Software Engineering Manager

Senior Engineering Manager — Jaipur, India (On-site)

Location: Jaipur, India

Employment type: Full-time

Reports to: CTO (Australia)

About Antares

Established in 2006, Antares Solutions is a highly successful and profitable professional services organisation based in Sydney, Australia, with a strong customer focus and an experienced team of consultants. Antares is now on a new venture to develop and build products for its clients in Australia and globally. As a highly regarded Microsoft Partner, Antares primarily delivers solutions in Modern Work, Data and AI, and Application Development.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to found and lead our Jaipur office. You will balance technical delivery with team and operational leadership: contributing to architecture and code, while hiring, mentoring and establishing engineering processes and local operations. You will partner closely with product, consulting and architecture teams in Australia and act as a trusted technical advisor to onshore team and our clients.

What You’ll Do

Technical leadership and delivery

• Lead design and development of scalable SaaS/PaaS products on Microsoft Azure using .NET, React and Power BI as required.
• Drive code quality, performance, security and observability best practices.
• Make and document architectural decisions, patterns and engineering standards in consultation with the onshore team.

Client engagement and pre-sales

• Collaborate with onshore architects and consultants to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Lead solution design sessions and technical workshops.

People leadership and team building

• Hire, mentor and coach engineers; develop career pathways and a growth-oriented culture.
• Establish and own engineering processes: agile ceremonies, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, testing and monitoring.

Establishing the Jaipur office

• Set up local engineering operations including hiring and onboarding staff.
• Partner with the Australia head office on HR, legal and administrative processes.
• Champion Antares’ culture and collaboration practices across locations.

Innovation and continuous improvement

• Stay current with Microsoft cloud technologies, AI/ML capabilities and frontend frameworks, and drive adoption of appropriate technologies.
• Promote best practices, platform reliability and engineering excellence across the team.

About You

• Proven experience developing and delivering .NET applications on Microsoft Azure (3–8+ years preferred).

• Strong frontend experience with React or Angular; interest in AI enabled applications and modern web architectures.

• Demonstrated experience across full project lifecycle: presales, design, implementation and delivery.

• Prior experience leading, mentoring or hiring engineering teams, or clear potential to grow into an effective people manager.

• Excellent communication skills — able to present technical concepts clearly to stakeholders across time zones and cultures.

• Strong problem-solving skills and pragmatic decision-making in ambiguous environments.

• Experience working with onshore distributed teams and cross-cultural collaboration.

• Familiarity with Microsoft technologies – M365, Graph, Teams, Power Platform and other Azure services App Services, Functions, AKS, SQL/Cosmos DB, DevOps pipelines is highly regarded.

• Experience setting up or scaling teams or offices, including hiring and operational setup, is a strong advantage.