Associate Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead and grow a team of engineers at MiQ's Bengaluru Center of Excellence while staying hands-on with product delivery and engineering quality.

What you'll do

• Partner with market and product stakeholders to innovate, design, scope and deliver products end to end, choosing the right tech stack to solve real business challenges.
• Lead and grow a team of engineers: set priorities aligned with objectives, give regular and honest feedback, and drive each team member's career progression.
• Stay hands-on, building substantial features and setting the bar for code quality, design and testing on your team.
• Own delivery from planning through release and production health.
• Raise the team's engineering bar: evangelise practices for highly available, high-performance systems, run POCs on new tools (including AI), and challenge processes that no longer work.
• Live by the motto of "People Come First" in every action you propose and take.

What you'll need

• 6+ years of experience building and shipping products, including experience leading engineering teams.
• Strong hands-on skills in Java (or another OO language), microservices, multi-tier web applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, and AWS (Google Cloud or Azure welcome).
• Solid grasp of OO design, design patterns, TDD and CI/CD.
• Proven experience designing distributed, scalable systems for performance and resilience.
• Hands-on with AI coding assistants and agents (such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot or Cursor), with sound judgement on guardrails, review standards and measuring real impact.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and build an inclusive, people-first team culture.
• Tailors communication to the audience, stays composed in difficult conversations, and partners effectively with Product, Data Science, Analytics and Trading.
• Extreme attention to detail, prioritises well under tight deadlines, goes the extra mile on stretch goals, and stays curious and open to growth.

Nice to have

• React or Angular and big data technologies.
• Experience building LLM-powered features.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.
• Work mode: Hybrid work environment.