Job Description:

About the Role:

We're looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a high-performing scrum team within the OneXtel Engineering organization. You'll be responsible for building and scaling our omni-channel messaging platform-covering SMS, Email, Voice, and Social- engineered to handle billions of transactions daily.

You'll bring deep technical expertise, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to drive excellence in engineering practices, delivery, and team culture.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead, mentor, and grow a scrum team delivering highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance messaging systems.

- Own the full product development lifecycle for your team-from design to deployment to support.

Work closely with business and product teams to align delivery with business goals and customer needs.

- Define and measure engineering quality metrics, ensuring the team meets standards for performance, scalability, and code quality.

- Champion engineering best practices: agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, and strong documentation.

Contribute to solution and subsystem architecture decisions, ensuring modularity, reuse, and maintainability.

- Conduct design and code reviews, guiding the team toward robust, clean, and efficient solutions.

- Manage team performance, career growth, and hiring-building a motivated, high-caliber engineering group.

- Drive operational excellence and customer satisfaction through on-time delivery within cost and quality expectations.

- Lead POCs, benchmarking, and technical evaluations to support innovation and continuous improvement.

- Own production issues and drive quick, effective resolutions.

- Ensure engineering processes-version control, release management, QA-are followed rigorously.

- Drive strategic initiatives like productivity, automation, and process optimization.

Skills Set:

- 10-15 years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a managerial or team leadership role.

- Deep, hands-on experience in designing and delivering scalable systems in Java/Spring.

- Solid understanding of message-oriented middleware and PostgreSQL.

- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).

- Knowledge of functional programming and Erlang is a plus.

Deep understanding of:

- Internet protocols (from application to physical layer)

- Virtual machine architecture

- REST API design

- Single-page applications

- Socket-level programming, TCP/IP protocol

- Strong exposure to Agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, QA lifecycle, JIRA, and GitHub.

Desired skills:

Erlang/Elixir

SMPP Understanding

Education:

- Bachelor's in computer science &/or Engineering.

- 10 to 15 years of solid experience in one or more elements of the above mentioned tech stack.