Backend Engineering Manager - Python/Django

Job Title : Backend Engineering Sr. Manager

Experience : 710 Years

Location : Mumbai

Employment Type : Full-time

About the Role :

Key Responsibilities :

- Technical Leadership: Drive architectural decisions and contribute to design and system scalability.

- Code Reviews: Oversee code quality through rigorous code reviews, enforcing best practices in code maintainability, testability, and performance.

- Project Ownership: Take complete ownership of backend services from design, development, deployment, monitoring, to incident management.

- DevOps Integration: Collaborate with DevOps teams for CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, and monitoring; ensure system uptime and performance.

- Scalability and Performance: Build and maintain systems that scale to millions of users; optimize for speed, memory, and efficiency.

- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and QA to ship features on time.

Technical Skills Required :

DevOps & Infrastructure :

- Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.).

- Experience with PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS.

- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform or CloudFormation is a plus).

- Architecture: Proven ability to design microservices and event-driven architectures.

- Databases: Strong knowledge of relational databases (especially PostgreSQL); experience with scaling and performance tuning.

Qualifications :

- 710 years of backend engineering experience, with 2+ years in a team leadership or managerial role.

- Proven experience in building and maintaining backend systems at scale.

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound engineering decisions independently.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.