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Engineering Manager- Backend

dunnhumbyGurugram🇮🇳India

Why this role stands out

This hybrid Engineering Manager role at dunnhumby offers a fantastic opportunity to lead a team building innovative solutions in the rapidly growing retail media space, fostering both technical direction and your team's professional development. You'll thrive here if you're passionate about people management, delivery excellence, and driving impactful results within a data-driven environment. Apply now to join a global leader and shape the future of customer data science!

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationGurugram, India
Stakeholder ManagementAgile

Job description

About dunnhumby

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, helping the world's most ambitious retailers and brands put the customer at the heart of every decision. With nearly 3,000 experts across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, we partner with iconic businesses like Tesco, Coca-Cola, Meijer, Procter & Gamble and Metro to turn data into growth, innovation and measurable value for their customers.

Tesco Media

Tesco Media is the ultimate media partner to brands. Built on unrivalled customer insight, it’s a media owner with soul, scale, and storytelling power. Tesco Media helps brands and agencies connect meaningfully with customers, drive creative effectiveness, and grow at the point of purchase.

About the Role

Retail Media is transforming how advertisers connect with consumers through personalised and targeted campaigns across retailers’ digital and physical touchpoints. As an Engineering Manager within Tesco Media, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for building and scaling technology solutions that enable advertisers and retailers to measure and optimise campaign performance.
This role combines technical leadership, people management and delivery excellence. You will work closely with Product, Design and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality software while creating an environment where engineers can grow, collaborate and perform at their best.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll play a key role in shaping both the technical direction of the team and the development of the people within it.
  • Lead, coach and support a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with Product Managers and stakeholders to define priorities, translate business needs into technical solutions and ensure successful delivery.
  • Drive engineering excellence through modern software development practices, quality standards, testing strategies and CI/CD adoption.
  • Support architectural decisions that promote scalability, reliability, security and maintainability across products and platforms.
  • Create an inclusive environment that encourages innovation, knowledge sharing and professional development.

What We're Looking For

You'll be a people-focused leader with a strong technical foundation and a passion for building great teams and products.
  • Experience leading software engineering teams in an Agile environment from an Adtech, Retail Media OR Saas background
  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, architecture and cloud-native application development.
  • Ability to balance technical decision-making with business priorities and customer outcomes.
  • Proven capability to develop talent through coaching, mentoring and performance support.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across multiple functions.

You'll Thrive If You...

  • Enjoy enabling engineers to do their best work and grow their careers.
  • Can successfully navigate ambiguity and drive clarity across teams and stakeholders.
  • Have experience supporting large-scale, customer-facing products in fast-paced environments.
  • Are passionate about building inclusive, collaborative engineering cultures.

What You Can Expect From Us

We won't just meet your expectations. We'll defy them. So you'll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you'd expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.
And we don't just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process — please let your recruiter know what adjustments would help.

Benefits in India

  • Healthcare & Family Cover: Group Medical Insurance of INR 500,000 for employees and dependents, plus dental and vision cover up to INR 5,000.
  • Protection: Group Term Life Insurance and Group Personal Accident cover with benefit levels linked to employee grade, including disability benefits.
  • Retirement & Wellbeing: Provident Fund, Gratuity, National Pension Scheme access, Indian Health Organisation membership, and confidential employee assistance support.
  • Lifestyle & Flexibility: Office commute support, internet allowance of INR 2,000 per month for blended working, work-from-home kit support, subsidised food, and wellbeing resources.
  • Recognition & Extras: Long service awards, Talent Scout referral programme, and family milestone support.
  • Time Off & Family Leave: 25 days holiday plus 10 public holidays, paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and a day off for your birthday.

Our approach to Flexible Working

At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.
We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.
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