[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Jitterbit

Role Description

As 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.

• Accountable for both people leadership and engineering delivery.
• Establish clear priorities and help the team execute predictably.
• Develop engineering talent and remove obstacles.
• Create an environment in which engineers can do their best work.
• Partner closely with Product Management and other stakeholders to translate business priorities into executable engineering plans.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions, challenge technical assumptions, and dive deeply into complex production or engineering problems when necessary.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building enterprise or large-scale distributed backend systems.
• 5+ years of experience directly managing and developing software engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading distributed engineering teams across multiple countries and time zones.
• Proven ability to lead teams through planning, execution, and delivery of complex software initiatives.
• Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration experience working with Product Management, Support, L3 Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, and other engineering teams.
• Strong technical foundation in backend and distributed systems.
• Experience building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Experience or strong familiarity with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience or strong familiarity with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Tomcat, and Apache.

Requirements

• Lead, coach, and mentor a geographically distributed engineering team.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture based on ownership, accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and provide actionable feedback.
• Manage performance effectively and recognize strong contributors.
• Participate in workforce planning, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and retaining high-quality engineering talent.
• Drive engineering execution from requirements to production support.
• Maintain visibility into sprint progress, dependencies, blockers, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure appropriate engineering practices.
• Collaborate across the organization and build strong working relationships.
• Help ensure the platform meets reliability and performance expectations.

Benefits

• Work for a growing leader within the Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tech space.
• Join a mission-driven company transforming the industry.
• Career development and mentorship.
• A flexible, remote-friendly company with personality and heart.