Location: Geneva (Hybrid)
Experience: 7+ years in backend engineering, with management experience
Languages: English (C1+) and French (C1)
Contract: Full-time employee
Team: Backend (7 developers), working closely with Frontend and Product
Reports to: CPO
As Engineering Manager – Backend, you will own the performance, organization, and evolution of the backend engineering team.
You will work closely with the CPO, Product Manager, Product Owners, and Tech Leads to align engineering capacity with product priorities, while ensuring the platform remains reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
The backend team already has strong technical expertise. Your role is to bring structure, ownership, and long-term vision to the engineering organization.
You will define and drive a forward-looking technical roadmap (6–12 months), anticipate platform risks, and lead structural improvements to support the company’s growth.
This role combines team leadership, engineering strategy, and strong technical credibility.
Manage and mentor backend engineers through regular 1-to-1 meetings
Own performance reviews and career development plans
Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and accountability
Lead hiring decisions and scale the backend team
Own the allocation of backend engineers across squads and initiatives
Define and maintain a clear balance between product delivery and technical investment
Drive coordination across squads and ensure alignment at the backend level
Establish scalable ways of working and improve overall team efficiency
Own platform reliability, performance and scalability outcomes
Define and implement incident management and operational processes
Establish operational ownership through rotations (on-call, release management, support roles)
Drive improvements in monitoring, observability and system resilience
Define and drive the backend technical roadmap in collaboration with Tech Leads
Lead key architectural decisions and ensure long-term platform coherence
Identify risks early (scalability, performance, technical debt) and proactively address them
Set and enforce engineering standards across the backend team
Contribute to critical technical topics when needed (CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring, platform tooling)
The role remains hands-on when necessary, with around 20–30% of time dedicated to technical topics.
Backend
Ruby / Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
Redis / Sidekiq
Elasticsearch
Infrastructure & Monitoring
Heroku
AWS
Cloudflare
Sentry
New Relic
Engineering Workflow
CircleCI
Bitbucket
Jira
Confluence
Strong backend engineering background building production systems
Solid experience with Ruby on Rails in production environments
Proven experience managing or leading backend engineering teams
Experience working on high-traffic or transactional platforms
Ability to drive both execution and long-term technical strategy
Strong organizational and communication skills
Experience collaborating closely with product teams
Experience working on e-commerce or fintech platforms
Experience with logistics, order management, or payment systems
Experience managing distributed or remote engineering teams
Senior Engineering Manager – Backend • Geneva, Switzerland
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