Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Auction Technology Group (ATG) 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
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