Senior Engineering Manager

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple software engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and operating scalable products and services.
• Define engineering strategy, technical direction, architecture standards, and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Translate business and product objectives into clear engineering plans, priorities, milestones, and deliverables.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, SRE, and other cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Own engineering delivery, ensuring high standards for quality, reliability, security, scalability, and performance.
• Drive architecture and system-design decisions for distributed, cloud-native, and high-scale applications.
• Establish and improve engineering processes, development methodologies, coding standards, testing practices, and release processes.
• Identify and address technical debt, architectural risks, scalability constraints, and operational challenges.
• Build a strong engineering organization through hiring, team structure, workforce planning, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Manage performance, career development, feedback, and growth of engineering managers and senior engineers.
• Establish engineering metrics and use data to monitor productivity, quality, reliability, delivery, and operational performance.
• Lead major technical initiatives, platform modernization, cloud adoption, migrations, and engineering transformation programs.
• Ensure effective incident management, root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, and continuous operational excellence.
• Manage engineering budgets, resources, vendors, and technology investments where applicable.
• Communicate technical strategy, risks, dependencies, progress, and business impact to senior leadership.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience leading engineering teams or large technical initiatives.
• Proven experience managing engineers, technical leads, or engineering managers in a product or technology-driven organization.
• Strong software engineering background with hands-on understanding of system design, architecture, distributed systems, and scalable applications.
• Strong knowledge of modern technologies such as Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or equivalent programming languages.
• Experience with microservices, APIs, databases, messaging systems, cloud platforms, and containerized environments.
• Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, DevOps, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, secure, and reliable production systems.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile/Scrum, engineering processes, testing, release management, and quality practices.
• Demonstrated ability to create technical roadmaps and translate business requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
• Experience managing technical debt, architecture evolution, engineering risks, and cross-team dependencies.
• Strong people-management skills, including hiring, performance management, mentoring, career development, and team building.
• Experience partnering with Product and business leadership to prioritize initiatives and balance technical and business requirements.
• Strong project and program-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and complex initiatives.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strong data-driven approach to engineering metrics, operational performance, and decision-making.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; M.Tech/MS/MCA/MBA is an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and technical levels and influence senior engineering and business stakeholders.