Engineering Manager - Java

Key Responsibilities :

Team & People Management :

- Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers, driving performance, growth, and collaboration.

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

- Conduct regular 1 : 1s, performance reviews, and career development sessions.

Project & Technical Leadership :

- Collaborate with Product, DevOps, QA, and other stakeholders to define technical roadmaps and deliver high-quality solutions on time.

- Architect and guide development of microservices and backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.

- Drive initiatives around scalability, performance optimization, observability, and reliability.

- Oversee implementation of best practices in code quality, testing, security, and DevOps.

Process & Delivery :

- Manage agile development processes (Scrum/Kanban) and ensure timely, predictable delivery.

- Own sprint planning, capacity management, and progress tracking.

- Lead incident management and resolution of production issues with root cause analysis.

Technical Skills & Experience :

- 10+ years of backend software development experience with Java, with at least 3+ years in a managerial/leadership role.

- Expertise in Spring Boot, REST APIs, and distributed systems.

- Strong experience designing and deploying cloud-native applications on AWS (e.g., EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3).

- Good understanding of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and system design principles.

- Hands-on knowledge of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.

- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

- Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (e.g., ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).

- Excellent understanding of software engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, and agile methodologies.