
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

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Description
Position Overview
We are seeking a skilled Developer to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java and Python ecosystems, with hands-on experience in modern web technologies, messaging systems, and cloud-native development using Kubernetes.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable applications using Java and Spring Boot framework
- Build robust web services and APIs using Python and Flask framework
- Implement event-driven architectures using NATS messaging server
- Deploy, manage, and optimize applications in Kubernetes environments
- Develop microservices following best practices and design patterns
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions
- Write clean, maintainable code with comprehensive documentation
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical architecture decisions
- Troubleshoot and optimize application performance in containerized environments
- Implement CI/CD pipelines and follow DevOps best practices
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- 4+ years of experience in software development
- Strong proficiency in Java with deep understanding of web technology stack
- Hands-on experience developing applications with Spring Boot framework
- Solid understanding of Python programming language with practical Flask framework experience
- Working knowledge of NATS server for messaging and streaming data
- Experience deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes
- Understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful API design
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker)
- Experience with version control systems (Git)
Skills & Competencies
- Skills Java (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security)
- Python (Flask, SQL Alchemy, REST APIs)
- NATS messaging patterns (pub/sub, request/reply, queue groups)
- Kubernetes (deployments, services, ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets)
- Web technologies (HTTP, REST, WebSocket, gRPC)
- Container orchestration and management
- Soft Skills Problem-solving and analytical thinking
- Strong communication and collaboration
- Self-motivated with ability to work independently
- Attention to detail and code quality
- Continuous learning mindset
- Team player with mentoring capabilities
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Chennai
3+yrs
3 to 5 years Java,
Sprint Boot, Hibernate,
REST API Design Patterns SQL,
Oracle,
Table design
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We are looking for people who:
1. Have a strong bias for action and value speed over perfection.
2. Make decisions with this ethos: Customer > Company > Team > Me
3. Thrive in a flat and open organization
4. Recognize that frugality is the key to efficiency
5. Are self-starters and have a natural tendency to own company and team goals
Roles & Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing technical leadership, design and development of complex pieces of the service oriented architecture based platform.
- Modelling Database Design for large scale applications.
- Develop for performance engineering.
- Design for the right use of micro services, containerization and observability.
- Drive technology and product innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
- Create reference implementation for our integrations and for backward compatibility.
- Not interested in managerial responsibilities
Requirements, Desired Skills and Experience
- Tech Stack based on Ruby-on-Rails, Python-Django or Node.js frameworks.
- Engineering degree
Opportunities for the right candidate
- Build and develop SaaS and PaaS products from scratch
- Build the best-in-class UX based products
- State of Art technologies (Latest trends in the industry)
- Work with a well-knit team, almost like one’s family
- Startup culture and advantages of working in a co-working space
- Performance based career progress and high visibility with management and founders
Key Responsibilities
- Back-end Implementation: Authorization, Authentication, Modular design
- Application Development: Documentation, code quality, Unit Testing, Optimization, Bug fixing.)
- Back-end Operations (build tools, deployment, speed: (app, tests, builds, deploys), monitoring errors/logs, and stability).
- Review the created data model & ask any necessary clarifying questions before starting on work
- Write API code to implement the action on visual elements.
- Develop Json Web Services and Web applications.
- Create prototypes and staging sites for review and feedback
- Optimize websites and applications to ensure fast loading speeds
- Maintain websites and implement any necessary additions or enhancements
- Identify and troubleshoot various website issues and coding problems
- Collaborate with members of the website team, including designers and front-end developers, to consistently improve functionality and user-friendliness of web applications
- Maintain updated knowledge of the development industry and any advancements in technology
- Meet tight deadlines as required
- Knowledge of the common application/web security and OWASP vulnerabilities.
- Knowledge of the encryption algorithms to protect sensitive information.
- Knowledge of PII, PCI, HIPPA, and GDPR compliance and how to implement.
- Understanding of security breaches of data-in-transit and data-at-rest and knowledge in implementation for both.
- Knowledge/Aware of finding the vulnerabilities of the third-party components/libraries used in the application and remediating vulnerabilities.
Technical Skills: Java,Spring boot, Rest API, Json, JPA and/or Hibernate, SQL, AWSDatabase : MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDBOther : Tomcat, Eclipse, Oauth, JWT, Git.
• Hands on experience in open source Technologies like java,j2ee, spring boot,spring mvc,mysql,jasper etc.
• Expertise in documentations like FRS,SRS,HLD,LLD, Traceability Matrix etc.
• Strong experience in application of UML, Design Patterns in design of solutions
• Strong Database skills including MySql etc.
• Must involved in at least one complete SDLC of a large size project
• Conversant with the latest technological developments including SOA and Agile
• Conversant with platforms, tools and frameworks used in application development
• Experience on the use of software development best practices, tools and technologies.
• Experience to Identify performance, reliability, security & integration bottlenecks and suggest recommendations.
• Expertise in REST API integration
Required Knowledge and technical skills:
- Expert level experience designing and building web services using Java
- Hands on experience in frameworks like struts , springs, hibernate
- Experience with multiple database platforms
- Experience with high volume, mission critical applications
- Experience building distributed systems at Internet scale
- Knowledge of commonly used design patterns
- Prior experience building internet platforms from the ground up
- Understanding Microservices patterns and architectures, enterprise design and industry best practices.
Required Qualities/ personal skills:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience working in a fast-paced delivery environment








