Work Timings: 10:15 am to 7:15 pm
Working Days: 5 Days a Week (We Chose Work-Life Balance Over the Education Industry Norm)
Work Mode: Work from Office
Location: Marol Mumbai
About IIDE:
IIDE is Indias leading digital business school offering industry-relevant programs in digital marketing AI and business. With a strong focus on experiential learning we equip students graduates and working professionals with the skills required to thrive in todays digital-first world.
Backed by a community of 500000 learners and 250 industry experts IIDE delivers hands-on training real-world projects and robust placement support. With campuses in Mumbai and Delhi we continue to expand our presence across India and globally.
About the Role:
As the Deputy Manager Product Development at IIDE Mumbai you will own the technical execution of IIDEs product engineering function and lead a team of frontend and backend engineers.
You will be responsible for taking products from business requirements and technical design through development testing deployment and production. The role involves overseeing IIDEs product ecosystem including the Learning Management System (LMS) Student and Admin Portals public websites backend services APIs internal applications and third-party integrations.
This is a hands-on engineering leadership role requiring strong technical depth product thinking delivery ownership and people leadership. You will work closely with Product Design Technology Marketing CRM Operations and Business teams to build scalable reliable secure and maintainable technology products.
What Youll Do:
Product Engineering Leadership:
Own engineering execution across IIDEs product development portfolio.
Lead mentor and provide technical guidance to frontend and backend engineers.
Establish engineering standards coding practices and development processes.
Review technical designs architecture and implementation approaches.
Ensure engineering decisions balance scalability maintainability security performance and delivery timelines.
Build a culture of ownership accountability technical excellence and continuous improvement.
Act as the technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges.
Product & Project Delivery:
Own end-to-end technical delivery across multiple concurrent product initiatives.
Convert business and product requirements into clear technical execution plans.
Break requirements into epics modules technical tasks and development milestones.
Estimate engineering effort and identify technical dependencies.
Plan resources and assign work across the engineering team.
Track delivery progress risks dependencies blockers and milestones.
Work with Product and Business stakeholders to manage scope and technical trade-offs.
Ensure releases are delivered on time without compromising engineering quality.
LMS & Product Platform Engineering:
Take technical ownership of IIDEs Learning Management System Student Portal Admin Portal public websites backend services APIs internal business applications third-party integrations and future technology initiatives.
Play a key engineering role in the ongoing LMS rebuild using a modern technology stack.
Ensure platform architecture can scale with IIDEs growing student and business requirements.
Architecture & System Design:
Design and review scalable application architectures across frontend backend APIs and databases.
Review database schemas data models queries API contracts and integration patterns.
Evaluate technical approaches and recommend appropriate solutions.
Identify architectural risks technical dependencies and scalability challenges early.
Drive improvements in reliability maintainability application performance and security.
Establish appropriate authentication and authorization patterns.
Identify and reduce technical debt.
Ensure important architectural decisions are properly documented.
Engineering Quality & Production Reliability:
Establish and enforce code review standards.
Ensure appropriate unit integration API regression and release testing practices.
Review release readiness before production deployments.
Improve application reliability and production stability.
Own engineering-side incident investigation and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
Drive preventive actions following production incidents.
Improve observability logging and monitoring practices.
Maintain documentation for critical systems and engineering processes.
Technology Ownership:
Lead engineering teams working across Java Spring Boot Angular TypeScript JavaScript HTML/CSS REST APIs PostgreSQL Git and GitHub.
Guide teams on software architecture system design database design API design authentication and authorization integrations microservices caching CI/CD containers cloud infrastructure performance and web security.
Evaluate technologies based on their engineering and business value rather than adopting tools without a clear use case.
Provide technical guidance across the stack without needing to personally be an expert in every technology.
Website & Technical Performance:
Ensure IIDEs websites follow modern engineering and performance practices.
Work with Marketing and SEO teams to implement technical SEO requirements.
Monitor and improve Core Web Vitals and frontend performance.
Ensure applications are optimized for scalability performance and user experience.
Ensure technical implementation supports crawlability indexing and other SEO requirements.
Engineering Team Management:
Conduct sprint planning stand-ups retrospectives and engineering reviews.
Mentor developers through technical guidance and regular feedback.
Conduct code and architecture reviews.
Identify skill gaps and create development plans for team members.
Support technical hiring interviews and onboarding.
Define clear ownership and responsibilities across the engineering team.
Improve team productivity without compromising engineering quality.
Build a strong culture of ownership accountability and problem-solving.
Cross-functional Collaboration:
Work closely with Product Design Marketing CRM Operations and Business teams.
Understand business problems before proposing technical solutions.
Communicate technical constraints dependencies timelines and trade-offs clearly.
