Manager, AI Backend Developer

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About the Role

• Deliver impactful AI solutions aligned with pre-defined business goals to drive adoption and measurable organizational value. Ensure these outcomes are achieved within the fixed project resources, optimizing cost, quality, and delivery time.
• Developing and maintaining the server-side logic, databases, and APIs for GIO’s AI and non-AI products.
• Ensures the back-end infrastructure is robust, scalable, and secure, enabling seamless integration with front-end components and other services by collaborating with the Frontend team.

• Lead relevant developers, including TSS and external consultants, to execute assigned tasks effectively.
• Maintain strong and effective communication with project stakeholders, business units and technical teams to ensure project efficiency and maximize stakeholder satisfaction.
• Analyze user requirements, existing and new business models and provide solutions by fine-tuning existing sub-systems or an existing functional areas of the systems and procedures.
• Design system and other delivererables aligned with security, compliance and design principles through focus on quality, evaluate and conduct cost effective solutions.
• Translate business requirement (BRD) / function specification (FS) to technical design requirements including test strategy and quality ensurance approach.
• Capable of solving complex technical challenges, with a forward-looking perspective on emerging technologies and a strong focus on practical implementation.
• Act as a mentor to junior developers, providing them with structured guidance on both business and technical knowledge to ensure professional growth.

• Undertake additional responsibilities and tasks as periodically assigned by the team to meet changing operational or organizational needs
• The role involves engaging external stakeholders to present and finalize system designs, requiring clear communication, alignment of expectations, and consensus-building.

Financial and Non-Financial Measures:

• Achieve timely and quality-driven project outcomes based on User Requirements
• Stakeholder feedback on project delivery as a critical performance metric

Communication Requirements

Internal 60%
• Internal collaboration with Developers, Product Manager, Backend and Frontend leads, Algorithm Developers.
• End users from the Business
External: 40%
• External vendor engagement

Minimum Job Requirements:

• University degree or above in IT or related disciplines
• Minimum 8 years experience in software development
• 5+ years’ software architect to design and develop enterprise web system.
• 5+ years’ RESTful interface design and development.
• 5+ years’ database and SQL experience (e.g. DB2, Oracle and etc.);
• Understanding of software development cycles, tests methodologies, debugging strategies and risk management is mandatory.
• Strong command of written and spoken English and Chinese is required to effectively communicate across diverse teams and stakeholders.
• 3 yrs experience in team management (3-5 staff)
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Problem solving skill
• Team work spirit, Stable, Mature, Willing to take responsibility