
Engineering Manager - Back End
at Series D funded supply chain management company
Engineering Manager – Backend
Opportunity in this role / Why should you join us?
Series D funded supply chain startup.
Requirements
- Software engineering experience of greater than or equal to 7 years
- Experience managing a technical team of at least 3 people
- Exposure to consumer facing products
- Strong technical background and ability to contribute to design and review
- Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack
Technologies Used
- Web application frameworks : Ktor, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda
- Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
- Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
- Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
- Server management : Amazon ECS, Docker
- Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture
Roles and Responsibilities
This role requires a person to drive the engineering of a set of products by aligning with business and product
stakeholders and building and upskilling a team to aid in this. The responsibilities include:
Business and product alignment and planning
- Work closely with business and product stakeholders to understand and align with product initiatives and iterations.
- Help shape the engineering requirement by aligning with the product manager and fleshing out concepts and user flows.
- Formalize business requirements into roadmaps and sprints.
- Product and system development
- Drive high level modeling and design for projects, also focusing on non-functional aspects, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
- Drive adoption of design frameworks like domain driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
- Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
- Ensure test coverage of systems, partly through unit and integration testing, and partly through blackbox testing by collaborating with the Quality Assurance team, via good testing practices.
- Project Management
- Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
- Resolve blockers through technical expertise, negotiation and delegation.
- Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync-ups and course corrections.
- Maintenance
- Formulate SLAs and oversee their adherence for the various systems, effectively tracking issues and performance inefficiencies.
- Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
- Drive technical re-design, remodeling and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.
- Team Management
- Typically manage a team of 3 - 6 members and a portfolio of 3 - 6 products.
- Do periodic assessment of reportees, chart their career growth paths and train them.
- Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.
Product Overview
You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers. Product sectors
include:
- Growth : You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry bestdriver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead managementmmodels.
- Lifecycle Management : Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
- Transaction Experience : You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
- Fulfilment : As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
- Enterprise Solutions : You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

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At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.
To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.
We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.
Why you should join us:
- You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
- Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
- Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
- We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.
What you will do if you join us:
- Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
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- Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
- Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
- Mentor and lead junior members of the team
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- Ability to think of out of the box
- Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
- Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
- Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
- Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
- Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.
It is a plus if you have:
- Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud
- You have 3+ years of experience using Golang/ Go Programming development language.
- You can write clean, high-quality code in a variety of languages and are also able to spot (and improve) bad code
- You have experience with Agile, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.
- Bonus points if you have knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Docker or Kubernetes
Job Description:
• At least 4+ years of hands-on experience on solution architecture, integration of solutions.
• Strong experience in the following domains: Java EE including (Web Services, REST,JPA), Spring, SOA, Design patterns, Unit and Integration test cases frameworks,Database (SQL & No SQL)
• Knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools and API usage in Mobile applications
• Able & willing to work hands on both solutions & development
• Able to coach / guide the junior members
Responsibilities for Staff Engineer role:
- Having experience in Java/Python/Golang along with Springboot, Micorservices, RDBMS
- Experience required: 10yrs to 15 yrs.
knowledge of Java and Spring.
• Familiarity with:
• SQL and noSQL databases
• Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
• Message/Streaming Technologies: Kafka, Kinesis, JMS, etc
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Microservices Architecture
• AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience in modern software development methodologies and technologies:
Scrum, Jira, Git
• Ability to handle full application development cycle from requirements to
production.
• A dedication to positive team collaboration
About Company:
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, USA, this product-based company is the FinTech leader in B2B Industry’s (AI) Artificial Intelligence-powered Software suite of products in the Order-to-Cash and Treasury Management space.
With close to 2000 plus employees globally, this product-based company preferred choice of leading Fortune 1000 companies, including Adidas, Danone, Starbucks, 3M and Sony, to name a few. 950+ Transformation Projects, 6 continents and 45 countries and many more adding up year on year.
Skills
Experience Range: 3 to 10 Years
Notice Period: Immediate to max 1 month.
Role: Senior Software Engineer – the final role will depend on candidate’s experience and credentials
Education: BE/B. Tech/MCA/M.Sc./MTech
Technology Stack: Java, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, MySQL, ExtJS, Elastic Search, AWS Infra/any cloud
Location: Hyderabad
Please share your profiles only if you can join in 1 month.
Looking candidated from service base or service division of any company.
Minimum Qualification:
- Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections, popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)
- Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST Express etc
- Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle or Postgres
- Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB etc
- Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak etc
- Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc
- Should be able to analyse requirements, design solutions, write code, debug code and modify existing software enhancements or develop new product software.
- Should be able mentor junior developers to perform their tasks more effectively and efficiently.
- Should be able to perform executions against project plans and meet delivery commitments.
- Should have good experience in source control, unit testing, code verification, documentation, automated build, continuous integration, metrics, and code reviews.
- May interact with product specialists / Project Managers / Product Owners to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications and to give status feedback.
- Should be able to work in an Agile Development Environment using SCRUM methodology.
- Should be able to communicate with other teams and stakeholders to achieve the given goal.
- Should be able to participate in the hiring processes.
We are looking for Product Developers-Java Technology with hands-on experience in Core java and socket programming with the flair for working on cutting-edge solutions.
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- Responsible for the development and unit testing of various modules in JAVA and other related technologies.
- Need to do requirement understanding, preparing initial concept and possible architecture design.
- Responsible for feasibility analysis and POC development.
- Ability to understand the product architecture and end-to-end system flow.
- Ability to relate and analyze tasks as per overall product architecture and philosophy.
- Work in Agile SCRUM development model and be able to plan, estimate, execute and deliver quality work as per committed timeline.
- Ability to continuously analyze and contribute to lean processes, quality improvements, product growth, and productivity improvements within the team.
Required Skills:
- JAVA - Core JAVA Concepts, Socket Communication, Multithreading, Exception Handling, Collections Framework, Reflections, I/O, XML, HTML, JSON, YML
- Database version management tools like Liquibase etc.
- Version control system like GIT. Hands-on experience with strong knowledge of branching, merging,
- Build systems like Maven, Gradle, Ant etc.
- Hands-on experience in running development environment on Unix/Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS).
- Cloud computing experience, Integration with third-party devices, experience in writing REST APIs, shell scripting knowledge will be an added advantage.
We are looking for Product Developers-Java Technology with hands-on experience in Core java and socket programming with the flair for working on cutting-edge solutions.







