Principal Engineer - Backend

JOB DETAILS:

* Job Title: Engineering Manager (Client facing)

* Industry: Technology

* Salary: Best in Industry

* Experience: 8-12 years

* Location: Bengaluru

Role & Responsibilities

We are seeking a visionary and decisive Engineering Manager to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will lead and inspire a talented team of software engineers, driving innovation and excellence in product development efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to influence and shape the future of our engineering organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a high-performing team of software engineers.
• Develop and implement engineering strategies that align with organizational goals.
• Manage multiple concurrent projects, ensuring timely delivery and high-quality outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize product features.
• Implement and uphold Agile methodologies to optimize team performance and efficiency.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, fostering continuous professional growth within the team.
• Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from initial conception through to deployment.
• Manage budgets, resources, and capacity planning for engineering projects.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, ensuring the team is equipped with the latest industry trends.
• Ensure adherence to best engineering practices, maintaining high coding standards.
• Hands-on coding experience required – actively contribute to coding and technical design decisions.
• Tech stack: Java, Spring, microservices, cloud technologies, and building large-scale systems.
• Experience in collaborating directly with clients – ensuring client requirements are met and managing relationships effectively.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Client-Facing Engineering Manager Profile
• Must have 8+ years of engineering experience, with substantial exposure to back-end development, scalable distributed systems, and modern web services
• Must have 2+ years of experience in people and delivery leadership, owning engineering execution and leading teams to deliver complex products
• Must have proven experience working directly with external stakeholders / clients, translating client requirements into engineering plans and delivering solutions with high customer impact
• Strong technical foundation with experience in backend engineering, REST APIs, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and building reliable, high-performance systems
• Strong problem-solving and design capabilities; experience with system design, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices
• Must have expertise in agile methodologies and project management tools
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of presenting technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• (Cross-Functional Collaboration): Must be skilled in working with product, design, sales, and client teams to drive requirements, delivery, and client success
• (Execution & Delivery): Demonstrated ability to manage end-to-end delivery, coordinate releases, prioritise effectively, and deliver results in time
• (Company): Product companies
• (Stability): Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
• (Education): B.Tech in computer science, engineering or a related field from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges (Master's preferred)

TAPPP is leading the charge in bringing premium digital entertainment content & live sports to global consumers via its prepaid platform. TAPPP is available across platforms via the Web, Mobile and Tablets. Building out this brand presents significant product and engineering challenges. At the centre of solving those challenges is the TAPPP Product Engineering team which is responsible for the TAPPP product end to end.

We are looking for a coding enthusiast who love working with code and developing software systems.

You will be a part of the core product development team that is responsible for building different components of the TAPPP platform. You will be responsible for designing, coding, reviewing, testing, bug-fixing different modules of the software product that needs to work seamlessly across different environments.

The organization is flat, process is minimal, individual responsibility is big, and there is an emphasis on keeping non-productive influences out of the everyday technical decision making process. Upholding these philosophies will be imperative as we execute our aggressive plan of global expansion over the next 2 years. The position is based in Mumbai, India.

Here is what we are looking for:

• Deep product development experience and sound understanding into these technologies

• Java/J2EE

• Spring

• Hibernate

• RESTful API's

• MySQL

• Tomcat 7

• Exposure on Grails & Amazon AWS will be a plus point

• Strong independent contributor

• An unquenchable desire to learn, attention to detail with a can-do attitude

• Comfortable working in a start-up environment

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala,
• MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS), and the likes
• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting
• services, so you'll be flexible about travel
• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title
• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside the Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

• 6 + years of Hands-on development and delivery experience with Java, Scala, and the likes
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)
• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems

Job Description :

- We are a Fintech Company based in Pune, a B2B Trade Digitization platform for SMEs and Corporates to collaborate and work with Financial Institutions to raise short term fundings for payables and receivables financing.

- We are thus well placed to help Corporates and their Supply Chains to meet their GST needs.

