Engineering Manager
Job Description
The core responsibilities for the job include the following: Backend Architecture and Hands-on Development: - Own the design and development of Ripik's backend platform built on Java 21+ and Spring Boot 4 x, including RESTful and gRPC APIs, microservices decomposition, event-driven pipelines, and integration layers that connect AI inference engines with factory-floor systems. - Architect for scale, reliability, and low latency: design services that handle high-throughput streams from industrial IoT sensors and vision cameras, process them through message brokers (Kafka / RabbitMQ), and persist results across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and time-series stores (TimescaleDB / InfluxDB). - Make key technology and design decisions: Spring Security and OAuth 2.0 / JWT for multi-tenant authentication, Spring Data for repository abstractions, Spring Cloud for service discovery and configuration, and Hibernate / JPA for ORM while keeping the codebase clean, testable, and well-documented. - Drive API design standards (OpenAPI / Swagger), enforce contract-first development, and ensure backend services expose well-versioned, idempotent, and backward-compatible interfaces consumed by the frontend and external integrations. - Champion production engineering: build observability into every service with structured logging (ELK/Loki), distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry/Jaeger), metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), and own SLAs and incident response for the backend stack. Full-Stack Product Delivery: - Lead end-to-end product builds from the ground up, translate product requirements into technical architecture, break them into epics and stories, and ship complete features spanning backend APIs, database schemas, and frontend UIs. - Collaborate closely with frontend engineers building operator dashboards and configuration portals (React/Next.js, TypeScript) to review UI/UX implementation, ensure performant API integration, and maintain a cohesive full-stack development workflow. - Own the CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes on AWS / Azure / GCP), automate testing (unit, integration, E2E), and enforce quality gates so that every merge to main is production-ready. - Coordinate with the AI/Data Science teams to integrate ML model outputs (computer vision inferences, LLM responses) into the platform, designing the serving layer, result-caching strategy, and feedback loops that connect model predictions with user-facing features. - Manage cloud infrastructure decisions across Ripik's multi-cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-premises installations at customer factory sites, balancing cost, compliance, and latency requirements. Team Leadership and Scrum Management: - Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of backend and frontend engineers; set clear expectations, conduct regular 1:1s, drive career development, and foster a culture of ownership and technical excellence. - Run Scrum ceremonies end-to-end: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring the team delivers predictably while staying agile enough to respond to shifting priorities in a fast-moving start-up. - Conduct thorough code reviews and architecture reviews; enforce engineering best practices around testing (JUnit, Mockito, Testcontainers), code quality (SonarQube), and secure coding standards. - Hire and onboard strong engineers; raise the technical bar continuously through pairing, tech talks, design-document culture, and a bias toward building reusable, well-abstracted components. - Act as the primary engineering interface with Product, Design, AI, Field Engineering, and Customer - Success translating business needs into well-scoped engineering work and communicating trade-offs, timelines, and risks transparently to leadership. Requirements: - B. Tech / M. Tech in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline. - 6-10 years of total software engineering experience with a strong backend focus, of which at least 2 years in a tech lead, engineering lead, or engineering manager role. - Deep hands-on expertise in Java (17+) and the Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot 3 x / 4 x, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, and Spring WebFlux (reactive)). Ability to write production-grade code, not just review it. - Strong experience designing and building microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and database layers (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis). - Proven track record of building applications from the ground up, greenfield product development in a SaaS or product-company context, and taking features from whiteboard to production. - Experience leading and managing teams of both backend and frontend engineers, comfortable reviewing React/TypeScript code, guiding frontend architecture decisions, and maintaining full-stack delivery velocity. - Hands-on experience running Scrum / Agile processes: sprint planning, backlog management, velocity tracking, and retrospectives with a practical, outcome-driven approach (not ceremony for ceremony's sake). - Strong DevOps and deployment experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Jenkins), and at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred; Azure / GCP also valued). - Solid understanding of system design fundamentals: caching strategies, load balancing, rate limiting, database indexing, horizontal scaling, and high-availability patterns. - Experience in a high-growth start-up or similarly fast-paced environment where shipping speed, scrappiness, and wearing multiple hats are the norm. - Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical trade-offs to product and business stakeholders, write clear RFCs and design documents, and present to leadership. Company Summary We are building an AI platform to make manufacturing more competitive. We enable the shop-floor managers and plant teams to take better decisions via an AI-ML-based DIY platform where they can run analytics and get recommendations. Our beta product is life at several leading Indian companies. We are the provider of an AI-based platform for production analytics. We transform how people operate factories across the world. Our mission is to make manufacturing operations more efficient, productive, and sustainable. We build deep tech solutions such as digital twin which are easy to use. Our solutions have helped clients improve their throughput, quality, yield, and energy efficiency. Our products deliver real value - moving KPIs that matter in manufacturing and industrial companies. Why Join Us
Required Skills
['AWS', 'Azure', 'Docker', 'GCP', 'Java', 'Kafka', 'Kubernetes', 'REST', 'RabbitMQ', 'Spring', 'Spring Boot', 'microservices']
Additional Information
Source recruiter: Sonali Anand Source recruiter designation: Technical Recruiter Company tagline: Building enterprise AI applications for industrial companies Employee count: 10 Company founded: 2021 Company tech stack: Machine Learning, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Angular, TypeScript, jQuery, Java, Python, Scala, Node.js, Golang, MySQL, CI - CD, AWS Website: https://ripik.ai/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ripik-ai/about/ Instahyre score: NA Strong match: NA Accept outstation: false Company tagline: Building enterprise AI applications for industrial companies Logo: https://media.instahyre.com/images/profile/base/employer/38835/ef7d39e300/1601122161236.webp