Engineering Manager

HappyFox Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,300,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing tech company in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers. You will be responsible for guiding software development projects, improving processes, and fostering team growth. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of software development experience and at least 2 years in team management. This role requires strong communication and project management skills, along with an engineering degree. Competitive compensation and growth opportunities are offered.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in managing and coaching software developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile development and project planning.
• Manage technical architecture discussions and quality code delivery.
• Collab with QA and Product teams to run the product roadmap.
• Communicate team progress to the company.

Skills

Team management

Software development

Communication skills

Project management

Problem-solving

Education

Engineering degree (B.E. CS preferred)

Tools

Python

Ruby

NodeJs

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a growing team of Engineers to help them build and maintain our products, effectively work on the right things at the right time and help them grow as better engineers along the way. A solid engineering as well as a management background is a must and you should have prior experience running an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile development and project planning
• Lead technical architecture discussion and quality code delivery
• Work with the engineering team, QA and Product teams to effectively run the product roadmap
• Keep everyone in the company informed on your team’s progress
• Work with the Support team to keep track of and triage technical issues and track it through to resolution
• Helping set and fulfill the engineering hiring plan for the team, including sourcing, screening, and interviewing
• Help implement effective engineering processes and policies
• Improve release process and managing bug/feature backlog

Requirements

• 2+ years of engineering team management experience
• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Should have worked on at least one of these programming languages (Python/Ruby/NodeJs)
• Excellent knowledge of best-practices and coding patterns
• You are proficient at reading and writing code and have built, shipped and maintained software
• You have experience in managing, coaching software developers to help them level up
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills and can communicate within your team and across teams
• You have good project management skills and can lead, keep track of and prioritize between multiple projects
• You are detail oriented and care about the quality of work that gets shipped
• You have been actively learning and keeping up with the industry both in terms of software development and product
• You are able to weigh several and often conflicting constraints and make rapid decisions in a fast-moving and quickly-growing company
• Engineering degree is must (B.E. CS preferred)