Engineering Manager

HYCU, Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Equity program

Career development

Job summary

HYCU, Inc. in Bangalore is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow high-performing teams building scalable, cloud-native platforms. You will coach engineers, drive delivery, and partner with Product to align initiatives with business goals.

The ideal candidate brings 10+ years in C#/.NET, 3+ years in leadership, and a passion for AI-enabled engineering. This hybrid role requires strong collaboration and a customer-focused mindset within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in C# and .NET stack with cloud-scale apps.
• 3+ years in a leadership role guiding engineers.
• Experience integrating AI tools into engineering practices.
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, TDD, and API development.
• Proven performance optimization and automated testing.
• Experience with DevOps tools and containerized deployments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.
• Customer-focused mindset and ability to drive improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach engineers to deliver reliable, scalable software.
• Foster ownership, accountability, and psychological safety.
• Align team goals with product priorities and business outcomes.
• Drive performance reviews, feedback, and career growth.
• Champion AI-enabled engineering practices and modern workflows.
• Ensure effective DevOps, monitoring, and incident response.

Skills

C#

.NET Core

ASP.NET Core

Leadership

AI integration

Performance optimization

API design

DDD/OOAD

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure/GCP

Job description

HYCU is the fastest-growing leader in the multi-cloud and SaaS data protection as a service industry. By bringing true SaaS-based data backup and recovery to on-premises, cloud-native, and SaaS IT environments, the company provides unrivaled data protection, migration, disaster recovery, and ransomware protection to thousands of companies worldwide. The company's award-winning R-Cloud platform eliminates complexity, risk, and the high cost of legacy-based solutions, providing data protection simplicity to make it the #1 SaaS Data Protection platform. With an industry leading NPS score of 91, HYCU has raised $140M in VC funding to date and is based in Boston, Mass. Learn more at www.hycu.com.

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead and grow high-performing engineering teams building scalable, cloud-native platforms. This role blends strong people leadership with deep technical expertise, requiring a hands-on leader who can coach engineers, drive execution, and partner closely with Product and cross-functional stakeholders. You will be responsible for fostering a healthy, inclusive team culture while ensuring delivery of reliable, high-performance systems, including the adoption of modern AI-enabled engineering practices. The ideal candidate brings a builder’s mindset, strategic thinking, and a passion for customer-centric engineering excellence in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Location:

• Bangalore, India (Hybrid; 3 days onsite/2 days remote)

What You’ll Do:

• Coach and mentor engineers in their career growth and skill development
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and feedback sessions
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and psychological safety
• Team Health & Productivity
• Monitor team morale, engagement, and workload balance
• Identify and address team-level challenges or interpersonal issues
• Support team autonomy while ensuring accountability for outcomes

Strategic Alignment & Execution

• Collaborate with Product and other stakeholders to align team goals with business priorities
• Ensure engineering teams have the resources and support needed to deliver effectively
• Track progress against goals and help teams stay focused on delivering value

Organizational Enablement

• Advocate for the engineering team’s needs within the broader organization
• Drive initiatives that improve cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and retention strategies

What We’re Looking For:

• 10+ years of proven experience in using C# and .NET Core & ASP.NET Core. Must have hands-on experience building applications in the cloud that handle very high RPS by exploiting parallelism and asynchronous nature of tasks
• 3+ years of previous experience in a leadership or management role, guiding and motivating a team of developers
• Must have experience in integrating AI tools into Engineering practices
• Analytical thinking and problem solving, strong understanding of software development methodologies, design patterns, and best practices, software architecture and design, DDD, OOAD, API development in restful web applications, Development of libraries and frameworks. Must possess practical understanding of Use cases, TDD
• Experience with performance optimization, code review processes, and automated testing. Software engineering and experience of maintaining the software deployed in the field
• Modern dev ops tools & practices, monitoring, and alerting tools usage to monitor solutions deployed in a containerized cluster
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• A passion for delivering exceptional user experiences and driving continuous improvement in developer experience, processes, tools and technologies
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and handle multiple priorities effectively

Attributes of a Successful HYCUer in this role:

• Self-starter and strategic thinker who thinks outside the box
• Takes responsibility and ownership for driving successful outcomes. You’re results-driven with a winning attitude
• Team player! You have excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties
• Hands-on and builders' mentality with an entrepreneurial mindset and intrinsic motivation
• Obsessed with being customer-focused – We know our customers and are advocates for their voice and point of view across HYCU
• Intellectual curiosity, always open for continuous learning/growth mindset

Who We Are:

Our Core Values: Authenticity, Grit and Empathy are at the heart of everything we do at HYCU. All of us at HYCU take ownership in shaping and contributing to our culture. We pride ourselves in developing an inclusive and diverse company that supports our employees and customers to do extraordinary things.

The following is how we approach each Core Value:

• Authenticity – To be authentic means to be who we are and do it well. Focus your energy on being who YOU are. Be true to yourself. Authenticity also extends to our products. Understanding where we are truly the best fit for our customers and when we are not. And finally, authenticity in relationships: ensuring that we are honest and do what we say we’re going to do.
• Grit – To win we need to want it. Every team member needs to be able to jump in and help at every turn. Whether it’s staying late to help a colleague or customer or finding a better process and making sure it’s communicated cross-functionally. You just have to do it and love it…and never stop trying.
• Empathy – We need to care about each other, about our clients, about our business, and about the world around us. That might seem like a tall order, but if we don’t live in a constant state of empathy, if we don’t strive to truly put ourselves in another person’s shoes, we cannot truly serve the market.

"We are at our best when we stay true to our Core Values."~ Simon Taylor, CEO

What We Offer:

Come work for one of CRN’s “Cloud 100 Companies for 2026”. At HYCU you’ll have the opportunity to build your career with a “Visionary” B2B SaaS company from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise BackUp. HYCU provides an excellent benefits package including Medical Insurance, generous time off, and more. We offer career development programs and an inclusive global culture. All our employees participate in our equity program.