Backend Engineer

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to guide our micro-service platform and mentor a fully remote backend team. You’ll blend hands-on technical ownership with people leadership—shaping architecture, driving cloud best practices, and coaching engineers in their careers and craft.

Key Responsibilities:

Area

What You’ll Own

Architecture & Delivery

• Define and evolve backend architecture built on Java 17+, Spring Boot 3, AWS (Containers, Lambdas, SQS, S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Databricks, Redis etc...

• Lead design and code reviews; enforce best practices for testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

• Drive technical roadmaps, ensuring scalability (billions of events, 99.9 %+ uptime) and rapid feature delivery.

Team Leadership & Growth

• Manage and inspire a distributed team of 6-10 backend engineers across multiple time zones.

• Set clear growth objectives, run 1-on-1s, deliver feedback, and foster an inclusive, high-trust culture.

• Coach the team on AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based code review) to boost productivity and code quality.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as technical liaison to Product, Frontend, SRE, and Data teams, translating business goals into resilient backend solutions.

• Communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences; influence cross-functional decisions.

Technical Vision & Governance

• Own coding standards, architectural principles, and technology selection.

• Evaluate emerging tools and frameworks (especially around GenAI and cloud-native patterns) and create adoption strategies.

• Balance technical debt and new feature delivery through data-driven prioritization.

Required Qualifications:

● 8+ years designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems with Java & Spring Boot

● Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers; direct people-management a plus

● Expert knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native design patterns

● Hands-on mastery of Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, and Redis for high-volume, low-latency workloads

● Demonstrated success scaling systems to millions of users or billions of events Strong grasp of DevOps practices: containerization (Docker), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observability stacks

● Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a remote-fi rst environment

Nice-to-Have:

● Hands-on experience with Datadog (APM, Logs, RUM) and a data-driven approach to debugging/performance tuning

● Startup experience—comfortable wearing multiple hats and juggling several projects simultaneously

● Prior title of Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Engineering Manager in a high-growth SaaS company

● Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, CodeWhisperer, Cursor) and a track record of introducing them safely

Job Title: Engineering Manager (Java / Spring Boot, AWS) – Remote

Leadership Role

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

JioTesseract, a digital arm of Reliance Industries, is India's leading and largest AR/VR organization with the mission to democratize mixed reality for India and the world. We make products at the cross of hardware, software, content and services with focus on making India the leader in spatial computing. We specialize in creating solutions in AR, VR and AI, with some of our notable products such as JioGlass, JioDive, 360 Streaming, Metaverse, AR/VR headsets for consumers and enterprise space.

Mon-Fri, In office role with excellent perks and benefits!

Key Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Build and implement scalable and robust microservices and integrate API gateways.

3. Develop and optimize NoSQL database structures and queries (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).

4. Implement real-time data pipelines using Kafka.

5. Collaborate with front-end developers to ensure seamless integration of backend services.

6. Write clean, reusable, and efficient code following best practices, including design patterns.

7. Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing systems for improved performance.

Mandatory Skills:

1. Proficiency in at least one backend technology: Node.js or Python, or Java.

2. Strong experience in:

i. Microservices architecture,

ii. API gateways,

iii. NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB),

iv. Kafka

v. Data structures (e.g., arrays, linked lists, trees).

3. Frameworks:

i. If Java : Spring framework for backend development.

ii. If Python: FastAPI/Django frameworks for AI applications.

iii. If Node: Express.js for Node.js development.

Good to Have Skills:

1. Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.

2. Familiarity with in-memory databases like Redis or Memcached.

3. Frontend skills: Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or frameworks like React.js.

• Drive development and delivery of top notch technology solutions to clients efficiently.
• Lead development of implementation plan, logic and modules to embed in client solutions and client discussion ready documents /presentations.
• Lead in designing, implementing, maintaining and updating applications that are often high-volume and low-latency, required for mission critical systems.
• Lead in refining and improving system stability by continuously refactoring and measuring performance.
• Drive development of actionable, clean, maintainable, testable, reusable, extensible codes, including standardization and automation of processes.
• Provide technical and functional guidance to team members through expert knowledge and hands-on support.
• Manage projects, resource utilization, time schedules and deliveries to clients.
• Proactively drive discussions with stakeholders to understand their business requirements, business context and guide team to provide robust actional solutions.
• Effectively engage with stakeholders – create and nurture and deepen relationships. 
• Ensure positive & creative work-environment, culture of collaborations, speak-up, high level of energy & enthusiasm, curiosity to learn and continuous improvement.
• Inspire, engage, motivate and provide constructive feedback to team members to develop their technical & soft skills and fully support their development aspirations.
• Drive researching and conceptualizing solution approaches, new techniques or solution frameworks and author high quality discussion papers.

