Engineering Manager (Backend)

Responsibilities:

• Lead our backend engineering team both engineers and managers. This team builds the APIs and services to power our back-end experiences across the web, as well as front-end web development.
• You not only have the technical chops to roll up your sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects but also build and manage a team of 10-15 top-notch engineers.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular and deep mentoring.
• Operating with scale and speed amidst flux, there is just a LOT happening.
• Our world-class software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.
• You are their default mentor.
• You set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time Architect and design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

Interpersonal Skills:

• You not only optimize your code but also make sure engineers can optimize theirs.
• Perform regular performance evaluations and share and seek feedback.

Strategic thinking:

• As an Engineering Manager you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy, and help develop your team.

Collaboration:

• You work with designers, business analysts, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment.
• Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organizations.
• You work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, and Operations teams and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.

Requirements:

• Bachelor/Master's in computer science or relevant fields.
• 8+ years of Relevant Experience.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Excellent Java and object-oriented development skills.
• Experience in building and scaling microservices.
• Strong Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
• Strong problem-solving skills, technical troubleshooting, and diagnosing.
• Expected to be a role model for young engineers, have a strong sense of code quality, and enforce code quality within the team.
• Excellent understanding of Debugging performance and optimization techniques.
• Experience in Java, MongoDB, MySQL, AWS technologies, ELK stack, Spring boot, and Kafka.
• Experience in developing any large-scale.
• Experience in cloud technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in a fast-paced environment.