Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead a team of engineers and oversee multiple SCRUM teams for Genea's development centre in Ahmedabad, India, participating across the full software development lifecycle.

What you'll do

• Drive team efforts and manage the people on a large engineering team to keep them aligned and focused on the team's goals.
• Keep a keen eye on code quality, with scalability, maintainability and readability in mind.
• Maintain a solution-oriented mindset with high load capacity systems in mind.
• Estimate work and delegate work.
• Drive the design, strategy and execution of software development projects to support product roadmaps.
• Lead technology architecture and development as per product needs.
• Oversee the daily activities and progress of multiple SCRUM teams.
• Lead many SCRUM teams through estimating engineering effort to build new features and fix prior mistakes.
• Monitor and continuously update team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence.
• Ensure a consistent, regular process for assessment of goals and improvement of deliveries.
• Collaborate with Product Managers on new products and new features.
• Implement a data-driven approach to execution to drive transparency.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of total experience.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience as a team lead.
• Experience in microservice and event-driven architecture.
• Proficiency in backend technologies, preferably JavaScript, though other technologies are considered.
• Proficiency in frontend technologies, preferably React, though other JavaScript-based frameworks such as Angular or Vue are considered.
• Proficiency in database technologies such as MongoDB or RDBMS (the team uses PostgreSQL).
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC), with experience guiding teams through planning, development and rollout using best-in-industry agile practices.
• Understanding of testing practices such as writing unit and integration test cases.
• Strong articulation skills, with the ability to write or explain complex problems over email or call.
• Obsession for excellence in quality and speed.
• Professionalism: sincerity, integrity, commitment and ownership.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to formulate product and business strategies.
• Prior experience managing multi-disciplinary teams of managers and senior engineers working simultaneously on multiple projects and technologies.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills at high levels.
• Innate customer service skills, including being empathetic, accurate, compassionate, responsive, resourceful and conscientious.
• Strong relationship management, strategizing, project management, problem solving and change management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in work estimation and delegation.
• Experience working with AWS, including EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS, RDS and SQS.

Details

• Location: Ahmedabad, India, with a remote option available.
• Opportunity to work directly with the Chief Technology Officer and other executives.
• Opportunity to work with cross-geography teams and travel as necessary.
• Employment type and working schedule: 5-day work week.