[Remote] Engineering Manager — Backend Platform & Services

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company) is transforming the multi-billion-dollar global auction industry. The Engineering Manager for Backend Platform & Services will drive engineering excellence across the backend platform, ensuring reliable and scalable services while managing a team of engineers and collaborating with various stakeholders. Responsibilities • Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand business priorities and translate them into clear technical strategies for backend services supporting payments, shipping, and platform capabilities • Balance partner needs by designing solutions that advance platform reliability and scalability while enabling fast, confident feature delivery • Oversee the end-to-end delivery of backend microservices built in GoLang, ensuring production-grade quality, observability, and operational readiness at each stage • Champion solid software development practices including code review standards, testing strategies (unit, integration, contract), CI/CD pipelines, and production deployment processes • Drive the adoption of event-driven patterns while ensuring the team designs for resilience and fault tolerance • Ensure the team operates effective Agile ceremonies — sprint planning, standups, retrospectives — and continuously improves velocity and predictability • Grow, mentor, and develop a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement • Provide technical and organizational leadership, ensuring execution excellence while crafting a long-term strategy for the platform’s architecture and infrastructure Skills • 3+ years of experience leading a cross-functional engineering team as an Engineering Manager • Bachelor's/Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field • Proven hands-on background in backend systems development, with strong familiarity with GoLang, Python, PHP or comparable web application development technologies and a clear ability to lead teams working in that stack • Deep expertise in microservices architecture, including service decomposition, API design, inter-service communication, and data ownership patterns • Solid experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes, covering deployment, scaling, resource management, and operational best practices • Strong understanding of message broker systems, particularly RabbitMQ and/or Kafka, and the design of reliable event-driven workflows • Proficiency with relational databases (MySQL) including schema design, query optimization, and data integrity in a microservices context • Demonstrated commitment to the full software development lifecycle: design and architecture, testing (unit, integration, end-to-end), production deployments (blue/green, canary), and post-deployment observability (logging, metrics, alerting, tracing) • Fluency with Agile methodologies — sprints, scrum, backlog refinement — and experience continuously improving team delivery practices • Comfortable navigating ambiguity; able to decompose complex problems into clear, manageable work for the team • Effective communicator who can explain technical decisions and trade-offs to engineers, product managers, and senior leadership • Role model for engineering excellence, fostering a culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous learning • Proven expertise in stakeholder management and building strong cross-functional relationships • Strong business understanding to drive informed, pragmatic engineering decisions Benefits • Annual performance bonus • Stock • Benefits • Other applicable incentive compensation plans Company Overview • A global technology company with over 450 employees, reputed company is transforming the way billions of pounds, euros and dollars' worth of items are bought and sold globally via auction. It was founded in 1971, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.auctiontechnologygroup.com/. Apply To This Job