Engineering Manager (Backend)

BrowserStack; India; Remote; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Remote-First work environment

Remote-First Allowance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

BrowserStack in India is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact product engineering team. You will mentor engineers, set career paths, establish best practices, and drive continuous improvement across the product development lifecycle.

You will architect scalable web back-end and full-stack systems, hire and grow top talent, collaborate with designers, BAs and PMs in an Agile setup, and deliver complex projects on time with quality.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years in product-based companies or startups.
• Strong backend, streaming, and full-stack experience.
• Experience with scalable, highly available architectures.
• Proven hiring and scaling of engineering teams.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable, reliable applications for critical systems.
• Setup best practices and drive lifecycle improvements.
• Develop roadmaps and ensure timely, quality delivery.
• Mentor engineers and create clear career paths.
• Coordinate with designers, BAs, and PMs in Agile env.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Scalable architecture

Back-end

Full-stack

Performance tuning

Hiring

Communication

Agile

Roadmapping

Job description

Location: This is a fully remote position, open to candidates residing anywhere in India.

Role in nutshell:

Engineering Manager role involves innovating, developing and delivering complex systems impacting our critical business objectives. Create career paths for your team members by strong mentoring and regular feedback/evaluation process. Set up best practices and identify areas for continuous improvement of the product development life cycle.

Desired Experience

• Experience: 8-12 years of experience in good product based companies and preferably product start-ups.
• Strong grasp of scalable web back-end, streaming, full stack development, good experience in handling production and performance issues and all genres of platforms technologies.
• Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex web/desktop based systems.
• Experience hiring and growing a top notch engineering team, and scaling the organization. Start-up experience will be highly preferred.
• Solid understanding of business processes and the application of technology to implement and thereafter streamline them.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Hands-on experience in Developing, designing & scaling complex systems both horizontally & vertically.
• A strong vision and excitement for contributing in growth of an amazing product start-up.

Desired Experience

• Experience: 8-12 years of experience in good product based companies and preferably product start-ups.
• Strong grasp of scalable web back-end, streaming, full stack development, good experience in handling production and performance issues and all genres of platforms technologies.
• Deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up.
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex web/desktop based systems.
• Experience hiring and growing a top notch engineering team, and scaling the organization. Start-up experience will be highly preferred.
• Solid understanding of business processes and the application of technology to implement and thereafter streamline them.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Hands-on experience in Developing, designing & scaling complex systems both horizontally & vertically.
• A strong vision and excitement for contributing in growth of an amazing product start-up.

What will you do?

• Architect innovative solutions for critical, complex and challenging problems by designing and developing highly scalable, available and reliable applications.
• Setup best practices and identify areas of continuous improvement of the product development life cycle.
• Develop roadmaps for system and product growth, ensure timely execution and quality delivery.
• Manage stakeholders like designers, business analysts and product managers by providing them delivery plans and estimates in an Agile environment.
• Create clear career paths for team members by regular & deep mentoring.
• Perform regular performance evaluation, share & seek feedback.

In addition to your total compensation, you will be eligible for following benefits, which will be governed by the Company policy:

• Medical Insurance: Comprehensive INR 5,00,000 coverage for employee, spouse, up to 2 dependent children, and parents or parents-in-law.
• Statutory Benefits: Gratuity per the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972.
• Paid Time Off: 25 days of paid leave annually (Annual & Sick Leave) plus gazetted public holidays and special life-event leaves.
• Remote-First work environment that allows our people to work from home.
• Remote-First Allowance for home office setup, connectivity, accessories, co-working spaces, wellbeing to ensure an amazing remote work experience.