Key Responsibilities :

Engineering Leadership & Delivery :

- Lead one or more engineering teams, owning delivery outcomes, timelines, and quality.

- Lead technical spikes or research efforts to de-risk major architectural decisions.

- Partner with Product Managers to translate business requirements into clear technical execution plans.

- Drive sprint planning, estimation, execution, retrospectives, and post-mortems.

- Ensure predictable delivery while managing technical risk and dependencies.

People Management & Mentorship:

- Hire, onboard, mentor, and develop engineers across seniority levels.

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

- Foster a culture of accountability, psychological safety, and continuous learning.

- Support engineers in growing both technically and professionally.

Quality, Reliability & Operational Excellence:

- Partner across teams to ensure high availability and performance.

- Promote strong CI/CD practices, automation, and engineering hygiene.

- Oversee production readiness, incident response, and root-cause analysis.

- Ensure teams proactively address technical debt and reliability risks.

Innovation & Tooling:

- Encourage adoption of modern engineering practices, frameworks, and tooling.

- Support teams in leveraging LLMs and AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and testing efficiency.

- Continuously evaluate ways to improve developer experience and team effectiveness.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

- Work closely with Product, Design, Security, Compliance, and other engineering teams.

- Ensure alignment across teams on priorities, dependencies, and architectural direction.

- Contribute to engineering documentation, standards, and knowledge sharing.

Skills & Qualifications:

Must-Have:

- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in an engineering management role.

- Strong background in backend systems (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, microservices architecture).

- Experience leading Agile teams and managing end-to-end delivery.

- Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker), version control (Git), and Agile methodologies.

- Proven ability to mentor engineers and build high-performing teams.

- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and execution skills.

- Experience with AWS cloud platform.