Job Purpose: Engineering Manager role entails 2/3rd SDE3 Engineer and 1/3rd Engineering Manager responsibilities. Overseeing designs, enforcing engineering best practices, ensuring compliance, managing development, maintaining technical quality, and handling deployment, roll out, and engineering support.
Key responsibilities
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engaging in stakeholder communication, aligning roadmaps, and managing resource allocation to meet business objectives.
- Strategic Contributions: Shaping the technical vision and managing the team’s OKRs to drive impactful outcomes.
- Capability Management and Leadership: Hiring, mentoring, and retaining top talent while fostering team growth and performance.
- Culture Building: Cultivating adynamic, fast-paced environment that promotes energy, hustle, and innovation.
Technology strategy and design:
- Know the domain/business: Stay on top of business process, customer value prop and technology enablement for respective domains
- Technology strategy and plan: Stay on top of technology objectives, architecture paradigms, engineering and best practices.
- Technology ways of working: Ensure adoption of engineering best practices
- Technology Ownership: Own design and development systems to ensure seamless functionality.
- Own delivery of functionality, system integration, usability and NFR
Technology Delivery:
- Own techno-functional design, code quality, flexible/ modular design and rules driven behavior
- Directly responsible for quality roll out, production support and stabilization
- Collaborate with cross functional teams
- Strong understanding of SEO best practices, Core Web Vitals, structured data, and page speed optimizations.
- Hands-on experience with Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, and other web analytics tools.
- Knowledge of web performance optimization techniques and tools such as Lighthouse.
Technology Team Building:
- Train and mentor junior engineers and peer
- Contribute with hiring and culture building
Qualifications & Skills
Education Background:
- Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in computer science and related streams.
- Software Engineering with 8+years of experience.
- Experience in leading engineering teams and initiatives.
Technology:
- Strong experience in hands on software engineering for business applications
- Deep understanding of engineering principles, system design, and development workflows.
- Ability to guide and evaluate technical decisions.
- Dexterity to quickly pick up and work on multiple language sand tech stacks
- Clarity of thinking and detail orientation
- Agile, flexible, resourceful mindset along with a best practices and safe deployment approach
- Experience in digital commerce and retail
- Preference for experience in tech start-up (small company)
Leadership and People Skills:
- Strong communication, conflict resolution, and motivational skills.
- Ability to build trust and nurture talent.
- Experience in hiring
Project Management:
- Proficient in managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder expectations.
- Capable of pivoting between technical and non-technical responsibilities.
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