Engineering Manager

Team Leadership

Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 5–6 engineers across different levels.

Set clear performance expectations, run structured 1:1s, and own career development for your reports.

Build and maintain a high-trust, psychologically safe team culture.

Provide technical mentorship and coaching to help engineers grow in Java, cloud, and distributed systems.

Delivery & Execution

Own the planning, prioritization, and on-time delivery of engineering commitments for your team.

Drive agile processes (sprint planning, retrospectives, estimation) without letting process become overhead.

Remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies, and escalate risks early.

Hold the team accountable to quality, velocity, and reliability targets.

Translate business requirements into appropriate technical solutions, keeping simplicity at the core.

Hands-On Technical Contributions

Conduct meaningful code reviews for Java-based backend services, ensuring quality, maintainability, and adherence to engineering standards.

Design and architect highly scalable, cloud-native enterprise software applications.

Work hands-on with Java, J2EE, Spring, REST APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) to contribute to architecture and critical design decisions.

Guide the team in debugging complex distributed system issues across Kafka, MongoDB, and microservices.

Research, evaluate, and recommend technologies required for solution delivery.

Work closely with engineers to design solutions to security problems and monitor vulnerabilities in third-party components.

Maximise performance, uptime, and supportability of the product.

Technical Strategy

Provide technical oversight across backend architecture, API design, and distributed systems.

Guide architectural decisions, code quality standards, and engineering best practices.

Partner with Principal and Lead engineers to define the long-term technical vision.

Ensure observability, security, performance, and reliability are treated as first-class concerns.

Champion DevOps and cloud infrastructure best practices across the team.

Cross-Functional Partnership

Work closely with Product Management to define requirements and shape the roadmap.

Translate business goals into clear engineering scope and realistic timelines.

Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders, providing project progress updates and highlighting risks with mitigation plans.

Interface with customer-facing functions to gather requirements and perform technical due diligence.