Walk-in | Technical Manager

Velankani Electronics; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Velankani Electronics in Bengaluru seeks an experienced embedded firmware lead to own sustaining and feature development for optical pluggable devices. You will guide three scrum teams, provide technical direction, and own delivery with stakeholders.

Responsibilities include end-to-end firmware delivery, planning the feature roadmap, leading sprint execution, and ensuring quality through code reviews, tests, and collaboration with test teams.

Qualifications

• Own end-to-end delivery of pluggable firmware areas including sustaining and new features.
• Plan and commit to the feature roadmap across three scrums with delivery ownership.
• Maintain quality through code reviews, unit/integration tests, and collaboration with test teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead three scrum teams and provide technical direction and delivery accountability.
• Manage embedded SW/FW engineering, issues, and firmware integrations.
• Ensure robust debugging, testing, and on-time feature delivery.

Skills

C++ (embedded/RTOS/Linux)

OO design & patterns

Python scripting

GenAI tooling

Tools

Git

Jira

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking a managed team to own sustaining and feature development for the firmware of Optical pluggable devices

Ownership: Scrum leadership across all three teams, technical direction, delivery ownership, stakeholder reporting.

Runs all more than one scrum; single point of accountability for delivery, planning and reporting. Hands-on technical + people/delivery lead

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Managing the Embedded SW/FW Engineering of the team

Scope & ownership

• Own end-to-end delivery of assigned pluggable firmware areas covering both sustaining (maintenance, defect fixing, customer-reported issues) and new feature development.
• Plan and commit to the feature roadmap for the assigned areas, and run sprint execution across all three scrums to those commitments.
• The techno-manager owns scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, progress reporting and is the single point of accountability to Nokia.
• Maintain quality code reviews, unit/integration test, and support for the test teams through issue reproduction and fixes.

Core skills required

Dev:

• Strong C++ in an embedded / device context, on multithreaded RTOS or embedded Linux (interrupts, device drivers, memory).
• Object-oriented design and design patterns; at least one scripting language (Python preferred).
• Version control (GIT) and bug tracking (JIRA); solid analytical and debugging skills.
• Domain exposure a strong plus: optical pluggables,CMIS, OTN, DSP / line configuration especially for the Senior Engineer and Techno Manager roles.
• Exposure to AI-assisted development and the AI-augmented SDLC — practical use of GenAI coding assistants and AI tooling across design, coding, testing and debugging. Role & responsibilities