Engineering Manager

Job details: Engineering Manager

Years of Experience: 14+ Years

Location: Bangalore

What You'll Do

• Lead an engineering team of seven to eight, covering both development and automation/QE roles
• Own backlog refinement for your team, and gatekeep Definition of Ready so work starts with enough clarity to finish
• Own mentoring, onboarding and career development across the team
• Lead recruitment for your own team — you will be hired ahead of your reports and will run their interview panels
• Participate in code review; you are expected to read your team’s code, not to deliver features in it
• Partner with your Staff Software Engineer, who holds technical direction and design authority
• Report delivery and quality status, and manage scope change with product management
• Build a new team from nothing — set working practices, not just fill seats

What You'll Bring

• Total 14+years of experience with 3+ years managing software engineering teams, plus a prior engineering background
• Reading fluency in your team’s primary languages — Java and Shell for Trust & Platform; Java, TypeScript and Robot Framework for Experience & Data
• Track record of hiring and onboarding engineers, including running technical interview panels
• Experience owning backlog refinement and Definition of Ready for a delivery team
• Comfort partnering with a senior individual contributor who holds technical authority
• Experience growing intermediate engineers into senior ones
• Demonstrated use of Spec-Driven Development (SDD) and AI-assisted development lifecycle (AI-DLC) practices, or a directly equivalent methodology
• Experience standing up a new team or site is beneficial