Job Title: Engineering Manager (Backend Heavy)

Department: Technology / Engineering

Location: Noida

Experience: 7-8 years

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable, secure, and high-performance backend services and APIs.
- Own backend architecture decisions across Node.js and Go-based services, with a strong focus on maintainability and scalability.
- Design and manage distributed systems and microservices running in containerised environments using Kubernetes.
- Build and operate event-driven architectures using Kafka and AWS SQS for asynchronous processing, messaging, and reliable workflows.
- Design and maintain real-time communication systems using WebSockets/sockets for low-latency product experiences.
- Drive system design, technical specifications, code quality, reviews, testing standards, and engineering best practices.
- Lead troubleshooting of production issues, performance bottlenecks, service failures, and scalability challenges.
- Define and improve engineering processes, deployment practices, observability, monitoring, and operational reliability.
- Mentor engineers, provide technical direction, conduct code/design reviews, and support career and capability development.
- Work closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable technical solutions.
- Own delivery timelines for engineering initiatives and proactively identify technical risks, dependencies, and resource requirements.

Skills & Competencies Required

- Backend Engineering & API Development
- Node.js and Go
- Microservices & Distributed Systems
- Kubernetes & Containerised Deployments




- Apache Kafka / Event-Driven Architecture
- AWS SQS / Asynchronous Messaging
- WebSockets / Socket-Based Real-Time Systems
- System Design & Architecture
- Database, Caching & Performance Optimisation
- Production Debugging & Reliability Engineering
- Code Review & Engineering Standards
- Technical Leadership & Team Management
- Problem Solving & Attention to Detail
- Cross-Functional Communication

Experience & Qualifications

- 7-8 years of professional experience in backend engineering, software development, or a similar technology role, with relevant engineering leadership experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Node.js and/or Go for building production-grade backend services and APIs.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and experience operating or deploying containerised backend applications.
- Practical experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures, including producers, consumers, partitions, offsets, and message processing patterns.
- Hands-on understanding of AWS SQS or similar queue-based asynchronous processing systems.
- Experience building real-time systems using WebSockets, Socket.IO, or comparable socket-based technologies.
- Robust understanding of system design, scalability, concurrency, fault tolerance, service communication, and distributed systems.
- Experience handling production systems, incident resolution, monitoring, performance optimisation, and reliability improvements.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives while remaining comfortable with hands-on engineering work.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively with Product, QA, DevOps, and other cross-functional teams.

📌 Engineer Manager (Noida)
🏢 Astro Arun Pandit
📍 Noida