Senior Engineering Manager

About the role

We are looking for an experienced technical visionary and people leader to help us build, lead, and scale this site — from scratch to 100+ strong — over the next 3 years.

What You’ll Do

• Build and scale a world-class engineering teams in Hyderabad.
• Recruit, nurture, and lead a high-performance team across software engineering, QA, and business analysis.
• Take full ownership and accountability for strategic product areas developed in India
• Foster deep collaboration with teams in Europe, North America and Sri Lanka while building a culture of local autonomy and strong ownership.
• Help establish Agile practices, metrics-driven delivery, and high-velocity execution rhythms.
• Partner closely with product team to shape roadmaps that meet global and regional customer needs.
• Be one of the critical technical and cultural anchors for our India growth story, including future product lines tailored for India and South Asia.
• Champion a people-first culture, and lead with empathy, transparency, and purpose.
• Drive strategy for your areas, alignment on outcomes, and excellence in execution.
• Facilitates communication among stakeholders and team members, ensuring specifications, budgets, and deadlines are clearly communicated and understood.
• Perform employee appraisals and coach team members for high performance and continuous development.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, local and international laws and regulations

Who You Are

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 8 years in a leadership role scaling engineering teams in product companies.
• Experience helping set up and grow an engineering/product organization from the ground up in India.
• Strong understanding of building enterprise-grade software, preferably in ERP, CRM, HCM, or complex business platforms.
• Hands-on technical depth in product architecture, software delivery, and modern tech stacks (bonus: .NET, C#, AWS/Azure).
• Track record of attracting, retaining, and mentoring top talent.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to break down large problems into deliverable pieces, and drive outcomes.
• Strong collaborator who communicates effectively across functions, cultures, and time zones.
• Obsessed with customer outcomes and building solutions that truly solve business problems.
• Growth-oriented and intellectually curious — willing to dive deep into understanding the ERP domain and our platform.
• Culture builder who believes in high ownership, accountability, empathy, and results.

Why Join Us

• Be the one of the founding leaders of our India engineering center with the opportunity to shape its culture, systems, and success.
• Work on high-impact ERP problems with a company that is scaling fast across markets and industries.
• Partner with an experienced global leadership team that values clarity, autonomy, collaboration, and velocity.
• Play a key role in building AI-augmented enterprise software for global & regional customers.
• Competitive compensation at the top end of the industry, with long-term upside.

Bonus Points For

• Experience building ERP, financial systems, or large B2B platforms.
• Exposure to mobile-first enterprise apps.
• Experience launching products in India/South Asia.
• Background in working with globally distributed product teams.