Engineer Manager - Backend Platform & Services

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

Authorising Manager

Key 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

5+ 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.