Tech Manager - Java

The role of a Tech Manager is to ensure the consistent and successful delivery of software product that meets functional and technical quality objectives. The Manager accomplishes this by employing their: project management skills, understanding of technology and software engineering, and people leadership. Additionally, the Tech Manager is responsible for hiring and maintaining a highly skilled and performing team of software engineering professionals and ensuring their needs for technical challenges, skill growth, and overall career development are met.

Responsibilities:

• Project manage the teams' delivery to a successful release by tracking work, dependencies and risks and taking corrective actions as necessary.
• Be accountable (in conjunction with the team technical lead) for the quality of the teams release by ensuring best quality engineering practices are followed including (but not limited to): writing and running of unit tests, smoke- and regression- test automation, code reviews, and design practices.
• Facilitate and support team member’s technical and career growth objectives through training, leadership opportunities, challenging work assignments, and focused mentorship.
• Oversee efforts to improve operational stability of team and software product by creating and monitoring operational dashboards to monitor and alert to system/platform problems and following up on action plans as a result of customer found issues.
• Build the team by hiring the best engineers. This includes direct participation and delegation of all recruitment and hiring activities as needed.
• Mentor/Guide the team technically.
• Work and collaborate in multi-disciplinary Agile teams, adopting Agile spirit, methodology and tools.
• Work with the Architect to develop prototypes/PoCs and validate design approach.
• Collaborate with various development & product teams in India, Israel, Slovakia, and US.
• Proactive and on-going performance management activities including regular 1:1s for establishing direction and providing corrective and reinforcing feed-back intended to help engineers to define and achieve career objectives and participating in R&D-wide performance calibration meetings.
• Follow the company Code of Ethics, policies and procedures at all times.
• Communicate in an effective and professional way with customers in and outside of the company.
• Reduce liability to the company by ensuring engineers are trained in relevant security and privacy standards and coding practices follow the same.

Required Skills:

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering building highly available, scalable & distributed software systems
• 3+ years managing high performing team of 10+ engineers in an agile based software product development environment.
• Experience developing and supporting highly available, scalable, & distributed multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS product; preferably in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Development experience with Java, Spring boot microservices, Kafka, REST API, SQL, NoSQL databases
• Deep Knowledge and experience with software design patterns and how they can be incorporated into software design
• Deep experience with agile software development techniques and pitfalls.
• Familiar with DevOps processes and tools employed in SaaS architectures to support CI/CD and monitoring.
• Nice-to-have: Development experience with Frontend stack like VueJS/ ReactJS /AngularJS/NodeJS, HTML, CSS
• Nice-to-have: Experience with data processing frameworks like Flink/Spark
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Time Series databases and Graph databases
• Nice-to-have: Development experience with data pipelines and ETL technologies.
• Nice-to-have: Familiarity with Security systems and practices (SAML, Oauth, JWT)

Education Qualification:

• E/B.Tech in Computer Science