# Backend Engineering Manager

**Company**: Kensho, S&P Global
**Location**: Hyderabad, Telangana
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Backend Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of Software Engineers developing Kensho's GenAI platform, LLM-powered applications, and foundational AI toolkits.

Your responsibilities span deep technical leadership, people management, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading high-quality backend delivery

- Developing retrieval and orchestration systems

- Driving performance and operational excellence

- Strengthening system architecture

- Ensuring security and compliance

- Improving reliability and managing technical debt

- Developing engineering talent

- Managing priorities and delivery

- Collaborating across teams

- Supporting user experience through backend excellence

- Fostering innovation and experimentation

- Modeling Kensho's culture and values

Requirements:

- Overall 8+ years of experience, with at least 4+ years of hands-on experience in developing customer-facing APIs within a team

- At least 3 years of experience developing production-grade software and leading remote or multi-site teams of 3-4+ engineers

- Experience developing RESTful APIs using a variety of tools

- Strong understanding of distributed system concepts, concurrency, and event-driven architectures

- Experience building and scaling high-volume, low-latency backend services

- Sound reasoning about the behaviour and performance of loosely coupled systems

- Proficiency with algorithms, data structures, and software architecture

- Experience with CI/CD practices and tools to streamline deployment processes

- Experience with containerisation technologies for application deployment and orchestration

- Experience deploying and operating backend systems on a major cloud platform

- Experience working across all stages of the software development lifecycle

- Thoughtful and efficient communication skills

- Experience using quantitative and qualitative measures to assess and improve the health of teams and projects

- Experience providing ongoing technical and interpersonal coaching and performance management

- Experience turning abstract business requirements into concrete technical plans

Technology you'll encounter:

- Python, Flask, FastAPI, Django REST Framework

- PostgreSQL, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka, OpenSearch

- AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Sentry, Prometheus

- Git, Jenkins, Github Actions, Jsonnet

- Terraform, Grafana

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Flask
- FastAPI
- Django REST Framework
- PostgreSQL
- Celery
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Kafka
- OpenSearch
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Sentry
- Prometheus
- Git
- Jenkins
- Github Actions
- Jsonnet
- Terraform
- Grafana

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