Engineering Manager

What we Require

We are recruiting technical experts with the following core skills and hands-on experience on

Mandatory skills : Core java, Microservices, AWS/Azure/GCP, Spring, Spring Boot

Hands on experience on : Kafka , Redis ,SQL, Docker, Kubernetes

Expert proficiency in designing both producer and consumer types of Rest services.

Expert proficiency in Unit testing and Code Quality tools.

Expert proficiency in ensuring code coverage.

Expert proficiency in understanding High-Level Design and translating that to Low-Level design

Hands-on experience working with no-SQL databases.

Experience working in an Agile development process - Scrum.

Experience working closely with engineers and software cultures.

Ability to think at a high level about product strategy and customer journeys.

Ability to produce low level design considering the paradigm that journeys will be extensible in the future and translate that into components that can be easily extended and reused.

Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate design decisions.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Backend Engineer with 4–6 years of experience, who has worked extensively on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI). Experience with multiple cloud providers is a strong plus. As a Senior Development Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services and infrastructure on cloud-native platforms.

# Experience with Kubernetes is mandatory.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and cloud-native applications.
• Build and manage RESTful APIs, microservices, and asynchronous data processing systems.
• Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes with best practices in availability, monitoring, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and product teams in an agile environment.
• Ensure high code quality through testing, reviews, and documentation.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of at least 2 years in production environments (mandatory).
• Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI].
• Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes-native deployment workflows.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working across multiple cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring).
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of NoSQL databases or event-driven/message-based architectures.
• Experience with serverless services, managed data pipelines, or data lake platforms.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Must have- Microservices, Java ,Vertex AI

Designing, developing, and deploying scalable and efficient microservices using Java and related technologies.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managers, architects, and other developers, to define and implement microservices solutions.

Writing clean, maintainable, and testable code following best practices and design patterns.

Ensuring the performance, scalability, and reliability of the microservices by conducting thorough testing and optimization.

Integrating microservices with other systems and third-party APIs to enable seamless data exchange.

Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving issues in the microservices architecture to ensure high availability and performance.

Good working knowledge of design pattern and good understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC).

Critical Skills to Possess:

3+ years of work experience with web applications.

Experience designing microservices using Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud.

Experience in both relational and NoSQL database – MySQL, Couchbase.

Experience writing unit test(jUnit) cases during application development.

Experience with Jenkins for build and deployment job and an understanding of CI/CD. ""

What you will do?

Project Management

• Work with the product management team to create an engineering roadmap that aligns with the product roadmap. 
• Translate engineering roadmap into executable internal projects, and own the end-to-end execution of these projects.
• Plan, execute and deliver projects as per schedule, content, and quality metrics.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team using Agile practices.
• Keep stakeholders continually updated on the progress of projects and operations.
• Track and report engineering health metrics (such as bugs by severity, production incidents etc.)

People Management

•  Hire and mentor a team of engineers
•  Manage learning and development, and performance of your team.
•  Own, Conceptualize and Build a tech-focused team

Technical Work

•  Core stakeholder to all technical design and architecture of team.
•  Review code, test plans, and deployment plans.
•  Focus and Strengthen all aspects of reliability

What we look for?

Must Haves

• Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
• Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
• Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress.

Good to Have

• Experience in telecom messaging software systems.
• Experience in distributed and scalable systems.
• Communication skills - excellent written and oral communication to present complex ideas/concepts in a clear and concise manner; communicating with key stakeholders with work/project progress

Job Title: Senior Java Developer

Department: Technology and Research

Reports to:  Technical Lead

Context

Sampana Digital (SDPL) (http://www.sampanadigital.com">www.sampanadigital.com)  is a digital technology company that provides end-to-end product engineering and digital transformation services. Our engineering services includes web & mobile application development, user experience design, cloud, testing and infrastructure managed services to transform businesses digitally. We also enable enterprises with contextual and personalized two-way multi-channel mobile communications, including SMS, voice, email and PWA technology.

We believe in small teams of smart, committed, and diverse individuals coming together and form a breakthrough insight. We are a team of passionate professionals to craft an unbeatable culture and services.

Come and join us!   

