Senior Engineering Manager | IND

Role Purpose As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will serve as a hands-on technology leader and role model within the team, contributing to the hiring, retention and technical management of the team. You will be contributing to the architecture, design and development of software across the studio product to meet both business and technology objectives. This role requires someone who can wear multiple hats by aligning perspectives across teams, making smart trade-offs, and driving progress toward shared goals. You will be an active contributor of software, review the work of others, and be on the leading edge on the usage of AI for rapid software development. As the manager of this team, youll wear multiple hats. Youll be deeply involved in technical decision-making while also focusing on growing and supporting your team members. We re looking for someone who is passionate about operational excellence, eager to dive into complex production issues alongside their engineers, but who also excels at mentoring, career development, and creating a positive team culture. A strong technical background in distributed and scalable systems on cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure is essential. Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership: Youll be leading a team thats essential to our engineering organizations success. Take deep ownership of all aspects of product software engineering, including feature development, production incident management, addressing technical debt, and contributing to technology roadmaps and solution architecture. Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship to local engineering teams and serve as the go-to expert for engineering leaders on complex technical challenges. Hands-on Development: Design and implement features by writing clean, maintainable code based on product requirements and customer feedback. Establish and maintain coding standards, shared libraries, and practices. Review code from others. Use AI to aid the development of software and guide others to be effective with it. People Leadership: Involve in the hiring as we grow the team, from writing job descriptions to interviewing candidates and helping new team members get up to speed. Lead the performance management of the team by conducting regular one-on-ones with your engineers, helping them grow in their careers, and building a collaborative culture where everyone feels empowered to tackle complex technical challenges. Production Incident resolution: Lead development investigations and conduct deep root cause analyses for production incidents. Deliver timely resolutions with a focus on speed, quality, and long-term stability. Communication Skills: Communication will be a big part of your role too. Youll be regularly updating senior leadership on your teams progress and the overall health of our systems. During incidents, you might be the one explaining technical issues to non-technical stakeholders and ensuring everyone understands the impact and resolution timeline. R equired Skills Management Leadership 3+ years of Engineering management experience in a product company with direct reports Proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams Experience with agile development methodologies and team processes Strong coaching, mentoring, and performance management skills Excellent written and verbal communication abilities Technical Expertise 10 + years of experience in designing and developing distributed, and scalable systems on a cloud-based platform (GCP, AWS or Azure) in a SaaS company. Hands-on expertise in cloud-native backend microservices with Java backend frameworks like Spring Boot. Highly proficient in a variety of programming languages, including but not limited to Java, PHP, JavaScript or others as required. Knowledge of database design and optimization (MySQL, PostgreSQL) Strong Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployment processes Understanding of web application security principles and best practices System Operations Experience with production incident management and debugging complex issues Knowledge of monitoring tools, logging systems, and application performance management like New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus etc. Experience with library dependency management and upgrade planning Familiarity with security vulnerability scanning and remediation processes Desirable Experience with PHP Laravel Disclaimer : This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.