Senior Backend Engineering Manager — Remote

Jitterbit; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jitterbit is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager – Backend to lead a distributed team building core iPaaS and API Management components. You will guide architecture, ensure delivery, and grow engineering talent across time zones while maintaining high standards for code quality and operational excellence.

This role blends hands-on technical depth with people leadership, balancing feature delivery with reliability, scalability, and debt management.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building enterprise or large-scale distributed backend systems.
• 5+ years of experience directly managing and developing software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple countries and time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and mentor a geographically distributed engineering team across multiple countries and time zones.
• Own the planning and execution of engineering initiatives from requirements and technical design through development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Partner with Product Management to understand business priorities, define scope, evaluate trade-offs, and establish realistic delivery commitments.
• Lead Agile ceremonies and ensure effective sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily execution, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain visibility into sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Use engineering metrics and data to improve delivery predictability, quality, operational performance, and team effectiveness.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering management

Distributed teams

Agile/Scrum

Backend systems

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Tools

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 building core iPaaS and API Management components. You will guide architecture, ensure delivery, and grow engineering talent across time zones while maintaining high standards for code quality and operational excellence.

This role blends hands-on technical depth with people leadership, balancing feature delivery with reliability, scalability, and debt management.