Engineering Manager

Job Description

• Strong MERN stack experience, with exposure to DevOps, deployment practices, Istio, Kafka, and Liquibase preferred.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development tools such as Claude and SDD practices is preferred.
• Own end-to-end software delivery from planning and design through development, testing, deployment, and production readiness.
• Build, lead, and develop high-performing engineering teams, including coaching technical leads and engineers.
• Partner with Architects to ensure alignment with solution architecture and modern engineering standards.
• Drive modernization using cloud-native, API-first, event-driven, CI/CD, DevSecOps, automation, and observability practices.
• Manage delivery plans, priorities, dependencies, technical debt, risks, and engineering blockers.
• Ensure high standards for code quality, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience.
• Coordinate across Business, Architecture, Platform, SRE, Security, and dependent engineering teams.
• Drive production readiness and ensure smooth migration from legacy to modern platforms.
• Provide transparent communication on delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and engineering health.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

Required Experience

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or similar engineering leadership role.
• Strong software engineering and technical leadership background.
• Experience with application modernization, cloud platforms, APIs/microservices, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-team software delivery.
• Strong people leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and communication skills.