Engineering Manager

Airtel Africa; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel Africa Digital Labs (AADL) is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Backend platform across a product portfolio. You will own end-to-end delivery, evolve architecture for performance and scalability, and design highly scalable distributed web services.

You will mentor engineers, remove obstacles, and drive process improvements across the team. The role requires 10+ years in scalable product environments with strong Java, Spring MVC, and distributed systems experience.

Qualifications

• B.E./B.Tech in Computer science or Information Technology with 10+ years of experience in a scalable product/ecommerce organization.
• Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and advanced system design.
• Ability to think high-level while remaining technically hands-on.
• Excellent communication and adaptability to evolving tech and business decisions.
• Decisiveness with an execution mindset and team mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Engineers in the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio.
• Own end to end delivery of new features.
• Evolve the architecture for performance and scalability.
• Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
• Lead module development independently.
• Remove obstacles and guide engineers toward career goals.
• Serve as the engineering leader and technical expert.
• Improve software development processes and team productivity.
• Hire, train, and supervise engineering staff members.

Skills

Java expertise

Spring framework

MVC pattern

Performance optimization

Caching techniques

OO programming

Data structures & algorithms

Databases & schema design

Distributed backend services

Design patterns

High-level & technical thinking

Problem solving

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Spring framework

MVC

Databases

Job description

As an Engineering Manager, you will interact with the entire engineering team to solve problems and build, extend, optimize and refactor the back-end architecture of our growing products. This will involve working on our existing codebase along with new projects. Airtel Africa Digital Labs (AADL) has a highly passionate engineering-driven environment where your contribution will be felt immediately. All teams at AADL are involved in every part of our development life cycle.

• Lead a team of Engineers in the entire Backend platform for a product portfolio
• Own end to end delivery of new features.
• Evolve the architecture for performance and scalability.
• Design, develop and own components of a highly scalable, distributed web services platform.
• Lead module development independently
• Remove obstacles blocking the engineers from achieving their tasks and look for opportunities to advance them toward their career goals
• Serve as the engineering leader and technical expert
• Strive to constantly improve software development process and team productivity.
• Hire, train, and supervise engineering staff members

What will make you successful?

• B.E./B.Tech in Computer science or Information Technology with 10+ years of experience in a scalable product/ecommerce organization
• Experience in developing scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed backend services
• Experience with prevalent design patterns and advanced system designing
• Ability to think high-level while still being technical.
• Problem-solving while always looking for ways to prevent the same problems from happening again by setting defined workflows in place. Planning for the future, yet know when to let go
• Good communication skills and flexibility-oriented mindset because technologies, patterns and even business decisions that might once have been true can quickly fall out of date. The ability to adapt and see different points of view is critical and helps teams align, focus and stay effective.
• Decisiveness and an execution mindset are especially valuable.
• Championing your team internally and externally by celebrating their victories, giving them autonomy, trust and guidance to achieve their career goals.
• Lastly, it’s important to have fun! Bringing a sense of humour and camaraderie to the team allows for good relationships and communication to flourish.

What do you bring to the table?

• Excellent Java skills, Understanding of Spring framework & MVC approach
• Strong knowledge of Performance optimization and caching techniques.
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming concepts, data structure and algorithms
• Good experience with databases and Schema design