Engineering Manager - Backend

Responsibilities:

• Manage a group of highly skilled senior engineers by providing technical management, guidance, coaching, best practices and principles
• Active participation in the design, development, delivery, and maintenance of software projects
• Responsible for resource planning, execution, and quality of the software delivered by the group
• Lead the group to build sophisticated products using a cutting-edge technology stack. The products will be used by retail customers and internal business users.
• Work closely with various business stakeholders, like the Product Management Team, and other Engineering teams to drive the execution of multiple business strategies and technologies
• Act as a point of contact for TCO (total cost of ownership), managing and driving production defects & stability improvements to resolution
• Ensuring operational efficiency and actively participating in organisational initiatives with the objective of ensuring the highest customer value
• Tailor processes to help manage time-sensitive issues and bring them to an appropriate closure

Skills required:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science with 8-10 years of experience
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in Java programming and any of the Java frameworks, such as Spring or Spring Boot
• Must have done Performance Appraisal, Hiring and building teams from the ground up
• Experience of working in a highly dynamic Engineering environment like a start-up
• Deep understanding of Object-Oriented programming languages
• Strong technology acumen, knowledge of software engineering process, design knowledge and architecture intelligence
• Exposure to any of the prominent cloud service providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams
• Ability to advocate & influence multiple stakeholders
• Experience and knowledge of delivering products with low/no-touch support, along with SRE principles