Engineering Manager (Backend)

airtel; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and mentor teams responsible for building and maintaining high-quality software applications that scale for customers. You will focus on development, technical documentation, and solving business problems with efficient engineering practices.

You will guide architecture, code reviews, performance, deployment, and delivery, while fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement across product, quality, operations, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering software at scale.
• Strong ability to review designs, code, and architecture with a focus on quality.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams to deliver high-quality software applications.
• Own end-to-end project delivery, estimations, planning, and execution.
• Drive best practices in architecture, deployment, and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Code reviews

Mentoring

Technical decision making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Tomcat/Nodejs

Spring Boot

Hibernate

Elasticsearch

Kafka

Jenkins

Nifi

Airflow

K8s

Job description

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 Airtel’s 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 engineering manager, you will build and mentor engineering teams and deliver on below :

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• Application layer technologies including Tomcat/Nodejs, Netty, Springboot, hibernate, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Apache flink
• Caching technologies like Redis, Aerospike or Hazelcast
• Frontend technologies including ReactJs, Angular, Android/IOS
• 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.