Software Engineering, Manager

Webhosting; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Education Sponsorships

Flexi-leaves

Domain/WordPress sponsorship

Job summary

Newfold Digital is seeking an Engineering Manager who can lead high-performing teams, drive architecture decisions, and deliver AI-powered software with quality and reliability. You will mentor engineers, champion AI-first practices, and collaborate across Product, Design, DevOps, and Security to ship impactful features.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, people development, and modern software practices, including CI/CD, testing, and secure, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality software at scale.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical plans and architectures.
• Experience championing AI-first development practices across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team with a culture of ownership.
• Drive architecture, engineering excellence, and product delivery with AI-enabled tooling.
• Partner with product/design/DevOps to deliver high-impact features on time.
• Establish engineering standards, code quality, security, and reliability.
• Foster continuous learning and succession planning within the team.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture decisions

Mentorship

AI-first development

Delivery leadership

Tools

Java

PHP

Go

Python

Node.js

Kubernetes

Docker

APIs

Microservices

Kafka

Git

CI/CD

Jenkins

SPA/PWA

React Native

GTM

Hotjar

Figma

Sketch

Job description

Job Description

Overview:

Newfold Digital is seeking for a technically strong and hands-on Engineering Manager who can lead high-performing engineering teams while continuing to provide strong technical direction. The role combines people leadership, architecture, engineering excellence, product delivery, and AI-first development practices.

The ideal candidate is a strong technology leader who can translate business and product requirements into scalable technical solutions, make sound architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and drive teams toward high-quality and predictable delivery.

A key expectation of this role is to champion AI-first software development, enabling engineering teams to leverage AI across the development lifecycle while maintaining high standards of quality, security, reliability, and maintainability.

What You’ll Do & How You’ll Make Your Mark

Technical Leadership & Architecture

Provide strong technical leadership and direction across the engineering team, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to guide complex technical decisions.

Design, develop, and scale complex, high-performance systems using appropriate architectural patterns for both horizontal and vertical scalability.

Own and influence architectural decisions, technical strategy, technology choices, and engineering standards.

Translate product and business requirements into clear technical plans, architecture, milestones, and execution strategies.

Evaluate technical trade-offs across scalability, performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and time-to-market.

Identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, automation, and technology adoption.

Establish and champion AI-first software development practices across the engineering organization.

Drive the effective use of LLMs and AI-powered development tools across the software lifecycle – including requirements analysis, architecture, coding, code modernization, testing, debugging, documentation, code reviews, and knowledge discovery.

Establish engineering best practices for using AI while maintaining appropriate standards for code quality, security, privacy, reliability, and architectural integrity.

Identify opportunities to use AI and intelligent automation to significantly improve developer productivity, engineering velocity, and software quality.

Encourage experimentation with emerging AI technologies and help the team move successful experiments into reliable production solutions.

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers.

Establish a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous learning, technical excellence, and collaboration.

Provide regular technical and career mentorship and help engineers grow into increasingly larger responsibilities.

Participate in hiring, team building, performance management, and succession planning.

Create an environment where engineers are empowered to make decisions while maintaining strong technical and delivery standards.

Engineering Excellence & Delivery

Drive engineering teams toward predictable, high-quality delivery while maintaining a strong focus on quality, reliability, and customer impact.

Establish and continuously improve development practices around code quality, unit testing, automated testing, Git, CI/CD, code reviews, and release management.

Work effectively within Agile/Scrum development processes and continuously improve team execution.

Identify and remove technical, organizational, and process bottlenecks that impact engineering velocity.

Establish appropriate metrics and mechanisms to improve engineering productivity, quality, reliability, and delivery predictability.

Cross-Functional Leadership

Partner closely with Product, Design, Architecture, DevOps, Security, Data, and other engineering teams to deliver high-impact products and capabilities.

Communicate technical decisions, risks, dependencies, trade-offs, and delivery plans clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural and engineering investments.

Take ownership of ambiguous and complex problems and drive them to resolution.

Technical Expertise

Strong experience with modern web and software engineering technologies, including several of the following:

• Backend: Java, PHP, Go, Python, Node.js, or equivalent backend technologies
• Architecture: Distributed systems, scalable architectures, APIs, microservices, performance optimization, event-driven systems, and asynchronous processing using messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka or similar queueing technologies
• Engineering Practices: Unit testing, automated testing, Git, CI/CD, Jenkins
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, API Gateways, CDN, Service Workers, Elasticsearch, and related cloud-native technologies
• Frontend Architecture: SPAs and PWAs
• Mobile: React Native (good to have)
• Analytics: GTM, Hotjar, and similar product/customer analytics frameworks
• Design Collaboration: Familiarity with Figma, Sketch, or similar design tools is a plus

The candidate should demonstrate the ability to understand technology choices, evaluate trade-offs, learn rapidly, and guide teams across a broad technical landscape.

Why This Role Is Different

This is not a traditional people-management role. We are looking for an engineering leader who can operate at the intersection of technology, people, product, and AI.

You will be expected to:

Why You’ll Love Us

We’ve evolved; we provide three work environment scenarios

You can feel like a Newfolder in a work-from-home, hybrid, or work-from-the-office environment.

Work-life balance.

Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well.

We celebrate one another’s differences.

We’re proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees. We have 20 + affinity groups where you can network and connect with New folders globally.

We care about you.

At Newfold, taking care of our employees is our top priority. we make sure that cutting edge benefits are in place to for you.

• We have partnered with some of the best insurance providers to provide you excellent Health Insurance options
• Education/Certification Sponsorships to give you a chance to further your knowledge
• Flexi-leaves to take personal time off and much more
• Building a community one domain at a time, one employee at a time
• All our employees are eligible for a free domain and WordPress blog as we sponsor the domain registration costs

Where can we take you?

We’re fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with #teamnewfold!

#NetworkSolutions

This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.