Senior Backend & Platform Leader, IoT & Cloud

Litter-Robot; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

Parental leave

Pet Insurance Discount

401K match

Flexible spending accounts

On-site gym

Job summary

Whisker in Auburn Hills, MI is seeking a Senior Manager, Backend Services to lead the teams delivering digital experience services, robot services, IoT data intake, and cloud infrastructure. You will own reliability, scalability, and delivery predictability across AWS & GCP infra while managing a distributed engineering team.

This role guides architecture, API design, and platform engineering, coordinates multi-team releases, and partners with Product Management to translate roadmaps into

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading backend service teams at consumer scale.
• Proven ability to recruit and develop engineers.
• Experience with AWS, API design, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own health, roadmap, and technical direction of digital experience, robot, and IoT domains end to end.
• Ensure availability and latency requirements for devices in customers' homes.
• Own device-to-cloud contracts including telemetry schemas and firmware interfaces.
• Lead API design and evolution for mobile and web clients.
• Scale IoT data intake with growth in device volume and telemetry richness.
• Direct a distributed engineering team across multiple pods and time zones.

Skills

Backend leadership

API design

Distributed systems

AWS

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kafka

Kinesis

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

Whisker in Auburn Hills, MI is seeking a Senior Manager, Backend Services to lead the teams delivering digital experience services, robot services, IoT data intake, and cloud infrastructure. You will own reliability, scalability, and delivery predictability across AWS & GCP infra while managing a distributed engineering team.

This role guides architecture, API design, and platform engineering, coordinates multi-team releases, and partners with Product Management to translate roadmaps into