Manager, Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Act as both a hands-on technical software architect and an effective people manager.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that engineering projects align with the organization's goals.
• Plan, design, develop, deploy, and maintain the element management system using contemporary engineering practices and technologies.
• Collaborate with engineering management, product management, customer success and support, and cross-functional development/testing/testing automation teams to create innovative solutions that incorporate new technologies and algorithms.
• Guide, mentor, and oversee a team of engineers to meet project objectives while maintaining top-notch quality.
• Stay updated on technological advancements and industry trends to ensure the team employs best practices and tools.
• Promote a data-driven culture to enhance the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the management system.
• Foster an environment that encourages robust communication and high-quality standards, building mechanisms and processes for team efficiency, constantly inventing and simplifying.
• Perform ad hoc troubleshooting of customer systems to ensure quick resolution of issues.
• Recruit, coach, and mentor both senior and junior software engineers.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in leading engineering teams and delivering complex projects from inception to deployment.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in building distributed, multi-tiered enterprise applications for element and network management platforms, preferably for Access Networks or any telecommunications products.
• 10+ years of extensive experience in Linux and JAVA/J2EE-based application design and development using Microservices/SOA architecture, Spring Boot, OOPS, Collections, Multi-threading, inter-process communication, exception handling, memory management, packages, JVM, etc.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing FCAPS solutions that are geographically diverse, highly scalable, and support high concurrency and multi-threading.
• Extensive years of experience in building solutions using REST APIs, JSON, XML, Postgres, MongoDB, ELK Stack, SNMP, and Netconf/Yang.
• Extensive experience in building authentication and authorization using modern technologies (OAuth, etc.) and integrating with LDAP/Radius.
• Extensive experience in establishing HA, Clustering, Redundancy, and Stateful Failover through design, implementation, and deployment.
• Proven experience in performance benchmarking and database optimization.
• Hands-on experience in using SDN controllers like OpenDaylight, ONOS, or any other similar controller.
• Hands-on experience with containerization frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes, or similar.
• Experience with various Linux tools related to source code version control, code review, bug tracking, and CI/CD, e.g., Git, Gerrit, Jira, Jenkins.
• A solid understanding of networking and broadband technologies is a plus.

Location:

India – (Flexible hybrid work model - work from Bangalore office for 20 days in a quarter)