Engineering Manager

Uffizio; Valsad District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Uffizio is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a cluster of 3–5 Engineering Team Leads and drive people management, delivery, and engineering governance. The role focuses on cross-team coordination, setting standards, and operational excellence across distributed teams.

You will mentor Team Leads, own cluster planning and capacity, resolve escalations, and align technical execution with business priorities in a fast-growing environment in Gujarat, India.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in people management.
• Experience leading Team Leads, Tech Leads, or managers.
• Strong cross-team planning and resource management.
• Ability to handle technical, customer, and business escalations.
• Experience with distributed/multi-location teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Mentor 3–5 Team Leads and support their teams' growth.
• Own cluster-level planning, prioritization and delivery.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies and escalation risks.
• Coordinate with stakeholders across Product, QA, Customer Success, Sales.
• Drive engineering standards, quality, testing and reliability.
• Improve metrics like delivery cycle time and MTTR.
• Develop Team Leads into effective people managers.

Skills

People management

Cross-team planning

Stakeholder mgmt

Engineering leadership

Delivery management

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a cluster of 3–5 Engineering Team Leads and drive people management, cross-team coordination, delivery, engineering standards, and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate will be a strong engineering leader who can work across multiple teams, resolve competing priorities, handle escalations, develop Team Leads, and ensure consistent engineering practices across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor 3–5 Team Leads, supporting their teams' performance, growth, hiring, and career development.
• Own cluster-level planning, prioritization, capacity allocation, and delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies, resource conflicts, delivery risks, and escalations.
• Act as the primary point of contact for business, customer, and cross-functional escalations involving multiple teams.
• Drive consistent engineering standards covering code quality, testing, code reviews, incident management, and reliability.
• Track and improve engineering metrics such as delivery cycle time, incident rate, MTTR, escalations, and team health.
• Partner with Product, QA, Customer Success, Sales, and other stakeholders to align technical execution with business priorities.
• Develop Team Leads into effective people managers and create a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• For Platform & Shared Services, own initiatives related to monitoring, reliability, autoscaling, resource guardrails, and incident tooling.

What This Role Is Not

This is not a hands‑on coding or individual contributor role. Day‑to‑day coding, debugging, and code reviews remain with Team Leads and Senior/Staff Engineers.

The Engineering Manager's focus is on people leadership, coordination, delivery, escalation management, and engineering governance.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 3+ years in people management.
• Experience managing Team Leads, Tech Leads, Managers, or senior engineering professionals is preferred.
• Strong experience in cross-team planning, prioritization, resource management, and delivery.
• Proven ability to handle technical, customer, and business escalations.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Good technical depth to evaluate engineering trade‑offs and challenge decisions effectively.
• Experience driving engineering standards, quality, testing, reliability, and operational improvements.
• Experience working with distributed/multi-location teams is a plus.
• Experience in B2B SaaS, high‑availability systems, IoT, fleet management, telematics, logistics, or mobility is a plus.