Role Profile: Engineering Manager - Software

Department: Software

Reports To: VP of Engineering

Location: Pune / Bangalore About Spiro Spiro is building the operating system for electric mobility across Africa - spanning battery swapping infrastructure, fleet operations, energy commerce, and CRM - live across nine markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, Togo, and Cameroon). Backed by $200+M in funding, we're working on top-notch, cutting-edge technology to solve problems at genuine IoT, fintech, and mobility scale - real-time data pipelines, connected hardware, and platforms that run physical infrastructure, not just dashboards. We build systems designed to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, and engineered for 99.999% uptime.

We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders to join us in Pune or Bangalore to help build this platform. This isn't a "big company problems, big company headcount" environment - you'll own systems end-to-end, with a bar for technical rigor set by experience at top product tech companies, but a working style built for a company still being built. The Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who has led high-performing teams at scale and wants to trade org-chart depth for real ownership. You'll run one or more core engineering teams - hiring, coaching, unblocking, and shipping - while staying close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls, owning your systems end-to-end.

What You'll Do

Own delivery and quality for your team(s) end-to-end,



balancing roadmap commitments against technical debt and platform reliability across our nine live markets.

Hire and grow engineers; run structured interview loops, write leveling rubrics, and build scorecards that raise the bar rather than just fill seats.

Partner with Architecture and Product to translate ambiguous business needs (e.g., new market launches, new hardware integrations) into scoped, sequenced engineering plans.

Drive engineering excellence: CI/CD health, DORA metrics, incident response quality, and on-call sustainability across systems built to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, engineered for 99.999% uptime.

Represent your team in OKR planning and hold it accountable to measurable outcomes (swap uptime, pipeline latency, deployment frequency, defect escape rate).

Be hands-on when it matters - reviewing designs, unblocking incidents, and occasionally writing code - without becoming a bottleneck.

What You Bring

8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years directly managing engineers, ideally at a top product tech company followed by high-growth startup experience.

Track record of shipping distributed, data-intensive,



or IoT-adjacent systems in production at meaningful scale.

Strong fundamentals in event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.

Demonstrated ability to build and run structured hiring processes, not just conduct interviews.

Comfort operating with incomplete information, thin support structures, and a "figure it out" mandate - this is a startup, not a division.

Strong written communication; you can turn ambiguity into a clear plan colleagues can execute against.

Nice to Have

Experience with emerging-market or multi-country infrastructure products.

Exposure to IoT messaging platforms, OTA firmware delivery, or fleet/telematics systems.

Experience managing globally distributed or hybrid teams Why Spiro Real infrastructure, real stakes: your systems run physical battery swap stations and vehicle fleets, not just dashboards. We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders - the technical bar of a top product tech company, without the bureaucracy - you'll make decisions and see them shipped in weeks, not quarters. A genuinely hard, genuinely interesting problem space: distributed IoT, real-time data at scale, multi-market operations, and emerging-market infrastructure constraints all at once, built on top-notch, modern technology.

Our Footprint: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, Togo, Cameroon. Spiro is an equal chance employer. We evaluate all candidates based on merit, without regard to race, gender, religion, nationality, or any other protected status.

📌 Engineering Manager - Software (Pune)
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