Engineering Manager

Airtel Digital; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel Digital is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a responsive engineering team, building products and services aligned with Airtel’s growth. You will solve complex problems, evolve architecture, and deliver end-to-end business outcomes across existing codebases and new projects.

You will drive technical excellence through architecture guidance, people management, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration with quality, operations, product, and program teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering end-to-end projects.
• Strong knowledge of application architecture, development, deployment, and performance optimization.
• Ability to hire and manage resources to meet organizational goals and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams to build scalable products and services.
• Evolve and own end-to-end architecture, code quality, and performance.
• Coordinate with product, quality, operations, and program teams to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Drive culture of innovation and continuous learning within the team.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Project management

Communication

Innovation

Tools

Java

Tomcat

Springboot

Hibernate

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Redis

Aerospike

Hazelcast

Oracle

S3

Postgres

MySQL

MongoDB

Git

Jenkins

JMeter

Postman

Nginx

Haproxy

Jira/Confluence

Grafana

Kibana

Job description

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead and mentor engineering team to build products and services aligned for Airtel’s growth. This entails that you will solve problems and build, refactor and evolve overall architecture. This will involve working on existing codebase and new projects. As an engineering lead, you will deliver on :

• Technical Expertise : Provide guidance on technical and functional aspects of project and take decisions. You will setup and execute best practices in application architecture, development, performance, deployment and execution by owning end-to-end business deliveries.
• People Management : Conduct performance review and setup constructive feedback loop for team members and build their succession plans. You will be responsible for allocating existing resources and hiring new for effectively meeting organizational goals and deadlines.
• Project Management : You will be part of overall planning and execution of engineering projects and ensure their timely delivery within the allocated budget.
• Communication and Collaboration : You will facilitate communication within the engineering teams and stakeholders including quality, operations, product and program to ensure alignment for business goals. You will address conflicts in teams and promote positive and productive working environment.
• Innovation and continuous learning. : You will build culture of innovation and continuous improvement in your team. You will encourage and adopt new technology and emerging industry trends and methods for improving efficiency of your team.

At Airtel, we build products at scale with many technologies including :

• Java and related technologies including Tomcat, Netty, Springboot, hibernate, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Web services
• Caching technologies like Redis, Aerospike or Hazelcast
• Data storage technologies like Oracle, S3, Postgres, MySQL or Mongodb
• Tooling including Git, Command line, Jenkins, Jmeter, Postman, Gatling, Ngnix/Haproxy, Jira/Confluence, Grafana, Kibana