Senior Backend Manager, Cafeyn

• Strong team management experience with a proven ability to lead a large team of over 10 developers
• Excellent listening and interpersonal skills
• Ability to empower team members with autonomy while providing direction
• Proven ability to manage diverse stakeholders, such as PM, business team, QA engineers, and ensure back-end initiatives align with broader organizational needs
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years in back-end development, including at least 5 years in team management
• Hands-On Leadership: Ability to remain involved in technical aspects when necessary
• Project Management: Skilled in handling multiple concurrent projects
• Deep knowledge of C# (mandatory)
• Experience with high-traffic B2C applications (e.g., 250k requests per minute during peak periods), focusing on scalability and API performance
• Strong understanding of data management, from the handling of publisher data to the app tracking events, including data quality, storage (e.g., databases), and transmission
• Proficiency in GitHub, including CI/CD pipeline configuration
• Basic AWS knowledge (e.g., CloudWatch, ElasticCache, ECS)
• Solid grasp of functional and technical architecture within back-end stacks
• Language Skills: Fluent in English (both written and spoken)

Desirable

• As a Senior Back-End Manager, you will lead and inspire a team of over 10 developers to ensure the robustness, scalability, performance, and security of the company’s back-end systems.
• Reporting directly to the Director of Engineering, this role requires a seasoned leader to drive the development and maintenance of critical services and APIs.
• You will also play a key role in fostering innovation and adopting best practices within the technical team
• You will also work closely with the Head of Infrastructure to optimize CI/CD pipelines and manage cloud environments on AWS, enabling seamless deployment processes and system reliability
• Technical Leadership and Team Management:
• Inspire and manage a team of over ten developers, providing guidance and fostering autonomy
• Provide mentorship and guidance to team members, ensuring their growth aligns with both personal and organizational goals
• Build a high-performing team by hiring, retaining, and developing top talent
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
• Act as a key technical liaison with Product, Front-End, Data, QA, Business, and Customer Care teams to align technical efforts with organizational objectives
• Champion cross-team initiatives, such as improving data quality, optimizing app tracking, and enhancing system performance
• System Design and Architecture:
• Lead the design and development of scalable back-end systems
• Ensure the delivery of secure, reliable, and maintainable APIs that meet the needs of a high-traffic B2C environment handling up to 250,000 requests per minute during peak periods
• CI/CD Management & Cloud Collaboration:
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Collaborate closely on the optimization of cloud environments, leveraging AWS services such as CloudWatch, ElasticCache, and ECS to ensure system efficiency and reliability
• Continuous Improvement:
• Drive improvements in code quality and development processes
• Stay informed of emerging technologies and best practices, integrating them to maintain the team's competitive edge
• This position is an opportunity to shape and lead a high-performing team at the heart of our technical ecosystem, ensuring we meet the demands of a rapidly growing user base while maintaining top-tier standards in performance and quality

• Part of an international team
• Possibility of full remote working
• Vip access at Cafeyn of Blendle
• Social Events : Team Lunch, afterworks, breakfasts..
• Free food & drinks
• Access to corporate trainings : languages, tech, product..
• Product & Tech culture : Tech x Share, Squad's demo, AWS training and certification..
• Sport perks (Classpass)

Total funding: $10.6m

The decline of print media, which is only predicted to continue, has left newspapers and magazines in real trouble. Cafeyn offers these businesses a way out, through its app that enables users to access hundreds of newspapers and magazines from one place.