Senior Manager, Back-End Engineering

Coupang; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Coupang in Hyderabad, India seeks a Senior Manager, Back-End Engineering to lead and grow high-impact engineering teams. You will shape architectural direction for scalable, highly available services and partner with Product and Business to align growth and profitability goals.

The role emphasizes building a fast, reliable backend, mentoring managers, and driving Agile practices while delivering mission-critical projects in a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience of increasing responsibility leading engineering teams.
• 5+ years of experience in managing software development with hands-on architectural experience in delivering innovative products and mission critical systems.
• Demonstrated experience in creating a vision, influencing cross-functionally and driving a technology organization to meet ambitious goals.
• Experience leading global distributed teams, with exceptional abilities to attract, recruit, retain and scale a high-performance engineering organization.
• Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products services. Experience working in Java stack, AWS cloud and big data.
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. High on bias for action.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical direction to the engineering organizations and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable, extendable and fault-tolerant systems
• Hire experienced individual contributors to grow a high performance and impact-driven organization
• Be a thought leader and collaborate closely with Business, Product Engineering leaders to identify opportunities to drive business growth and improve efficiencies across various aspects of the business
• Drive mission critical projects in collaboration with various stakeholders and engineering leaders to solve complex business problems
• Dive deep to solve critical system issues. Ideally identify them before they happen and device plan to address them
• Foster a culture that continuously innovates through frequent product iterations (Agile/Scrum) and help the team develop their Agile practices further
• Drive and improve the operational excellence of your organization. Own definition, measurement, and reporting of operational metrics for your products services
• Develop, mentor, and coach managers and tech leaders on career development and professional growth

Skills

Engineering leadership

Software architecture

Cross-functional leadership

Global distributed teams

Java

AWS

Big data

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Java stack

AWS cloud

Big data

Job description

Job Summary

Senior Manager, Back-End Engineering, Hyderabad

In this role as a Senior Manager Engineering, you will help in building and developing teams, you will also support a rapidly growing business and ensure we are building highly available, reliable and extendable products. You will collaborate closely with Product Business peers to break tradeoffs between growth and profitability.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical direction to the engineering organizations and ensure that our engineers are working on building scalable, extendable and fault-tolerant systems
• Hire experienced individual contributors to grow a high performance and impact-driven organization
• Be a thought leader and collaborate closely with Business, Product Engineering leaders to identify opportunities to drive business growth and improve efficiencies across various aspects of the business
• Drive mission critical projects in collaboration with various stakeholders and engineering leaders to solve complex business problems
• Dive deep to solve critical system issues. Ideally identify them before they happen and device plan to address them
• Foster a culture that continuously innovates through frequent product iterations (Agile/Scrum) and help the team develop their Agile practices further
• Drive and improve the operational excellence of your organization. Own definition, measurement, and reporting of operational metrics for your products services
• Develop, mentor, and coach managers and tech leaders on career development and professional growth

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of industry experience of increasing responsibility leading engineering teams
• 5+ years of experience in managing software development with hands-on architectural experience in delivering innovative products and mission critical systems.
• Demonstrated experience in creating a vision, influencing cross-functionally and driving a technology organization to meet ambitious goals
• Experience leading global distributed teams, with exceptional abilities to attract, recruit, retain andscale a high-performance engineering organization
• Hands on technical skills in designing, building and delivering scalable and highly available products services. Experience working in Java stack, AWS cloud and big data
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. High on bias for action
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor/Master/PhD in Computer Science or Engineering, or related field

Working Model

• Hybrid - Our Hybrid work model: Coupang hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration that acts a catalyst to enrich the experience of employees. Employees are required to work at least 3 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 2 days a week, depending on the role requirement. Some businesses may require more time in office due to nature of work.