Engineering Manager, Backend Team
Axle Health, Santa Monica HQ
What you will do
- Hands-On Engineering: Spend the majority of your time designing, writing, and reviewing backend code across our services and APIs, and set the standard for quality through your own work.
- Team Leadership and Development: Manage and grow a team of backend engineers through regular feedback, coaching, and clear expectations for what great work looks like.
- Hiring: Lead hiring for our backend and devops opportunities.
- Backend Architecture: Own architecture decisions for high-volume backend systems, including service design, data modeling, API and SDK design, and performance, so the platform scales reliably with our customers.
- Infrastructure and DevOps: Own our AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation, and drive DevOps maturity as the team grows.
- Reliability and Observability: Own production health for backend systems, including monitoring, alerting, on-call, incident response, and postmortems that lead to real fixes.