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Job Purpose Engineering Manager role entails 2/3rd SDE 3 Engineer and 1/3rd Engineering Manager responsibilities. Overseeing designs, enforcing engineering best practices, ensuring compliance, managing development, maintaining technical quality, and handling deployment, rollout, and engineering support.Key Accountabilities & Support Actions • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Engaging in stakeholder communication, aligning roadmaps, and managing resource allocation to meet business objectives. • Strategic Contributions: Shaping the technical vision and managing the team’s OKRs to drive impactful outcomes. • Capability Management and Leadership: Hiring, mentoring, and retaining top talent while fostering team growth and performance. • Culture Building: Cultivating a dynamic, fast-paced environment that promotes energy, hustle, and innovation. Technology strategy and design • Know the domain/ business: Stay on top of business process, customer value prop and technology enablement for respective domains • Technology strategy and plan: Stay on top of technology objectives, architecture paradigms, engineering and best practices • Technology ways of working: Ensure adoption of engineering best practices • Technology Ownership: Own design and development systems to ensure seamless functionality. Technology delivery • Own delivery of functionality, system integration, usability and NFR • Own techno-functional design, code quality, flexible/ modular design and rules driven behavior • Directly responsible for quality roll out, production support and stabilization • Collaborate with cross functional teams Technology team building • Train and mentor junior engineers and peer • Contribute with hiring and culture buildingQualifications & SkillsEducation & Background • Bachelor of Engineering, preferably in computer science and related streams • Software Engineering with 10+ years of experience • Experience in leading engineering teams and initiatives. Technology • Strong experience in hands on software engineering for business applications • Deep understanding of engineering principles, system design, and development workflows. • Ability to guide and evaluate technical decisions. • Dexterity to quickly pick up and work on multiple languages and tech stacks • Clarity of thinking and detail orientation • Agile, flexible, resourceful mindset along with a best practices and safe deployment approach • Experience in digital commerce and retail • Preference for experience in tech start-up (small company) Leadership and People Skills • Strong communication, conflict resolution, and motivational skills.• • Ability to build trust and nurture talent. • Experience in hiring Project Management • Proficient in managing timelines, resources, and stakeholder expectations. • Capable of pivoting between technical and non-technical responsibilities.