Engineering Manager

Easyship; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Wellness expenses

Zomato meal credits

Work from Anywhere (4 weeks)

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Easyship is seeking an Engineering Manager for our Bangalore team. This role combines hands-on coding with strong architectural ownership, leading a backend-focused squad to deliver scalable Rails-based systems and evolving microservices.

You will mentor engineers, drive delivery velocity, and collaborate across EU/UK-aligned hours to coordinate with teams in Europe. You’ll shape technical strategy, run 1:1s, ensure quality standards, and explore AI-assisted development to boost productivity and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience.
• At least 2 years in engineering management or technical lead.
• Hands-on with Ruby on Rails and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a backend-focused squad, ensuring delivery velocity and team health.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and complex feature development in Rails.
• Own the technical architecture of the squad’s domain across monolith and microservices.
• Translate roadmap priorities into clear technical plans with realistic timelines.
• Champion engineering best practices like testing, observability, and security.
• Introduce AI-augmented workflows to accelerate delivery and reduce toil.
• Drive retrospectives and unblock the team to foster growth.
• Collaborate with other EMs and Head of Engineering to improve processes across the org.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Backend architecture

Leadership / management

Async communication

AI tooling awareness

Distributed teams

Tools

Kafka

Rails monolith

Microservices

Job description

Easyship is one of the world’s leading multi-carrier shipping software, built to make global eCommerce borderless. Since 2014, we’ve been on a mission to democratize logistics by removing the “black box” of international shipping costs and complexities. Trusted by over 100,000 brands, our platform provides a single “mission control” for global trade, offering access to 550+ courier services across 200+ destinations.

We are an award-winning, global team (Forbes 30 Under 30, TechInAsia’s Best Startup) with offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, and beyond. We’re growing fast, we value transparency, and we genuinely enjoy building the infrastructure that powers modern commerce. If you’re ready to solve complex problems at scale, we’d love to have you join us.

Who We’re Looking For:

Easyship powers the shipping operations of over 100,000 merchants worldwide — and the engineering behind it is what makes that possible. Our platform handles real-time carrier rate comparisons, automated shipping rules, tax and duty calculations, label generation, and deep integrations with carriers across 200+ destinations. It's a technically rich domain, and the engineering work is genuinely interesting.

We're hiring an Engineering Manager for our Bangalore team — someone who leads by doing, not just directing. This is a hands-on EM role: you'll be deeply involved in technical decisions, architecture, and code, while also owning the health, growth, and output of your squad. You'll work within a small, product-aligned squad model — typically one EM, one senior backend, one senior frontend, a QA, and a PM — meaning your technical fingerprints are on everything the squad ships.

The right person for this role is equally comfortable reviewing a pull request, designing a system architecture, and running a 1:1. You care about clean, maintainable code. You've started to explore how AI tooling can accelerate your team's output — whether that's agentic workflows, LLM integrations, or AI-assisted development — and you're curious about where it's going. You thrive in a distributed, EU-hours environment and know how to build trust across timezones.

This is a full-time, onsite role based at our Bangalore office, working broadly aligned to EU/UK hours to collaborate effectively with our engineering teams in Portugal and across Europe.

What You’ll Be Responsible For:

• Lead and mentor a backend-focused squad, driving technical quality, delivery velocity, and team wellbeing
• Stay hands-on with the Ruby on Rails codebase — actively contributing to architecture decisions, code reviews, and complex feature development
• Own the technical architecture of your squad’s domain: design scalable, maintainable backend systems on our Rails monolith and evolving microservices layer
• Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to translate roadmap priorities into clear technical plans with realistic timelines
• Champion engineering best practices — testing, observability, security, and clean code — and raise the bar across the team
• Identify and introduce AI-augmented workflows (agentic tooling, LLM integrations, AI-assisted development) to accelerate delivery and reduce toil
• Drive continuous improvement: own retrospectives, unblock your team, and create an environment where engineers grow fast
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other EMs and the Head of Engineering to improve engineering processes across the organisation
• You have 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management or technical lead capacity
• You’re deeply hands-on with Ruby on Rails — this is not a “managed from a distance” role; you’ll be in the code regularly
• You have strong architecture experience: you’ve designed and evolved backend systems at scale, made hard tradeoffs, and owned the consequences
• You’re comfortable working on a large Rails monolith and have opinions about how to evolve it sustainably
• You have exposure to agentic AI or LLM tooling — whether in production, side projects, or active experimentation — and can bring that thinking into the team
• You’re a strong async communicator and can collaborate effectively with distributed teams across EU/India timezones
• You lead with empathy — you know how to give direct feedback, run a good 1:1, and create psychological safety in a team
• Nice to have: experience with microservices, Kafka, or distributed systems in a high-volume SaaS environment
• Nice to have: prior experience working in a shipping, logistics, or eCommerce platform

If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.

What We Bring to the Table as an Employer:

• Generous remuneration and stock units
• We reimburse gym and wellness expenses so you can invest in your health
• Zomato digital meal credits and a pantry full of wholesome snacks to keep you fuelled through the workday
• The freedom to ‘Work from Anywhere’ for 4 weeks in a year
• Generous vacation policy, plus duvet days and mental health days to truly recharge

How we value inclusion in our recruitment practices:

Easyship is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions — recruiting, hiring, pay, benefits, training, promotion, leave, and separation — based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, veteran or military status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.