Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

This is a role for someone who thrives in high-velocity, high-impact environments — someone who can architect complex systems, coach and grow engineers, and drive execution across multiple product lines. You will work closely with Product, Design, Data, and GTM teams, and play a pivotal role in shaping the technical backbone of our next stage of growth. This is a full-time, in-office role based at our HQ in Gurugram.

What will you do:

Technical Leadership

• Lead architecture, design, and development of scalable, secure, and high-performance systems across our core procurement platform.
• Own technical decision-making across multiple product pods; enforce engineering best practices, code quality, and architectural consistency.
• Work hands-on where needed to unblock teams, review code, design systems, and raise the engineering bar.

People & Team Leadership

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Backend, Frontend, and Full-Stack Engineers.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and talent development.
• Build a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, speed, and healthy debate.

Execution & Delivery

• Own end-to-end delivery of projects, ensuring high-quality releases on time.
• Transform product requirements into technical plans, sprints, and milestones.
• Identify and mitigate risks early; solve problems before they escalate.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product Managers on discovery, scoping, and prioritization.
• Work with Data & AI teams to integrate ML/GenAI capabilities into core workflows.
• Collaborate with QA, DevOps, and Design to ensure smooth releases and exceptional user experience.

System Reliability & Scalability

• Champion observability, monitoring, alerting, and SLAs.
• Optimize system performance and ensure scalable multi-tenant enterprise deployments.
• Lead initiatives for tech debt reduction, refactoring, infra improvements, and reliability engineering.

What you would bring

Technical Depth

• 6–12 years of engineering experience with at least 2–4 years in a leadership or EM role.
• Strong command over system design, distributed systems, microservices, API architectures, and cloud-native technologies (AWS/GCP).
• Strong backend experience (ROR, Go, Python — any modern backend stack).
• Solid understanding of databases, caching, queues, CI/CD, observability, and security.
  

Leadership & Communication

• Proven experience managing and scaling engineering teams in a high-growth SaaS or product startup.
• Ability to influence without authority and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Capacity to simplify complex technical concepts for business and product teams.

Mindset & Culture

• High ownership, high velocity, and a bias for action.
• A builder’s mindset — comfortable with ambiguity and 0→1 problem-solving.
• Strong customer empathy and a desire to build category-defining products.
• Someone who raises the bar for the entire engineering org.