Company Overview

Flipkart has defined the eCommerce industry in India and continues its leadership through its core value of putting “Customer First.” We are a team of individuals who value independence of thought, paving the way for disruptive innovation across technology, business, and operations.

Business Unit Overview: Flipkart Commerce Cloud (FCC)

Flipkart Commerce Cloud (FCC) is the global enterprise wing of Flipkart, providing AI-driven retail intelligence to international retailers. We offer a modular SaaS suite—including Marketplace technology, Retail Media platforms, and Pricing engines—built on Flipkart’s homegrown expertise in navigating complex markets. We empower global enterprises across the world to unlock high-margin revenue through scale-tested technology.

The Role

We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality-conscious, product thinkers, and business-cognizant—not mere coders.

In this role, you will own engineering the Retail Media ecosystem in Flipkart Commerce Cloud.

You will be expected to:

- Design and code independently across multiple tech components related to your functional area.
- Develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly.
- Actively mentor junior engineers and take ownership of the codebase quality.
- Amplify the impact of your work or creations with the scale that Flipkart operates at, which demands super-efficient solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Thought Leader for Tech and Domain

- Own the Retail Media functional area from product conceptualization to realization working with product teams.
- Drive Technical roadmap focusing more on phantomization, generic components and own tech metrics like product reliability, performance and availability.




- Tech Design and solution for well defined systems without supervision.
- "Go to” person within the team on the domain and the related concepts.
- Good understanding of partner eco-systems and interfaces.
- Familiar with academic research, industry trends and standards.

2. Lead By Example

- Leads across teams with cross functional stakeholders.
- Mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices.
- Has a strong impact in Senior Engineers hiring and improves hiring culture within the team.
- Accountable for Onboarding team members.

3. Be a Champion

- Breaks down into components, identifies dependencies, understands priorities, plans for iterations and feature creeps, provides accurate estimates that feed into the larger plan.
- Communicates with stakeholders in an effective and timely fashion. Capable of unblocking self and other teams whenever necessary.
- Finishes deliverables on time, ensures functional correctness and completeness. Contributes to non-functional aspects without supervision.
- Accountable for quality of deliverables and artifacts in adherence to defined processes for the entire team.
- Estimates cost of resources (including tech and non-tech resources).

Requirements

- Education: B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech or any other similar qualification.
- Experience: 11+ years of experience as a technology leader and people manager, with significant experience in Retail Media or Ad-Tech.
- Leadership: Experience of managing larger engineering teams and delivering high-quality projects on time.
- Coaching: Experience with building, developing and coaching teams that have some of the best technical talent in the Industry.
- Technical Depth: Deep understanding of technology and architecture in a highly scalable and available setup.
- Innovation: Experience with current open source technologies and their adoption into product development.

📌 Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Flipkart
📍 Bengaluru