Engineering Manager - Backend & Scalable Systems

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; On-site; USD 210,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of backend engineers building scalable, reliable systems powering our AI marketing platform. You’ll balance people leadership, technical direction, and execution while partnering closely with Product and other engineering teams to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.

You’ll develop and grow a high-performing team, guide technical and architectural decisions, and create clarity around complex

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing software engineers and 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong foundation in backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, data modeling and scalable architecture.
• Experience building and operating high-volume production systems focused on reliability and performance.
• Ability to guide technical decisions, evaluate tradeoffs, and lead complex initiatives end-to-end.
• Experience hiring, coaching, providing feedback, and developing engineers at different career levels.
• Strong cross-functional communication across Engineering, Product and other stakeholders.
• Experience using modern development practices and AI-powered engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of backend engineers, setting direction and delivering scalable services.
• Guide architectural decisions and maintain system reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with Product and other teams to deliver meaningful outcomes for customers.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineers, managing performance and growth.
• Drive adoption of best practices and AI-powered tooling to improve quality.

Skills

People management

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Data modeling

Scalable architecture

High-volume production systems

Technical leadership

Hiring and coaching

Cross-functional communication

AI-powered engineering tools

Tools

Spring Boot

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kubernetes

AWS ECS/EKS

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of backend engineers building scalable, reliable systems powering our AI marketing platform. You’ll balance people leadership, technical direction, and execution while partnering closely with Product and other engineering teams to deliver meaningful customer and business outcomes.

You’ll develop and grow a high-performing team, guide technical and architectural decisions, and create clarity around complex