Raydar
Senior Engineering Manager
$200K–$260K
United States · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- Several years as an engineering manager for backend or platform teams; roles typically lasting around 2.5 years or longer.
About the job
Lead a backend engineering group, balancing people management with hands-on technical work to guide system design, delivery, and platform evolution.
What you'll do
- Coach, develop, and recruit backend engineers while setting team expectations and fostering ownership.
- Set backend technical direction and guide architecture, planning, prioritization, and delivery of secure, scalable services.
- Partner across product, data, and infrastructure to integrate models, improve reliability, and respond to incidents.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building customer-facing, API-based business software at scale.
- Experience leading a large team, splitting time about equally between people management and technical work.
- Several years as an engineering manager for backend or platform teams, including setting strategy and roadmaps.
- Comfort with Golang or Python and a relational database such as PostgreSQL.
Nice to have
- Experience in data-focused companies, financial technology, or security or fraud prevention products.
- Founder or senior technology leadership experience in a small organization.
Pay
USD 200,000 to 260,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Python, PostgreSQL
AI focus
Work with data scientists to deploy models and connect decisioning logic into services and workflows.
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