Engineering Manager - Software

SPIRO; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Spiro is seeking an Engineering Manager who has led high-performing teams at scale and desires real ownership. You will run core engineering teams, hire, coach, unblock, and ship, while staying close to the code and owning systems end-to-end.

Based in Pune or Bangalore, you will help build a platform that handles billions of events daily across emerging markets, focusing on reliability, data pipelines, and IoT-enabled infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering.
• 3+ years directly managing engineers.
• Experience shipping distributed or IoT-adjacent systems in production at scale.
• Strong fundamentals in event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to build and run structured hiring processes, not just conduct interviews.
• Comfort operating with incomplete information in a startup environment.
• Strong written communication and ability to turn ambiguity into a clear plan.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery and quality for your team end-to-end, balancing roadmap commitments against technical debt and platform reliability across multiple markets.
• Hire and grow engineers; run structured interview loops, write leveling rubrics, and build scorecards that raise the bar.
• Partner with Architecture and Product to translate business needs into scoped, sequenced engineering plans.
• Drive engineering excellence: CI/CD health, incident response quality, and on-call sustainability.
• Represent your team in OKR planning and ensure measurable outcomes (uptime, latency, deployment frequency).
• Be hands-on when necessary—review designs, unblock incidents, and occasionally write code.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Cloud infrastructure

Hiring processes

Code reviews

CI/CD

OKR planning

Job description

Role Profile: Engineering Manager - Software

Department: Software

Reports To: VP of Engineering

About Spiro Spiro is building the operating system for electric mobility across Africa - spanning battery swapping infrastructure, fleet operations, energy commerce, and CRM - live across nine markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, Togo, and Cameroon). Backed by $200+M in funding, we're working on top-notch, cutting-edge technology to solve problems at genuine IoT, fintech, and mobility scale - real-time data pipelines, connected hardware, and platforms that run physical infrastructure, not just dashboards. We build systems designed to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, and engineered for 99.999% uptime.

We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders to join us in Pune or Bangalore to help build this platform. This isn't a "big company problems, big company headcount" environment - you'll own systems end-to-end, with a bar for technical rigor set by experience at top product tech companies, but a working style built for a company still being built.

The Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who has led high-performing teams at scale and wants to trade org-chart depth for real ownership. You'll run one or more core engineering teams - hiring, coaching, unblocking, and shipping - while staying close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls, owning your systems end-to-end.

What You'll Do

• Own delivery and quality for your team(s) end-to-end, balancing roadmap commitments against technical debt and platform reliability across our nine live markets.
• Hire and grow engineers; run structured interview loops, write leveling rubrics, and build scorecards that raise the bar rather than just fill seats.
• Partner with Architecture and Product to translate ambiguous business needs (e.g., new market launches, new hardware integrations) into scoped, sequenced engineering plans.
• Drive engineering excellence: CI/CD health, DORA metrics, incident response quality, and on-call sustainability across systems built to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, engineered for 99.999% uptime.
• Represent your team in OKR planning and hold it accountable to measurable outcomes (swap uptime, pipeline latency, deployment frequency, defect escape rate).
• Be hands-on when it matters - reviewing designs, unblocking incidents, and occasionally writing code - without becoming a bottleneck.

What You Bring

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years directly managing engineers, ideally at a top product tech company followed by high-growth startup experience.
• Track record of shipping distributed, data-intensive, or IoT-adjacent systems in production at meaningful scale.
• Strong fundamentals in event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to build and run structured hiring processes, not just conduct interviews.
• Comfort operating with incomplete information, thin support structures, and a "figure it out" mandate - this is a startup, not a division.
• Strong written communication; you can turn ambiguity into a clear plan colleagues can execute against.

Nice to Have

• Experience with emerging-market or multi-country infrastructure products.
• Experience managing globally distributed or hybrid teams

Why Spiro

• Real infrastructure, real stakes: your systems run physical battery swap stations and vehicle fleets, not just dashboards.
• We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders - the technical bar of a top product tech company, without the bureaucracy - you'll make decisions and see them shipped in weeks, not quarters.
• A genuinely hard, genuinely interesting problem space: distributed IoT, real-time data at scale, multi-market operations, and emerging-market infrastructure constraints all at once, built on top-notch, modern technology.

Spiro is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all candidates based on merit, without regard to race, gender, religion, nationality, or any other protected status.