Engineering Manager

Roles & Responsibilties

The Role: Backend Engineering Manager

The Engineering Manager works closely with the Product Leadership Team and is responsible for effectively and efficiently managing, delivering and supporting tech development from start to finish and maintaining bug-free high quality product releases

Your role will include running daily scrums, planning the sprints with Product Management and collaborating on requirements, managing production issues and unblocking barriers to keep the team moving. You will be responsible to communicate and collaborate primarily with the engineering, customer success and senior management teams

The ideal candidate will be able to lead and grow the team, has excellent written and oral skills, collaborate with cross-functional teams, demonstrate strong leadership abilities and have the desire to be part of a fast-growing startup company where you’ll have the opportunity to lead the development of our portfolio of products.

What is expected from you:

Excellent Project Management Skills - Effort estimation, scoping, prioritisation and timely delivery

Runs daily stand-up, sprint review, iteration planning and retrospective

Analyze the product requirements specs & designs, convert them to tech specs, write user stories, workflows & test criteria

Ensure the completeness and accuracy of every feature developed with demos & verification from developers/QA and acceptance demo with Product Management

Keep all stakeholders informed pro-actively on the progress, blockers, changes & issues

Work with the teams to resolve people problems, dependencies, project roadblocks, and conflicts

Implement and support software principles, rules and processes

Collaborate effectively with cross functional teams, act as the primary technical contact, Take end to end ownership on mission critical projects

Do the code reviews, quality checks, test effort planning, performance testing, UI & UX and code merges and deployments

Build high energy, high performance and super productive teams, Proactively plan resource hiring, and the need for training and talent development

What we are looking for:

BE/B.Tech/MCA preferably with Computer Science

A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design

Minimum 8 years of hands-on experience in developing and delivering products and using Agile sprints

Managing the overall Product releases from initial requirements till the final deliver

Deep understanding of the fundamentals of iterative and incremental development, expertise in agile methodologies and frameworks

Self-starter, proactive & a skilled decision maker in doing what is right

Works independently & great at team collaboration

Team Leader - Knack for influencing without being authoritative

Possess Technical Breadth and effectively mentor tech team

Must have very good recommendations from peers and managers in past companies

Mandatory Experience:

Experience with Coding, Architecting & Developing, UX, Designs & Quality Assurance

Experience with Cloud Deployments on AWS etc