Engineering Manager - Core Commerce Platform

Overview

Lead an engineering team building basket, checkout, payments and consumer commerce services for PUMA's Core Commerce Platform, owning delivery, roadmap execution, operational excellence and engineering talent development.

What you'll do

• Lead and develop a team of software engineers building basket, checkout, payments, and consumer commerce services.
• Drive delivery of highly available, secure, and scalable commerce services that directly impact conversion, revenue, and consumer experience.
• Own engineering execution for payment gateway integrations, alternative payment methods, checkout orchestration, promotions, taxation, and transactional commerce workflows.
• Drive planning and execution against team objectives and key results (OKRs), ensuring alignment, accountability and transparent reporting.
• Own sprint execution, delivery planning, capacity management, dependency management, and risk management.
• Partner with Product Owners, Project Managers, Retail Tech team, and Tech Leads to deliver business outcomes.
• Drive engineering excellence through strong development practices, quality standards, operational discipline and continuous improvement.
• Coach engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, performance management, and career development.
• Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, collaboration, and learning.
• Establish effective engineering metrics and use data to improve team productivity, quality, and delivery predictability.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and automation to improve productivity, quality, and delivery efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI across software development, testing, documentation, knowledge management and onboarding.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership on hiring, staffing, onboarding, talent development, and succession planning.
• Manage delivery partners and vendors where applicable and ensure alignment with team objectives.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with experience leading engineering teams in an agile delivery environment.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience.
• Strong experience leading roadmap execution, delivery planning, dependency management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Familiarity with API-first, cloud-native architectures and design patterns.
• Solid software engineering background with experience building APIs, distributed systems, and high-volume transactional platforms.
• Strong understanding of basket, checkout, payment processing, promotions, pricing, taxation, and other commerce services within modern eCommerce platforms.
• Experience integrating with payment gateways, fraud prevention providers, financial service providers, and third-party commerce platforms.
• Understanding of payment security, tokenisation, authentication, PCI-DSS principles, and secure transaction processing practices.
• Experience working with event-driven architectures, high-volume transactional systems, and enterprise integrations.
• Strong people leadership skills with experience in hiring, mentoring, developing, and retaining high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices including software architecture and engineering principles, code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development.
• Strong communication, collaboration, decision-making, and organisational leadership skills.
• Experience driving engineering quality, operational excellence, reliability, security, and continuous improvement.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments using tools such as Jira and Confluence or equivalent.
• A data-driven mindset with the ability to use engineering, delivery, and operational metrics to improve team effectiveness and predictability.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience leveraging coding agents, LLMs, and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve software delivery and team productivity.
• Experience in global DTC, retail, omnichannel commerce or high-volume consumer digital environment.

Details

• Location: Local Office Pune (Global Function).