Engineering Manager - Java/React.js

Job Description :

Engineering Leadership :

- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and frontend engineers.

- Drive engineering best practices across coding standards, code reviews, testing, and deployment pipelines.

- Own the end-to-end delivery of engineering projects, ensuring timelines, quality, and performance.

- Provide technical guidance and career mentorship to engineers across experience levels.

AI-Driven Development :

- Promote the use of AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and ChatGPT to improve development velocity.

- Establish AI-assisted workflows for code generation, refactoring, testing, and debugging.

- Encourage automation-first development practices to streamline engineering operations.

Architecture & System Design :

- Design and architect scalable distributed systems using Java/Spring Boot.

- Lead development of modern front-end applications using React.js and component-based architectures.

- Ensure systems are built with high availability, scalability, and performance optimization in mind.

- Drive adoption of microservices architecture and cloud-native design patterns.

Cross-Functional Collaboration :

- Collaborate closely with Product, Data, DevOps, and Business teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

- Participate in engineering roadmap planning, architecture discussions, and strategic technical decisions.

- Manage execution across multiple engineering initiatives simultaneously.

Engineering Excellence :

- Implement best practices for observability, logging, monitoring, and performance optimization.

- Improve development productivity through automation, tooling, and CI/CD practices.

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

QUALIFICATION & SKILL-SET :

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 24 years of experience leading engineering teams.

- Strong backend development experience using Java and Spring Boot ecosystem.

- Strong front-end development experience with React.js and modern JavaScript frameworks.

- Solid experience designing distributed systems and microservices architectures.

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Experience with RESTful APIs, system scalability, and performance optimization.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices.

- Strong understanding of data structures, system design, and software engineering best practices.

- Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

AI Development Experience :

- Candidates should have hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools, including :

i. AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, etc.

ii. Using AI tools for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and documentation.

iii. AI-assisted test generation and automated code review workflows.