Engineering Manager - AWS/Google Cloud Platform

Description :

We're hiring an Engineering Manager (7-12 years) who can lead a high-performing engineering team, drive product delivery, architect scalable systems, and cultivate a culture of excellence. This role is ideal for someone who has been a strong individual contributor and is now passionate about leading people, driving execution, and shaping FOY's technology roadmap.

Responsibilities :

- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend, frontend, mobile, and DevOps engineers.

- Drive high performance through code quality, engineering discipline, and structured reviews.

- Build a culture of ownership, speed, and continuous improvement.

- Hire top talent and help scale the engineering org.

- Work with product, design, data, and business to define the technical direction for FOY.

- Architect robust and scalable systems for mobile commerce, high-scale APIs, personalization and recommendations, product/catalog systems, payments, checkout, and logistics.

- Ensure security, reliability, and high availability across all systems.

- Own end-to-end delivery of key product features and platform capabilities.

- Drive sprint planning, execution, tracking, and timely delivery.

- Build and improve engineering processes/CD pipelines, testing automation, and release cycles.

- Reduce tech debt and ensure long-term maintainability.

- Drive standards across code quality, System performance, Monitoring and alerting, Incident management

- Work closely with QA, mobile, backend, and data teams to ensure smooth releases.

- Partner with product managers to translate business goals into technical outcomes.

- Work with designers, marketing, operations, and supply chain to deliver user-centric solutions.

- Balance trade-offs between speed and engineering excellence.

Requirements :

- 7-12 years of hands-on engineering experience with at least 2-4 years in a leadership or tech lead role.

- Strong experience in backend development (Node/Python preferred).

- Good exposure to mobile or web engineering (native Android/iOS).

- Strong understanding of system design, APIs, microservices, caching, databases, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).

- Experience running Agile/Scrum teams with measurable delivery outputs.

- Ability to dive deep into code when required, while enabling the team to succeed independently.

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Passion for building user-focused products and solving meaningful problems.

Bonus Points :

- Experience in e-commerce, high-scale consumer apps, or marketplaces.

- Prior experience in a fast-growing startup environment.

- Strong DevOps/cloud knowledge (CI/CD, Kubernetes, SRE principles).

- Data-driven approach to engineering decisions.

- A GitHub/portfolio showcasing real projects or open-source contributions.