Development Manager

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Development Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for designing, developing, and delivering scalable, high-availability enterprise applications. This role combines strong technical leadership with people management, ensuring engineering excellence, timely delivery, and continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in Java-based backend systems, distributed architectures, and Agile software development, while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.

• Drive end-to-end delivery of software projects, ensuring quality, scalability, and timely execution.

• Provide technical leadership in designing and developing distributed, event-driven, and microservices-based applications.

• Collaborate with Product Management, Architecture, QA, DevOps, and SRE teams to define technical solutions and delivery plans.

• Review system architecture, application design, and code to ensure adherence to engineering best practices.

• Champion engineering excellence through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, and secure coding practices.

• Drive Agile delivery by managing sprint planning, execution, estimations, and release commitments.

• Identify and mitigate technical risks, remove delivery impediments, and ensure predictable project execution.

• Support production stability by driving root cause analysis, performance tuning, and continuous operational improvements.

• Recruit, coach, and develop engineering talent while promoting continuous learning and career growth.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• 13+ years of software development experience, with at least 3+ years in an Engineering or Development Manager role.

• Strong experience building scalable backend applications using Java and Spring Boot .

• Hands-on experience with Kafka , multithreading/concurrency, and distributed systems.

• Strong database expertise with Oracle PL/SQL and relational database design.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes .

• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile development methodologies.

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex enterprise software projects.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools.

• Experience in performance tuning, scalability, and high-availability systems.

• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and secure software development.

• Experience working in highly regulated or mission-critical enterprise environments.

Technical Stack

• Languages: Java, PL/SQL

• Frameworks: Spring Boot

• Messaging: Kafka

• Concepts: Multithreading, Distributed Systems, Microservices

• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes

• Methodologies: Agile, Scrum