Software Development Manager (SDM) – India (Full-Stack + AI + DevOps)

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About Fegmo

Fegmo is building the next-generation AI-powered commerce platform - redefining Product Information Management (PIM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM), product content automation, and multi-channel syndication. We use the latest in LLMs, agentic AI, GCP cloud, vector search, and a modern microservices architecture.

We help retailers, brands, and marketplaces automate product onboarding, taxonomy, attributes, images, 360 spins, virtual try-on, and global listings using cutting-edge AI.

We’re expanding our engineering leadership team in India.

If you’re a hands-on leader who loves code, AI, and building teams – this one's for you.

Role Overview

We are seeking a hands-on Software Development Manager (SDM) with strong full-stack engineering depth, experience building AI-driven systems, and excellent DevOps/cloud knowledge.

This is a highly technical leadership role – you will write code, review code, define architecture, and lead medium sized engineering team.

You will work directly with the US-based leadership team to scale our platform across global retail clients.

This role requires deep full-stack engineering expertise, strong DevOps/cloud knowledge, and experience delivering AI-driven features in a fast-paced startup environment.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Manage, mentor, and grow a 12-15+ member engineering team.

• Own sprint planning, code quality, architecture decisions, and delivery timelines.

• Establish coding standards, architecture patterns, documentation quality.

• Review PRs, enforce engineering standards, and guide best practices.

• Collaborate tightly with US-based leadership, product, AI, and platform teams.

• Ensure the team delivers scalable, reliable, high-quality features on time.

Hands-on Full-Stack Development

• Build and maintain features in our Fegmo PIM (Symfony + PHP 8.x).

• Develop microservices in Python (FastAPI) for AI, data pipelines, and integrations.

• Build internal UI dashboards using React/TypeScript.

• Optimize APIs, schema, and data models across the platform.

AI & Agentic Systems

• Integrate and orchestrate AI models across Gemini, Claude, Vertex AI, and CrewAI.

• Build agentic workflows for product understanding, attributes, taxonomy, image generation, video, virtual try-on, and enrichment.

• Work with embeddings, vector stores, and metadata pipelines.

• Ensure latency, scalability, and cost efficiency for AI workloads.

DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure

• Manage deployments on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, GCE VMs, GCS).

• Own and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.

• Optimize Docker builds, reduce cold start times, and service reliability.

• Monitor logs, metrics, uptime, performance, and cost optimization.

• Support VM-based PIM deployments using Docker Compose.

Quality, Reliability & Operations

• Handle environment configuration, secrets, release management, and version control.

• Define and enforce testing, observability, release pipelines, and documentation.

• Lead operational readiness and root-cause analysis for issues.

• Ensure developers follow security best practices and environment hygiene.

• Own reliability of production and non-prod environments.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Skills

• 10–12+ years of experience in software engineering.

• Strong full-stack coding ability in:

• Python (FastAPI, microservices)

• PHP 8.x (Symfony framework)

• React/TypeScript

• Experience with AI/ML integrations using Gemini, Claude, CrewAI, or similar.

• Strong competency in GCP (Cloud Run, VMs, GCS, IAM).

• Excellent Docker, Linux, and CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions).

• Solid data modeling & SQL skills (MySQL / PostgreSQL).

• Proven experience building scalable APIs and distributed systems.

• Experience building scalable, production-grade APIs and microservices.

Leadership Skills

• Experience managing, mentoring, or architecting for teams of 8–12+ developers while remaining hands-on.

• Ability to enforce engineering discipline, code quality, and documentation.

• Strong communication skills with US-based leadership and stakeholders.

• Strong sense of ownership and urgency mindset – drives outcomes, not tasks.

• Able to operate in a fast-paced startup culture, AI-first environment.

Nice-to-Have

• Prior PIM or DAM customization experience (job queue daemon, bundles, UI extensions).

• Experience with enterprise retail/ecommerce systems or marketplace APIs.

• CrewAI multi-agent orchestration experience.

• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, or advanced infra-as-code experience.

• Familiarity with image/video processing & media pipelines.

Why Join Fegmo?

• Shape foundational systems in an early-stage AI-native company
• Ship at speed with a highly driven, experienced team
• Remote-first: Work from anywhere in India, with flexible hours
• High ownership & impact: Your contributions will directly shape the product
• Earn equity options based on impact and performance

Culture Note

We’re building a thoughtful, mission-driven team that values collaboration, creativity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are especially excited to hear from candidates with unique perspectives and a passion for building meaningful tools.