Job Responsibilities :

- Lead, manage & inspire a team of backend software engineers, providing technical guidance, mentorship and performance management

- Owning end-to-end responsibility of software development life cycle, ensuring projects are delivered on schedule, within budget and with high quality

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, develop, and ship new features, develop technical strategies and product development plan

- Evaluate requirements and create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured development strategies

- Writing clean, efficient & maintained code

- Conduct regular code reviews, ensuring adherence to coding standards, scalability, maintainability and performance optimization

- Identify and resolve technical challenges, proactively mitigating risks and providing innovative solutions

- Monitor and optimize team performance, productivity and resource utilization to meet project deadlines and deliverables

- Develop and implement strategic plans to foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous learning & improvements.

- Build high performing teams by attracting, mentoring and retaining top engineering talent

- Setting KPIs and other metrics to measure team performance

- Team management & motivation

- Mentoring & Coaching

- Stay informed about emerging technologies, industry trends and best practices in software engineering

Required Skills :

- Proven 10+ years of experience working as backend engineer

- Prior experience in designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and fault tolerant mobile application products with infrastructure hosted on AWS

- Experience leading engineering teams and understand how to hire and retain the best engineering talent

- Excellent understanding of Data Structures & Algorithms

- Excellent understanding of System Design & Micro-service Architecture

- Proficiency in developing secure, scalable & highly optimized RESTful-based web services / APIs using Node JS

- Building scalable and performance-oriented services with caching techniques

- Experience with MongoDB (Mongo Atlas) and analysing the efficiency of queries

- Experience working on Elasticsearch/Solr

- Experience Integrating payment gateways

- integrating with logging and monitoring systems

- Experience working on cloud technologies (AWS), Docker/Kubernetes, BullMQ/Kafka/RabbitMQ

- Experience with DevOps and delivering into cloud-based environments using standard CI/CD tools (Jenkins, SonarQube, Spinnaker) and best practices

- Solid debugging skills with the ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive optimization efforts

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivery high-quality results

- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills

- Outstanding customer-centric & growth mindset and a hunger for impact

Desired Skills :

- Solid understanding of iOS/Android App Development.

- Experience with relational databases and knowledge of SQL