Engineering Manager - Backend Technologies

Responsibilities :

- Hire, build, and lead distributed teams.

- Set and communicate team priorities that support the broader product and customer goals.

- Align strategy, processes, and decision-making across teams.

- Collaborate closely with diverse stakeholders and enable them by providing a scalable and quality product and solutions.

- Lead a product vertical and drive product development and deliveries across teams.

- Work with Business analysts and product managers to explore and establish product requirements and create product roadmaps across modules with teams.

- Work closely with project managers in driving customer-focused product delivery goals.

- Oversees project coordination and team allocations.

- Drive architecture and system design practices, reviews, and validations with architects.

- Lead product technical production support on issues and incidents, and manage incident response practices.

- Drive Scrum process improvements across teams.

- Plan and recommend required capacity, operating procedures, tools, and systems for the teams.

- Drive engineering metrics to improve product and processes.

- Conduct managerial interviews for candidates, and train engineering leads and managers on interviews and hiring.

- Lead KPIs creation and execution, give regular and clear feedback around it, and manage annual performance reviews.

- Conduct 1 : 1 and provide management coaching and mentorship.

- Inculcate a culture of innovation, excellence, and operational efficiency in the team.

- Actively engage with the broader leadership team.

- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.

Requirements :

- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or related areas.

- 9+ years of total experience.

- Minimum 5+ years of experience in leading teams.

- Demonstrated Software Management skills, including design, agile development, continuous deployment, release planning, and measurements.

- Experience in managing multiple product teams, delivering high-quality results on time and within budget into production.

- Proven track record of strong execution in delivering results and building high-quality SAAS products.

- Experienced with agile software development methodologies.

- Good understanding of architecture and design in building scaled, cloud-native SAAS products on the cloud.

- Development experience with languages like C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, related web frameworks, and Cloud services (Azure, AWS).

- Experienced in driving technical practices like tech-debt reductions, code reviews, test automations, DevOps, etc.

- Ability to understand, communicate, and improve the quality of multiple teams.

- Ability to drive technical excellence, pushing innovation, quality, and operational excellence.

- Ability to drive the decision-making for technical and non-technical problems in a fast-paced environment.

- Ardent desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.