Senior Engineering Manager

Questhiring; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 6,500,000 - 11,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Questhiring seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Backend and Mobile engineering in a global product environment. You will balance 50% Backend and 50% Mobile ownership while guiding architecture, delivery, and team growth.

You will partner with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, Security, and Data teams across geographies; drive CI/CD, reliability, and security, and represent engineering in senior leadership discussions.

Qualifications

• 12–18 years of software engineering experience.
• Proven experience as Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager / Group Engineering Manager.
• Experience in a Global Product Company / Large Enterprise / GCC / Internet Product Organization.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams across Backend and Mobile.

Responsibilities

• Lead Backend and Mobile engineering teams, ensuring strong technical execution and delivery.
• Drive approximately 50% Backend + 50% Mobile ownership across architecture, development, scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Provide strong technical leadership across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, and mobile applications.
• Own engineering strategy, roadmap execution, architecture decisions, engineering standards, and technology adoption.
• Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams; manage hiring, performance, career development, and succession planning.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, Security, Data, and global engineering teams.
• Manage and communicate effectively with senior leadership and global stakeholders across geographies.
• Drive engineering excellence through code quality, automation, CI/CD, observability, security, scalability, and operational reliability.
• Establish a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Identify technical risks and ensure timely resolution of complex engineering challenges.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Represent engineering in senior-level business and product discussions.

Job description

Senior Engineering Manager – Backend & Mobile

Location: Gurgaon

Work Mode: Hybrid

Experience: 12–18 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team responsible for Backend and Mobile engineering in a global product environment.

The role requires approximately 50% focus on Backend Engineering and 50% on Mobile Engineering, combined with strong people leadership, technical decision-making, stakeholder management, and execution ownership.

The ideal candidate should have experience working in a large, structured/global organization, managing engineering teams, collaborating with international stakeholders, and delivering highly scalable consumer or enterprise products.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Backend and Mobile engineering teams, ensuring strong technical execution and delivery.
• Drive approximately 50% Backend + 50% Mobile engineering ownership across architecture, development, scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Provide strong technical leadership across distributed systems, microservices, APIs, cloud platforms, and mobile applications.
• Own engineering strategy, roadmap execution, architecture decisions, engineering standards, and technology adoption.
• Build and mentor high-performing engineering teams; manage hiring, performance, career development, and succession planning.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, QA, DevOps, Security, Data, and global engineering teams.
• Manage and communicate effectively with senior leadership and global stakeholders across different geographies.
• Drive engineering excellence through code quality, automation, CI/CD, observability, security, scalability, and operational reliability.
• Establish a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Identify technical risks and ensure timely resolution of complex engineering challenges.
• Translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Represent engineering in senior-level business and product discussions.

Technical Expectations

• Strong experience with Backend Engineering and Distributed Systems.
• Expertise in Java / Kotlin / Node.js / Python / similar backend technologies.
• Strong understanding of Microservices, REST APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, Kafka/message queues, databases, caching, and scalability.
• Experience with AWS / Azure / GCP and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong understanding of performance, reliability, security, observability, and production systems.
• Strong understanding and leadership experience across Android and/or iOS mobile engineering.
• Experience with Kotlin/Java, Swift/Objective-C, React Native or other modern mobile frameworks.
• Understanding of mobile architecture, SDKs, API integration, performance optimization, release management, and mobile security.
• Ability to drive technical decisions across mobile platforms while maintaining engineering quality and scalability.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Strong people management and engineering leadership experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate with CXO/VP/Senior Leadership.
• Strong experience managing global stakeholders and distributed engineering teams.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions in a matrixed organization.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to represent engineering confidently in leadership forums.
• Proven ability to build strong relationships across Product, Technology, Business, and Global teams.
• Experience managing ambiguity, competing priorities, and large-scale engineering programs.

Ideal Candidate

• 12–18 years of overall software engineering experience.
• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager / Group Engineering Manager.
• Strong combination of technical depth + people leadership + business understanding.
• Experience in a Global Product Company / Large Enterprise / GCC / Internet Product Organization.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary engineering teams across Backend and Mobile.
• Strong track record of delivering large-scale, customer-facing products.
• Excellent communicator, confident presenter, and strong executive presence.
• Should be comfortable working in a structured, process-driven global environment.

Why This Role?

• Opportunity to lead Backend + Mobile engineering for a global product.
• High visibility role with significant technical and people leadership ownership.
• Direct exposure to global engineering and product stakeholders.
• Opportunity to influence architecture, engineering culture, and product evolution at scale.