Director, Backend Engineering and Architecture

Job Title: Director Backend Engineering and Architecture

Location: Troy Michigan

Position Responsibilities :

Contribute to backend architecture design including design patterns and scalable system components.

Provide technical guidance to backend engineering team members to support alignment with architectural and performance objectives.

Support backend modernization initiatives including migration to microservices and cloud-based platforms.

Establish and maintain backend design documentation integration standards and code-review practices.

Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Frontend and Security teams to implement technical solutions aligned with business needs.

Participate in architecture discussions performance analysis and system reliability improvements.

Ensure adherence to CI/CD best practices code-quality metrics and architectural standards.

Contribute to backend system scalability observability and performance optimization efforts.

Support system monitoring capacity planning and reliability engineering activities.

Telecommuting and working from home permitted from anywhere in the U.S.

Required Skills & Experience :

Bachelors or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems and 1 year of experience in the job offered or 1 year of experience in a related programming occupations such as DevOps Engineer Software Developer Software Engineer or equivalent using tools such as C#; 1 year of experience Core or equivalent backend framework; 1 year of experience using Cloud Platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP including experience with ECS EKS or AKS; 1 year of experience using Databases tools such as MySQL SQL Server and MongoDB and Architecture tools such as Microservices event-driven design RESTful APIs; 1 year of experience with CI/CD pipeline management and monitoring tools; 1 year of experience with security tools such as OAuth2 IAM encryption load balancing and distributed lieu of a Bachelors or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems employer will accept an additional 2 years of experience in the skills listed above.

Required Experience:

Director