Engineering Manager

Overview

Konovo is seeking an Engineering Manager to serve as the technical right hand to the Senior Director of Engineering, driving day-to-day delivery of solutions that power Konovo's platform from its Bengaluru, India engineering team.

What you'll do

• Act as the technical right hand to the Senior Director of Engineering, translating strategy into day-to-day execution across the Bengaluru engineering team.
• Apply deep technical expertise hands-on: architecture reviews, code reviews, design discussions, and unblocking engineers on hard problems.
• Manage and mentor a cross-functional group of Software, Quality, and Data Engineers, helping each grow their skills and career.
• Drive agile delivery (Scrum) in close partnership with Product and Design, keeping the team focused on outcomes, not just output.
• Identify blockers, propose solutions, and push initiatives to completion.
• Build and ship new product capabilities, balancing technical excellence with pragmatic delivery timelines.
• Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring.
• Partner with global engineering leadership and peers in other regions to align local execution with company-wide standards.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, integrity, and ownership within the team.
• Evangelize and accelerate AI adoption within both engineering practices and the product.
• Deepen, scale, and operationalise AI capabilities across the platform, data systems, and engineering workflows with production reliability and enterprise discipline.

What you'll need

• 3–5+ years managing and growing a team of software and/or multi-discipline engineers as an Engineering Manager or Team Lead.
• Very strong technical background, credible in architecture and design discussions with a solutions orientation.
• A bias toward action: energetic, collaborative, and relentless about getting things done.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across a global, distributed organisation.
• Self-starter who can think strategically, creatively, and analytically, and is comfortable operating with ambiguity.
• Passion for learning new technologies and solving complex problems with innovative methods.
• Demonstrated expertise in agile methodology and tools, applied hands-on in a team environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in software architecture and design, applied to complex real-world systems.
• Demonstrated expertise in software craftsmanship, SDLC, CI/CD, quality, and monitoring.
• Demonstrated expertise in scaling and growing engineering teams.
• Demonstrated expertise in cloud technology and tooling, with comfort with AWS.
• Demonstrated expertise in supporting business-critical systems and products in a SaaS environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in working with and managing global, distributed teams.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science (or equivalent).

Nice to have

• Direct experience or willingness to quickly learn the tech stack: Back end (Scala, Java, NodeJS, Go); Front end (JavaScript, React, Next.js); Database (Databricks, SQL, NoSQL such as MongoDB/DocumentDB); AI/ML (ML/AI capabilities, Claude Code, AI SDLC, and related concepts).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.