Manager, Backend Engineering

$162,516 - $223,460/Yr

Under Armour - Springfield, IL

Full-time - Manager

Remote - Springfield, IL

Apparel Manufacturing

About the position

The Manager, Backend Engineering at Under Armour will lead the Engineering team responsible for building and maintaining backend services for the company's digital and retail customer touchpoints, including UA.com and the UA App. This role emphasizes mentoring, establishing standards for workflows, collaborating with product and infrastructure teams, and contributing to the long-term architecture of Under Armour's e-commerce ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Mentor, recruit, onboard, grow, and evaluate site reliability engineers
• Establish and maintain standards for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery workflows for feature development teams
• Collaborate with product teams to enable capabilities used by frontend teams to deliver delightful and performant experiences for customers
• Collaborate with the infrastructure team to ensure efficient and performant deployment and maintenance of services
• Contribute to long-term architecture and strategy of Under Armour's e-commerce ecosystem
• Incident triage and response

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with typically 8 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with typically 6 years of relevant experience OR 12 years of relevant experience without a degree
• Typically, 1 - 3 years of management experience; or equivalent experience as the subject matter lead or expert in area of expertise
• High proficiency with NodeJS, Typescript and supporting frameworks like Express
• Experience in developing advanced REST and GraphQL APIs with high throughput
• Proficiency with AWS services, Kubernetes, Docker
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling such as Github Actions
• Proficiency with source control including Git
• Proficiency with command line navigation
• Experience with site performance profiling and tuning
• Experience working within a service-oriented architecture
• Some experience in working with frontends built with React/NextJS or mobile applications platforms like iOS/Android

Benefits

• Paid 'UA Give Back' Volunteer Days
• Under Armour Merchandise Discounts
• Competitive 401(k) plan matching
• Maternity and Parental Leave for eligible and FMLA-eligible teammates
• Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources