Senior Engineering Manager

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

Job summary

Jobtailor in Bengaluru, India, seeks an exceptionally experienced Engineering Leader to guide a team of Engineering Managers and shape a scalable organization. You will own department design, drive multi-quarter strategy with Product and Design, and build a leadership pipeline to ensure delivery quality and long-term health across multiple teams.

You will partner with senior leaders to set organizational direction, manage budgets and resourcing, and represent engineering in cross-functional

Qualifications

• 15+ years of overall software development and engineering leadership experience.
• 4+ years managing managers (Engineering Managers/Team Leads).
• Proven track record building and scaling large engineering organizations.
• Strong ability to set multi-team technical and organizational strategy.
• Experience with high-traffic consumer products and distributed teams.
• Experience hiring and building leadership benches (EMs and tech leads).
• Strong stakeholder management with senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Engineering Managers.
• Own organizational design for the department: topology, span of control, role clarity, scaling plans.
• Set and drive multi-quarter engineering strategy with Product and Design.
• Build and operate a leadership pipeline across the organization.
• Ensure delivery quality and health via SLOs/SLAs and incident response.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Managing managers

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Go/Java backend

Large-scale systems

Distributed teams

Leadership hiring

Tools

Looker

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

Responsibilities

• Leading, coaching, and developing a team of Engineering Managers
• Owning organizational design for your department: team topology, span of control, role clarity, and scaling plans
• Setting and driving multi-quarter engineering strategy in partnership with Product, Design, and other functional leaders
• Building and operationalizing a leadership pipeline
• Holding the department accountable for delivery, quality, and operational health (SLOs/SLAs, incident response, technical debt posture)
• Driving budget, and resourcing decisions for your part of the organization
• Representing engineering in senior cross-functional and leadership forums
• Identifying and resolving systemic organizational issues

Requirements

• Shared understanding of and belief in Mercari Group's mission and values
• 15+ years of overall experience in software development and engineering leadership
• At least 4+ years of experience managing managers (Engineering Managers / Team Leads), in addition to direct engineering people management experience
• Track record of building, scaling, and restructuring engineering organizations (20+ engineers across multiple teams)
• Demonstrated experience setting multi-team / multi-quarter technical and organizational strategy
• Strong stakeholder management experience with senior leadership, Product, and cross-functional partners
• Experience developing and operating large-scale, high-traffic consumer products
• Strong track record of identifying, hiring, and developing engineering leadership talent
• Experience with making strong technical judgements of a system or platform at an organizational level
• Experience managing a multicultural, distributed, or globally dispersed engineering organization
• Experience hiring and building out a leadership bench (EM and tech lead hiring, interview process design, leadership branding)
• Strong experience in one or more of the following domains, at an operational/strategic level:
  • Backend systems and platforms using Go or Java or any Backend Language
  • Familiarity to integrating with large-scale ML systems
  • Large-scale data systems /BI architecture on cloud platforms, and BI tooling (Looker, Tableau, PowerBI)