Software Development Manager

Key Responsibilities :

Team Leadership & Management :

- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of 10-15 software engineers (Backend and SRE).

- Drive recruitment, onboarding, and performance management of engineering talent.

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

- Define clear objectives and measurable outcomes for engineering teams.

- Provide career development guidance, technical mentorship, and leadership coaching.

Technical Strategy & Architecture :

- Define and execute the technical roadmap for backend services and microservices architecture.

- Collaborate with architects to design scalable, resilient, and secure systems.

- Oversee design reviews, code quality, and adherence to best practices in software engineering.

- Guide the team in adopting modern development frameworks, CI/CD, and observability practices.

- Champion automation, cloud-native development, and efficient system performance monitoring.

Delivery & Execution :

- Manage the complete software development lifecycle from planning to release.

- Ensure timely and high-quality delivery aligned with business objectives.

- Implement agile delivery methodologies, sprint planning, and backlog management.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, QA, DevOps, and Security) for seamless releases.

- Drive incident management, root-cause analysis, and proactive issue resolution.

Operational Excellence & DevOps :

- Establish strong DevOps and CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, and CircleCI.

- Ensure robust observability using Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, Splunk, and Datadog.

- Optimize application monitoring, performance tuning, and incident alerting processes.

- Manage infrastructure deployments on containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

Technical Skills Required :

Core Technologies :

- Programming : Java (Advanced), Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices Architecture

- Databases : SQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), Oracle, Snowflake

- Messaging & Event Streaming : Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ

- DevOps & CI/CD : Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Git

- Cloud & Containerization : Docker, Kubernetes

- Monitoring & Observability : Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic

- Data & Integration Tools : API Gateways, Caching, Authentication, Security frameworks

Key Attributes & Leadership Competencies :

- Proven experience in managing enterprise-scale software engineering teams.

- Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and performance optimization.

- Hands-on technical expertise with modern backend stacks and DevOps pipelines.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Ability to align technical initiatives with organizational strategy.

- Deep focus on engineering excellence, security, and innovation.

Educational Qualification :

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

- Advanced certifications in Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) or DevOps are a plus.