Remote Senior Backend Engineering Leader

Jitterbit; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Mentorship

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Jitterbit is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – Backend to lead a distributed team responsible for designing, building, and operating core components of the iPaaS and API Management platform. You will balance people leadership with hands-on technical depth, guiding architecture decisions, ensuring delivery predictability, and driving operational excellence across global teams.

This remote-first opportunity emphasizes ownership, collaboration with Product Management, and reliability in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of directly managing and developing software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple countries and time zones.
• Proven ability to lead teams through planning, execution, and delivery of complex software initiatives.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, execution tracking, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a geographically distributed engineering team across multiple countries and time zones.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture based on ownership, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, establish development goals, and support engineers in their career growth.
• Manage performance effectively, addressing performance gaps in a timely and constructive manner.
• Participate in workforce planning, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and retaining high-quality engineering talent.
• Identify future technical and team leaders and create opportunities for them to grow.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed teams

Agile/Scrum

Java Spring Boot

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

SQL Databases

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Tomcat

Apache

Job description

Jitterbit is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – Backend to lead a distributed team responsible for designing, building, and operating core components of the iPaaS and API Management platform. You will balance people leadership with hands-on technical depth, guiding architecture decisions, ensuring delivery predictability, and driving operational excellence across global teams.

This remote-first opportunity emphasizes ownership, collaboration with Product Management, and reliability in a