Research and Development Engineering Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a scrum team delivering highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance

messaging systems.

• Own the full product development lifecycle for your team—from design to deployment to support.

• Work closely with business and product teams to align delivery with business goals and customer

needs.

• Define and measure engineering quality metrics, ensuring the team meets standards for

performance, scalability, and code quality.

• Champion engineering best practices: agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, and strong documentation.

• Contribute to solution and subsystem architecture decisions, ensuring modularity, reuse, and

maintainability.

• Conduct design and code reviews, guiding the team toward robust, clean, and efficient solutions.

• Manage team performance, career growth, and hiring—building a motivated, high-caliber

engineering group.

• Drive operational excellence and customer satisfaction through on-time delivery within cost and

quality expectations.

• Lead POCs, benchmarking, and technical evaluations to support innovation and continuous

improvement.

• Own production issues and drive quick, effective resolutions.

• Ensure engineering processes—version control, release management, QA—are followed

rigorously.

• Drive strategic initiatives like productivity, automation, and process optimization.

Skills Set:

• 10–15 years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a managerial or

team leadership role.

• Deep, hands-on experience in designing and delivering scalable systems in Java/Spring.

• Solid understanding of message-oriented middleware and PostgreSQL.

• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).

• Knowledge of functional programming and Erlang is a plus.

• Deep understanding of:

o Internet protocols (from application to physical layer)

o Virtual machine architecture

o REST API design

o Single-page applications

o Socket-level programming, TCP/IP protocol

• Strong exposure to Agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, QA lifecycle, JIRA, and GitHub.