Description :

Title : Engineer Manager

Experience : 8+ Years

Work Model : 5 days

Location : Pune

About the Role :

Were looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a high-performing scrum team within the Engineering organization. Youll be responsible for building and scaling our omni-channel messaging platformcovering SMS, Email, Voice, and Social engineered to handle billions of transactions daily.

Youll bring deep technical expertise, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to drive excellence in engineering practices, delivery, and team culture.

Roles & responsibilities :

- Lead, mentor, and grow a scrum team delivering highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance messaging systems.

- Own the full product development lifecycle for your teamfrom design to deployment to support.

- Work closely with business and product teams to align delivery with business goals and customer needs.

- Define and measure engineering quality metrics, ensuring the team meets standards for performance, scalability, and code quality.

- Champion engineering best practices : agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, and strong documentation.

- Contribute to solution and subsystem architecture decisions, ensuring modularity, reuse, and maintainability.

- Conduct design and code reviews, guiding the team toward robust, clean, and efficient solutions.

- Manage team performance, career growth, and hiringbuilding a motivated, high-calibre engineering group.

- Drive operational excellence and customer satisfaction through on-time delivery within cost and quality expectations.

- Lead POCs, benchmarking, and technical evaluations to support innovation and continuous improvement.

- Own production issues and drive quick, effective resolutions.

- Ensure engineering processesversion control, release management, QAare followed rigorously.

- Drive strategic initiatives like productivity, automation, and process optimization.

Skills Set :

- 7 to 12 years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a managerial or team leadership role.

- Deep, hands-on experience in designing and delivering scalable systems in Java/Spring.

- Solid understanding of message-oriented middleware and PostgreSQL.

- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).

- Knowledge of functional programming and Erlang is a plus.

- Deep understanding of :

a. Internet protocols (from application to physical layer)

b. Virtual machine architecture

c. REST API design

d. Single-page applications

e. Socket-level programming, TCP/IP protocol

- Strong exposure to Agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, QA lifecycle, JIRA, and GitHub.