Company Description Altir is an innovation studio where Fortune 500 companies build like startups and startups scale to shape the future. Unlike traditional consultants or venture capital firms, Altir becomes an embedded partner, working directly with teams as business and funding partners, hiring managers, product leaders, and growth enablers. The team is made up of experienced entrepreneurs and technologists from leading global technology companies who have successfully built paradigm-shifting products and businesses.

Altir has systematized the launch and scale of transformational companies through curated knowledge resources, category-defining playbooks, and reusable technology components.

Joining

Altir means working in a disruptive, impact-focused environment designed to be an “unfair advantage” for the companies it supports.

Role Description The Engineering Manager at Altir will lead and mentor cross-functional software engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions for client and internal products. This full-time, hybrid role is based in Hyderabad, with flexibility for partial work-from-home, and requires close collaboration with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to translate strategic goals into technical roadmaps. Day-to-day responsibilities include overseeing software development lifecycles, coordinating integration efforts across systems, managing project timelines and priorities, and ensuring engineering best practices are followed.

The Engineering

Manager will drive technical decision-making, remove blockers, and foster a culture of innovation, ownership,



and continuous improvement. Additionally, the role involves contributing to hiring, onboarding, and performance reviews, while promoting inclusive and effective team communication.

Key Responsibilities :

- Strong hands-on 9+ experience in Java, Spring Boot, micro services architecture, and databases
- Experience working with cloud platforms and modern deployment environments
- Understanding of AI/ML concepts, LLMs, generative AI, or intelligent automation frameworks
- Ability to solve complex technical problems with a product-oriented mindset
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment
- Define and guide the architectural vision for cloud-native, SaaS, and REST-based applications.
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to design scalable, distributed systems.
- Translate business and customer requirements into robust technical designs and architecture specifications.
- Provide architectural leadership to backend and frontend teams operating across multiple time zones.
- Coach, mentor, and support engineering teams, including involvement in onboarding, performance discussions, and career development.




- Contribute to planning and drive technical delivery aligned with product and project goals.
- Participate actively in agile processes and ensure strong execution across multiple simultaneous projects.
- Make informed technical trade-off decisions while balancing competing priorities and constraints.
- Define and champion engineering best practices, development standards, and process improvements.
- Conduct architecture and code reviews, provide actionable feedback, and validate system API design, scalability, and reliability.
- Engage directly with clients to understand business problems and translate them into technical architecture and implementation plans.
- Lead or support proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives to validate recent tools, frameworks, or architectural approaches.
- • Ensure solutions align with security, performance, and cloud governance standards. • Support hiring efforts to build and scale high-performing engineering teams.

Nice to Have
- Experience with AI integrations, vector databases, or orchestration frameworks.
- Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, or event-driven systems.
- Familiarity with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, messaging systems, or workflow engine.

Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge enterprise products.
- Collaborative engineering culture with strong ownership and innovation.
- Exposure to modern technologies, cloud ecosystems, and scalable architectures.
- Fast-growing environment with meaningful technical challenges and career growth opportunities.

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📌 Engineering Manager (Hyderabad)
🏢 Altir
📍 Hyderabad