Our client is looking for a servant leader who is passionate about growing teams. This company is experiencing tremendous growth and is looking for several managers to lead their backend services team. This person's focus will be on building teams and the ideal candidate will be someone who has remained close to code, so they can challenge decisions and set the path for the engineers.

This person should have experience working with highly scalable, distributed systems, and cloud applications. You must be comfortable working in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment. This role can sit in Portland, OR, Las Vegas, Nevada, Los Angeles, CA or Vancouver, BC.

Responsibilities

- You will be responsible for leading a team of top-talent engineers to build and deliver highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure and platform services
- Develop and track detailed schedules, dependencies and critical paths
- Effectively collaborate with all project stakeholders i.e. Product Management and Mobile Client Engineers
- Clearly communicate with upper management any risk areas; come up with risk mitigation plans
- Encourage and drive initiatives which promote innovation and technical excellence
- Hire, retain, and develop the careers of the engineers on your team
- Coach and motivate your team to ensure high productivity and teamwork, and help each individual achieve their potential




- Interface with other internal teams to prioritize features and functionality based on the resources available and business priorities
- Conduct periodic on call duties as needed on a regular scheme basis

Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master degree (preferred) in Computer Science or equivalent and 8+ years of related experience in software industry
- 3+ years of experience managing and growing a high-performing engineering team
- Excellent people management skills - communication, teamwork, and leadership
- Ability to coach and motivate team members for their ongoing career growth
- Proven success leading projects in fast-paced, growing-organization setting
- Strong cross-functional organizational skills
- Fluent in one or more of: Jave, Go, C++ or Ruby
- Deep (hands-on) experience in containerization, Kubernetes, cloud services frameworks, design and develop successful large scale distributed systems on public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)

- - Experience in operations, include running and maintaining software, operating a large public cloud deployment, creating and triaging alerts around the health and security
- Designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

📌 Engineering Manager, Backend (Vancouver)
🏢 Technacity Group
📍 Vancouver