Engineering Manager

Purpose: Lead and manage the development activities of one or more functional units. This will involve leading and managing a team of Product Engineers and Tech leads. Typically anywhere from 5 to 10 engineers would have to be managed. Will work closely with Product management and help in overall planning and execution. Will also actively help in recruitment of tech talent.

Reporting: VP-Engg

Key Responsibilities:

- Ensure implementation of formal processes to support the product development process.

- Hands-on Project management

- Motivate the staff and manage and subsequently grow the Engineering team.

- Interact with the Senior Leadership Team and Product Management to help define and evolve the product roadmap

- Provide technical guidance and direction for all Product development

- Hands on involvement at least at the Proof-of-concept, prototyping levels. 

- Extract the best out of the Engineers and drive the periodic appraisal process. 

Qualifications:

Experience

- 8 to 12 years’ experience 

- Hands on professional experience in software development and people management.

- Should have experienced the life cycle of a fairly complex technical platform

Skillsets

- Great with people: Should have demonstrated team building and leadership skills.

- Strong project management skills

- Excellent communication skills both oral and written

- Should have a good knowledge of the latest trends in Internet related technologies like big-data processing on
Hadoop, No SQL data storage etc.

Education

- Bachelor's or Masters in Computer Science or related stream

Contact details- Email- amitha.shankar@gmail.com