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Role Overview: You are an experienced Engineering Manager with 8-12 years of experience, responsible for leading and growing a high-performing engineering team focused on building scalable backend systems for large-scale logistics. Your role involves providing strategic leadership, driving architectural and technical direction, and collaborating closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to deliver business-critical solutions. Your primary focus will be on empowering Technical Leads and engineers to design and implement high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems while fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement. Additionally, you will play a key role in integrating AI-native practices into the development workflow to boost engineering efficiency and decision-making. Key Responsibilities: - Own the technical strategy and long-term vision for multiple backend teams, ensuring alignment with business goals. - Make high-level architectural decisions for large-scale systems handling millions of transactions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. - Drive the adoption of modern AI-native development practices and agentic frameworks (MCP, MAS), setting strategic direction for AI tools integration. - Lead, mentor, and coach Technical Leads and senior engineers to grow into strong technical leaders with ownership and strategic thinking. - Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, high technical standards, and continuous learning within the engineering organization. - Champion the usage and continuous improvement of AI-assisted development workflows across engineering teams. - Ensure systems are robust, monitored, and optimized through advanced observability, tracing, and performance profiling practices. - Partner closely with cross-functional teams to align engineering efforts with business priorities and product roadmaps. - Influence product and business decisions through technical insights and thought leadership. Qualifications Required: - B.E./B.Tech/Masters degree from a premier institute. - 8+ years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in a product-based company. - Prior experience in a fast-paced startup environment is highly valued. - Strong hands-on background in backend development with at least 5+ years of experience in Python or Golang. - Demonstrated ability to architect, build, scale, and maintain large distributed systems and microservices handling high-throughput workloads. - Solid fundamentals in system design, distributed architecture, data structures, algorithms, and database systems. - Experience enabling engineering teams to adopt modern AI developer tools and agentic frameworks. - Strong cloud infrastructure knowledge, preferably AWS, with hands-on experience in deployment, cost optimization, monitoring, scaling, and automation. - Demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, and grow engineering talent, and create high-performing, autonomous teams. - Experience in defining and scaling engineering processes in agile environments with a focus on high quality and timely delivery. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong stakeholder management capability. (Note: Additional details about the company were not provided in the job description.),
