Engineering Manager

Uffizio Group; Valsad District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Uffizio Group is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a cluster of 3–5 Engineering Team Leads. You will drive people management, cross-team coordination, and delivery while setting engineering standards and improving reliability.

The role requires 8+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in people management and a track record of growing technical leaders. You will partner with Product, QA, Customer Success and Sales to align technical execution with business goals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with people management experience.
• Experience managing Team Leads, Tech Leads, Managers, or senior engineers preferred.
• Strong cross-team planning, prioritization, resource management and delivery.
• Proven ability to handle escalations from technical, customer and business perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and manage 3–5 Team Leads, guiding performance, growth and career development.
• Own cluster-level planning, prioritization, capacity allocation and delivery across multiple teams.
• Resolve cross-team dependencies, resource conflicts, risks, and escalations.
• Serve as primary contact for business, customer and cross-functional escalations.
• Drive engineering standards for code quality, testing, reviews, incident management and reliability.
• Track metrics like delivery cycle time, MTTR, escalations and team health.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, Customer Success, Sales and other stakeholders to align execution with priorities.
• Develop Team Leads into effective people managers and foster ownership and continuous improvement.
• Lead Platform & Shared Services initiatives around monitoring, autoscaling, guardrails and incident tooling.

Skills

People management

Cross-team planning

Delivery management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Technical depth

Engineering governance

Incident handling

Reliability

Team leadership

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.