Director Engineering-Backend

Right Advisors; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Right Advisors is seeking a Director of Engineering to oversee design, architecture and hands-on development. You will lead a team of engineers, drive architectural decisions and ensure scalable, reliable systems.

You will work closely with business and product teams to shape solutions, migrate workloads to the public cloud, and mentor engineers toward engineering excellence. Strong leadership in a fast-paced environment is essential.

Qualifications

• 13-16 years in technical development with 6+ years in technical leadership.
• Collaborate with business/product teams to drive design and architecture.
• Build robust, scalable microservices using Java/Spring Boot and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers for successful project delivery.
• Define architecture and hands-on coding to implement best practices.
• Drive observability, reliability, and performance improvements.

Skills

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

Team leadership

Performance tuning

Cloud migration

High scalability

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Aerospike

AWS

Job description

About the role:

As an Director, you will be developing the detailed design structure, implementing the best practices and coding standards, leading a team of developers for successful delivery of the project. You will be working on design, architecture and hands-on coding.

Requirements:

• 13- 16 years in Technical development with 6+ years in providing technical leadership for high performance teams.
• Work closely with business and product teams to understand the requirements, drive design, architecture and influence the choice of technology to deliver solutions working closely with architects and leadership team.
• Build robust, scalable, highly available and reliable systems using Micro Services Architecture based on Java, Spring boot.
• Improve Engineering and Operational Excellence by identifying and building the right solutions for observability and manageability.
• Keep the tech stack current with the goal to optimize for scale, cost and performance.
• Migrate workloads to public cloud.
• Attitude to thrive in a fun, fast-paced environment.
• Serve as a thought leader and mentor on technical, architectural, design and related Issues.
• Proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Preferred Qualification : Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Skills that will help you succeed in this role:

• Tech Stack: Lang: Java, DB: RDBMS, Messaging: Kafka/RabbitMQ, Caching: Redis/Aerospike, Micro services, AWS.
• Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at both API and storage layers.
• Hands-on leader, and problem solver with a passion for excellence.

Why join us:

Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that. You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve. You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people. We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be.

Compensation:

If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you. With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants and we are committed to it. Indias largest digital lending story is brewing here. Its your opportunity to be a part of the story! .