Engineering Manager - Backend Platform & Services

Vacancy Name
Engineering Manager - Backend Platform & Services

Vacancy No
VN403

Status
Active

Location
Remote US

Location Country
United States

Location Region

Location City

Description
Who are we?

Auction Technology Group (ATG) is transforming the multi-billion-dollar global auction industry. Our platforms connect thousands of auction houses with buyers in over 170 countries, powering more than $15 billion in annual sales. Through innovative online auction technologies, we help auctioneers expand their reach, boost efficiency, and maximize value-while giving bidders unrivaled access to rare and specialized items.

As a publicly traded company, ATG has scaled from $18 million to $170 million in revenue, with sustained growth beyond the pandemic. We're modernizing one of the last industries to fully go digital-building a global, category-defining business in the process.

Some problems we are working on in the LiveAuctioneers platform:

How do we build reliable, scalable microservices that power critical experiences like payments and shipping?

How do we ensure high availability and performance across distributed systems under peak auction load?

How do we design event-driven architectures that decouple services while maintaining data consistency?

How do we improve observability across our microservices architecture to reduce mean time to resolution?

How do we accelerate delivery cadence while preserving safety and quality in production systems?

...and many more such questions.

Your Mission

Drive engineering excellence across our backend platform - enabling reliable, scalable services that power payments, shipping, and the core commerce experience at LiveAuctioneers.

Define and drive engineering excellence across the team

Own end-to-end delivery of the team's projects from design through production

Ensure continued service reliability, performance, and timely technical support for all stakeholders

Collaborate with Product, Operations, and Architecture to define and drive the platform roadmap

Manage career development of engineers through continuous coaching and mentoring

Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities:

Partner with stakeholders to deeply understand business priorities and translate them into clear technical strategies for backend services supporting payments, shipping, and platform capabilities.

Balance partner needs by designing solutions that advance platform reliability and scalability while enabling fast, confident feature delivery.

Oversee the end-to-end delivery of backend microservices built in GoLang, ensuring production-grade quality, observability, and operational readiness at each stage.

Champion solid software development practices including code review standards, testing strategies (unit, integration, contract), CI/CD pipelines, and production deployment processes.

Drive the adoption of event-driven patterns while ensuring the team designs for resilience and fault tolerance.

Ensure the team operates effective Agile ceremonies - sprint planning, standups, retrospectives - and continuously improves velocity and predictability.

Grow, mentor, and develop a team of backend engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Provide technical and organizational leadership, ensuring execution excellence while crafting a long-term strategy for the platform's architecture and infrastructure.

Key Requirements
What You Need to Be Successful:

3+ years of experience leading a cross-functional engineering team as an Engineering Manager.

Bachelor's/Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Proven hands-on background in backend systems development, with strong familiarity with GoLang, Python, PHP or comparable web application development technologies and a clear ability to lead teams working in that stack.

Deep expertise in microservices architecture, including service decomposition, API design, inter-service communication, and data ownership patterns.

Solid experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes, covering deployment, scaling, resource management, and operational best practices.

Strong understanding of message broker systems, particularly RabbitMQ and/or Kafka, and the design of reliable event-driven workflows.

Proficiency with relational databases (MySQL) including schema design, query optimization, and data integrity in a microservices context.

Demonstrated commitment to the full software development lifecycle: design and architecture, testing (unit, integration, end-to-end), production deployments (blue/green, canary), and post-deployment observability (logging, metrics, alerting, tracing).

Fluency with Agile methodologies - sprints, scrum, backlog refinement - and experience continuously improving team delivery practices.

Comfortable navigating ambiguity; able to decompose complex problems into clear, manageable work for the team.

Effective communicator who can explain technical decisions and trade-offs to engineers, product managers, and senior leadership.

Role model for engineering excellence, fostering a culture of quality, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Proven expertise in stakeholder management and building strong cross-functional relationships.

Strong business understanding to drive informed, pragmatic engineering decisions.

Auction Technology Group is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role begins at $170,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.

Employment Type
Permanent

Duration
Permanent

Business Name
LiveAuctioneers

Function Name
Technology