Software Engineering Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Drive team initiatives while ensuring code quality, scalability, maintainability, and readability.

• Estimate tasks and assign responsibilities effectively.

• Manage a sizable engineering team and ensure alignment with team objectives.

• Spearhead the design, strategy, and execution of software development projects that support product roadmaps.

• Lead the technology architecture and development in line with product requirements.

• Supervise daily operations and progress across multiple SCRUM teams.

• Track and update team metrics to evaluate engineering and operational excellence.

• Guide SCRUM teams in estimating engineering efforts for new features and fixes.

• Collaborate with Product Managers on the development of new products and features.

• Adopt a data-driven approach to execution and ensure transparency.

• Engage throughout the entire SDLC from system analysis to testing and deployment.

• Report directly to the CTO and interact closely with executive leadership.

• Assist in building and leading an engineering team, impacting software development and product delivery outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of overall experience.

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in a team lead role.

• Familiarity with microservice and event-driven architecture.

• Proficient in backend technologies, preferably JavaScript.

• Skilled in frontend technologies, preferably React; knowledge of Angular, Vue, or other JavaScript frameworks is a plus.

• Proficient in MongoDB or RDBMS; experience with PostgreSQL is a requirement.

• Strong understanding of the SDLC and agile methodologies.

• Proven experience in guiding teams through planning, development, and rollout phases.

• Work estimation and delegation experience is preferred.

• Knowledge of unit and integration testing practices.

• Ability to articulate and clarify complex issues through email or calls.

• Strategic mindset with the capability to formulate product and business strategies.

• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams of managers and senior engineers across various projects and technologies.

• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills.

• Customer service abilities, including empathy, accuracy, compassion, responsiveness, resourcefulness, and diligence.

• Skills in relationship management, strategizing, project management, problem-solving, and change management.

• Experience with AWS is highly desirable, including knowledge of EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS, RDS, and SQS.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment.

• 24 days of paid time off (PTO) and 10 holidays.

• Maternity leave.

• Paternity leave.

• Adoption leave.

• Wedding leave.

• Bereavement leave.

• Family health insurance coverage.

• Personal accident insurance beyond CTC.

• 5-day work week.

• Access to personal development courses and learning platforms.

• Regular social and philanthropic events.

• Opportunities for travel as required.