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications, and your roles and responsibilities include managing Java/Java EE application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with and direct the team’s software engineers in setting the standards for coding, testing and software quality
• Collaborate closely with the team’s BAs on the efficient transition of BDD’s and Swaggers to the engineers as part of the overall workflow.
• Oversee and manage the scope, timeline, and goals forth delivery of working software
• Oversee and assist in the production of comprehensive documentation
• Oversee and provide support to production cutovers and migrations as required
• Lead the analysis and resolution of technical and application problems
• Supporting the Scrum Master
• Participate in and support backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum related meetings
• Provide clear reporting on the status of the scope, timeline and progress for the delivery of working software
• Assist in setting up a robust out of hours support process
• Assist in the prioritisation of bugs and defects
• Providing Guidance and Mentoring
• Participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code
• Provide technical leadership to the teams’ software engineers through coaching and mentorship
• Identify and encourage areas for growth, education and development within the team

General

• Self-Starting Leader capable or working under pressure
• Curious and engaged in Continuous Learning and Professional Development
• Strong DevOps experience
• Java and Spring Developer with +5 years’ experience with the following skills
• Java 1.8+
• Spring
• Microservices with Spring-boot
• Spring cloud config
• Unit tests with Spring-boot
• Docker
• Openshift/Kubernetes
• Basic understanding of API gateways
• OpenAPI (Swagger) specification.

Understanding of basic networking concepts

• Integration into backends via various protocols (SOAP,REST, XML-RPC etc) 
• CI/CD (Jenkins, pipelines etc)

The following additional skills would be advantageous:

• Spring reactive
• APIGEE
• Azure DevOps
• Pivotal Kubernetes
• Linux
• Azure Pipelines

Who we are

ixigo is an AI-based travel app that helps millions of users plan and book their trips every day. Launched in 2007, ixigo is proud to have built numerous industry-first AI-innovations over the last decade. With pre-emptive help from ixigo at every touch-point of their journey, 150 million Indians are now making smarter travel decisions every year. ixigo uses Artificial Intelligence for deal discovery, personalized recommendations, dynamic marketing, airfare predictions, train delay information, PNR confirmation status, infrastructure cost optimization, business intelligence and providing fully-automated customer service over chat and voice. This makes ixigo a lean, tech-intensive and capital-efficient travel business, serving millions of travelers with a team size of under 200. Founded in 2007 by Aloke Bajpai & Rajnish Kumar, ixigo’s investors include Sequoia Capital India, Fosun RZ Capital, SAIF Partners, MakeMyTrip & Micromax.

Role & Responsibility

As a Backend Developer, You will be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in the design, planning, development, and deployment and help develop best practices for future development. You will be working closely with Tech, Design and Quality team to build and launch the product.

• Code, develop, design and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
• Design, implement and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
• Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores and support
• Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test and release products
• Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Skills & Qualifications:

• At least an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, preferably from IITs/Top RECs
• 2-5 years of experience at cutting edge organizations or startups
• Extensive experience in a Java server-side software design and development
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing.
• Experience with e-business/e-commerce applications and business environment is a must
• Any experience with internet companies or the travel industry will be a plus

Must have

• Good understanding of Java/J2EE and design patterns
• Strong knowledge of data structures and designing for performance, scalability and availability Knowledge in MongoDB and Web services
• Extensive use of Instruments and Shark to detect memory leaks and for performance optimization
• Good grasp of algorithms, memory management, and multithreaded programming
• Good to have - Python, NodeJS, Mysql, Redis, ElasticSearchGreat people skills!
• Able to fit in well within an informal startup environment and to provide hands-on management
• The high energy level and untiring commitment to drive oneself & the team towards goals

Compensation: Commensurate to skills & experience; comparable to the best in the industry.

Culture: ixigo is proud to have built an entrepreneurial culture that has become a folk-lore in the startup ecosystem. One in every four ixigems has gone on to build successful startups and companies. Our cultural values of integrity, empathy, ingenuity, awesomeness, and resilience have stood the tests of time and we’ve built a fun, flexible and creative work environment that is driven by people with a high degree of ownership. You will get to work with some of the smartest folks in the Indian startup ecosystem, and solve some of the toughest problems for the next billion users by using bleeding-edge technologies. Oh, and we have an awesome “play” area, great chai/coffee, free lunches (yes, they exist!) and a workspace you will fall in love with.