Senior Engineering Manager, Backend/Platform, Fintech, $200k-$260k base, Remote, Golang, Python, React, AWS, Docker
I’m currently working with a fast-growing fintech business that is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a backend/platform engineering team.
This is a key role within the engineering organisation, with responsibility for the backend systems, APIs and platform infrastructure that support the company’s core products.
The role will involve
• Leading and growing a team of backend/platform engineers
• Owning the technical direction of backend services and APIs
• Driving scalability, reliability and security across the platform
• Working closely with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure and Engineering
• Contributing to architecture and technical design decisions
• Helping build scalable API-driven systems and platform capabilities
• Hiring, mentoring and developing engineers
• Staying close to the technical work and helping solve complex engineering problems The ideal background:
• 3–7 years of Engineering Management experience
• Strong background as a Senior or Staff-level backend engineer
• Experience with Golang, Python or similar languages
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and system design
• Experience owning backend architecture in production
• Experience working within a startup or high-growth environment
• Ideally, experience building internal platforms, shared services or developer tooling The current technology environment includes Golang, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, OpenSearch and React.