Web Development Manager

Web Development Manager 

 
We are seeking an experienced Web Development Manager to lead the design, development, and delivery of modern, scalable, secure, and high-performing web applications. 

This role combines engineering leadership, technical architecture, people management, and delivery ownership. The successful candidate will lead a team of frontend and backend engineers, establish engineering standards, collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, UX, QA, DevOps, and Platform teams, and ensure reliable delivery of business-critical web applications. 

The ideal candidate has strong experience with modern web technologies, particularly React.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js and/or Python-based APIs, along with cloud-native architectures, REST APIs, databases, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile software development. 

Candidate should work from office for 1 to 3 days in a week (mandatory) from Bengaluru office and flexible to come on required working days to office. Candidate to have relevant experience around 8 years. 

Key Responsibilities 

1. Engineering & Technical Leadership 

• Provide technical leadership for the design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of web applications. 

• Drive architecture and design decisions for scalable and maintainable frontend and backend solutions. 

• Establish coding standards, design patterns, reusable components, and engineering best practices. 

• Conduct and govern code reviews, technical design reviews, and architecture discussions. 

• Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, scalability concerns, and security vulnerabilities. 

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where they provide clear business or engineering value. 

2. Web Application Development 

• Guide development of responsive and intuitive web applications using modern frontend frameworks such as React.js. 

• Oversee development of backend services and APIs using technologies such as Node.js, Python/FastAPI, or equivalent frameworks. 

• Ensure effective integration between web applications, APIs, databases, authentication services, and external systems. 

• Promote reusable UI components and modular application architecture. 

• Ensure applications meet expectations for browser compatibility, accessibility, usability, reliability, and performance. 

3. People & Team Leadership 

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers. 

• Provide technical coaching and support career development. 

• Build a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. 

• Support recruitment, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and capability development. 

• Ensure appropriate workload distribution and effective collaboration across the engineering team. 

• Encourage engineers to take ownership of solutions from design through production support. 

4. Software Delivery & Agile Execution 

• Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, QA, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions. 

• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives, and release planning. 

• Drive predictable delivery while maintaining software quality. 

• Monitor risks, dependencies, blockers, and technical constraints throughout the software development lifecycle. 

• Promote accurate estimation, transparent progress tracking, and proactive escalation of delivery risks. 

• Balance feature development with technical debt, platform improvements, and operational requirements. 

5. DevOps & CI/CD 

• Champion automated build, testing, deployment, and release processes. 

• Work closely with DevOps and Platform Engineering teams to improve CI/CD pipelines. 

• Promote automated quality checks, unit testing, integration testing, security scanning, and deployment controls. 

• Support containerized and cloud-native application deployment approaches. 

• Ensure appropriate monitoring, logging, observability, and operational readiness are incorporated into application design. 

6. Security & Quality 

• Ensure secure coding practices are incorporated throughout the software development lifecycle. 

• Promote strong authentication, authorization, secrets management, input validation, dependency management, and API security practices. 

• Ensure appropriate automated testing and code-quality standards are followed. 

• Partner with security and infrastructure teams to address vulnerabilities and compliance requirements. 

• Drive root-cause analysis and sustainable fixes for production defects and recurring incidents. 

7. Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration 

• Serve as the primary engineering contact for web development initiatives. 

• Collaborate with Product, UX, Architecture, QA, DevOps, Data Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams. 

• Communicate technical decisions, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and delivery status clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

• Translate complex technical topics into clear business impact and recommendations. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor?s degree in Engineering or equivalent professional experience. 

• Significant professional experience in software/web application development. 

• Demonstrated experience leading software engineering teams. 

• Strong experience with modern frontend development technologies such as: 

• React.js 

• JavaScript / TypeScript 

• Experience with backend technologies such as: 

• Node.js and Python 

• FastAPI or comparable API frameworks 

• RESTful API development 

• Strong understanding of: 

• Web application architecture 

• API design 

• Authentication and authorization 

• Relational databases 

• Git-based source control 

• Unit and integration testing 

• CI/CD practices 

• Secure software development 

• Experience delivering applications using Agile/Scrum methodologies. 

• Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder-management skills. 

Preferred Qualifications 

Experience in one or more of the following would be advantageous: 

• Microsoft Azure, AWS, or other major cloud platforms 

• Kubernetes and Docker/containerized applications 

• PostgreSQL and other relational databases 

• Microservices and distributed architectures 

• GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms 

• OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, and enterprise identity integration 

• Automated testing frameworks such as Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, Cypress, or Pytest 

• Application monitoring and observability 

• OWASP and secure web-development practices 

• Large-scale enterprise or data-intensive applications 

Database: PostgreSQL / SQL 
Cloud: Azure / AWS 
Containers: Docker, Kubernetes 
CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD / equivalent 
Source Control: Git 
Architecture: REST APIs, Microservices, Cloud-Native Applications 

Location :

Bangalore (Hybrid) - 2/3 days work from office is Mandatory 

Interview Process : 

Technical - Virtual

Technical + Managerial - In person at Bangalore IQVIA office (Mandatory)