Engineering Manager

JOB PURPOSE

Lead and grow a high-performing backend engineering team delivering backend microservices and batch systems for critical retail banking channels of HDFC Bank, ensuring reliability, security, performance and regulatory compliance.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES (JR):

Own end-to-end delivery of backend services for key retail banking journeys, from requirements through design, development, testing and production support.

Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance on microservices design, integration patterns, data modeling and non-functional requirements (performance, scalability, resilience, security).

Build, coach and mentor backend engineering teams (Golang and Java), driving culture of code quality, ownership, learning and collaboration.

Establish/enforce engineering standards, best practices and review processes across both technology stacks.

Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, architects, QA and DevOps to plan roadmaps, prioritize backlog and deliver outcomes on time.

Drive continuous improvement in CI/CD, observability, incident management and root-cause analysis for backend services.

Monitor/manage team capacity, hiring needs and skill development plans aligned to technology/business priorities

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

Total experience: 1520 years in backend engineering, recent Golang microservices focus.

Qualification: B Tech/BE in Computer Science, Electronics or related discipline.

Key Skills:

o Strong hands-on background in either Java (Java 11+/21 with Spring Boot) OR Golang as primary technology, with willingness/aptitude to learn the other stack to support team delivery.

o Proven experience designing/delivering microservices architectures (REST/gRPC), resilience patterns, observability, API gateway integration.

o SQL/NoSQL expertise, data modeling, performance tuning from backend services.

o CI/CD pipelines, Git, Docker (Kubernetes preferred), banking security (OWASP, auth/authz).

o Demonstrated team leadership, performance management, hiring, psychological safety culture.

o Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), stakeholder management, planning excellence