Engineering Manager

Job Description

About Darwinbox We’re designing the future of work by building the world's best HR tech, driven by a fierce focus on employee experience and customer success, and continuous, iterative innovation. Founded in 2015, we now serve 1.5M+ employees in 650+ enterprises, and that includes massive conglomerates to unicorn startups, like Makemytrip, JSW, Vedanta, Mahindra, and Kotak, plus leading global brands like Nivea, Starbucks, Sephora, AXA, Cigna, T-Systems, and Calvin Klein. We’re backed by marquee investors like TCV, Salesforce, Sequoia, Lightspeed Ventures, and others. Most importantly, we’re growing at a phenomenal pace, and that means exponential growth and learning opportunities for you, plus a band of passionate and fun people to work with within a place where your ideas take precedence over your designation. Why Join Us? The rate at which our product and market presence are growing is unprecedented. We’re a Rocketship. We’re not planning on slowing down anytime soon. And, that’s why we need you! You’ll experience a culture of: Disproportionate Rewards for top performance Accelerated Growth in a hyper-growth environment Wellbeing First culture focused on employee care Continuous Learning and professional development Meaningful Relationships and a Collaborative Environment Role Overview: A passionate, entrepreneurial, hands-on Senior/ Engineering Manager to join the Darwinbox Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of application and front-end / Back-end engineers to drive innovation in full-stack product development, while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability. Skills Required: Architecture, Distributed Systems, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Multithreading Responsibilities: Closely work with the product management team to transform the product roadmap to engineering plan. Convert high-level engineering plan into an agile sprint plan with accurate effort estimation ensuring smooth and timely delivery – Take complete ownership and lead from the front with high levels of hands-on expertise. Manage a team of software engineers and technical leads from various disciplines such as frontend, backend, and QA. Create relevant engineering practices and policies, to improve productivity, efficiency and build predictability in a very dynamic environment. Manage the learning and career aspirations of all direct reportees in the team, track their performance and give feedback on a continuous basis. Recruit and build high-performance teams. Requirements: Technically Hands-on, Prior experience with scalable Architecture, managing teams of up to 10 Leads/Sr. Engineers / Engineers, and coaching mentoring while maintaining a hands-on role with code development. Well-versed with SOA principle, cloud-based web services architecture, design patterns, and frameworks Development experience in any of the languages PHP/ Node.js. Knowledge in any of the front-end JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS, and Angular. Demonstrated technical expertise in Relational and Non- Relational databases. Exposure to API concepts would be an added advantage. Ability to create/review base-level architecture, and create and maintain product roadmaps. Show more Show less