Engineering Manager, Backend
Avero
- New York, New York, United States
- New York, New York, United States
À propos
Role Overview Avero is seeking a hands-on Backend Team Lead to guide the modernization of our platform and lead the transition from legacy systems to cloud-native applications. This role is a player/coach position — you'll spend part of your time writing code, building migration solutions, and reviewing designs, while also setting architectural direction, mentoring engineers, and coordinating with leadership.
This is a 100% remote position reporting to Avero's Vice President of Engineering. Who You Are
- Experienced leading and mentoring engineers, with the ability to grow and develop a team
- Pragmatic, able to balance technical vision with delivery needs
- Comfortable rolling up your sleeves to write code, build proof-of-concepts, and debug complex systems
- Skilled at working across data, frontend, and QA teams to align on solutions
- A strong communicator who can explain tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Lead the backend team to build GRPC and GQL apis to support feature expansion and stack modernization.
- Write code, build reference implementations, and contribute to core migrations alongside the team
- Manage and mentor a team, with plans to scale as Avero grows
- Define and document architectural principles, patterns, and modernization roadmaps
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
- Evaluate and adopt modern frameworks, platforms, and tools to accelerate modernization
- Champion best practices for performance, scalability, security, and operational excellence
- Partner with engineering leadership to prioritize technical debt reduction and long-term investments
- You don't need to be an expert in everything, but familiarity with several is expected.
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, Python, (or similar backend technologies)
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3), Terraform, Docker
- Legacy Stack: Oracle, monolithic applications (experience in migrating from similar systems is highly valuable)
- Modernization Tools: Kubernetes, containerization, serverless, CI/CD pipelines
- Observability & Monitoring: Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar
- Bonus: Experience with BI/Analytics platforms and SaaS multi-tenant architectures
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in an architect or technical leadership role
- Proven experience migrating legacy systems into cloud-native architectures
- Hands-on expertise with AWS or another major cloud provider
- Strong coding background (Java, Python, , or similar) and ability to guide implementation details
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and serverless computing
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional technical initiatives
- Excellent communication skills in a distributed, remote-first environment
- Bonus: Prior experience in SaaS or hospitality technology environments
- Competitive pay with a strong focus on maintaining work/life balance
- Company-sponsored benefits including Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- Remote work flexibility (We operate as a fully remote team)
- Health Savings
Compétences linguistiques
- English
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