Anaqua is looking for a dynamic Engineering Team Manager to lead our Platform & Microservices team spanning development, QA automation, and DevOps. Product Owner for the platform services (owning the backlog, priorities, and roadmap) and technical team lead who drives Agile execution, engineering excellence, and team growth. Team Management — lead a cross-functional Agile team of developers, QA automation engineers, and DevOps engineers.

Agile Execution — drive sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, retrospectives, and release coordination.

Delivery Ownership — own delivery commitments — sprint goals, release timelines, and production readiness.

People Development — build a high-performing team through hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance reviews, and career development.

Stakeholder Management — remove blockers, manage dependencies across teams, and escalate risks proactively.

Team Culture — foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

Backlog Management — own the product backlog for platform services — prioritizes features, tech debt, and operational improvements.

Prioritization — make trade-off decisions between scope, quality, and timelines with a customer-centric lens.

Cross-Team Alignment — represent the platform in cross-team planning, dependency discussions, and release coordination.

Backend & Cloud — hands-on development experience with Java microservices, APIs (REST, gRPC), and cloud-native patterns on GCP.

DevOps Fluency — strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.

QA Understanding — familiarity with test automation strategy — E2E (Playwright), API testing, contract testing, and quality gates in pipelines.

Production Ownership — experience with observability, production debugging, incident management, and post-mortem processes.

Engineering Practices

Establish and enforce coding standards, review processes,



and engineering guidelines across development, QA, and DevOps.

Champion shift-left quality — automated testing, static analysis, security scanning integrated into the development workflow.

define and track engineering metrics — deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR.

Ensure secure coding practices and compliance with organizational security policies.

Agile & SDLC Mastery

deep practical experience running Scrum or Kanban teams in a continuous delivery workplace.

strong command of the Agile work item hierarchy — Epics, Features, User Stories, Tasks, Bugs.

Jira mastery — board configuration, sprint metrics, velocity tracking, release planning, and reporting.

full SDLC ownership — from requirements through development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.

clear understanding of environments and promotion workflows — Dev, QA, Staging, Pre-Production, Production.

Proven track record of delivering complex technical projects on time and at quality.

Dynamic and adaptable — comfortable switching between strategic planning and hands-on problem solving.

Resilient under pressure — maintains clarity and calm during production incidents and tight deadlines.

10+ years of relevant industry experience required.

- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Certified Product Owner (CSPO).
- Experience managing distributed or remote teams.
- ReactJS frontend knowledge for full-stack architectural context.
- Python for scripting and automation.
- Cloud cost optimization and FinOps awareness.
- Background in brand protection, IP enforcement, or digital investigation domains.
- Experience in enterprise SaaS domains.

Anaqua's AQX platform combines best practice workflows with big data analytics and tech-enabled services to create an intelligent environment designed to inform IP strategy, enable IP decision-making, and streamline IP operations. S. patent filers and global brands, as well as a growing number of law firms worldwide use Anaqua's solutions. The company's global operations are headquartered in Boston, with offices across the U.com, or on LinkedIn.

📌 Monitoring Engineering Team Lead (Secunderabad)
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