Senior Engineering Manager

Food Hub Software Solutions

10 - 15 years

35 - 40 Lacs

chennai

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backend circuit breakers coding postgresql reconciliation schema system design distribution system operations analytics

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Full Time

Job Description

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10+ years in backend/platform engineering with leadership in transaction-heavy platforms.
Deep expertise in distributed systems: ordering, payments, reconciliation, data integrity.
Hands-on mastery of Node.js/TypeScript in cloud-native and serverless-first architectures.
Proven experience running systems at high scale and high reliability (millions of daily transactions).
A player-coachmindset: comfortable diving into production issues, leading design sessions, and mentoring teams.
Desirable Experience

Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, NestJS

Cloud & Data : AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS), PostgreSQL, Redis

Event Streaming: Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis designing high-throughput, low-latency pipelines

Architecture Patterns: Microservices, event-driven systems, CQRS, event sourcing, domain-driven design

APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC with schema-first governance and strong versioning discipline

Platform & Ops: k8s (EKS or equivalent), service mesh, distributed tracing, full observability stacks

AI Readiness: Building real-time fraud detection signals, anomaly detection, recommendation feeds

Domain Knowledge: High-scale commerce, payments, or financial transaction platforms
Requirements
Senior Manager | Platform Engineering & API Ecosystems

Why This Role Matters

At Foodhub, every order and payment flows through our Order & Transaction Platform. Ita high-throughput backbone moving millions of requests daily where reliability, speed, and financial accuracy cannot be compromised. We are continuously evolving this core into a cloud-native, event-driven, AI-ready platform that scales globally.

This role is about shaping that platform: part architect, part hands-on engineer, part mentor. Youll be building systems that define what real-time commerce at scalelooks like.

What Youll Drive

Architecture & Platform Evolution

Design and scale event-driven microservices that power ordering, payments, reconciliation, and partner integrations.

Implement CQRS, event sourcing, and ledger-based models for auditability and financial correctness.

Build a modern API ecosystem REST, GraphQL, gRPC with schema governance and backward compatibility.

Create real-time data and event streams to power fraud detection, recommendations, and operational analytics.

Performance & Reliability at Scale

Ensure five-nines reliability for high-volume order and transaction systems.

Solve concurrency, partitioning, and eventual consistency challenges across distributed services.

Deploy fault-tolerance strategies circuit breakers, idempotency, back pressure handling to protect systems under extreme load.

Advance SRE practices with chaos engineering, observability-first design, and automated failover.

Leadership & Mentorship

Lead globally distributed teams of platform engineers.

Balance 5060% IC work (coding, design reviews, prototyping) with strategic leadership.

Create a culture of ownership, resilience, and continuous learning.

Act as a technical mentor for engineers across the company, raising the bar in distributed system design.
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