Manager, Backend Engineering
- Own your team's delivery outcomes — roadmap commitments, quality, and reliability of the accommodation backend services you steward
- Set the architectural direction for the team's work and hold the quality bar through hands-on review
- Own the on-call and incident posture of your services, turning incidents into lasting reliability improvements, and run the team's engineering practice — review standards, on-call health, incident follow-through — without becoming the bottleneck
- Build a high-performance team culture with clear expectations, fast feedback loops, and genuine accountability for results
- Translate roadmap into execution with clear ownership, and represent the team's priorities and push back on scope with evidence
- Partner with product and adjacent engineering leads to translate domain business goals into a credible, sequenced delivery plan
- Set how the team uses AI tools and hold the line on responsible, validated use
Job Requirements
- You have at least 8 years of backend engineering, including leading a small team — and you still write and review enough code that your team trusts your technical judgment.
- You have led the delivery of a backend project through a small team — you broke the work down, you sequenced it.
- You unblocked people, and you were accountable for it landing.
- You can own the delivery of a team's commitments end-to-end: you hold the plan, you see the risks early.
- You keep quality from slipping when the deadline tightens.
- You design and review at the system level — you can set the architectural direction for your team's services.
- You make the consistency, latency, and cost tradeoffs with them.
- You grow the engineers around you: you give specific, honest feedback, you create room for people to stretch, and you have helped someone level up because of how you coached them.
- You have a degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent depth from real-world engineering.
- You handle the first layer of people responsibility: regular 1:1s, goal-setting.
- You surface performance or growth conversations honestly rather than letting them drift.
- You set how your team uses AI tools in its workflow, and you can judge where they speed delivery and where they introduce risk worth guarding against.
- You communicate clearly with product and adjacent teams, and you can represent your team's priorities and push back on scope with evidence.