This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 6500000 - Rs 9000000 (ie INR 65 - 90 LPA)
Min Experience: 11+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time
Interview Availability: Candidates should be available for an in-person interview at the Bangalore office on 12th / 13th / 14th.
Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Manager Engineering – Backend who combines strong engineering leadership with deep hands-on technical expertise. The ideal candidate will lead from the codebase, taking ownership of architecture, production systems, engineering quality, and team development rather than operating solely through meetings and delegation.
You will lead and grow a high-performing backend engineering team while remaining technically involved in designing and developing scalable, reliable backend systems. The role will also involve integrating Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities into contemporary enterprise products, with a strong focus on production-grade engineering, distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native architectures.




Key ResponsibilitiesBackend Architecture & Technical Leadership
Design and develop scalable, highly available, and maintainable backend systems and services.
Own end-to-end backend architecture, including APIs, microservices, data flows, integrations, and production infrastructure.
Make pragmatic technology and architecture decisions based on scalability, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
Remain hands-on with production development and contribute code to critical systems.
Conduct detailed code and architecture reviews and establish strong engineering standards.
Identify and prioritize technical debt, performance improvements, reliability initiatives, and engineering risks.
Drive system design, API design, distributed systems architecture, and production engineering practices.
GenAI & Agentic AI Integration
Lead the development and integration of Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities into backend produ

📌 Senior Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Bengaluru