Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Provide technical and people leadership for an engineering team.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and accountability.
• Partner with other engineering and cross‑functional leads to align priorities and ensure cohesive execution.
• Coordinate incident response for the team, including coverage and technical response to issue.

Hands‑on Technical Leader

• Contribute to high‑impact coding when it adds meaningful value (foundational components, prototypes, critical paths).
• Help decompose and modernize systems where valuable, encouraging reliable, observable, and maintainable designs.
• Maintain a strong emphasis on unit and component testing as part of day‑to‑day engineering
• Work with QA team members to shape testing approaches across the lifecycle, including automation and release readiness
• Encourage shift‑left practices and CI‑integrated test suites for confidence and speed

AI Utilization in SDLC

• Use AI during various stages of SDLC for code generation, code analysis, testing and review impact of changes
• Implement agents/skills with the vetted AI tools to produce secure, maintainable, practical solutions
• Collaborate with data and analytics partners to responsibly operationalize models where appropriate

Technical Execution

• Conduct sprint ceremonies and ensure proper grooming of all epics/stories
• Guide the planning, prioritization, and delivery with a focus on predictable outcomes
• Establish robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain system reliability and performance.
• Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Plan and execute the timely release process for deliverables with all stakeholders including necessary communication.
• Champion the adoption and optimization of modern CI/CD pipelines to streamline development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with Security team to resolve any findings and conduct the annual compliance reviews

Qualifications

• Education: Computer Science or related degree, or a combination of education and related experience.
• Experience:
• 8+ years of prior software development experience with hands-on coding and management experience.
• Deep understanding of modern CI/CD pipelines, including tools like Bamboo or GitHub Actions.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, etc) and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban) and leading teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong focus on quality assurance with proven expertise of delivering high-quality software.
• Applied knowledge of AI in day‑to‑day engineering and process automation.

Technical Skills:

• Experience with development languages such as Java, Springboot, Node.js
• Familiarity with frontend frameworks, including Angular (12+) and strong proficiency with JavaScript or TypeScript
• Proficiency with AWS cloud and cloud‑native services
• Practical experience with Relational and NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, or cloud‑native data stores.
• Proficiency with CI/CD and infrastructure automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Bamboo).
• Knowledge of Testing tools like Selenium, Playwright, Postman or similar
• Familiarity with AI‑powered engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) to enhance development velocity and code reliability.

Soft Skills:

• History of handling multiple concurrent projects
• Ability to effectively communicate across organizational levels and with a variety of stakeholders, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Strong strategic thinking that prioritizes long term outcomes over emergent distractions.
• Ability to make difficult decisions and to drive decisions into actuality
• Ability to understand and effectively explain up and downstream product, team, and organizational impacts
• Ability to constructively challenge the status quo and to iterate and improve across multiple business domains
• Leadership and mentoring skills