Engineering Manager - Software Design & Architecture

Engineering Manager

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Technology Leadership

- Create a culture to enable technology as a catalyst for solving business & customer problems.

- Ensure best engineering practices are adopted & followed across the organization.

- Hands-on with technology stack and tools used by the team and can lead by example.

- Works closely with architects to choose right technology stack & RASP (Reliability, Availability, Scalability & Performance) characteristics of product are intact.

- Apply first principles approach to solving technological problems.

- Delivery Orientation

- Drives results & focus on outcomes.

- Responsible for timeliness & quality of deliverables.

- Communicates effectively and keeps internal & external stakeholders updated on the progress of projects.

- Anticipate problems & unblock the team proactively.

- Organizational Leadership

- Understands the big picture & impact of day to day decisions on business, product & the customers.

- Sets the right direction for the team and leads by example.

- Align & inspire team to gravitate towards the shared vision.

- Enable agility to respond to product changes effectively.

- Innate ability to be trusted by everyone.

- People Management

- Hire the right talent & manage the team performance

- Mentor & coach the team

- Actively engage with the team and help build their career path

- Manage conflicts proactively and provide timely feedback

- Motivate, inspire, recognize & reward good performance

Skill set requirements :

- 8+ years experience (with recent years of experience being Engineering Manager or Staff engineer)

- CS graduate with strong competencies in software design & architecture along with a deeper understanding of scalability of distributed systems.

- Experience in agile methodologies like Scrum.

- Ability to make decisions independently.

- Ability to lend structure.

- Ability to communicate and manage stakeholders effectively.