Senior Backend Engineering Manager

4 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Muzz Full time

We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineering Manager to lead our engineering team in developing a scalable and efficient backend system for our platform.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in Backend engineering, with 5+ years of leading engineering teams. Strong Go experience with a focus on event-driven services and gRPC is required, as well as expertise in building on the cloud AWS services such as IAM, Networking, Storage, and Databases.

As the Head of Engineering and Operations, you will be responsible for the whole backend stack, including day-to-day smooth running and architecting/planning changes for new features. You will also work closely with the Data Engineering team to ensure the smooth flow of production data to our data warehouse setup.

**Responsibilities:**

  • Lead a 20+ team of backend + devops engineers
  • Drive best practices in our backend stack through the leads
  • Work with our Platform Core squad on improving Developer experience to enable us to release features faster, reduce technical debt, and increase developer satisfaction
  • Work as part of a 3-person engineering leadership team to uncover issues across engineering, agree on best practices, and solve cross-company engineering challenges
  • Help leads within the teams grow and push them to achieve excellence within their area
  • Owning cross-company initiatives and working with squads to prioritise and deliver
  • Be responsible for the uptime and performant running of our entire platform
  • Monitor our stack, profile code, and optimise code where necessary to reduce resource requirements and cost to run
  • Drive efficiency gains reducing the company cloud bill

**Requirements:**

  • 8+ years in Backend engineering
  • 5+ years leading engineering teams
  • Extensive mentoring experience
  • Experience focusing on business outcomes first to quickly make difficult decisions
  • Startup experience
  • Strong Go experience with a focus on event-driven services and gRPC
  • Expertise with building on the cloud AWS services – we use over 40 AWS services
  • Terraform and containerisation experience
  • Understanding of a broad range of protocols like TCP, gRPC, DNS etc

**Benefits:**

  • £120,000 - £150,000 per annum salary
  • A generous holiday/PTO policy
  • Meaningful equity
  • A diverse and inclusive team environment
  • International travel opportunities


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