Manager, Engineering - Backend

Key Responsibilities • Lead our backend or full-stack engineering team. This team building the API's and services to power our back-end experiences across web, as well as front-end web development. • You not only have the technical chops to roll up sleeves and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also build and manage a team of 10-15 top notch engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs. • As an Engineering Manager you manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. • Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring. • Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback. • 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 work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace. • Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time • Architect & design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions. • 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

Skills & Qualifications • Above 10+ years of experience with technology depth as well as good people skills. • 3+ years of combined professional software engineering experience as an engineering manager or tech lead. • A BE/BTech in Computer Science or some equivalent academic stance. • Good experience in Product development using Java, Spring boot, Spring MVC, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis Cache, Javascript ( Reactjs/Redux.js ) etc. • Excellent leadership skills to mentor the engineers under you. • Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup. • Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems. • Strong object-oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces. • Superior project management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience of delivering high quality projects on time. • Able to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly and provide longer term vision and motivation