Qualifications, Skills and Experiences

• BE / BTech / ME / M Tech in engineering or MCA or similar relevant field.
• 2 to 17 years (Junior, Intermediate, Senior Role & we have multiple openings)of relevant hands-on experience and excellent knowledge of Java, Python, SQL, Relational Databases, DB schema or ORM technologies.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of building applications, platforms and services in Java, Python and MS SQL or at least two of them.
• 5 + years of experience of managing projects, team and stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience of agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment and make quality decisions in moderately to high ambiguous work environment.
• Previous work experience in financial services, especially, capital markets is preferred.

Technical skills required:

Skills: Java 8 and above, Rest Web services, MySQL.

Strong background in Core Java and good knowledge of collection Framework.

Proficient in developing high-performance, less memory-intensive micro-services applications using the Java framework.

Should have deep knowledge of Micro-service development.

Skills: 

Strong knowledge of MYSQL/PostGreSQL; Knowledge of MongoDB, Redis, Couch DB is preferred. 

Expertise in application development, databases, version control, and deployment. Skill - Node.js, 

Experience of AWS or GCP - especially services such as Lambda or google app engine 

Solid grasp of Service-oriented architecture. Web Services implementation on a medium to large scale 

Solid understanding of scaling mobile app services. Having worked the backend of an Android app is preferred 

Culture: 

Ability to work independently with minimal supervision 

Happy to deal with, and contribute to, an environment of daily builds Has worked in small teams, is versatile. Work within short timelines and be receptive to business needs. Can work closely with Digital, Product, Operations teams. 

Desirable Social Attributes: 

Has contributed to one or more Open Source projects through own initiative. Has provided a high quality answer to a question posted on StackOverflow. 

Role: 

As a Software Developer who would work independently, the candidate is expected actively acquire problems and deliver solutions as well as guide the team technically. Such a problem solver would obviously be a self starter with a high level of curiosity rather than a programming language specialist. 

He/she would be required to produce software of the highest quality through self-discipline, clear and engaged communication, and attention to detail. The role would include custom web application development on (most typically on Node.js and PHP/Python), databases (most typically MySql and MongoDb), version control (github), testing (necessarily through test scripts written before code is written), daily builds and eventual deployment onto AWS or GCP. 

Attributes of the ideal candidate: 

Highly productive software developer with the proven aptitude to understand and apply technology 

Determination to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, and a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation 

Always learning, evolving, and sharing what you know 

Inspired by complex, varied problems and rapid change 

Open-minded, flexible, and curious about new and better ideas

1. 3+ years of in design development using Angular, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP.
2. In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS3, HTML5, Bootstrap, jQuery, REST Services & APIs.
3. Experience with test-driven development and testing frameworks/libraries.
4. Working knowledge of Git version control systems.
5. Must have a notice period of less than 30 days.

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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writing high quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope, and creating high quality documentation supporting the design/coding tasks
• Lead out team meetings, stand-ups, and architecture/design discussions
• Identify areas of improvement in our frameworks, tools, processes and strive to make them better. Evaluate our success metrics and evolve our reporting systems
• Works on the web application layer, backend, systems, streaming and other associated technology to build our product and components
• Find solutions and solve issues around a variety of operating systems or programming languages
• Researching new technologies and adapt them to BrowserStack requirements
• Own and commit to all your work, and be accountable for your results
• Using and understanding code from Open Source
• Teaching others how to use new software
• Willing to learn new programming languages and databases
• Able to write efficient SQL queries and design schemas for relational databases
• Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people (no lone wolves)
• Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration
• Develop multi-tier scalable, high-volume performing, and reliable user-centric applications that operate 24x7
• Scale distributed applications, make architectural trade-offs applying synchronous and asynchronous design patterns, write code, and deliver with speediness and quality

• Good experience in at least one scripting language: Ruby, Nodejs, Python, AppleScript, Unix shell or similar
• Familiarity with one compiled language: C, Java, Go or similar
• Good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts
• Reasonable knowledge of Windows and/or Linux operating systems
• Ability to work on Windows and Linux platform below the application layer, including file systems, kernels, custom installations, shell scripting, internal APIs, etc
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills
• Startup mentality, high willingness to learn, and hardworking
• Experience of 3-6 years