Senior Manager, Backend

Role overview Lead several backend engineering teams responsible for core services behind a large digital health and wellness membership platform. The role combines people leadership and delivery management with oversight of platform reliability, data quality, security, and modernization.

Responsibilities - Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers across career levels; support performance reviews and workforce planning. - Coordinate delivery across backend squads and turn multi-quarter technical strategy into clear roadmaps and outcomes. - Set reliability and performance goals, strengthen operational readiness, and use incidents to drive improvement. - Oversee services for member identity, food information, and tracking, keeping data dependable for personalization and experiments. - Guide architecture decisions, modernization, and cross-team work while balancing quality, speed, security, and cloud costs. - Partner with product, design, infrastructure, data, and machine learning teams to remove delivery bottlenecks and align priorities.

Requirements - 8+ years in backend engineering, including 3+ years in a formal engineering management or leadership role for large-scale consumer systems. - Experience managing and growing engineering teams and leading initiatives across multiple teams from design through production. - Strong knowledge of distributed systems, cloud environments such as AWS, APIs, and data modeling at scale. - Ability to make pragmatic technical tradeoffs, communicate clearly through documentation, and connect engineering priorities to user and business outcomes. - Degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - Experience embedding security and compliance practices in backend workflows and managing systems with operational and cost constraints.

Benefits and work setup - Hybrid work environment. - Listed U.S. pay range: $185,000–$200,000.