Engineering Manager

About Company

Affordplan is a category leading healthcare payment platform. Affordplan’s product Swasth enables its partner hospitals to drive more engaging patient life cycles while helping patients save on their medical bills. Affordplan works with 100+ hospitals across the country and is present in 20+ cities. Affordplan plans to rapidly expand its portfolio this year doubling its hospital count.

The ideal candidate should possess exceptional leadership skills, a deep understanding of system design principles, and extensive hands-on experience with Java and other relevant technologies. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for mentoring and guiding the engineering team, driving technical excellence, and contributing to the design and implementation of highly scalable and complex systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strong leadership and mentorship to the engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of highly transactional, large relational, and complex systems.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in system design, including microservices architecture, NoSQL databases, and various communication protocols such as REST, message queues, and RPC.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-quality solutions on time.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends, and advocate for their adoption where applicable.
• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of systems by conducting thorough analysis and implementing optimizations as needed.
• Oversee the production and cloud architecture, with a deep understanding of AWS services and best practices.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, provide constructive feedback, and support the professional growth and development of team members.
• Actively participate in recruitment efforts, including interviewing and onboarding new engineering talent.

Requirements:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with team leading experience as a tech lead or manager.
• Exceptional leadership skills with a proven ability to mentor and inspire engineering teams.
• Proficiency in system design principles, with a deep understanding of distributed systems.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Java, Linux, Apache, MySQL, Redis, NodeJS, RDBMS, JavaScript, Mongo DB etc.
• Strong familiarity with microservices architecture, NoSQL databases, and various communication protocols.
• Exposure to functional programming and/or event-driven programming paradigms.
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field from a reputable institution.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.