Engineering Manager

Were hiring an Engineering Manager for our Bangalore team someone who leads by doing, not just directing. This is a hands-on EM role: youll be deeply involved in technical decisions, architecture, and code, while also owning the health, growth, and output of your squad. Youll work within a small, product-aligned squad model typically one EM, one senior backend, one senior frontend, a QA, and a PM meaning your technical fingerprints are on everything the squad ships.

The right person for this role is equally comfortable reviewing a pull request, designing a system architecture, and running a 1:1. You care about clean, maintainable code. Youve started to explore how AI tooling can accelerate your teams output whether thats agentic workflows, LLM integrations, or AI-assisted development and youre curious about where its going. You thrive in a distributed, EU-hours environment and know how to build trust across timezones.

This is a full-time, onsite role based at our Bangalore office, working broadly aligned to EU/UK hours to collaborate effectively with our engineering teams in Portugal and across Europe.

What You ll Be Responsible For:

• Lead and mentor a backend-focused squad, driving technical quality, delivery velocity, and team wellbeing
• Stay hands-on with the Ruby on Rails codebase actively contributing to architecture decisions, code reviews, and complex feature development
• Own the technical architecture of your squad s domain: design scalable, maintainable backend systems on our Rails monolith and evolving microservices layer
• Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to translate roadmap priorities into clear technical plans with realistic timelines
• Champion engineering best practices testing, observability, security, and clean code and raise the bar across the team
• Identify and introduce AI-augmented workflows (agentic tooling, LLM integrations, AI-assisted development) to accelerate delivery and reduce toil
• Drive continuous improvement: own retrospectives, unblock your team, and create an environment where engineers grow fast
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other EMs and the Head of Engineering to improve engineering processes across the organisation

You Might Be a Good Fit If

• You have 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management or technical lead capacity
• You re deeply hands-on with Ruby on Rails this is not a managed from a distance role; you ll be in the code regularly
• You have strong architecture experience: you ve designed and evolved backend systems at scale, made hard tradeoffs, and owned the consequences
• You re comfortable working on a large Rails monolith and have opinions about how to evolve it sustainably
• You have exposure to agentic AI or LLM tooling whether in production, side projects, or active experimentation and can bring that thinking into the team
• You re a strong async communicator and can collaborate effectively with distributed teams across EU/India timezones
• You lead with empathy you know how to give direct feedback, run a good 1:1, and create psychological safety in a team
• Nice to have: experience with microservices, Kafka, or distributed systems in a high-volume SaaS environment
• Nice to have: prior experience working in a shipping, logistics, or eCommerce platform

If you re excited about this role but don t meet every requirement, we d still love to hear from you.

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