Team Lead- Backend

Engineering Manager -Backend (MERN Stack)

At Traya Health

Location: Bengaluru

Requirement: Work From Office Role

About Traya Health:

Traya Health is a fast-growing Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) hair care brand, revolutionizing the wellness and personal care space through innovative products and personalized solutions. We are on a mission to help individuals regain and maintain healthy hair with data-driven, science-backed approaches. As a startup, we are nimble, growth-oriented, and deeply committed to making a meaningful impact in the lives of our customers. Join us in building the next wave of breakthrough products at Traya Health.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a highly strategic and experienced Engineering Manager to lead and inspire our backend engineering teams. In this critical leadership role, you will be responsible for the overall technical direction, execution, and growth of multiple teams focused on building and scaling our core platform using the MERN stack (Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB). You will play a pivotal role in shaping our engineering culture, driving technical excellence, and ensuring the successful delivery of our product roadmap. This is an exceptional opportunity to make a significant impact on our organization and empower talented engineers to do their best work.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and manage multiple backend engineering teams, fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing environment.
- Own the overall technical vision and strategy for the backend organization, ensuring alignment with business objectives and product roadmap.
- Drive the planning, execution, and delivery of complex backend initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring they are on time, within scope, and meet high-quality standards.
- Collaborate closely with product management, frontend leadership, and other stakeholders to define product strategy, priorities, and technical direction.
- Develop and empower engineering leaders (Team Leads) within your organization, providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for growth.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, promoting best practices, coding standards, and architectural consistency across teams.
- Oversee architectural decisions and ensure the scalability, reliability, security, and performance of our backend systems.
- Proactively identify and address organizational and technical challenges, implementing solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Drive the professional development and career growth of engineers within your organization through coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
- Lead and contribute to the recruitment and onboarding of top engineering talent.
- Advocate for and implement improvements to our engineering processes, tools, and infrastructure.
- Manage budgets and resources effectively for your engineering teams.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, providing regular updates on team progress, challenges, and strategic direction.
- Contribute to the overall engineering strategy and culture of the company.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent extensive practical experience).
- Extensive experience (typically 5+ years) in backend software development, with a significant focus on the MERN stack (Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) in scalable, production environments.
- Proven experience (typically 2+ years) in managing and leading multiple software engineering teams and/or engineering leaders.
- Deep understanding of JavaScript (ES6+) and asynchronous programming paradigms.
- Extensive experience in designing and architecting complex backend systems using Node.js and enterprise-grade frameworks like NestJS.
- Deep expertise in designing and optimizing data models and database architectures for both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases at scale.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and API design principles.
- Excellent understanding of software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Kanban) and their effective implementation at scale.
- Proven ability to develop and execute technical strategy, aligning with business goals.
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and inspire large technical teams and stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams and leaders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to address complex organizational and technical challenges.
- Experience managing budgets and resources effectively.

Bonus Points:

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managing teams leveraging their backend services at scale.
- Deep understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) in a production environment.
- Experience with building and managing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices across multiple teams.
- Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability practices for large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and their implementation across teams.
- Active participation in the tech community and a strong network within the industry.
- Experience in driving significant performance improvements and scaling initiatives across multiple backend systems.

Traya provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, nation origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by central, state, or local laws.

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