Senior Backend Engineering Manager (Remote)

Jitterbit; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Remote-friendly

Job summary

Jitterbit is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – Backend to lead a distributed team responsible for designing, building, operating, and evolving core iPaaS and API Management components. You will align engineering plans with product priorities while maintaining reliability and performance at scale.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture discussions, and ensure delivery through agile practices, strong technical depth, and collaboration across Product, Support, L3 Engineering,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with enterprise or large-scale distributed backends.
• 5+ years directly managing and developing software teams.
• Experience leading distributed teams across multiple countries/time zones.
• Proven ability to drive planning, execution, and delivery of complex software initiatives.
• Strong Agile/Scrum experience and cross-functional collaboration with product, support, QA, DevOps, and security.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed engineering team across multiple countries/time zones.
• Foster a high-performing culture based on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Guide sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product to translate priorities into executable engineering plans.
• Maintain production readiness, reliability, and platform scalability.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed teams

Agile/Scrum

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Tomcat

Apache

MySQL

SQL Server

Redis

Kafka

Elasticsearch

DynamoDB

Job description

Jitterbit is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – Backend to lead a distributed team responsible for designing, building, operating, and evolving core iPaaS and API Management components. You will align engineering plans with product priorities while maintaining reliability and performance at scale.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture discussions, and ensure delivery through agile practices, strong technical depth, and collaboration across Product, Support, L3 Engineering,