Engineering Manager - Backend Platform (Kafka, Databases, Core Services)
Location
Poland
Background
Oscilar is building the decision infrastructure for financial services - powering real-time fraud detection, AML, and credit decisioning for some of the fastest growing fintechs and banks in the world. We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a high-caliber team of backend engineers working on our core infrastructure - including distributed systems, low-latency stream processing, and data storage at scale.
You’ll be responsible for managing engineers building mission-critical services, such as our Kafka ingestion platform, ClickHouse data layer, and event-driven workflow engine. It’s the core of the product. You’ll work closely with cross-functional leads in product, infrastructure, and AI to help define technical strategy, drive execution, and grow our engineering culture. You’ll have to co-ordinate and work with people in California.
To apply, send your resumé to us via email at [email protected].
Responsibilities
What You'll Do
Lead and grow a team of backend engineers working on core systems including Kafka pipelines, workflow orchestration, and real-time data platforms.
Guide technical design and architecture decisions for systems handling millions of events daily with high availability and low latency.
Partner with product and engineering leadership to define roadmaps, set priorities, and deliver on customer-facing features and internal platform capabilities.
Create a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and rapid iteration.
Support team members in their growth through mentoring, feedback, and career development.
Requirements
What We're Looking For
3+ years of experience managing high-performing backend or platform teams.
7+ years of hands-on backend experience working on large scale, low latency distributed systems, event streaming, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
Strong technical background - ideally familiar with technologies like Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, and Flink.
Experience managing teams working in Java, or similar backend languages.
Track record of leading complex technical projects and collaborating cross-functionally with product and infra.
Comfortable in high-growth, fast-paced environments with lots of ambiguity and autonomy.
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