Engineering Manager Backend Location: South Delhi
Experience: 35 Years
Work Schedule: 6 days a week (Non-negotiable)
About Us
Jumbo is the fastest growing shopping app in the world. Get rewarded every time you shop, play free games, and win exciting prizes! We combine shopping, rewards, and gaming to create engaging experiences for millions of users globally.
About the Role
We're looking for an Engineering Manager (Backend) to lead and scale our engineering team. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll balance system architecture, code quality, and people management.
You'll own backend platforms powering high-scale, real-time, consumer-facing products, while mentoring engineers, setting technical direction, and working closely with product and business teams. From architecture decisions to delivery excellence you'll have end-to-end ownership.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Architect, design, and evolve scalable backend systems and APIs using Node.js / NestJS
- Own system design decisions across microservices, data storage, messaging, and infra
- Lead backend architecture on AWS, GCP and Digitalocean (Lambda, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, IAM)
- Drive performance, scalability, reliability, and security across all backend services
- Oversee implementation of fraud detection, real-time data processing, and event-driven systems
- Establish best practices for code quality, testing, observability, and documentation
People & Team Management
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning
- Set clear technical goals, delivery timelines, and accountability for the team
- Foster a strong engineering culture around ownership, learning, and collaboration
- Hire and onboard engineers as the team scales
Collaboration & Execution
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Business to translate business goals into technical solutions
- Work with frontend teams (React Native, Next.js) to deliver seamless, reliable user experiences
- Drive sprint planning, execution, and post-mortems
- Balance speed and quality in a fast-paced startup environment
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, primarily with Node.js
- Strong hands-on expertise in Node.js / NestJS, REST & GraphQL API design
- Proven experience designing and scaling distributed systems
- Deep experience with AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, infra automation)
- Strong working knowledge of Postgres, Redis, MongoDB in production
- Experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming / messaging systems
- Solid understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers (formal or informal)
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate in an early-stage startup
- Exposure to Golang/Spring boot is a plus
At Jumbo, we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive environment for everyoneregardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, or background.
