Backend Engineering Manager (Remote)

Backend Engineering Manager

Company Overview

As an external recruitment partner, we present a refreshed profile for our client, a prominent fintech challenger operating across Europe. This organization champions innovation, collaboration, and responsible governance to simplify financial interactions while maintaining security and reliability. The mission centers on empowering businesses and individuals to transact, borrow, and save with confidence, supported by rigorous engineering practices and governance frameworks.

Forsyth Barnes is a global talent partner disrupting the recruitment industry. We operate through partnerships over one-time transactions and truly put our clients and candidates at the core of our ethos. We blend relationship building with investments in AI and technology to attract talent for your business. This success has paved the way for us to be recognised by the Financial Times as one of the fastest growing businesses in Europe year-on-year. We have a proven track history of successful partnerships with a mix of FTSE organisations and hyper-growth scale-ups looking to build high performing teams across eTail, FinTech and Sports and Entertainment industries.

Job Summary

The role centers on steering a capable engineering squad to deliver scalable backend services that underpin core financial products. You will partner with product leadership, data engineering, information security, and site reliability to bring value quickly and with high quality. Responsibilities include architectural stewardship, coding standardization, and cultivating a culture of ownership and agility. The ideal candidate will blend strategic oversight with hands-on delivery, mentoring engineers, and shaping the technical roadmap to support business aims.

Key Responsibilities

• Articulate and champion the backend platform's technical strategy, ensuring it maps to product and business priorities.
• Oversee architecture decisions to ensure scalability, resilience, security, and performance across the ecosystem.
• Nurture a diverse engineering team, guiding career growth and succession planning.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into robust systems and roadmaps.
• institutionalize delivery excellence through disciplined processes for code quality, testing, and release governance.
• Steer budget, staffing, and hiring to sustain momentum on strategic platform initiatives.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated success leading backend teams in complex, reliability-driven domains.
• Deep expertise in at least one major backend framework and ecosystem (e.g., Java, Scala, Go, Python).
• Hands-on experience with cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to design secure, scalable APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Location

European Union, Remote: True

Employment Type

Full Time

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with annual performance-driven bonus.
• Robust health coverage and retirement savings plan.
• Hybrid and remote-friendly work arrangements.
• Structured career development, mentorship, and ongoing training opportunities.
• Join a mission-driven fintech culture leveraging modern technology stacks.

Equal Opportunity Statement

At Forsyth Barnes, we are committed to building a truly inclusive and equitable workplace where diverse talent can thrive. We champion Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through meaningful, measurable actions. Our recruitment process is designed to be bias-free, supported by AI-powered talent mapping, blind CVs, and diverse interview panels to ensure fair representation at every stage. We invest in education and accountability. Every manager completes unconscious bias training to foster inclusive leadership. We are proud that 66% of our back-office leadership team are women, reflecting our commitment to gender equity and progress across the business. Diversity fuels innovation, and we are passionate about creating an environment where everyone feels empowered, respected and valued for who they are.