Engineering Manager

Recrew AI; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Recrew AI in Delhi is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead end-to-end delivery for its digital products. You will own backend and frontend engineering across a team of 7–8 engineers, guiding architecture, velocity, and reliability for the streaming platform and related products.

This hands-on leadership role requires technical depth and the ability to grow a cross-functional team, partnering with product, design, and content teams to meet business goals.

Qualifications

• 7–8 years of software engineering experience with leadership experience
• Experience in high-scale consumer product companies
• Hands-on design and scaling of distributed backend systems
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language
• Production cloud experience (GCP/AWS/Azure)
• Experience deploying services with Kubernetes and CI/CD
• Strong data modeling and microservices knowledge
• Demonstrated cross-functional team leadership

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of 7–8 engineers
• Own architectural decisions for distributed backend systems
• Drive engineering best practices: code reviews, CI/CD, observability
• Partner with product/design/content to translate requirements into plans
• Define and track KPIs like uptime, latency, release frequency
• Address technical debt and scalability gaps proactively
• Collaborate with leadership on platform strategy and build-vs-buy decisions

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Engineering management

Distributed systems design

Backend language proficiency

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes & Docker

CI/CD & observability

API design (REST/GraphQL)

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job Description

Role: Engineering Manager

Function: Engineering / Technology

Location: Delhi

Type: Full-time

Industry: Media Production, Broadcast Media, Online Media

About Company

One of India's largest private FM radio networks, reaching 40 million+ listeners weekly. The company operates across 49 cities, 1,000+ towns, and 50,000 villages.

It is the only private FM station broadcasting from Jammu & Kashmir, with an international presence in Singapore and Bhutan. Its digital platform extends the brand into curated lifestyle, music, and news content.

With a team of 740, the company moves fast and values local relevance across metro and non-metro India.

Position Overview

This role leads end-to-end engineering delivery for the company's digital products, owning backend and frontend engineering across a team of 7–8 engineers. The manager will be accountable for architectural decisions, engineering velocity, and the reliability of distributed systems that serve millions of listeners on the company's digital streaming platform and related products. This is a hands‑on leadership role requiring both technical depth and the ability to grow and align a cross‑functional engineering team.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a cross‑functional team of 7–8 backend and frontend engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
• Own architectural decisions for distributed backend systems and shared platform services supporting multiple digital products
• Drive engineering best practices — code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response, and service reliability
• Partner with product, design, and content teams to translate business requirements into engineering plans with clear timelines and milestones
• Define and track engineering KPIs (uptime, latency, deployment frequency, error rates) and hold the team accountable to them
• Identify and resolve technical debt, scalability bottlenecks, and infrastructure gaps proactively
• Collaborate with senior leadership on platform strategy, resource planning, and build-vs‑buy decisions

Must Have Criteria

• 7–8 years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management role leading backend and/or frontend teams
• Prior experience at high-scale B2C consumer product companies with large concurrent user bases
• Hands‑on experience designing and scaling distributed backend systems with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs at consumer scale
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language — Go, Java, Node.js, or Python — used in production at scale
• Production experience with at least one major cloud provider: GCP, AWS, or Azure
• Hands‑on experience deploying backend services using Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong command of data modeling, caching strategies, service decomposition, and microservices architecture in a consumer‑facing product environment
• Demonstrated experience managing cross‑functional engineering teams of 5+ engineers, including hiring and performance management

Nice to Have

• Experience architecting shared backend platforms supporting multiple products or business verticals
• Prior experience in media, streaming, audio/video platforms, or content-heavy consumer applications
• Familiarity with CDN architecture, adaptive streaming protocols, or real‑time content delivery at scale
• Exposure to ad-tech, programmatic advertising, or listener analytics platforms

What We Offer

• Opportunity to lead engineering for one of India's most recognized media brands, with direct impact on 40M+ weekly listeners
• Ownership of a growing digital streaming platform at an inflection point in its product and engineering maturity
• Onsite role in Delhi with a creative, fast‑moving team deeply embedded in Indian culture and communities

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