Engineering Leadership

- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers.

- Foster an inclusive, cooperative, and high-performing engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

- Conduct regular one-to-one meetings, performance reviews, coaching sessions, and career development conversations.

- Support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and retention of engineering talent.

- Identify skill gaps within the team and create development opportunities through mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

Technical Leadership

- Provide technical leadership across the team's cloud-native applications, backend services, APIs, and event-driven systems.

- Collaborate with Architects and Senior Engineers to shape technical direction, solution design, and architectural decisions.

- Ensure engineering standards, coding practices, security principles, and software quality expectations are consistently applied.

- Remain technically engaged, contributing to design discussions, technical reviews, and engineering decision-making where appropriate.

- Encourage engineering best practices including testing, observability, maintainability, scalability, and secure software development.

Delivery & Execution

- Partner with Product Managers to translate business objectives into achievable engineering roadmaps and delivery plans.





- Ensure successful delivery of high-quality software through effective planning, prioritisation, estimation, and execution.

- Remove delivery blockers and help the team navigate technical and organisational challenges.

- Balance short-term business priorities with long-term technical sustainability and platform evolution.

- Monitor delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and technical debt, ensuring proactive communication with stakeholders.

Operational Excellence

- Support the design and evolution of scalable cloud-native applications that improve operational efficiency and enable business capabilities.

- Encourage the development of reusable backend services, event-driven architectures, and scalable system integrations.

- Drive continuous improvements across engineering processes, software quality, developer experience, and operational performance.

- Work closely with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to ensure applications are resilient, observable, secure, and operationally reliable.

- Promote a culture of learning through retrospectives, technical discussions, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Collaboration & Communication

- Build strong working relationships with Product Managers, Architects, Engineering Managers, and business stakeholders.

- Communicate engineering progress, technical risks, delivery updates, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.

- Foster effective collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams.

📌 Engineering Manager (Chennai Metropolitan Area)
🏢 WhiteSlips Job Management Consultants
📍 Chennai Metropolitan Area