FlightAware- Engineering Manager, Backend (Remote)

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Are you prepared to lead a team of talented engineers responsible for data products that power billions of web and mobile views central to aviation?

FlightAware, part of the Connected Aviation Solutions unit of Collins Aerospace, has built the world's leading aviation software platform, processing over 180+ million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 individual data feeds—2 terabytes a day and growing! We provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight-tracking service and are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

As an Engineering Manager, Backend at FlightAware you’ll provide leadership, technical guidance, and product vision to a team of engineers and collaborate with cross-functional partners to design and develop services, products, and infrastructure used by thousands of customers each day. FlightAware’s product and service portfolio is expansive, and you could be operating across high-performance customer-facing APIs, internal distributed data fusion systems, our industry-leading website and mobile apps, and more. You may also bring expertise in system reliability as well as API design and implementation.

In this role, you will lead, support, and inspire backend software engineers on your team. As a hands-on leader, you’ll help them fulfill technical, operational, and business requirements. You’ll work alongside talented engineers and partners across Product, Design, Sales, and Marketing to guide architecture and delivery of major infrastructure and product improvements. The ideal candidate will be able to solve complex technical challenges while delivering incredible improvements to product reliability and quality. As part of FlightAware Engineering, you’ll be part of a highly collaborative, ambitious, and future-reaching organization. We attract engineering leaders with a passion for aviation and data. Our team champions intellectual curiosity, openness, and industry-leading technical innovation. We invest in building excellent internal tooling and engineering support in order to create a productive and highly effective team that anticipates the future and leads by example. You’ll get to learn alongside talented senior engineers and share your own expertise.

Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires at FlightAware. We look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and …