Senior Engineering Manager

Sage; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage is seeking an experienced engineering leader to guide multiple engineering teams, drive delivery, and shape long-term product health. You will remain technically involved while growing the team, coaching engineers and collaborating with Product, Design, Support, and external stakeholders.

You will lead efforts across backend and frontend, ensuring scale, reliability, and alignment with security and Cloud‑Ops standards, while building trusted relationships across Sage Engineering groups.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software.
• 5+ years managing engineers across multiple teams.
• Strong experience with Python, PostgreSQL, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Angular to guide frontend decisions.
• Hands-on engineering judgment: review design docs, debug issues and improve performance.
• Visible leadership in AI-assisted engineering and team workflows.
• Delivery ownership with tests, automation and monitoring standards.
• People leadership: coach engineers, provide feedback and hire.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, Support & GTM.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams building a product used by businesses across 39 countries.
• Stay hands-on across the stack: guide backend architecture and Angular frontend design, review critical changes, and help solve production issues.
• Build and operate services handling millions of requests per day with reliability from design to incident response.
• Partner with Product, Design and go-to-market teams to translate customer needs into priorities.
• Foster relationships with customer and partner engineering teams and align with Cloud-Ops and Security.

Skills

Engineering leadership

People leadership

Cross-functional

Backend architecture

Code review

AI in engineering

Delivery ownership

Hiring

Mentoring

Frontend guidance

Tools

Python

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Angular

Job description

Job Description

About Us

Sage helps small and mid‑sized businesses make work and money flow. Our finance, HR, and payroll technology simplifies essential work and helps customers make decisions with confidence. We build with empathy, earn trust by delivering on our promises, and look for simpler ways to solve real problems. Across teams, we value curiosity, ownership, and ideas that improve the experience for customers and colleagues.

Our team builds Sage Expense Management, which helps finance teams manage spend from card transactions and receipt collection through policy checks, reimbursements, reconciliation, and accounting integrations. The platform also powers white‑label and embedded experiences that banks, card issuers, and other partners offer to their customers.

What We’re Looking For

• You have 8+ years building software and 5+ years managing engineers across multiple engineering teams, including experience developing engineering managers or senior technical leaders.
• Technical depth in backend systems: strong experience with Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, plus enough familiarity with Angular to guide frontend decisions and review work across the product.
• Hands‑on engineering judgment: ability to work in the codebase, review design docs and pull requests, debug production issues, and improve performance and resilience.
• Visible leadership in AI‑assisted engineering: use AI tools productively yourself, help engineers evaluate their output, and build team‑level harnesses and workflows that improve quality and speed.
• Delivery ownership: break complex initiatives into milestones, make sound trade‑offs, and maintain high standards for tests, automation, monitoring, and documentation.
• People leadership: coach engineers and managers, give clear feedback, support career growth, and participate in hiring.
• Cross‑functional collaboration: communicate clearly with Product, Design, Support, go‑to‑market teams, external stakeholders, and other Sage Engineering groups.

What to Expect

This is a hands‑on engineering leadership role. You’ll remain technically involved while giving engineers ownership, growing the team, and taking responsibility for delivery and long‑term product health.

Key Responsibilities

The Impact You’ll Make

• Lead engineering teams building a product used by businesses across 39 countries.
• Stay hands‑on across the stack: guide backend architecture and Angular frontend design, review critical changes, and help solve difficult production issues, write code where it matters.
• Build and operate services handling 7 million+ requests per day, with peaks above 1,000 requests per second. Own delivery and reliability from design through deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
• Partner with Product, Design, and go‑to‑market teams to turn customer needs into priorities and deliver useful features at scale.
• Build trusted relationships with customer and partner engineering teams and other external stakeholders. Work with wider Sage Engineering teams, including Cloud‑Ops and Security, to align plans, commitments, and technical standards.