Engineering Manager

About Altir Altir is a product studio that builds top-notch software products for very select companies across various industries and stages of their lifecycle. We help start-ups to Fortune 500 companies nurture and transform validated ideas into successful products by amalgamating efficient business & technology strategy, development, and engineering capabilities. We are a team of entrepreneurs, engineers, product leaders, and designers who are builders and systems thinkers coming from some of the most iconic technology companies like Microsoft, Accenture, Apple, Google, and Salesforce. We exercise thorough attention to detail at every stage – from product exploration to delivery, integrating technology, automation, and our teams' expertise into the mix. We infuse our prowess from the consumer and enterprise worlds into every client's business. Our customers work with us to be their force multipliers, disrupters and to help them create unfair advantages.

Key Responsibilities • Manage a cross skilled team of backend and frontend engineers in different time zones

• Coach, mentor, and support, including overseeing new employee onboarding, performance appraisal and providing career development planning and opportunities.

Collaborate with product, design, architects, and engineering teams to build systems at scale

• Help build & drive the delivery plan • Run agile project management processes

• Ability to work on multiple projects in various stages simultaneously

• Be self-driven and make right trade-off choices while dealing with conflicting priorities •

• Hiring and building teams

• Collaborate with product, design, architects and engineering teams to build systems at scale

• Talking to clients to understand business requirements and translating to the technical requirements • Flexible thinking, including the ability to pivot and try new approaches when faced with challenges

• Set up best practices for development and process improvements and champion their adoption

• Participate in code reviews, POCs and provide actionable feedback on system architecture, APIs and project schedules

Key Requirements • 12+ years of software engineering experience with min 3 year of team/people management skills

• Experience in backend integration development with technologies that are market relevant (such as Java, Spring framework, Spring boot, JPA, Microservices, SQL & NoSQL databases, MongoDB, elastic search, RabbitMQ/Kafka, Cloud infrastructure such as AWS/Azure/GCE, ETL, distributed architectures)

• Knowledge of Cloud native technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless functions)

• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management and program management skills