Senior Manager, Backend Engineer
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Senior Manager, Backend Engineer
The Opportunity
- Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
- Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
- Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.
Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.
A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.
Role Overview
As part of our strategic technology roadmap, we are building a resilient, scalable, and secure integration backbone that powers our enterprise applications and client-facing platforms.
This Senior Backend Developer will be a key engineering leader on the ground, responsible for translating architecture blueprints into high-performance services, ensuring API excellence, and driving automation across our AWS and MuleSoft ecosystem.
You will be part of a high-impact team that directly influences time-to-market, cost optimization, and digital transformation outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Delivery & Architecture Execution
Translate high-level architectural vision into production-grade microservices and integration flows using Java Spring Boot , Rest API, AWS platform and MuleSoft Anypoint.
Partner with solution architects to design APIs that are secure, reusable, and aligned to enterprise API governance.
Build cloud-native solutions on AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB, DataBricks, AWS Redshift, Collibra metamodel, Muse Search Analytics,S3, SQS/SNS, EventBridge).
Identify gaps in existing model and ready to fix things with collaboration and due diligence.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Familiarity with modern product development methodologies, including test-driven development (TDD) and design thinking.
Experience with AI technologies and integrating models like GPT into backend systems.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira for project management and issue tracking.
Understanding of testing processes and best practices in software development.
Proven experience in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, with a deep understanding of API design principles.
Familiarity with software architecture and solution design, especially in cloud environments and microservices.
Operational Excellence
Implement CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions to achieve frequent, safe deployments and faster feature delivery.
Champion observability (logging, metrics, tracing) to meet or exceed SLOs for availability and performance.
Proactively identify technical debt and propose remediation strategies in alignment with Director-level priorities.
Excellent communication skills, capable of presenting ideas and solutions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Cross-functional Leadership
Mentor junior developers; set coding standards and review pull requests with a focus on quality, scalability, and maintainability.
Collaborate with product managers, DevOps, QA, and business stakeholders to ensure delivery aligns with strategic business outcomes.
Participate in incident reviews and drive root cause elimination for platform reliability.
Innovation & Cost Optimization
Leverage AWS and MuleSoft capabilities to reduce infrastructure costs and improve service performance.
Introduce best practices in API versioning, security (OAuth2, mTLS), and microservice patterns (saga, event sourcing, CQRS).
Keep the team aligned with emerging trends in backend, cloud, and integration technologies.
Qualifications
7–10+ years backend engineering experience with expertise in Java 11+/Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and microservices.
3+ years in MuleSoft (Mule 4, API Manager, Anypoint Studio/CloudHub) with experience building and managing enterprise APIs.
Hands-on AWS experience with compute, integration, and database services.
Knowledge on Collibra, Muse is a plus.
Proficiency in GitHub Actions CI/CD, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
Strong grounding in API security, network design, and distributed system reliability.
Proven ability to work in agile environments and lead small squads from design to production.
MuleSoft and AWS certifications preferred.
KPIs & Success Metrics
Deployment frequency: Multiple safe releases per week without rollback.
Platform reliability: 99.9%+ uptime, adherence to SLAs/SLOs.
Incident reduction: Measurable drop in P1/P2 incidents within first 90 days.
Cost efficiency: Optimized AWS and MuleSoft operational spend without performance trade-offs.
Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.
Who we are:
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.
What we look for:
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.
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08/19/2025*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.