Role: Engineering Manager Function: Engineering / Technology
Type: Full-time
Media Production, Broadcast Media, Online Media

One of India's largest private FM radio networks, reaching 40 million+ listeners weekly. It is the only private FM station broadcasting from Jammu & Kashmir, with an international presence in Singapore and Bhutan. Its digital platform extends the brand into curated lifestyle, music, and news content.
With a team of 740, the company moves fast and values local relevance across metro and non-metro India.

This role leads end-to-end engineering delivery for the company's digital products, owning backend and frontend engineering across a team of 7–8 engineers. The manager will be accountable for architectural decisions, engineering velocity, and the reliability of distributed systems that serve millions of listeners on the company's digital streaming platform and related products. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring both technical depth and the ability to grow and align a cross-functional engineering team.

Lead, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of 7–8 backend and frontend engineers, including hiring, performance management, and career development
Own architectural decisions for distributed backend systems and shared platform services supporting multiple digital products
Drive engineering best practices — code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, observability, incident response, and service reliability
Partner with product, design, and content teams to translate business requirements into engineering plans with clear timelines and milestones
Define and track engineering KPIs (uptime, latency, deployment frequency, error rates) and hold the team accountable to them




Collaborate with senior leadership on platform strategy, resource planning, and build-vs-buy decisions

7–8 years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management role leading backend and/or frontend teams

- Prior experience at high-scale B2C consumer product companies with large concurrent user bases
- Hands-on experience designing and scaling distributed backend systems with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs at consumer scale
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language — Go, Java, Node.js, or Python — used in production at scale
- Production experience with at least one major cloud provider: GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Hands-on experience deploying backend services using Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
- Robust command of data modeling, caching strategies, service decomposition, and microservices architecture in a consumer-facing product environment
- Demonstrated experience managing cross-functional engineering teams of 5+ engineers, including hiring and performance management

Experience architecting shared backend platforms supporting multiple products or business verticals
Prior experience in media, streaming, audio/video platforms, or content-heavy consumer applications
Familiarity with CDN architecture, adaptive streaming protocols, or real-time content delivery at scale
Opportunity to lead engineering for one of India's most recognized media brands, with direct impact on 40M+ weekly listeners
Ownership of a growing digital streaming platform at an inflection point in its product and engineering maturity
Onsite role in Delhi with a creative, fast-moving team deeply embedded in Indian culture and communities

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