Senior Engineering Manager - Backend

Job Purpose

Engineering Manager role entails 2/3rd SDE 3 Engineer and 1/3rd Engineering Manager responsibilities. Overseeing designs, enforcing engineering best practices, ensuring compliance, managing development, maintaining technical quality, and handling deployment, rollout, and engineering support.

Key Accountabilities & Support Actions

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engaging in stakeholder communication, aligning roadmaps, and managing resource allocation to meet business objectives.

Strategic Contributions: Shaping the technical vision and managing the teams OKRs to drive impactful outcomes.

Capability Management and Leadership: Hiring, mentoring, and retaining top talent while fostering team growth and performance.

Culture Building: Cultivating a dynamic, fast-paced environment that promotes energy, hustle, and innovation.

Technology strategy and design

Know the domain/ business: Stay on top of business process, customer value prop and technology enablement for respective domains

Technology strategy and plan: Stay on top of technology objectives, architecture paradigms, engineering and best practices

Technology ways of working: Ensure adoption of engineering best practices

Technology Ownership: Own design and development systems to ensure seamless functionality.

Technology delivery

Own delivery of functionality, system integration, usability and NFR

Own techno-functional design, code quality, flexible/ modular design and rules driven behavior

Directly responsible for quality roll out, production support and stabilization

Collaborate with cross functional teams

Technology team building

Train and mentor junior engineers and peer

Contribute with hiring and culture building

Qualifications & Skills

Education & Background

Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in computer science and related streams

Software Engineering with 10+ years of experience

Experience in leading engineering teams and initiatives.

Technology

Strong experience in hands on software engineering for business applications

Deep understanding of engineering principles, system design, and development workflows.

Ability to guide and evaluate technical decisions.

Dexterity to quickly pick up and work on multiple languages and tech stacks

Clarity of thinking and detail orientation

Agile, flexible, resourceful mindset along with a best practices and safe deployment approach

Experience in digital commerce and retail

Preference for experience in tech start-up (small company)

Leadership and People Skills

Strong communication, conflict resolution, and motivational skills.

Ability to build trust and nurture talent.

Experience in hiring

Project Management

Proficient in managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder expectations.

Capable of pivoting between technical and non-technical responsibilities.