Engineering Manager

HappyFox Inc.; Chennai; On-site; USD 13,632 - 20,448; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a dedicated team of engineers. This role focuses on guiding the team in building and maintaining high-quality products while fostering their growth as professionals. The ideal candidate will have a solid engineering background, with extensive experience in software development and team management. You will be responsible for overseeing project planning, enhancing engineering processes, and ensuring effective communication across teams. Join this innovative firm and make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment where your leadership will drive success.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead agile development and project planning.
• Manage engineering hiring plan including sourcing and interviewing.

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)