern back-end architectures.
• Hands-on with Java, Node.js, AWS services, GraphQL, and API tooling like Postman.
• Experience with IaC, automation & CI/CD (Terraform, GitLab CI).
• Knowledge of HashiCorp Vault, Nomad, Kong, and observability tools (Datadog).
• Strong security, performance tuning, caching (Redis), and test automation.

Responsibilities

• Line management of the API engineering team, including mentorship, performance reviews.
• Lead technical design and delivery within product domains, aligning with standards.
• Collaborate with agile teams, architects, scrum masters, and product owners to deliver integrated solutions.
• Coordinate observability and production reliability of services.
• Review outputs for quality and best practices, ensuring timely delivery.
• Provide occasional out-of-hours support for team-owned systems.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Collaboration

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Tools

Java

Node.js

AWS

GraphQL

Postman

Terraform

GitLab CI

Kong API Gateway

Datadog

Redis

HashiCorp Vault

Nomad

Job description

RS is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead one of our API teams. You will mentor a 6–10 person group, drive technical design, and ensure delivery at pace within a product-domain environment.

You will evangelise a clear technical vision, champion modern back-end architectures and CI/CD, and collaborate with product owners, architects, and scrum masters to build scalable, reliable services. Occasional production support may be required.