Senior Backend Engineering Manager — Remote-First

Jitterbit; Fremont (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly work environment

Career development and mentorship

Flexible, remote-friendly culture

Collaborative, global team

Job summary

Jitterbit, a leader in iPaaS and API Management, seeks an experienced Senior Engineering Manager – Backend to guide a global team building and operating core backend components of our platform. You’ll drive architecture discussions, ensure delivery, and mentor engineers across time zones.

You will partner with Product Management to balance product delivery with reliability and scalability, while fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, with enterprise or large-scale distributed backends.
• 5+ years directly managing and developing software engineering teams.
• Experience leading distributed teams across multiple countries/time zones.
• Proven ability to plan, execute, deliver complex software initiatives.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, estimation, execution tracking and continuous improvement.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, and other teams.
• Strong technical foundation in backend and distributed systems; able to participate in architecture, design, debugging, and production troubleshooting discussions.
• Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven patterns.
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot; familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache.

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 gaps in a timely and constructive manner.
• Participate in workforce planning, interviewing, onboarding, and retaining engineering talent.
• Identify future technical and team leaders and create opportunities for growth.
• Foster an inclusive environment where ideas, risks, and assumptions can be raised openly.
• Own planning and execution of engineering initiatives from requirements to deployment and production support.
• Partner with Product Management to translate priorities into realistic delivery commitments.
• Lead Agile ceremonies and ensure effective sprint planning, backlog refinement, and execution.
• Maintain visibility into sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Use engineering metrics to improve delivery predictability, quality, and platform health.
• Balance feature development with technical debt and platform improvements.”
• Identify risks early and communicate trade-offs clearly to stakeholders.

Skills

People leadership

Distributed teams

Agile/Scrum

Architecture discussions

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical depth

Backend systems

Multi-tenant SaaS

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux

Tomcat

Apache

Java

Spring Boot

Job description

Jitterbit, a leader in iPaaS and API Management, seeks an experienced Senior Engineering Manager – Backend to guide a global team building and operating core backend components of our platform. You’ll drive architecture discussions, ensure delivery, and mentor engineers across time zones.

You will partner with Product Management to balance product delivery with reliability and scalability, while fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture.