Engineering Manager

Location: Pune

JobType: full-time

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a team of 5-10 engineers working across one or multiple product verticals.
• Take full ownership of the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, impactful software projects.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and other key stakeholders to define and implement the product roadmap.
• Engage in hands-on coding when necessary.
• Ensure software systems are delivered on time, maintain high quality, and are scalable.
• Conduct regular one-on-ones, establish goals, perform performance evaluations, and support team members’ career development.
• Promote engineering excellence by leading code reviews, facilitating design discussions, and enforcing best practices.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and provide technical guidance to the team.
• Detect and resolve issues related to performance bottlenecks and system reliability.
• Play a key role in recruitment, onboarding, and organizing the team to scale effectively.

Required Skills:

• Over 12 years of overall experience in software development, including 3 to 5 years in engineering management or technical leadership roles.
• Extensive experience with modern backend technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.
• Practical experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications, particularly on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile/Scrum methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success in building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

Must have Skills

Java

Engineering Management

Kafka

Good to have Skills

Data Platform

Microservices

Spring Boot