About the Role :
Were looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a high-performing scrum team within the Engineering organization. Youll be responsible for building and scaling our omni-channel messaging platformcovering SMS, Email, Voice, and Socialengineered to handle billions of transactions daily.
Youll bring deep technical expertise, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to drive excellence in engineering practices, delivery, and team culture.
Key Responsibilities :
- Lead, mentor, and grow a scrum team delivering highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance messaging systems.
- Own the full product development lifecycle for your teamfrom design to deployment to support.
- Work closely with business and product teams to align delivery with business goals and customer needs.
- Define and measure engineering quality metrics, ensuring the team meets standards for performance, scalability, and code quality.
- Champion engineering best practices : agile delivery, TDD, CI / CD, and strong documentation.
- Contribute to solution and subsystem architecture decisions, ensuring modularity, reuse, and maintainability.
- Conduct design and code reviews, guiding the team toward robust, clean, and efficient solutions.
- Manage team performance, career growth, and hiringbuilding a motivated, high-caliber engineering group.
- Drive operational excellence and customer satisfaction through on-time delivery within cost and quality expectations.
- Lead POCs, benchmarking, and technical evaluations to support innovation and continuous improvement.
- Own production issues and drive quick, effective resolutions.
- Ensure engineering processesversion control, release management, QAare followed rigorously.
- Drive strategic initiatives like productivity, automation, and process optimization.
Skills Set :
10 to 15 years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a managerial or team leadership role.Deep, hands-on experience in designing and delivering scalable systems in Java / Spring.Solid understanding of message-oriented middleware and PostgreSQL.Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).Knowledge of functional programming and Erlang is a plus.Deep understanding of :o Internet protocols (from application to physical layer)
o Virtual machine architecture
o REST API design
o Single-page applications
o Socket-level programming, TCP / IP protocol
Strong exposure to Agile delivery, TDD, CI / CD, QA lifecycle, JIRA, and GitHub.(ref : hirist.tech)