The Senior Engineering Manager within the NIQ Activate R&D; organization will report to the Director, Activate R&D; and be responsible for leading a high-performing team of software engineers while driving the development of innovative product solutions for our rapidly expanding customer base. This role operates in an open, collaborative, and innovation-driven environment, leveraging modern client and server-side technologies to deliver scalable and impactful solutions.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a balanced allocation of responsibilities, with approximately 50% focused on engineering leadership activities such as technical reviews, planning, stakeholder management, talent development, and delivery oversight, and 50% dedicated to hands-on software engineering, including architecture, coding, design reviews, and technical problem solving.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and deliver scalable microservices from architecture through production deployment.
- Lead backend system design and implementation, ensuring robust, secure, and maintainable solutions.
- Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery, improve code quality, and enhance engineering productivity.
- Take ownership of development, maintenance, testing strategy, design discussions, and operations of the team, with containerized API services




- Participate in all aspects of agile software development including design, implementation, and deployment.
- Responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of new product features/components
- Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design
- Work with a small, cross-functional team on products and features to drive growth.
- Learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies to grow
- Research and suggest new technologies for boosting the product.
- Have an impact on product development by making significant technical decisions, influencing the system architecture, development practices and more.

Qualifications

- 12+ years as a Backend developer with at least 4+ years of experience in team management.
- Experience and knowledge of server-side technologies: Java, Springboot, SQL, Agentic AI
- Strong experience in React
- Experience with large scale SQL / NoSQL databases (SingleStore, Postgres)
- Fluent with Relational databases.
- Good problem-solving and analysis abilities
- Good to have experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud environments
- Experience working in agile methodologies and sprint planning
- Must have a B.Sc. in computer science or equivalent.

📌 Senior Engineering Manager - Fullstack - Java with React (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 NIELSENIQ INDIA
📍 Tamil Nadu