Partner with Product stakeholders on technical feasibility and solution design.
Ensure engineering priorities remain aligned with business priorities.
Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Continuous Improvement:
Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and development processes.
Automate repetitive engineering and deployment processes wherever possible.
Improve development testing release and deployment workflows.
Reduce technical debt and recurring production issues.
Evaluate new technologies where they provide meaningful business or engineering value.
Encourage responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools.
Continuously improve system scalability reliability maintainability and engineering efficiency.
Additional Duties:
Monitor technical risks and proactively resolve issues that could affect delivery or platform reliability.
Contribute to future product and technology initiatives as IIDEs engineering ecosystem expands.
Perform any other reasonable duties as requested by management aligned with the broad scope of the position.
Requirements
Who You Are:
Must-Have:
57 years of software engineering experience.
At least 12 years of experience leading engineers projects or technical initiatives.
Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot.
Strong understanding of Angular and modern frontend development.
Experience working with REST APIs and PostgreSQL.
Strong understanding of software architecture system design and database design.
Experience delivering production applications used by real users.
Experience managing multiple concurrent engineering initiatives.
Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and release management.
Experience with code reviews debugging production issue resolution and incident management.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Strong ownership and problem-solving mindset.
Ability to balance product requirements engineering quality and delivery timelines.
Ability to mentor developers and improve overall team capability.
Should Have:
Strong understanding of API design authentication and authorization third-party integrations microservices architecture caching application performance CI/CD Docker and containerisation cloud infrastructure and web security.
Experience establishing engineering standards testing practices monitoring logging and release processes.
Experience working in product companies SaaS companies EdTech FinTech high-growth technology companies or startups with complex web platforms.
Experience working with large-scale internal or customer-facing applications.
Experience building or managing LMS ERP CRM SaaS platforms marketplaces portals or other multi-module business applications.
Nice to Have:
Experience with MongoDB Redis message queues or event-driven architecture.
Exposure to AWS Azure GCP DigitalOcean or similar cloud platforms.
Experience with monitoring and logging platforms.
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot Cursor or Claude Code.
Experience contributing to or leading large-scale platform modernization or rebuild initiatives.
Benefits
Why Join IIDE
Lead engineering for one of Indias leading EdTech organisations.
Own technology for products used by thousands of students and business users.
Play a key role in the redevelopment of IIDEs core LMS platform using modern technologies.
Work across Spring Boot Angular and modern backend systems.
Take significant ownership of architecture engineering standards and product delivery.
Work closely with senior business and technology leadership.
Build and grow an engineering team as IIDEs technology requirements scale.
Gain opportunities to take on larger technology leadership responsibilities over time.
Who Youll Thrive As
Youre someone who:
Combines strong technical depth with product and business thinking.
Enjoys taking ownership of engineering initiatives from requirements through production.
Can lead engineers while remaining sufficiently hands-on to review architecture code and technical decisions.
Thinks carefully about scalability reliability maintainability security and performance.
Can convert ambiguous business requirements into structured technical execution plans.
Communicates technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Enjoys mentoring developers and building high-performing engineering teams.
Is comfortable managing multiple priorities dependencies and delivery timelines.
Takes ownership of production issues and focuses on eliminating recurring problems at the root cause.
Continuously looks for ways to improve engineering processes systems and team capability.
Uses new technologies and AI-assisted development tools responsibly when they create meaningful value.
Who You Are: Must-Have: 57 years of software engineering experience. At least 12 years of experience leading engineers projects or technical initiatives. Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot. Strong understanding of Angular and modern frontend development. Experience working with REST APIs and PostgreSQL. Strong understanding of software architecture system design and database design. Experience delivering production applications used by real users. Experience managing multiple concurrent engineering initiatives. Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and release management. Experience with code reviews debugging production issue resolution and incident management. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Strong ownership and problem-solving mindset. Ability to balance product requirements engineering quality and delivery timelines. Ability to mentor developers and improve overall team capability. Should Have: Strong understanding of API design authentication and authorization third-party integrations microservices architecture caching application performance CI/CD Docker and containerisation cloud infrastructure and web security. Experience establishing engineering standards testing practices monitoring logging and release processes. Experience working in product companies SaaS companies EdTech FinTech high-growth technology companies or startups with complex web platforms. Experience working with large-scale internal or customer-facing applications. Experience building or managing LMS ERP CRM SaaS platforms marketplaces portals or other multi-module business applications. Nice to Have: Experience with MongoDB Redis message queues or event-driven architecture. Exposure to AWS Azure GCP DigitalOcean or similar cloud platforms. Experience with monitoring and logging platforms. Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot Cursor or Claude Code. Experience contributing to or leading large-scale platform modernization or rebuild initiatives.
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