Engineering Manager

Team Leadership

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 5-6 engineers across different levels.

• Set clear performance expectations, run structured 1:1s, and own career development for your reports.

• Build and maintain a high-trust, psychologically safe team culture.

• Provide technical mentorship and coaching to help engineers grow in Java, cloud, and distributed systems.

Delivery & Execution

• Own the planning, prioritization, and on-time delivery of engineering commitments for your team.

• Drive agile processes (sprint planning, retrospectives, estimation) without letting process become overhead.

• Remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and escalate risks early.

• Hold the team accountable to quality, velocity, and reliability targets.

• Translate business requirements into appropriate technical solutions, keeping simplicity at the core.

Hands-On Technical Contributions

• Conduct meaningful code reviews for Java-based backend services, ensuring quality, maintainability, and adherence to engineering standards.

• Design and architect highly scalable, cloud-native enterprise software applications.

• Work hands-on with Java, J2EE, Spring, REST APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) to contribute to architecture and critical design decisions.

• Guide the team in debugging complex distributed system issues across Kafka, MongoDB, and microservices.

• Research, evaluate, and recommend technologies required for solution delivery.

• Work closely with engineers to design solutions to security problems and monitor vulnerabilities in third-party components.

• Maximise performance, uptime, and supportability of the product.

Technical Strategy

• Provide technical oversight across backend architecture, API design, and distributed systems.

• Guide architectural decisions, code quality standards, and engineering best practices.

• Partner with Principal and Lead engineers to define the long-term technical vision.

• Ensure observability, security, performance, and reliability are treated as first-class concerns.

• Champion DevOps and cloud infrastructure best practices across the team.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Work closely with Product Management to define requirements and shape the roadmap.

• Translate business goals into clear engineering scope and realistic timelines.

• Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders, providing project progress updates and highlighting risks with mitigation plans.

• Interface with customer-facing functions to gather requirements and perform technical due diligence.