Engineering Manager

About You

You are a technically accomplished, hardworking and passionate leader who takes personal ownership of your team's success and the business challenges you solve. You set high standards for yourself and your team. You demonstrate unshakeable integrity and a relentless drive for improvement. You thrive in both technical and leadership discussions—whether with engineers, team managers, or the leadership team —and you can bridge the gap between technical execution and business strategy. 

You are an accomplished builder and a leader of high-performance technical teams, ready to tackle your next challenge. You know how to mentor, coach, and nurture technical talent across different members of a development team. You’re always asking why and you have the technical acumen to dive deep when needed, yet retain the ability to focus on higher-level strategic goals.  

If you feel this is you, then we'd love to get to know you.

Your Role

As an Engineering Manager, you will play a crucial role in shaping how we build and deliver software solutions. Though you won't be pushing code, reviewing PRs, or doing hands-on implementation, your technical experience will guide technical direction and decisions.

In this role, you will lead an engineering team at a strategic level - coaching, mentoring, orchestrating delivery, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will be instrumental in the continuous growth of your team, empowering them to deliver high-quality technical solutions, while ensuring productivity, strong collaboration, and alignment of team strategies with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Partner with Tech Leads to set best practices, coding standards, architectural guidelines, tool selection, and system design decisions.

• Ensure that technical solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with overall technology strategy.

• Stay up to date with the tech stack and emerging trends to challenge and evolve how we build.

People Management & Coaching

• Hire, mentor, and grow talent across roles.

• Conduct regular feedback and formal performance reviews.

• Foster a high-trust, psychologically safe environment where people feel comfortable raising technical concerns, proposing ideas, and learning from mistakes.

• Identify skill gaps, provide development paths, and coach your team members in both technical and soft-skills growth.

Strategy, Delivery & Execution

• Own and drive the team’s roadmap in alignment with business and technology goals.

• Oversee planning, estimation, timelines, and dependencies, ensuring that projects are delivered on time and with high quality.

• Work to remove blockers and optimize team workflows.

• Monitor engineering effectiveness via metrics, and continuously refine processes.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Solutions Architects, and other leaders to define scope, deliverables, trade-offs, and priorities.

• Ensure clear communication with stakeholders about progress, risks, and status of technical initiatives.

• Facilitate cross-team initiatives and ensure alignment across teams when architecture, data, or security concerns span beyond your team.

Your Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• At least 3 years experience in technical leadership roles, involving architecture, system design, and guiding software engineering teams

• A deep understanding of our tech stack (such as but not limited to Python, JS, SQL and NoSQL databases, RESTful APIs, CI/CD, cloud platforms and container orchestration tools, ), enough to make informed decisions and guide others

• At least 3 years experience in managing high-performing development teams

• Experience in giving feedback, conducting performance reviews, and growing people technical and professionally

• Strong collaborations skills, able to work across functions, influence technical direction, and communicate with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

• A mindset of continuous improvement, always looking for ways to tools, practices, and processes

• The ability to balance strategic thinking with delivery discipline.

Plus Points

• Training or certifications in leadership, project management, or agile methodologies are a plus.