Senior Staff Manager - SDE

Netradyne harnesses the power of Computer Vision and Edge Computing to revolutionize the modern-day transportation ecosystem. We are a leader in fleet safety solutions. With growth exceeding 4x year over year, our solution is quickly being recognized as a significant disruptive technology. Our team is growing, and we need forward-thinking, uncompromising, competitive team members to continue to facilitate our growth. Role Summary We are looking for a senior technical leader to own and drive the design, development, and evolution of device health, platform, API, and integration capabilities. The role combines hands-on engineering with architecture, technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional execution. The candidate will work on large-scale device telemetry, health monitoring, APIs, data processing pipelines, and third-party integrations. Role and Responsibilities • Lead the design and development of scalable device health, monitoring, platform, API, and integration services. • Own architecture and technical direction for complex systems involving device telemetry, health monitoring, APIs, data pipelines, and third-party integrations. • Design, build, and maintain highly available, reliable, secure, and high-performance backend services and customer-facing APIs. • Build solutions for device status and health monitoring, including processing telemetry and identifying device health conditions and operational issues. • Design and implement REST APIs, Webhooks, partner integrations, asynchronous workflows, and event-driven services. • Design systems capable of processing high volumes of real-time device data while meeting performance, scalability, and reliability requirements. • Define and enforce API standards including versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, error handling, and lifecycle management. • Design and optimize data processing pipelines for large-scale device and platform data. • Address distributed-system challenges including retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, failure handling, and data consistency. • Work with Product, Architecture, QA, DevOps, and partner teams to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions. • Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, technical discussions, and engineering decisions for complex initiatives. • Identify and address scalability, reliability, performance, security, and operational risks across device and platform services. • Drive projects through requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support. • Investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and drive sustainable fixes and improvements. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and establish engineering best practices. • Participate in hiring, technical interviews, team development, and capability building where required. • Work with engineering leadership to plan execution, manage technical dependencies, and ensure timely delivery of key initiatives. • Promote automation, observability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the platform. Essential Skills • 10+ years of strong hands-on software engineering experience, with significant experience in Java and backend/API development. • Strong experience with Java, Spring, and Spring Boot. • Strong experience designing and building REST APIs, Webhooks, Web Services, and third-party integrations. • Strong understanding of API design, versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, security, and API lifecycle management. • Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, fault tolerance, and failure handling. • Experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, Kinesis, or equivalent. • Experience with device telemetry, device health, monitoring, real-time data processing, or IoT platforms. • Strong understanding of data processing pipelines and systems that operate at large scale. • Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices. • Strong understanding of database design and internals, including RDBMS and NoSQL data stores. • Experience designing high-performance APIs and data processing systems for large datasets and high transaction volumes. • Strong experience with AWS and cloud-hosted environments. • Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to resolve complex production and system-level issues. • Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical decisions across teams. • Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical direction while remaining hands-on. Good-to-Have Skills • Experience with IoT/device platforms and large-scale device fleet management. • Experience with AWS services such as API Gateway, ECS/EKS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, RDS, DynamoDB, and CloudWatch. • Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and production operations. • Familiarity with Big Data ecosystems and large-scale distributed data processing. • Familiarity with AI-assisted software development tools such as Claude, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot. Leadership & Management Expectations • Act as a senior technical leader for the Device Health and Platform areas and take ownership of critical technical outcomes. • Balance hands-on engineering with architecture, technical leadership, mentoring, planning, and cross-team coordination. • Drive alignment across teams and communicate technical trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and delivery plans to engineering and product leadership. • Build a culture of engineering quality, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. Qualifications and Education Requirements • B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. Netradyne is an equal-opportunity employer. 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