Engineering Manager - Backend Development

About the Role :

The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with modern software development, distributed systems, cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, databases, and third-party integrations, along with experience managing and mentoring engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, providing technical guidance and supporting their professional growth.

• Own the complete software development lifecycle from technical requirements and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and production support.

• Define technical direction, architecture standards, coding practices, and engineering best practices.

• Design and review scalable, highly available, secure, and maintainable software systems.

• Review code, technical designs, API specifications, database architecture, and system implementations.

• Collaborate with Product and business teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Lead development and integration of REST APIs, financial systems, payment gateways, and third-party platforms.

• Drive microservices and distributed-system architecture for scalable applications.

• Work with DevOps and Cloud teams on CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, reliability, and infrastructure scalability.

• Identify and resolve technical bottlenecks, performance issues, system dependencies, and production challenges.

• Establish engineering metrics and processes to improve software quality, delivery velocity, reliability, and maintainability.

• Drive automated testing, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and release management practices.

• Ensure applications meet security, performance, scalability, availability, and data protection requirements.

• Participate in engineering hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and team development.

• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Technical Skills :

• Programming : Java, Python, Node.js, C#, or similar.

• Frameworks : Spring Boot, .NET, Node.js, or equivalent.

• Architecture : Microservices, REST APIs, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture.

• Databases : PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL Server, or equivalent.

• Messaging : Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, or similar.

• Cloud : AWS, Azure, or GCP.