Engineering Manager - Backend

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop highly scalable, 24/7 consumer internet applications.
• Lead a team of 10+ engineers and manage their deliverables.
• Work independently in completing large-sized projects while managing competing priorities in a demanding production environment.
• Review architecture and system designs.
• Provide mentoring and coaching in driving career growth.
• Work with senior leadership in building product and engineering roadmaps.
• Work with recruiting team in scaling up the teams in multiple locations.
• Work and point of contact for engineering escalations in specific product lines.
• Work with retailer technical organization in optimizing the integrations.
• Provide hands-on assistance in production issue troubleshooting.

Requirements:

• B. Tech/M. Tech/MCA/MS with 9+ years of relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in an engineering manager role.
• Demonstrated experience in product development and production rollout/monitoring.
• Strong experience in Java, web programming, and microservices.
• Experience in development with high-volume databases, preferably NoSQL databases.
• Experience in developing web services using microservices architecture and integrating with external services is a plus.
• Experience in handling large-scale systems and performance optimization.
• Experience in managing a 5+ member team.
• Ability to work in an agile scrum development process with bi-weekly production releases.
• Ability to recruit and retain high-performing team members.
• Ability to collaborate and drive projects with cross-functional teams such as Product Management, SRE, Support, Professional Services, and Operations teams.
• Ability to handle product escalations and support as needed.

Skills

backend, engineering, java, microservices