Engineering Manager - Airtel

Airtel; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building and maintaining high-quality software applications at scale. You will spend significant time on development, technical documentation, architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions for Airtel’s growth.

Responsibilities include setting best practices, driving innovation, aligning with product and operations, and managing performance reviews and hiring to meet goals and deadlines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering software at scale.
• Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance on technical and functional aspects of projects and decisions.
• Establish and enforce best practices in architecture, development, code reviews, performance, deployment.
• Build a culture of innovation and continuous learning within the team.
• Facilitate communication among engineering teams and stakeholders to align with business goals.
• Participate in planning with accurate estimations and ensure timely delivery.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software architecture

Code reviews

Performance tuning

Deployment automation

Mentoring

Project planning

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Tools

Tomcat/Nodejs

Spring Boot

Hibernate

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Apache Flink

Redis

Aerospike

Hazelcast

ReactJS

Angular

Android

iOS

Oracle

Postgres

MongoDB

S3

Git

Jenkins

Nifi

Airflow

JMeter

Postman

Gatling

Nginx

HAProxy

Jira/Confluence

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

JD - Engineering Manager

About the Role

To contribute and lead a team of enthusiastic individuals to the building and maintenance of high-quality software applications and cater superior experience to our customers on a scale.

Your primary role will be to build products and services for Airtels growth. You will be spending better part of the time in development and writing technical documents. You will solve business problems at scale, work on existing and new repositories, review code, write design documents and help in resolving customer issues. As senior lead, you will build and mentor engineering teams and deliver on below :

1. 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, code reviews, performance, deployment and execution by owning end-to-end business deliveries
2. 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
3. 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 technical issues in teams and promote positive working environment
4. Team Management : Conduct performance review and setup constructive feedback loop for team members along with Engineering Managers. You will be responsible for hiring new members for effectively meeting organizational goals and deadlines
5. Project Management : You will be part of overall planning by providing correct estimation and execution of engineering projects and ensure their timely delivery

At Airtel, we use many technologies including:

1. Application layer technologies including Tomcat/Nodejs, Netty, Springboot, hibernate, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Apache flink
2. Caching technologies like Redis, Aerospike or Hazelcast
3. Frontend technologies including ReactJs, Angular, Android/IOS
4. Data storage technologies like Oracle, S3, Postgres, Mongodb
5. Tooling including Git, Command line, Jenkins, Nifi, Airflow, Jmeter, Postman, Gatling, Ngnix/Haproxy, Jira/Confluence, Grafana, K8s

Why Airtel Digital?

• Build systems that millions use daily your code is never invisible.
• Work with cutting-edge cloud and AI tech in real business scenarios.
• Join a fast, metrics-driven team where engineers influence product strategy.

Educational Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computers Engineering or comparable experience.