Technologies :

- The platform is built using a polygot technology stack 

- Platform Backend : JVM 

- Web Layer : ReactJS and related ecosystem, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Bootstrap 

- API & Business Layer : Kotlin and functional programming 

- Client Apps and Customer Integrations: Kotlin, Jersey ReST Framework, home grown optimized HTTP and SQL libraries 

- Mobile Apps: Android, iOS 

- Database : MySQL - JVM - Hibernate & Exposed as ORM library - Python - SQLAlchemy as ORM library 

- Build Tools : Gradle, Shell Scripting, AWS Code Build, Jenkins

- Ops Automation : Ansible, Terraform 

- Servers : Ubuntu Linux 

- Version Control : GIT 

- Test Automation : Python - unittest, pyhamcrest, freshen, nose. JVM - Junit, Kotlin Test 

- Cloud Providers : Amazon AWS, Linode

Requirements :

- We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers.

- We are looking to add 2 members in our team having hands on technical experience of 2-6 years.

- We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adpopted.

- We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As an engineering team member, you will :

- Work collaboratively with product, customer support and DevOps team to build, enhance, maintain, deploy and operate our systems. 

- Continuously automate operational processes to improve efficiencies and productivity and enhance customer experience 

- Work closely with the architect to continuously refactor the system architecture and design to meet the changing landscape triggered by technology changes and business growth 

- Work with the DevOps team to build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. 

- Ensure that development processes and deliverables always adhere to the mandates laid down for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular)

Skills required :

- Pre-requisites : Competent in Java, database, HTML, Javascript, CSS 

- Should be passionate about technology and ready to deep dive into programming 

- Should have sound expertise of writing testable code and appreciate defect free coding 

- Should be willing to handle Ops automation and production support 

- Should be able to reason/argue/discuss/suggest solutions and alternatives

- Should be able to decipher the core problem to be solved during discussions with product team and/or customers 

- Should have good communication skills and experience working in teams

- Knowledge of Python will be an added advantage

- Experience of working in financial domain will help but not a necessity

Requirements

• High self motivation to lead & build projects from beginning to end;
• You've shipped multiple products and are willing/able to demonstrate how you solved specific problems to solve users needs;
• Excellent communication in presenting your code and communicating what problems they are solving while giving/receiving feedback;
• Ability to quickly grasp goals and requirements from light specifications;
• Must be able to effectively & efficiently work with stakeholders spreads across many timezones;
• 5+ years of Android experience working in a modern commercial web development environment and shipping solid product;
• Experience in Springboot, Microservices, JPA, oracle database.
• Must have experience in authentication mechanism like LDAP, SSO, any authentication server, role management

Perks

• Ground floor opportunity with the team; shape the strategic direction of the company.
• Work with sharp, motivated and passionate co-workers spread across many regions.
• Rare opportunity to make real positive impact on the world!

We’re seeking an expert Full-Stack developer ( Expert in  HTML 5, PHP, Canvas & JQuery) to help us update our back-end admin. You will work from layouts in Adobe XD and Anima and work side by side with our development team in Manila and coordinate tasks and timelines to complete our  project.  Estimate full-time 3 month timeline- possibility may need you for ongoing freelance work after project completion.

We are looking to hire a temporary, freelance position for now. 


REQUIREMENTS

• At least 3 year(s) of working experience in eCommerce web development  is  required for this position

• Strong knowledge of current architectural approaches to web-based applications development

• Experience with Agile development projects

• Ability to effectively manage changing and multiple priorities

• Experience with PHP, CSS, HTML / HTML 5, Javascript coding

• MVC based PHP framework (Laravel)

• jQuery/AJAX/JSON or other Javascript frameworks (AngularJS, React Backbone, etc)

• HTML5 Responsive framework (Bootstrap, foundation, skeleton, etc)

Knowledge of Linux command-line

• Experience of using version control (Github, Subversion, BitBucket, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe XD, Anima)

• Knowledge and understanding of how to update modules using Angular or React 

• Knowledge and understanding of Databases (MySql/MSSQL)

• Knowledge and understanding of SEO tools application

• Experience with open-source software

• Enjoy mentoring team members; helping them to advance their technical skills

• Must be able to stay on top of advancing internet and computer technology and its effects to the business environment

• Be willing to work in a research capacity ñto find, test, and critically review open-source frameworks and technologies.

HOW TO APPLY

Make an intro answering the following questions:

1) Provide an example of a web application that you've built that uses HTML 5, Canvas or where multiple files can be uploaded simultaneously