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Rooted in iPaaS and fueled by an ambitious vision, we integrate critical business processes to deliver the experiences and insights needed by enterprises of all sizes to accelerate their digital journey and future proof their business. Simply put, we power people to perform their best.\nJitterbit empowers business transformation by automating critical business processes for faster, more informed decision-making. Jitterbit is the only provider to seamlessly combine and simplify the power of integration, APIM, and no-code app creation to amplify the value of your tech stack and speed up your digital journey. Organizations worldwide rely on Jitterbit’s experience and expertise to help them save time and money, while creating exceptional experiences, now and into the future.\n Jitterbit is a recognized leader in Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) and API Management, named in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for seven consecutive years. Our mission is to simplify and accelerate digital transformation through our low-code iPaaS, API Management (APIM), Low-Code Application Platform (LCAP), and B2B solutions.\nOur platform helps businesses automate mission-critical systems quickly and effectively. To do this, we continuously build and evolve a robust, scalable, secure, and highly reliable SaaS platform serving customers around the world.\nWe are looking for an experienced engineering leader who combines strong people leadership, execution discipline, and technical depth. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building high-performing distributed teams while remaining close enough to the technology to guide architecture, troubleshoot complex problems, and help the team make sound engineering decisions.\nAbout the Team\nAt Jitterbit, engineering is at the heart of everything we do. We take pride in building high- quality, maintainable software and delivering a world-class experience for our customers.\nOur engineering organization operates in a collaborative, remote-first environment with team members across multiple countries and time zones. You will work closely with engineers, Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, DevOps/SRE, QA, and other engineering teams to build and operate enterprise-grade integration and API management capabilities.\nWe value ownership, transparency, technical excellence, continuous improvement, and a willingness to solve problems collaboratively.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Senior Engineering Manager - Backend, you will lead a distributed team of backend engineers responsible for designing, building, operating, and evolving critical components of Jitterbit's iPaaS and API Management platform.\nYou will be accountable for both people leadership and engineering delivery. You will establish clear priorities, help the team execute predictably, develop engineering talent, remove obstacles, and create an environment in which engineers can do their best work.\nYou will partner closely with Product Management and other stakeholders to translate business priorities into executable engineering plans while balancing product delivery with platform scalability, reliability, technical debt, and operational excellence.\nThis is not a purely administrative management position. You should be technically strong enough to participate in architecture and design discussions, challenge technical assumptions, review approaches, and dive deeply into complex production or engineering problems when necessary. When critical situations arise, you are comfortable rolling up your sleeves and working alongside the team to drive them to resolution.\nOur technology environment includes:\nLanguages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, C++, Lua\n\nInfrastructure & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Nginx, Tomcat, Apache\n\nData & Messaging: MySQL, SQL Server, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB\n\nCloud Services: AWS, including S3, CloudFront, DynamoDB, and related services\nWhat You'll Do\nLead and Develop the Team\n\nLead, coach, and mentor a geographically distributed engineering team across multiple countries and time zones.\n\nBuild a high-performing engineering culture based on ownership, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning.\n\nConduct regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, establish development goals, and support engineers in their career growth.\n\nManage performance effectively, recognizing strong contributors while addressing performance gaps in a timely and constructive manner.\n\nParticipate in workforce planning, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and retaining high- quality engineering talent.\n\nIdentify future technical and team leaders and create opportunities for them to grow.\n\nFoster an inclusive environment where team members are comfortable sharing ideas,\nraising risks, and challenging assumptions.\nDrive Engineering Execution\n\nOwn the planning and execution of engineering initiatives from requirements and technical design through development, testing, deployment, and production support.\n\nPartner with Product Management to understand business priorities, define scope, evaluate trade-offs, and establish realistic delivery commitments.\n\nLead Agile ceremonies and ensure effective sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily execution, reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.\n\nMaintain visibility into sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, risks, and delivery commitments.\n\nUse engineering metrics and data to improve delivery predictability, quality, operational performance, and team effectiveness.\n\nBalance feature development with technical debt, platform improvements, scalability, reliability, and engineering productivity.\n\nIdentify delivery risks early and communicate clearly with stakeholders when priorities, scope, or timelines need adjustment.\nProvide Technical Leadership\n\nMaintain sufficient technical depth to have meaningful conversations with senior engineers and architects about system design, architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and performance.\n\nGuide technical discussions and help the team evaluate architectural approaches and engineering trade-offs.\n\nEnsure appropriate engineering practices around design reviews, code quality, automated testing, observability, deployment, and operational readiness.\n\nEncourage solutions that are maintainable, scalable, secure, and appropriate for a large- scale multi-tenant SaaS environment.\n\nPartner with senior engineers and architects on technical strategy and long-term platform evolution.\n\nDive into complex technical issues when necessary and work alongside engineers during critical production or customer-impacting problems.\n\nHelp drive root-cause analysis and ensure corrective and preventive actions are completed following significant incidents.\nCollaborate Across the Organization\n\nBuild strong working relationships with Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Architecture, Security, and other engineering teams.\n\nPartner closely with Support and L3 teams to understand customer-impacting issues, prioritize escalations, and ensure timely resolution.\n\nCoordinate dependencies and technical initiatives that span multiple engineering teams.\n\nClearly communicate engineering priorities, technical risks, delivery status, and trade-\noffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nRepresent the team in cross-functional planning, operational reviews, and leadership\ndiscussions.\n\nCreate effective feedback loops between Engineering, Product, Support, and customers\nto continuously improve product quality and reliability.\nOwn Operational Excellence\n\nHelp ensure the platform meets the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance expectations of a 24x7x365 enterprise SaaS environment.\n\nEstablish strong ownership of production services within the engineering team.\n\nPartner with operations and engineering teams on monitoring, observability, incident\nresponse, capacity planning, and production readiness.\n\nDrive continuous improvements based on production incidents, customer escalations,\noperational metrics, and engineering retrospectives.\n\nPromote automation and engineering practices that reduce recurring operational work and improve system resilience.\n\n What You'll Bring\n10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building enterprise or large-scale distributed backend systems.\n\n5+ years of experience directly managing and developing software engineering teams.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple\ncountries and time zones.\n\nProven ability to lead teams through planning, execution, and delivery of complex\nsoftware initiatives.\n\nStrong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog\nmanagement, estimation, execution tracking, retrospectives, and continuous\nimprovement.\n\nStrong cross-functional collaboration experience working with Product Management,\nSupport, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, and other engineering teams.\n\nStrong technical foundation in backend and distributed systems, with the ability to\nparticipate deeply in architecture, design, debugging, and production troubleshooting\nconversations.\n\nExperience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications.\n\nStrong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-\ndriven systems.\n\nExperience or strong familiarity with Java and Spring Boot.\n\nExperience or strong familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and\nApache.\n\nYou'll Thrive Here If You...\nAre passionate about building, coaching, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.\n\nBalance people leadership, delivery accountability, and technical excellence.\n\nStay technically engaged and are comfortable diving deeply into difficult engineering\nproblems when the situation requires it.\n\nCan move comfortably between a team member's career discussion, a sprint-planning\nconversation, an architecture review, and a critical production issue.\n\nCreate clarity when priorities or requirements are ambiguous.\n\nHold yourself and your team accountable while creating an environment built on trust and transparency.\n\nCommunicate proactively and clearly in a globally distributed, remote-first environment.\n\nUse data and engineering metrics to identify problems and drive continuous 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