Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Experience:8–12 Years

Location: Bangalore (Hybrid/Onsite)

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing product engineering team and drive the architecture, development, and delivery of scalable enterprise software products. This role requires a strong technical leader who can mentor engineers, own architectural decisions, and collaborate across Product, QA, Customer Success, Sales, and Marketing to build robust, reliable, and high-performing applications.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in product engineering, people management, system design, and modern software architecture, while remaining hands-on with technology and engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable, secure, and high-performance software products.
• Drive technical decisions with a focus on scalability, maintainability, reliability, and performance.
• Manage and mentor a team of 5–8 software engineers, providing coaching, technical guidance, and performance feedback.
• Conduct code reviews and establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and development processes.
• Partner closely with Product Management to define technical solutions aligned with business objectives and product roadmaps.
• Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, estimation, and production releases.
• Collaborate with QA teams to ensure high-quality, defect-free product releases.
• Monitor production systems, troubleshoot critical issues, and continuously improve system performance and reliability.
• Drive innovation by evaluating and adopting modern technologies and architectural patterns.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture decisions, engineering roadmaps, and development standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8–12 years of software development experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a product-based company.
• At least 2 years of experience as an Engineering Manager, managing teams of 5–8 engineers.
• Strong hands-on experience with one or more backend technologies:
• C# / .NET (Preferred)
• Java
• Node.js
• Experience with frontend technologies such as React.js, TypeScript, Angular, or JavaScript.
• Strong knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.
• Proven experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems with strong understanding of non-functional requirements.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and leading engineering teams through complete product development lifecycles.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Skills

Experience with the following technologies and architectural patterns is highly preferred:

• AWS (S3, SQS, EKS)
• Microservices
• Event-driven architecture
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• CQRS
• Event Sourcing
• Clean Architecture
• EventStore
• NServiceBus

Technology Stack

Backend

• C#
• ASP.NET
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• EventStore

Frontend

• React
• TypeScript

Cloud

• AWS (S3, SQS, EKS)

Messaging

• NServiceBus

Architecture

• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• CQRS
• Event Sourcing
• Clean Architecture

What We're Looking For

• Strong technical leader with a hands-on engineering mindset.
• Proven experience building and scaling enterprise SaaS products.
• Ability to mentor engineering teams while driving technical excellence.
• Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for solving complex engineering challenges and delivering high-quality software products.