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 team’s 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.