Engineering Manager - Backend Development

About the Role :

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Engineering Manager to lead high-performing engineering teams and drive the delivery of scalable, enterprise-grade software solutions. This role combines technical leadership, people management, architecture ownership, and cross-functional collaboration.

As an Engineering Manager, you will play a key role in building engineering culture, mentoring developers, driving execution excellence, and contributing to strategic technology decisions. The ideal candidate has strong backend engineering expertise in Java-based ecosystems, experience managing teams, and a passion for building reliable, cloud-native platforms.

Exposure to emerging AI engineering practices, including GenAI tools and Agentic AI systems, will be considered a strong advantage.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead and mentor a team of 5 - 10 software engineers across one or more product areas.
• Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale, high-impact engineering initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to define and execute product roadmaps.
• Drive engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code reviews, best practices, and process improvements.
• Participate in hands-on development and technical problem-solving when required.
• Design and guide scalable distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• Ensure software quality, system reliability, performance optimization, and timely delivery.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, career development discussions, and team engagement initiatives.
• Support hiring, onboarding, and scaling of engineering teams.
• Identify and resolve technical bottlenecks, operational risks, and production issues.
• Drive Agile delivery processes, CI/CD adoption, and DevOps best practices.
• Evaluate and enable adoption of AI-driven engineering productivity tools and Agentic AI frameworks for intelligent automation.

Required Qualifications :

• 10+ years of software development experience with strong backend engineering expertise.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience managing or leading engineering teams.
• Strong experience in :
• Java

2.

Spring

Boot

• REST APIs

4.

Microservices

Architecture

5.

Distributed

Systems

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Good understanding of :
• SDLC
• Agile methodologies
• CI/CD pipelines
• DevOps practices
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and build high-performing teams.

Preferred / Nice to Have :

• Experience in Healthcare, FinTech, or SaaS product organizations.
• Exposure to GenAI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Codex, Claude Code, etc.
• Understanding of Agentic AI systems, autonomous agents, orchestration frameworks, or multi-agent architectures.
• Exposure to React or modern frontend technologies.
• Experience with :
• Kafka
• Spark
• MongoDB
• Databricks
• AWS SageMaker
• Experience scaling engineering teams and distributed teams.
• Familiarity with security and compliance standards such as HITRUST, SOC2, GDPR.

What We're Looking For :

• Strong technical depth with the ability to guide architecture and engineering decisions.
• A collaborative leader who can inspire, mentor, and grow engineering talent.
• Someone who thrives in fast-paced, product-driven environments.
• Passion for innovation, automation, and leveraging AI to improve engineering productivity.