Team Lead - Backend Engineer

About the Role:

We are looking for an engineering mindset which brings fresh ideas from various areas, including large-scale platform design, analytics, data structures, security practices, large-scale data retrieval and processing environments. As a Lead Engineer, you will be working closely with product managers, QA engineers, and designers, software engineers, and will be responsible for designing, building, deploying and scaling various products under the umbrella of CleverTap Platform.

In this role, you will lead and mentor your team, fostering a collaborative environment, managing project timelines, and ensuring high-quality deliverables. Strong people management skills, including team development, effective communication, and performance management, are essential for driving the success of your team and projects.

What will you do:

- Develop core services and libraries used across the organization, including internal tools for engineers, PMs, QAs, and other stakeholders

- Work closely with the infrastructure team to build essential platform components, such as CI/CD pipelines, metering, logging, and feature flags

- Engage with external vendors whose products are integrated into our internal systems to ensure smooth operations

- Oversee several projects simultaneously, managing transitions and maintaining consistent progress across all initiatives

- Identify, scope, and execute projects to improve engineers’ productivity by providing effective tools and solutions

- Write server code, optimize servers for performance and stability, implement security measures, create reusable code libraries, and develop data storage solutions

- Collaborate with the product team to define requirements, estimate delivery timelines for features, and document technical details for development

- Be the go-to expert for your team while building a strong, independent team capable of delivering high-quality projects reliably

What are we looking for?

Must have:

- 5 to 10 years of experience in back-end development, including designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale applications with Java

- Proven management experience leading teams of 5 or more, with demonstrated success in delivering results.

- Self-driven and proactive, with the ability to work independently and require minimal guidance

- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to propose solutions, identify issues, and plan team activities with minimal supervision

- Excellent context-switching ability, with the capability to handle multiple projects and ad-hoc requests efficiently

- Experience in DevOps/SRE practices, including system-level knowledge and shell scripting.

- Solid experience with distributed programming and at least one major public cloud platform (GCP, Azure, or AWS).

- Strong organizational and time-management skills, with a keen attention to detail and the ability to meet SLAs for response times

- Quick learner with solid critical thinking skills, able to adapt to new technologies and methodologies rapidly.- Passionate about technology and its impact on growth, with a keen interest in enhancing the productivity of engineering teams

- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, providing support and resolving critical issues as needed

- Strong communication skills, capable of effectively collaborating with stakeholders and aligning on project goals.

- Leadership in high-pressure situations, demonstrating the ability to make critical decisions and lead effectively during challenging times

- Strong analytical skills for troubleshooting and optimizing system performance

- Strategic thinking and vision, aligning team efforts with long-term organizational goals

Good to have:

- Hands-on experience with MongoDB, Redis, and AWS

- Java certification (OCJP or equivalent)

- Experience with monitoring and observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk

- Experience with authentication and authorization frameworks, specifically Auth0

- Expertise in CI/CD tooling, with experience using Jenkins, Bamboo, CircleCI, or similar platforms

- Familiarity with feature flag management platforms, such as LaunchDarkly

- Understanding of secrets management solutions, like HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Azure Key Vault

- Experience with cost optimization strategies, including cloud cost management tools like AWS Cost Explorer or CloudZero

- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

- Understanding of networking fundamentals for troubleshooting and optimizing distributed systems

- Exposure to emerging technologies such as serverless architectures.

Who will you report to: Director Backend Engineering

Why join us?

- Be a part of a global growth stage startup

- Work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your contribution matters

- You are passionate about technology and its impact on the high growth mobile technology space

- Innovate at scale, with learning opportunities

What is working at CleverTap like?

- Be a part of a global category creator - hyper growth B2B SaaS startup

- Work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your contribution matters

- Work, performance and results are real sources of happiness in addition to the fun of working with and celebrating success with an exceptionally talented team

- Accountability and driving outcomes is the key to success

- Your career here is limited by you and nothing else

- Teamwork trumps individual success

- You are passionate about experience technology and its impact on enabling growth

- Innovate at scale, with learning opportunities and having fun along the way!

About the Function:

At CleverTap, we built TesseractDB™, the world’s first database built specifically for engagement and retention. It was created to overcome the limitations of ordinary martech and to bring the full power of AI/ML to marketers. The CleverTap platform ingests 36 billion user interactions daily, and sends out over 16 billion message notifications each day on behalf of its customers, and currently stores over 50 petabytes of data.

We’re building newer capabilities around machine learning, better behavioral analytics, collaboration tools, and more ways to offer hyper-personalized experiences.

We are a team of Growth Pilots where everyone works together towards a common objective:

P : Act with First Principles

I : Take Initiative

L : Seek to Learn

O : Take Ownership of Outcomes

T : Help Achieve Together

S : Speak up then Commit

About CleverTap:

CleverTap is the all-in-one engagement platform that helps brands unlock limitless customer lifetime value by helping them create personalized experiences to retain their most valuable customers. The platform empowers businesses to orchestrate experiences for individuals across their lifecycles and design personalized journeys that span a lifetime. It offers analytics that encompasses every aspect of the lifecycle, enabling businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. Its unique AI capability is insightful, empathetic, and prescriptive, facilitating smarter and faster decisions. The all-in-one platform unifies experiences from every touchpoint, paving the way for a new era of customer engagement.

The platform is powered by TesseractDB™ – the world’s first purpose-built database for customer engagement, offering both speed and economies of scale.

CleverTap is trusted by 2000 customers, including Electronic Arts, TiltingPoint, Gamebasics, Big Fish, MobilityWare, TED, English Premier League, TD Bank, Carousell, AirAsia, Papa John’s, and Tesco.

Backed by leading investors such as Peak XV Partners, Tiger Global, Accel, CDPQ, and 360 One, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with presence in New York, São Paulo, Bogota, London, Amsterdam, Sofia, Dubai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Singapore, Jakarta, and Ho Chi Minh.

For more information, visit clevertap.com or follow us on:

LinkedIn: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/clevertap/>

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If you think you’d be a good fit for this role, we’d love for you to apply!

CleverTap is dedicated to establishing an inclusive culture that welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds, encouraging them to contribute their unique perspectives to our workplace.

We are committed to cultivating an empowering environment, enabling each of us to reach the peak of our professional careers.

We're excited to showcase what we have to offer!