Engineering Manager- Software

Overview

Lead an engineering team building platform and API capabilities for MISUMI Americas' digital manufacturing platform, combining people leadership with hands-on technical oversight.

What you'll do

• Coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent through regular feedback, performance management, and career growth planning, and help scale the team as needed.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify objectives, and translate needs into scalable technical solutions and platform capabilities.
• Establish and continually improve team processes to enable iterative delivery, innovation, and high reliability.
• Drive near- and long-term improvements to engineering-wide activities such as development practices, hiring and onboarding, team cohesion, and incident response.
• Resolve systemic obstacles to team health, system performance, and team delivery.
• Embrace and extend a culture of transparency, safety, and growth.

What you'll need

• 12 to 18 years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years in an engineering management role.
• Experience managing technical teams of 5-8 engineers with demonstrated ability to scale teams.
• Demonstrated experience in project planning and execution, including scope definition, prioritization, risk management, and delivery tracking across multiple work streams.
• Strong ability to manage cross-functional dependencies and drive alignment across engineering and product teams while leading delivery using Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), including sprint planning, milestone management, and stakeholder communication.
• Track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineering talent.
• Proven ability to balance competing priorities while ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and long-term platform scalability.
• Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong working experience in platform and API development using Node.js and GraphQL, and frontend enablement using React and TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native services on AWS, with an understanding of scalability, security, and cost optimization.
• Ability to remain sufficiently hands-on to review technical designs, guide complex implementations, and unblock teams when required.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
• Demonstrated technical judgment and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make informed trade-offs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in a team and with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Details

• Location: Pune, India Office.