Senior Engineering Manager - Internet/Online

Key Responsibilities

- Lead 2-3 engineering teams (20+ engineers) throughout the product development lifecycle and be responsible for on-time, high quality and within budget delivery.

- Hire and build a strong, happy, and successful engineering team

- Drive initiatives to improve product quality, reliability, performance and scalability

- Work closely with the product, marketing, risk and engineering teams to drive definition of product releases, requirements gathering, change management, project management, customer experience and engineering operations

- Work closely with risk, product, marketing & support teams to ensure growth and customer satisfaction goals are met

- Lead by example and build a culture of innovation by actively participating in architecture and design.

- Define and implement best practices and coding / design guidelines within the teams

- Define and implement process improvements for driving cross functional team initiatives

- Hold regular 1:1s with team leads and skip level 1:1s with all the team members

- Provide team management mentorship to the direct reports

- Provide regular and clear feedback on individual performance and help them in defining quarterly OKRs and goals

Qualification & Work Experience :

- Engineering degree from a premier Institute

- Overall 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least the last 3+ years in a role of Engineering Manager/Sr Engineering Manager at a leading consumer internet company.

Skills :

- Strong technical & product background with the ability to expand and lead a team of strong software engineers

- Strong experience in distributed systems and microservices architecture including exposure to technologies like Java, Springboot, Kafka, Kinesis, MySQL, NoSQL, Redis, Elastic Search, ELK etc.

- Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment

- Experience with object-oriented design and design patterns

- Experience across the full product lifecycle including design, development, testing and deployment

- Strong project management experience defining tasks, allocating tasks, work breakdown structure, planning resource requirements and project timelines

- Strong team player with an energetic, pleasant personality and ability to work at a cross functional level