Airtel - Engineering Manager - Backend Technologies

Bharti Airtel Foundation; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Bharti Airtel Foundation is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and mentor an engineering team, guiding architecture, development, and delivery for scalable products and services aligned with Airtel's growth. You will work on both existing codebases and new projects, building a strong culture of innovation.

You will lead architecture discussions, drive end-to-end deliveries, conduct performance reviews, and coordinate with quality, operations, product, and program teams to ensure alignment

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex software projects.
• Strong architecture and design sense with ability to evolve systems.
• Proven track record of delivering on time within budget and quality targets.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on technical and functional aspects of projects and make decisions.
• Set up and enforce best practices in architecture, development, performance, deployment, and execution.
• Lead performance reviews and succession planning for team members.
• Plan and oversee engineering projects to ensure timely delivery within budget.
• Foster clear communication among engineering, quality, operations, product, and program stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Architecture

Delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Jenkins

JMeter

Postman

Jira

Job description

Role : Engineering Manager. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and mentor engineering team to build products and services aligned for Airtel's growth.

Role : Engineering Manager. As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and mentor engineering team to build products and services aligned for Airtel's growth. This entails that you will solve problems and build, refactor and evolve overall architecture. This will involve working on existing codebase and new projects.

Technical Expertise

As an engineering lead, you will deliver on :

• Provide guidance on technical and functional aspects of project and take decisions.
• You will setup and execute best practices in application architecture, development, performance, deployment and execution by owning end-to-end business deliveries.

People Management

• Conduct performance review and setup constructive feedback loop for team members and build their succession plans.
• You will be responsible for allocating existing resources and hiring new for effectively meeting organizational goals and deadlines.

Project Management

• You will be part of overall planning and execution of engineering projects and ensure their timely delivery within the allocated budget.

Communication And Collaboration

• You will facilitate communication within the engineering teams and stakeholders including quality, operations, product and program to ensure alignment for business goals.
• You will address conflicts in teams and promote positive and productive working environment.

Innovation And Continuous Learning

• You will build culture of innovation and continuous improvement in your team.
• You will encourage and adopt new technology and emerging industry trends and methods for improving efficiency of your team.

At Airtel, we build products at scale with many technologies including :

• Java and related technologies including Tomcat, Netty, Springboot, hibernate, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Web services.
• Caching technologies like Redis, Aerospike or Hazelcast.
• Data storage technologies like Oracle, S3, Postgres, MySQL or Mongodb.
• Tooling including Git, Command line, Jenkins, Jmeter, Postman, Gatting, Ngnix/Haproxy, Jira/Confluence, Grafana, Kibana.

Designation : General Manager (ref:hirist.tech)