Engineering Manager - Client Engineering, Trading Platform

Lever, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in Chennai

In-person role

Collaborative leadership

AI-assisted development exposure

Career growth opportunities

Cross-functional exposure

Job summary

Lever, Inc. in Chennai, India, seeks an Engineering Manager - Client Engineering, Trading Platform to lead a small, customer-facing frontend team.

This player-coach role oversees web, mobile, and product experiences, driving people management and delivery practices in a fast-scaling environment. You will guide architecture, code reviews, and AI-assisted development while partnering with backend and platform teams to remove blockers and refine processes.

Qualifications

• 8-12+ years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on frontend skills (React/TypeScript).
• 3-5+ years leading teams of ~8+ engineers with involvement in hiring, onboarding and reviews.
• Experience shipping consumer-facing web/mobile products at scale with reliability and performance.
• Ability to establish engineering processes: onboarding docs, coding standards, reviews, and workflows.
• Willingness to remain hands-on in a player-coach role while guiding delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own the people-management lifecycle: onboarding, 30-60-90 plans, career development, reviews, promotions, offboarding.
• Set goals, KPIs, and regular one-on-ones to drive accountability and growth.
• Own delivery workflows across web, mobile, and QA to ensure predictable releases.
• Build engineering processes: reviews, TypeScript standards, architecture docs, onboarding materials.
• Establish verification standards for AI-assisted code for quality and oversight.
• Manage dependencies with backend/platform teams and cross-team communication.
• Lead hiring for client engineering roles and grow the team regionally and internationally.
• Remain technically engaged 30-50% of the time, reviewing frontend code and guiding architecture.
• Support continuous improvement across development quality and productivity.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Frontend architecture

Engineering management

People coaching

Hiring onboarding

Cross-functional leadership

Performance reviews

Leadership communication

Tools

Nx

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Engineering Manager - Client Engineering, Trading Platform based in India.

This is a player-coach leadership role overseeing the engineering team responsible for customer-facing web, mobile, and product experiences.
You will establish the people-management and delivery practices needed to support a rapidly scaling engineering organization.
The role combines hands‑on technical leadership with ownership of hiring, onboarding, performance, development, and team growth.
You will guide delivery across a real‑time web trading terminal, website and product applications, mobile experiences, and QA.
You will also introduce strong engineering standards around code reviews, documentation, architecture, testing, and AI-assisted development.
Working closely with backend and platform teams, you will remove delivery blockers and strengthen cross-functional execution.
The role is based in Chennai and requires an in‑person presence, with opportunities to help shape a growing international engineering team.

Accountabilities

• Own the complete people‑management lifecycle, including onboarding, 30-60-90 day plans, training, career development, performance reviews, promotions, and offboarding.

• Establish clear goals, KPIs, expectations, and regular one‑on‑one practices that support accountability, growth, and strong team engagement.

• Own delivery workflows across the web trading terminal, website and product monorepo, mobile application, and QA function, ensuring disciplined prioritization and predictable releases.

• Build and implement engineering processes covering code reviews, TypeScript and coding standards, architecture documentation, onboarding materials, and delivery practices.

• Establish rigorous verification standards for AI‑assisted code to ensure quality, reliability, maintainability, and appropriate engineering oversight before deployment.

• Manage dependencies with backend and core platform teams, including API contracts, SDK branches and releases, and cross‑team communication.

• Lead hiring for client engineering roles and grow the team from approximately six engineers toward a larger organization, including distributed international contributors.

• Remain technically engaged for approximately 30-50% of the role by reviewing complex frontend code, contributing to architecture decisions, setting technical standards, and personally unblocking challenging engineering problems.

• Support continuous improvement across development quality, delivery predictability, onboarding effectiveness, documentation, and engineering productivity.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of approximately 8 or more engineers, with direct ownership of hiring, onboarding, performance management, promotions, and exits.

• 8-12+ years of overall software engineering experience, with strong hands‑on expertise in React and TypeScript and the ability to conduct credible technical reviews of complex frontend systems.

• Proven experience shipping high‑performance, consumer‑facing web and/or mobile products at scale, with a strong understanding of reliability, usability, performance, and production delivery.

• Demonstrated experience establishing engineering processes from the ground up, including onboarding documentation, performance frameworks, coding standards, code‑review practices, and technical workflows.

• Strong player‑coach mindset and willingness to remain technically involved rather than moving exclusively into people management.

• Experience working with modern frontend architectures and applications, ideally including React‑based systems and complex client‑side products.

• Strong leadership, communication, coaching, prioritization, and stakeholder‑management skills.

• Ability to balance people development, technical quality, delivery commitments, and cross‑team dependencies in a fast‑scaling environment.

• Nice‑to‑have experience with React Native and mobile release management, QA or test‑automation ownership, Canvas/WebGL/WebSocket‑heavy applications, monorepo tooling such as Nx, and distributed international teams.

• Experience in trading, fintech, brokerage, or market‑data products is beneficial but not required.

• Experience combining practices from both mature engineering organizations and startups or rapidly scaling companies is an advantage.

• Ability and willingness to work in person from the Chennai office.

Benefits

• Full‑time, office‑based opportunity in Chennai, India.

• Opportunity to lead and shape a growing client engineering organization from an early management stage.

• Significant ownership over people management, engineering processes, technical standards, and delivery practices.

• Player‑coach role offering continued hands‑on technical involvement alongside leadership responsibilities.

• Opportunity to work across sophisticated web, mobile, real‑time, and trading‑product technologies.

• Exposure to modern engineering practices, including AI‑assisted development and rigorous verification processes.

• Opportunity to build and scale a team with both Chennai‑based and international engineers.

• Minimal travel requirements.

• Direct collaboration with senior product and company leadership.

• Fast‑paced environment with substantial scope to establish processes and influence engineering culture.

• Start date: ASAP.