As a Backend Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of Software Engineers developing Kensho's GenAI platform, LLM-powered applications, and foundational AI toolkits.
Your responsibilities span deep technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration.
Key responsibilities include:
Leading high-quality backend delivery
Developing retrieval and orchestration systems
Driving performance and operational excellence
Strengthening system architecture
Ensuring security and compliance
Improving reliability and managing technical debt
Developing engineering talent
Managing priorities and delivery
Collaborating across teams
Supporting user experience through backend excellence
Fostering innovation and experimentation
Modeling Kensho's culture and values
Requirements:
Overall 8+ years of experience, with at least 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing customer-facing APIs within a team
At least 3 years of experience developing production-grade software and leading remote or multi-site teams of 3-4+ engineers
Experience developing RESTful APIs using a variety of tools
Strong understanding of distributed system concepts, concurrency, and event-driven architectures
Experience building and scaling high-volume, low-latency backend services
Sound reasoning about the behaviour and performance of loosely coupled systems
Proficiency with algorithms, data structures, and software architecture
Experience with CI/CD practices and tools to streamline deployment processes
Experience with containerisation technologies for application deployment and orchestration
Experience deploying and operating backend systems on a major cloud platform
Experience working across all stages of the software development lifecycle
Thoughtful and efficient communication skills
Experience using quantitative and qualitative measures to assess and improve the health of teams and projects
Experience providing ongoing technical and interpersonal coaching and performance management
Experience turning abstract business requirements into concrete technical plans
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