Backend Software Engineering Manager
Worldwide | July 11, 2025
Company: Valorepartners
Salary: $89,227 - $99,142
Type: Remote
Employment: Full-time
Description:
Summary:
A leading SaaS platform is hiring a Backend Engineering Manager to guide the next phase of growth for a high-impact product used by thousands of businesses. This is a hybrid role combining technical contribution and backend team leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Write code, pair program, and contribute to architectural decisions
- Lead modernization of a Django monolith into an API-first architecture
- Mentor and manage a team of 4–7 backend engineers
- Guide hiring, coaching, and development processes
- Establish scalable engineering practices without unnecessary bureaucracy
- Debug production issues and lead code reviews
- Partner cross-functionally with product and business stakeholders
- Participate in planning infrastructure improvements (Python, Django, MySQL, Kubernetes)
- Communicate technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders
- Promote psychological safety, innovation, and risk-taking
Required Skills
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with strong SaaS background
- 3+ years managing engineering teams
- Advanced Python and Django expertise
- Strong SQL skills, including performance tuning and optimization
- Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Celery, asynchronous programming, and background task processing
- Proven ability to scale systems with high transaction volume
- Strong communicator, especially in cross-functional contexts
- Experience defining engineering practices and developing team culture
- Comfortable in B2B SaaS and customer-facing environments
- Understanding of Agile development and team facilitation
Bonus Skills
- Experience at early-stage startups
- Background in multi-product SMB environments
- Knowledge of payment systems and PCI compliance
- Familiarity with Team Topologies and modern org structures
- Experience with incident response, postmortems, and reliability engineering
- Industry experience in fitness, wellness, or service-based software
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