Engineering Manager

Cleartrip; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleartrip in Bengaluru seeks an Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams delivering scalable travel tech platforms. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and partner with product and business teams to align roadmaps with company goals.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, agile execution, and building systems with reliable performance at scale. You’ll drive architecture decisions and foster career growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building cutting-edge products with 2+ years in people management.
• Strong architecture and design skills for scalable, available systems.
• Experience with large data, batch and real-time processing pipelines.
• Proven track record delivering high-quality software with product/business alignment.
• Exposure to SOA patterns and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineers across levels to realize the team's long-term vision.
• Partner with product, business, and stakeholders to drive metrics.
• Provide hands-on leadership and mentoring for junior engineers.
• Drive platformization and scalable tech solutions across the ecosystem.
• Set strategy, remove impediments, and ensure timely delivery.

Skills

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Architectural design

Agile methodologies

Data handling (batch/real-time)

Education

B.Tech / M.Tech or equivalent

Job description

Launched in July 2006, Cleartrip India Pvt Ltd. has emerged as India’s fastest-growing online travel technology company. In April 2021, Flipkart acquired 100% of Cleartrip’s shareholding, and subsequently Adani Enterprises acquired a significant minority stake in Cleartrip in October 2021. Cleartrip has a clear vision to disrupt the OTA segment. Combining intuitive products with a customer-centric approach and a wide selection of flights and hotels, Cleartrip brings a unique selling point to market, offering convenience, choice, competitive prices, and exclusive content to its customers.

About the role

Engineering Managers (EMs) lead teams of diverse groups of people who are moving towards realizing Flipkart’s vision. They are responsible for building high-performing teams where each team member feels the impact of their work. EMs also set the direction for the team and support people in their career growth. They ensure that the teams have an inspiring vision for the future. The teams work on a spectrum of products and platforms which power Flipkart. EMs provide technical leadership to identify and define the right component/system abstractions/capabilities for current/future product/platform asks. One of the key responsibilities of an EM is to understand business goals and contribute to product strategy and take accountability for moving key business metrics. They are also responsible for driving execution using agile methodologies by removing impediments along the way with the big picture in mind.

You are responsible for:

• Engineering Managers (EMs) lead engineers across levels of diverse groups of people who are moving towards realizing Flipkart groups vision. They set the direction and the long term vision for the team, partner with the product, business, and other stakeholders to realize their vision. The teams work on a spectrum of products and platforms which power Flipkart groups. They lead the way for the teams to evangelize various ideas, provide technical leadership, and facilitate platformization of the systems across the ecosystem. SEMs partner with product teams on key business metrics in their areas, lead the way for innovative solutions to complex and challenging domain problems and drive agility in execution by leading by example.
• Build, lead, develop and provide hands‑on leadership for top‑notch engineers and leads.
• Create clear career paths for team members to help them grow with regular and deep mentoring, Attract and retain top talent keeping long term goals in mind
• Drive strategy and vision across teams in a rapidly evolving environment
• Work closely with diverse stakeholders and enable them by providing scalable and quality technology solutions.
• Facilitate platforms solutions that span beyond the team and across the ecosystem
• Take accountability for moving the key business metrics within your area and Provide thought partnership to the product team and ensure collaboration among product, engineering, and business operation teams.

You should have:

• B.Tech, M.tech or any other similar qualification with at least 10+ years of experience in building cutting edge products with 2+ years in people management
• Good understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup
• Strong experience handling large data (batch and real‑time), workflows and scheduling, building pluggable frameworks and systems, strong abstraction, and design skills.
• Proven track record of delivering products with high quality, familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools
• Strong partnership with product and business teams that demonstrates effective collaboration and communication across multiple stakeholders
• Exposure to different design & architecture patterns as we build systems in SOA. Exposure to batch processing & near real time pipelines to transition data between multiple systems