The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing, and mentoring a high-performing scrum team. Your role will involve strategizing, project management, part staff management. You'll be responsible for building and scaling the omni-channel messaging platform covering SMS, Email, Voice, and Social-engineered to handle billions of transactions daily.
You'll bring deep technical expertise, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to drive excellence in engineering practices, delivery, and team culture
Your collaborative attitude and interpersonal skills will help you thrive as an Engineering Manager.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a scrum team delivering highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance messaging systems.
- Own the full product development lifecycle for your team; from design to deployment to support.
- Work closely with business and product teams to align delivery with business goals and customer needs.
- Define and measure engineering quality metrics, ensuring the team meets standards for performance, scalability, and code quality.
- Champion engineering best practices: agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, and strong documentation.
- Contribute to solution and subsystem architecture decisions, ensuring modularity, reuse, and maintainability.
- Conduct design and code reviews, guiding the team toward robust, clean, and efficient solutions.
- Manage team performance, career growth, and hiringbuilding a motivated, high-caliber engineering group.
- Drive operational excellence and customer satisfaction through on-time delivery within cost and quality expectations.
- Lead POCs, benchmarking, and technical evaluations to support innovation and continuous improvement.
- Own production issues and drive quick, effective resolutions.
- Ensure engineering processesversion control, release management, QA are followed rigorously.
- Drive strategic initiatives like productivity, automation, and process optimization.
Qualifications
- Engineering degree in Computer Science
- Candidate must be from Product Organizations Only.
- Overall 10+ years of experience with 712 years of experience in software development.
- At least 3+ years of management or leadership role.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Deep, hands-on experience in designing and delivering scalable systems in Java/Spring.
- Solid understanding of message-oriented middleware and PostgreSQL.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
- Knowledge of functional programming and Erlang is a plus.
- Deep understanding of:
- Internet protocols (from application to physical layer)
- Virtual machine architecture
- REST API design
- Single-page applications
- Socket-level programming, TCP/IP protocol
- Strong exposure to Agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, QA lifecycle, JIRA, and GitHub
