Engineering Manager

Weekday AI

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 12 years

Location: Pune

JobType: full-time

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

Manage and lead a team of 5-10 engineers working across one or multiple product verticals.
Take full ownership of the end-to-end delivery of large-scale, impactful software projects.
Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, QA, and other key stakeholders to define and implement the product roadmap.
Engage in hands-on coding when necessary.
Ensure software systems are delivered on time, maintain high quality, and are scalable.
Conduct regular one-on-ones, establish goals, perform performance evaluations, and support team members’ career development.
Promote engineering excellence by leading code reviews, facilitating design discussions, and enforcing best practices.
Contribute to architectural decisions and provide technical guidance to the team.
Detect and resolve issues related to performance bottlenecks and system reliability.
Play a key role in recruitment, onboarding, and organizing the team to scale effectively.

Required Skills:

Over 12 years of overall experience in software development, including 3 to 5 years in engineering management or technical leadership roles.
Extensive experience with modern backend technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.
Practical experience designing distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native applications, particularly on AWS.
Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile/Scrum methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated success in building and mentoring high-performing engineering teams.

Java

Engineering Management

Kafka

Data Platform

Microservices

Spring Boot