Engineering Manager / Tech Lead (IC)

Job Title: Software Engineering Manager 

Full Stack Engineering

Level: L4

Location: India - Remote

Job Description

**Basic Qualifications:**

Requires a Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems/Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a directly related field, and five (10) years software engineering experience. 

Will accept a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems/Management, Information Technology, Mathematics, Operations Research, or a directly related field and eight (12) years of described experience.

**What You'll Do:**

●       Play a key role in developing and driving a multi-year technology strategy for a complex platform

●       Lead multiple software development teams - architecting solutions at scale to empower the business, and owning all aspects of the SDLC: design, build, deliver, and maintain

●       Directly and indirectly manage several software engineers by providing coaching, guidance, and mentorship to grow the team as well as individuals

●       Inspire, coach, mentor, and support your team members in their day to day work and their long term professional growth

●       Attract, onboard, develop and retain diverse top talents, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative team and culture

●       Lead your team and peers by example. As a senior member of the team your methodologies, technical and operational excellence practices, and system designs will help to continuously improve our domain

●       Identify, propose, and drive initiatives to advance the technical skills, standards, practices, architecture, and documentation of our engineering teams

●       Facilitate technical debate and decision making with an appreciation for trade-offs

●       Continuously rethink and push the status quo, even when it challenges your/our established ideas.

What You'll Need:

●       Results-oriented, collaborative, pragmatic, and continuous improvement mindset

●       Hands-on experience driving software transformations within high-growth environments, previous platform experience is required.

●       12+ years of experience in engineering, out of which at least 5-6 years spent in leading highly performant teams and their managers

●       Experience making architectural and design-related decisions for large scale platforms, understanding the tradeoffs between time-to-market vs. flexibility

●       Significant experience and vocation in managing and enabling people’s growth and performance

●       Experience designing and building high-scale generalizable products with outstanding user experience. Practical experience in hiring and developing engineering teams and culture and leading interdisciplinary teams in a fast-paced agile environment

●       Capability to communicate and collaborate across the wider organization, influencing decisions with and without direct authority and always with inclusive, adaptable, and persuasive communication

●       Analytical and decision-making skills that integrate technical and business requirements

●       Passion for leading cross functional projects through collaboration and influencing design decisions.

●       Deep understanding of modern programming languages such as Java, PHP, C#, or similar languages.

●       Experience developing microservices in highly available and large scale distributed systems.

●       Experience deploying solutions into production within GCP, AWS, Azure or similar cloud platforms

●       Experience in developing and deploying services/applications in Kubernetes (K8s)

●       Excellent documentation skills to write technical specifications.