Engineering Manager: AI-Driven Backend Leader (Hybrid)

FloQast; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

FloQast seeks an engineering leader to drive a high-performance backend platform and AI-driven product roadmap. You will mentor senior engineers, steer architecture decisions, and ship production systems at scale.

You will champion AI-native development, rely on tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and shape how AI changes software design, code generation, debugging, testing, and refactoring across a large SaaS platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience operating large-scale SaaS platforms.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, and data models.
• Comfortable debugging production systems.

Responsibilities

• Mentor Staff Engineers, Tech Leads, and Senior Engineers.
• Unblock complex technical problems and drive engineering decisions.
• Build and scale distributed backend systems and data pipelines.
• Lead AI-native product capabilities and AI-first development.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentoring

AI tooling

SaaS

Code reviews

Architecture

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

FloQast seeks an engineering leader to drive a high-performance backend platform and AI-driven product roadmap. You will mentor senior engineers, steer architecture decisions, and ship production systems at scale.

You will champion AI-native development, rely on tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and shape how AI changes software design, code generation, debugging, testing, and refactoring across a large SaaS platform.