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The Job
Job Summary: The Backend Engineering Manager leads the backend team of our one Tribe - a core pillar in the Be Group super app ecosystem. You will be responsible for driving system reliability, high availability, and backend scalability in a high-traffic environment. You will coach and grow backend engineers while working closely with product, QA, mobile/web, and SRE teams to ensure smooth execution and delivery.
Technical & Delivery Leadership
- Lead the design and development of scalable backend microservices using Golang, gRPC, and MySQL.
- Drive system design reviews and propose architectural changes (e.g., microservices refactoring, data pipeline optimization).
- Own core backend domains with high availability and business-critical logic.
- Ensure system performance and reliability through Redis Cluster, Kafka, and Cadence Workflow.
- Guide incident prevention and response; run blameless postmortems and improve alert coverage.
- Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, CI/CD, security, and service modularity.
- Support system modernization initiatives such as decomposing monoliths, isolating bounded contexts, and enabling service autonomy.
Execution & Process
- Own sprint planning and project delivery within the 2-week sprint cycle.
- Partner with Product Manager, QA Lead, and Mobile/Web EMs to align on scope and unblock delivery.
- Set and track technical KPIs: latency, system uptime, alert noise, test coverage.
- Drive production readiness reviews before release and manage hotfix processes.
- Continuously improve team's development workflows (e.g., trunk-based dev, feature toggles, canary release) to reduce lead time and increase deployment safety.
People & Team Management
- Coach, mentor, and develop backend engineers across levels (Junior → Staff).
- Facilitate regular 1:1s, goal setting, performance reviews.
- Build a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and collaboration.
- Work with HR and Tribe Lead to recruit and grow a high-performing backend team.
- Define and evolve career frameworks and competency models for backend engineers in alignment with company-wide levelling and progression tracks.
Your Skills and Experience
Must-have:
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including 1-2+ years in a team/tech lead role.
- Strong experience with Golang and distributed systems in high-load environments.
- Proven leadership in managing cross-functional delivery teams.
- Experience designing scalable APIs, optimizing database queries, and cache strategies.
- Excellent understanding of system observability, incident handling, and cost tracking.
Nice-to-have:
- Experience with Food Delivery, E-commerce, or Super App platforms.
- Familiarity with Cadence, Elasticsearch, or advanced Redis strategies.
- Passion for coaching engineers and building high-ownership teams.
Our Tech Stack
Backend: Golang (microservices, event-driven architecture)
Frontend: TypeScript, [protected info], [protected info], Tailwind CSS
Mobile: Native and Flutter (component-based, composable architecture)
Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), Istio, Terraform, autoscaling, chaos engineering
Data & AI: Snowflake, Apache Kafka, Spark, TensorFlow, Airflow
DevOps & Security: GitLab (CI/CD), Backstage (developer productivity), SRE, observability tools.
Why You'll Love Working Here
Benefits
- 13th salary
- Social Insurance
- Medical healthcare
- Annual health check
- 15 days annual leave
- Transportation fee (BE's services)
- Performance bonus
- Holiday bonus
- Team Building and many engagement activities
