Job title
Software Development Manager
Company
Topdeta
Location
Pune, Maharashtra, India (Remote — Pune-based candidates preferred)
Workplace type
Remote
Employment type
Full-time
Job description
Topdeta builds hard, machine-verified coding and reasoning tasks — benchmarks, RL environments, RLVR datasets, and agentic evals — used by frontier AI labs to train and test their models. Every task is machine-verified, so a passing score is always real.
We're a startup working primarily with a distributed team of freelance/contract engineers. We're looking for a Software Development Manager to lead and coordinate this team, own delivery of our task-building pipeline, and help us scale a high-quality, reliable contributor base. You'll report directly to the founder.
Key Responsibilities
- 3+ years of software engineering experience, with practical understanding of software development and engineering workflows
- 2+ years of experience in a software engineering management, team lead, or people-management role
- Demonstrated experience managing engineers and owning team delivery,



performance, and day-to-day execution
- Strong managerial, organizational, communication, and people-management skills; able to lead a distributed team effectively
- Valuable technical understanding of software development, architecture, testing, Git, and development practices; hands-on coding is not the primary focus of this role
- Ability to understand technical discussions, review engineering work, ask the right questions, and make sound delivery and resource decisions
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills — especially async/written, given a distributed freelance team
- Ability to vet, mentor, motivate, and get the best out of freelance engineers quickly
- Experience with project planning, prioritization, performance management, and stakeholder coordination

Requirements
- Experience handling the end-to-end hiring process for software developers — defining requirements, sourcing, evalua

📌 Software Development Manager (India)
🏢 Topdeta
📍 India