Senior Engineering Manager

Good co India; India; Remote; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Good co India is seeking a seasoned engineering leader to oversee multiple software teams responsible for designing, developing, and operating scalable products and services. You will define the engineering strategy, set technical direction, and translate business goals into concrete plans.

You will collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Security, and SRE teams to deliver business outcomes, owning delivery while ensuring quality, reliability, and security.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience leading software engineering teams or large technical initiatives.
• Proven track record managing engineers, tech leads, or engineering managers.
• Strong background in system design, architecture, distributed systems, and scalable apps.
• Hands-on knowledge of Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript or equivalent languages.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple software teams responsible for scalable products and services.
• Define engineering strategy, technical direction, and long-term roadmaps.
• Translate business objectives into engineering plans with milestones and deliverables.
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, Security, SRE, and other teams to drive outcomes.
• Own engineering delivery with focus on quality, reliability, security, and performance.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/CE

M.Tech/MS/MCA/MBA advantageous

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple software engineering teams responsible for designing, developing, and operating scalable products and services.
• Define engineering strategy, technical direction, architecture standards, and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Translate business and product objectives into clear engineering plans, priorities, milestones, and deliverables.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, SRE, and other cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Own engineering delivery, ensuring high standards for quality, reliability, security, scalability, and performance.
• Drive architecture and system-design decisions for distributed, cloud-native, and high-scale applications.
• Establish and improve engineering processes, development methodologies, coding standards, testing practices, and release processes.
• Identify and address technical debt, architectural risks, scalability constraints, and operational challenges.
• Build a strong engineering organization through hiring, team structure, workforce planning, mentoring, and succession planning.
• Manage performance, career development, feedback, and growth of engineering managers and senior engineers.
• Establish engineering metrics and use data to monitor productivity, quality, reliability, delivery, and operational performance.
• Lead major technical initiatives, platform modernization, cloud adoption, migrations, and engineering transformation programs.
• Ensure effective incident management, root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, and continuous operational excellence.
• Manage engineering budgets, resources, vendors, and technology investments where applicable.
• Communicate technical strategy, risks, dependencies, progress, and business impact to senior leadership.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, innovation, engineering excellence, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in software engineering, with significant experience leading engineering teams or large technical initiatives.
• Proven experience managing engineers, technical leads, or engineering managers in a product or technology-driven organization.
• Strong software engineering background with hands-on understanding of system design, architecture, distributed systems, and scalable applications.
• Strong knowledge of modern technologies such as Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or equivalent programming languages.
• Experience with microservices, APIs, databases, messaging systems, cloud platforms, and containerized environments.
• Strong understanding of AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, DevOps, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, secure, and reliable production systems.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle, Agile/Scrum, engineering processes, testing, release management, and quality practices.
• Demonstrated ability to create technical roadmaps and translate business requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
• Experience managing technical debt, architecture evolution, engineering risks, and cross-team dependencies.
• Strong people-management skills, including hiring, performance management, mentoring, career development, and team building.
• Experience partnering with Product and business leadership to prioritize initiatives and balance technical and business requirements.
• Strong project and program-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and complex initiatives.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Strong data-driven approach to engineering metrics, operational performance, and decision-making.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline; M.Tech/MS/MCA/MBA is an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and technical levels and influence senior engineering and business stakeholders.