Head of Backend Architecture

3 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Muzz Full time
Backend Engineering Manager Job Description

Muzz is seeking a highly experienced Backend Engineering Manager to join our engineering leadership team. As the Head of Backend Engineering, you will be responsible for leading a large team of backend and devops engineers, driving best practices, and working with squads to deliver key company initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in backend engineering, with experience leading large teams, driving business outcomes, and architecting complex systems. They will be responsible for the uptime and performance of our entire platform, monitoring our stack, profiling code, and optimizing it for resource efficiency and cost savings.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced startup environment, leveraging cloud services like AWS, and contributing to the growth and success of Muzz.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Lead a 20+ team of backend and devops engineers
  2. Drive best practices in our backend stack through the leads
  3. Work with our Platform Core squad on improving Developer experience
  4. Work as part of a 3-person engineering leadership team to tackle cross-company initiatives
  5. Help leads within the teams grow and push them to achieve excellence

Requirements:

  • 8+ years in Backend engineering
  • 5+ years leading engineering teams
  • Extensive mentoring experience
  • Experience focusing on business outcomes first
  • Strong Go experience with a focus on event-driven services and gRPC
  • Terraform and containerisation experience
  • Understanding of a broad range of protocols like HTTP, TCP, gRPC, DNS etc

What We Offer:

  • A competitive salary and benefits package
  • Ongoing training and development opportunities
  • A dynamic and supportive work environment
  • International travel opportunities

Salary: £125,000 - £160,000 per annum, depending on experience.



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