Engineering Manager

Job description

**Responsibilities:** - Architect & Develop: Design and implement highly scalable, low-latency backend services and APIs in Java. Lead rigorous code reviews, enforcing SOLID principles, clean code heuristics, and secure coding practices. - System Design & Streaming: Build robust microservices, RESTful/gRPC APIs, and event-driven architectures utilizing distributed streaming platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka, Kinesis) for real-time payment processing and data pipelines. - Engineering Excellence: Champion technical standards across the engineering team by conducting Architecture Design Reviews (ADRs), establishing best practices, and driving consistent agile delivery. - Distributed Architecture: Navigate complex architectural tradeoffs in a large-scale distributed environment. Implement advanced synchronous and asynchronous communication patterns, circuit breakers, load balancing, and distributed tracing. - Performance Optimization: Optimize API performance and database queries for massive throughput. Ensure high code coverage and reliability through TDD/BDD, extensive integration testing, and performance profiling. - DevOps & CI/CD: Orchestrate CI/CD pipelines leveraging containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure seamless, zero-downtime automated deployments. - Technical Leadership: Partner with engineering leadership and Staff/Principal engineers to resolve complex concurrency issues, JVM-level bottlenecks, and distributed system anomalies. **Requirements:** - 8+ years of deep, hands-on backend software engineering experience, primarily in the Java ecosystem (Java 11+, JVM internals, Garbage Collection tuning, memory management). - 2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead, actively mentoring engineers, unblocking teams, and driving technical roadmaps. - Proficiency with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, and ORM frameworks (Hibernate/JPA). - Strong production experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, SQS/SNS, ElastiCache) and a solid understanding of cloud networking and security. Deep expertise in RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) including query execution plans, indexing strategies, locking mechanisms, and ACID transaction isolation levels. Solid experience with NoSQL datastores (MongoDB, Cassandra). - High-Scale Concepts: Strong understanding of distributed caching (Redis/Memcached), rate limiting, building idempotent APIs, and managing state in distributed environments. **Your Opportunity:** - Massive Scale: Architect and evolve core payment routing and processing engines capable of flawlessly handling $80B+ in annual transaction volume with strict P99 latency requirements. - High Throughput: Engineer resilient, highly available solutions to support a rapidly growing base of 800,000+ merchants, seamlessly processing tens of millions of requests daily. - Technical Impact: Drive organizational technology evolution on multiple frontsintroducing advanced observability paradigms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), optimizing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring platform reliability. - Innovation: Lead the charge on technical innovations, exploring new frameworks and architectural patterns to keep our core payment systems ahead of industry standards.