Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager

Experience: 8-12 years

Role Overview

We are looking for an Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager to lead and scale high-performing engineering teams building modern, AI-driven products. This role requires strong people leadership, solid full-stack awareness with a backend expertise(preferred), and hands-on experience building LLM-based agents or agentic AI systems.You will manage 15-20 engineers, drive execution, and provide technical leadership for scalable, production-grade platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & People Management

• Lead, mentor, and manage 15-20 engineers across multiple teams.
• Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
• Build a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and high ownership.
• Balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical guidance when needed.

Technical Ownership & Architecture

• Provide technical leadership across frontend and backend systems.
• Drive architecture, system design, and technical decision-making.
• Review designs and critical code paths; guide teams through complex engineering challenges.
• Ensure systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and observable.

AI / Agentic Systems

• Lead or contribute to building LLM-based agents or agentic AI products.
• Experience with agent orchestration, tool usage, context management, and evaluation.
• Exposure to voice bots / conversational AI is a strong plus.

Delivery & Execution

Own delivery commitments and sprint execution across PODs.Partner with Product Managers to translate requirements into execution plans.Proactively identify risks and ensure predictable, high-quality delivery.

Preferred Technical Skills (First Preference)Frontend (UI):

• React / JavaScript
• Backend (Preferred):
• Java with Spring Boot
• Python with FastAPI Candidates with strong experience in other frontend or backend technologies are also welcome; however, the above stack is strongly preferred.

Other Technical Skills

• Experience designing and scaling distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).
• Familiarity with CI/CD, DevOps practices, and observability tools.
• Exposure to AI/ML platforms, prompt engineering, or MLOps is a plus.

Leadership & Behavioral Skills

• Proven experience managing large teams (15-20 engineers).
• Strong ownership and execution mindset.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• You are passionate and obsess about building products that users love and admire

What Were Looking For

• A leader who can scale teams, own delivery, and drive technical excellence.
• Someone excited about building ML, agentic AI and AI-powered products at scale.
• Comfortable operating across engineering, product, and AI domains