Engineering Manager (Backend)

About Tamasha

Tamasha is building next-generation live, social, and real-time consumer

experiences across gaming, audio, video, and interactive platforms. Our backend

systems power millions of real-time interactions, low-latency data flows, and high

throughput event-driven services.

Role Overview

As a Software Development Engineer III (Backend), you will operate as a senior

individual contributor owning mission-critical backend systems. You will design

scalable architectures, solve complex distributed systems problems, and influence

engineering standards across teams.

Roles & Responsibilities

 Own backend systems end-to-end, from design and implementation to

production reliability and long-term evolution.

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Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency backend architectures for real

time and event-driven use cases.

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Lead system design decisions including data models, service boundaries, async

workflows, and scalability strategies.

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Build and operate high-throughput services handling millions of events, requests,

or messages per day.

 Own reliability metrics such as p95/p99 latency, uptime, error budgets, and

participate in incident resolution and post-mortems.

Drive architectural migrations including monolith to microservices and

synchronous to asynchronous flows.

 Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams to translate complex

requirements into robust backend solutions.

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Improve developer productivity by contributing to internal platforms, tooling,

CI/CD pipelines, and coding standards.

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Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance

without direct people management.

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Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, cost inefficiencies, and scalability

risks and resolve them at the system level.

Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js (NestJS / Express), Golang, Java

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

Messaging & Async: Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub

Real-time: WebSockets, Server-Sent Events

Cloud & Infra: AWS / GCP, Docker, Kubernetes

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience

• Proven ownership of production systems at scale

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and async architectures

• Experience handling production incidents and system reliability

• Ability to independently design and evolve backend systems

• Proven experience in any high-level programming languages like Java (Preferably)
• Strong knowledge of data structure, algorithms and coding
• Experience with any Messaging technologies like Kafka or Rab-bitMQ, etc.
• Proven experience in database technologies like NoSQL
• Hands-on experience with Spring, Spring Security, Spring boot, and Hibernate framework.
• Working knowledge of developing Restful Micro services.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills.
• Attend team meetings to discuss projects, brainstorm ideas, and put forward solutions to any issues.
• Ability to understand the Platform/domain of the business in detail & Ability to multi-task.
• Good communication and organizational skill

Product Based Client:

A multinational technology and e-commerce company based in the United States is widely recognized as one of the world's largest online retailers. In addition to e-commerce, it is a major player in cloud computing through its cloud services division and has expanded into areas such as streaming services, artificial intelligence, and smart devices.

Essential Job Functions:

Top 3 responsibilities

• Taking for operational work.

• Monitoring data pipelines.

• Addressing/Triaging customer tickets

Qualifications:

Exp: 1+ Years

• Skillset:Core Java, Data Structures, Al