Backend Engineering Manager (Ernakulam)

Why This Role Exists: Curately is building the AI-powered future of talent acquisition. Our platform integrates deeply with applicant tracking systems, processes complex data pipelines, and delivers intelligent automation to recruiting teams at scale. As we grow, the complexity of our backend systems is growing with it — microservices, event-driven architectures, critical data migrations, and an expanding web of third-party integrations. We’re hiring a Backend Engineering Manager to own the technical direction, quality, and velocity of our backend team. This isn’t a project management role with a technical title. We need someone who can read the code, challenge architectural decisions, and raise the bar on engineering excellence — while also building a high-performing, fully remote team that ships reliably. If you’re the kind of leader who gets energy from solving hard distributed systems problems, mentoring engineers, and building processes that let outstanding teams do their best work — this is your role.

What You’ll Own: Technical Leadership & Architecture:
- Drive architectural decisions across our Java / Spring Boot microservices platform running on AWS with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Lead the active migration from Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL — defining strategy, managing risk, and ensuring zero disruption to production systems.
- Own the health and evolution of our distributed systems infrastructure: Kafka event streaming, SQS messaging, Lambda functions, and the integration layer connecting to third-party ATSs and AI services.
- Establish and enforce technical standards that ensure our systems are scalable, resilient, and maintainable as the product grows.

Code Quality & Engineering Process:
- Build and own a rigorous code review culture — set expectations for PR size, review turnaround, depth of review, and constructive feedback. This is one of the highest-leverage activities in the role.
- Define and improve engineering processes: sprint planning, release Apply on Kit Job: kitjob.in/job/4mogo7