Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager - Java Backend to lead high-performing engineering teams building large-scale, consumer-facing products. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in B2C/D2C platforms, distributed systems, backend architecture, and engineering leadership while driving product innovation at scale. This role requires a blend of technical depth, people leadership, execution excellence, and stakeholder management to deliver highly scalable and reliable backend systems. The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions: Engineering Leadership: - Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, technical leads, and senior developers. - Drive engineering excellence, delivery predictability, and a high-performance culture. - Conduct performance reviews, career development discussions, and succession planning. - Build and scale engineering teams aligned with business growth objectives. Technical Ownership: - Own architecture and development of large-scale backend platforms. - Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems. - Drive technical decisions, architecture reviews, and engineering best practices. - Ensure platform reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence. Product and Business Collaboration: - Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Business teams. - Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. - Drive roadmap planning, prioritisation, and execution. - Ensure timely delivery of high-quality product releases. Delivery and Execution: - Establish engineering processes, coding standards, and development frameworks. - Drive Agile execution, sprint planning, and release management. - Monitor engineering KPIs, including velocity, quality, uptime, and customer impact. - Lead incident management and production support strategy. Requirements: - Strong hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices Architecture. - Deep understanding of Distributed Systems Design. - Expertise in designing and scaling high-traffic backend platforms. - Strong experience with REST APIs and event-driven architectures. - Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar messaging systems. - Solid database knowledge (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases). - Experience with caching technologies such as Redis. - Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes). - Strong understanding of system design,



scalability, performance optimisation, and reliability engineering. Leadership Experience: - 3+ years of engineering management experience. - Proven track record of leading teams of 10+ engineers. - Experience managing technical leads and senior engineers. - Strong stakeholder and cross-functional leadership skills. Domain Experience (Mandatory): - Strong experience working in B2C and D2C product companies. - Experience building high-scale consumer internet products. - Understanding of customer journeys, engagement, personalisation, and platform scalability. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience building platforms serving millions of users. - Exposure to AI/ML-powered customer experiences is a plus. - Experience with modern observability and monitoring tools. - Prior experience in eCommerce, Marketplace, Consumer Tech, Internet, OTT, or Digital Commerce platforms. Good to Have: - Strong technical leader with hands-on architecture expertise. - Product-minded engineering manager. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Passion for solving complex scalability and performance challenges. - Ability to drive execution in a fast-paced product environment. Company Summary We are paving the way for the gigabit society: As a leading company in communication and information technology, we are very successfully shaping the digital world of tomorrow with innovative digital solutions for private and business customers. In the financial year of 2019 the Deutsche Telekom globally generated revenue of EUR 80 5 billion with around 210 533 employees worldwide. Be it Europe, Africa, Asia, North or South America - we are represented all over the world. To introduce to you, Deutsche Telekom Digital Labs. is the technology arm for Deutsche Telekom Europe, and we started our operations with the intent of building digital products for 10 countries in Europe. What started off as a small initiative some time ago, has now become the lifeline for digitalization of our customers across Europe.



We create compelling digital propositions by building scalable and agile platforms to provide the best of digital experience to Deutsche Telekom customers across Europe. We are setting up an end to end digital shop to build products and solutions including mobile apps, commerce platform, user analytics and engagement platforms with strong focus on user experience and product excellence. We aim to bring all the Deutsche Telekom customers onto our digital products by simplifying the experience. This includes creative approaches to allow the user to explore compelling propositions, recommend most suitable services based on micro segmentation and so on. You ask what's in it for you We say - An opportunity to build digital products from scratch (literally from scratch! ) for one of the leading European telecoms (Deutsche Telekom) using latest technologies & on cloud native platforms! For more details refer to the below: https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom https: //www. linkedin. com/pulse/digital-ideas-worth-sharing-srini-gopalan/ Want to hear from our techies on the problems they are solving Read our blog - https: //medium. com/deutsche-telekom-gurgaon Our Products: - OneApp - OneShop - TV App - Development Rooms for European Countries - Home Gateway Why Join Us We have the opportunity to transform people's lives by changing the way they not only interact with us as a Telco, but the way they access information, healthcare, education, entertainment, interact and lifestyle in general. Gone are the days when technology was considered as an enabler. These days it defines the art of possibility. Our customers are counting on us to harness the power of technology & digitalize their lives! It doesn't matter when or where you work. It's about doing work that matters and we believe each and every one of you can move society forward. That's why we will do everything to ensure that you have all the possibilities to do so through a supportive network, great technology, a new-work workplace and the freedom to work autonomously. We support you to constantly grow both personally and professionally, so that you can leave a remarkable footprint in society. Are you someone that will not stop moving society forward Who is passionate about what they do, wants to constantly learn new skills and build a network that can change everything Be the one that shouts: #IWILLNOTSTOP until everyone can take part in the digital opportunities of now!

Required Skills

[AWS, Azure, Docker, GCP, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, MySQL, Redis, Spring Boot]

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