Engineering Manager - MEAN Stack

My Compliance Office; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

My Compliance Office in Hyderabad is seeking a senior software architect to lead product development, shaping scalable distributed systems and mentoring engineering teams.

You will own design reviews, drive architecture decisions, and ensure production-grade AWS workloads, MongoDB Atlas, and MEAN stack excellence, while keeping hands-on coding ~20%.

Candidates should bring strong communication and agile practice experience; background in SaaS/financial services is a plus.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product development and leadership in engineering management.
• Strong full-stack engineering with the MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js).
• Proven experience designing and operating production workloads on AWS.
• Hands-on proficiency with MongoDB Atlas and cluster management.
• Maintain hands-on coding approximately 20% of the time.
• Expertise in architecture design reviews, system design, and defect triage.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical skills, and distributed-systems troubleshooting.
• Excellent communication and servant-leadership skills.
• Knowledge of agile methodologies (Scrum, Agile, Kanban).
• Preferred: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation/CDK, Docker, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, SaaS/financial services background.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

AWS production workloads

System design & architecture

MongoDB Atlas

Leadership & servant leadership

Agile methodologies

Tools

MongoDB

Express.js

Angular

Node.js

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

CDK

SQS

Kafka

Job description

• 10+ years of experience in product development (including up to 3 years in engineering management).
• Strong full-stack engineering experience with the MEAN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, Angular (2+), and Node.js in a product development environment.
• Proven experience designing and operating production workloads on AWS, including services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, and RDS/DocumentDB or MongoDB Atlas.
• Hands-on proficiency with MongoDB Atlas: cluster management, performance tuning, indexing, aggregation framework, change streams, and backup/restore strategies.
• Maintain hands-on involvement with coding approximately 20% of the time.
• Expertise in architecture and design reviews, system design, code reviews, customer issues, troubleshooting, and defect triage.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.
• Demonstrates resilience and flexibility, consistently adapting while managing priorities with efficiency.
• A strong willingness to learn and a growth mindset.
• Excellent communication and servant-leadership skills.
• Knowledge and experience of agile development methodology (Scrum, Agile, and Kanban).

Preferred:

• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK).
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS).
• Experience with event-driven architectures, message queues (SQS, SNS, Kafka), and microservices patterns.
• Background in a product-driven SaaS or financial services company.
• Architect-level experience is a plus.