• Role Overview
• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team building and operating Bidgely's cloud-native applications and services.
• Bridge technical execution and organizational leadership, ensuring scalable, reliable, and impactful product delivery.
• Requires strong technical expertise in backend development (Java, Python, Agentic AI) with frontend familiarity, plus leadership skills to inspire and manage the team.
• Serve as a "player-coach," stepping in to code, unblock deployments, decode legacy systems, and mentor engineers as needed.
• Proactively identify team needs and actions, rather than waiting for instruction.
• Report to the Head of Data Engineering.
• Responsibilities include leading and mentoring engineers across backend, frontend, GenAI, MLOps, and Data platform layers.
• Own end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives for Bidgely's cloud application stack.
• Drive technical strategy, architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Manage project delivery, sprint planning, roadmap execution, and stakeholder communication.
• Champion adoption of AI, LLM, and Agentic AI within products and engineering workflows.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Infrastructure, and QA to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, and psychological safety.
• Drive migration from legacy code (JAR/WAR) to containerized, cloud-native microservices.
• Manage workflows using Jira and Confluence for sprint hygiene and documentation.
• Combine deep technical engagement with people leadership.

Key Responsibilities
• Engineering Leadership & People Management
• Lead, manage, and grow a full stack engineering team focused on technical quality, ownership, and collaboration.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, give feedback, and create growth plans for team members.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, accountability, psychological safety, and learning.
• Recruit, interview, and onboard new engineering talent.
• Shield the team from distractions while aligning with business goals.
• Recognize technical achievements and enable engineers’ best work.
• Full Stack Technical Leadership
• Provide technical guidance across backend (Java, Python), frontend, APIs, and data layers.
• Drive architectural decisions for scalable, maintainable cloud-based systems.
• Enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing, documentation, peer review.
• Lead design reviews, ensuring solutions are performant, secure, and production-ready.
• Stay up to date with evolving full stack tech and evaluate new tools for the stack.
• Address technical debt strategically.
• Modernize legacy codebases and lead re-platforming to containerized AWS deployments.
• Enforce SOLID principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Conduct code reviews and provide senior-level support as required.
• Mentor both junior and senior engineers, bridging skill gaps and guiding problem-solving.
• Project & Delivery Management
• Own engineering project delivery from scoping to post-launch monitoring.




• Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and milestone tracking.
• Identify and resolve risks, dependencies, and blockers proactively.
• Maintain clear communication with leadership and stakeholders on delivery status.
• Improve delivery velocity through process optimization, automation, and tooling enhancements.
• Cloud-Native Application Development
• Guide development and operation of full stack applications on cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Ensure best practices in microservices, containerization, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Partner with Infrastructure for defining service contracts and operational standards.
• Drive observability: structured logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Ensure services meet reliability, scalability, and security standards.
• AI, LLM & Agentic AI Enablement
• Champion AI/LLM adoption in workflows: code generation, testing automation, productivity tools.
• Collaborate with Data Science and Product teams for LLM-powered product features.
• Guide responsible adoption of AI-assisted dev practices.
• Stay updated on generative AI, LLM frameworks (LangChain, Strands), Agentic AI architectures.
• Ensure engineering readiness for AI-powered product capabilities.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Serve as main engineering liaison with Product, Data Science, Design, QA, and Infrastructure teams.
• Participate in roadmap planning and provide engineering input for product decisions.
• Support customer-facing technical discussions.
• Collaborate with security on application-layer security standards.
• Engineering Execution & Tooling
• Own Jira and Confluence for sprint management and documentation.
• Ensure engineers have clear task and priority visibility and acceptance criteria.
• Drive continuous improvement via retrospectives, sprint reviews, and capacity planning. Success Metrics
• Team Health & Growth
• High team engagement, retention, and satisfaction levels.
• Growth plans for all engineers with measured progress.
• Effective, on-schedule hiring of top engineering talent.
• Engineering Delivery
• On-time, high-quality delivery of sprint and quarterly commitments.
• Reduction in escaped defects and production incidents.
• Improvement in lead time, cycle time, and deployment frequency.
• Technical Excellence
• Improvement in codebase health metrics (test coverage, code reviews, documentation).
• Adoption of AI/LLM-enabled development tools for improved productivity.
• Engineering systems meeting reliability, scalability, and security targets. Qualifications & Experience
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Education:
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering,



or related field (Master's a plus).
• Minimum 8 years software engineering experience, with 2–4 as Engineering Manager or Tech Lead Manager.
• Proficient as a full stack engineer: Java, Spring Boot, Spark, React JS, and Python (additional language experience a plus).
• Experience managing and growing engineering teams (5–15 engineers).
• Track record of delivering complex multi-team software projects.
• Cloud-native application experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong project management, Agile/Scrum, and stakeholder management skills.
• Preferred: Hands-on LLM API integration, agentic workflows, or AI/ML in product engineering.
• Preferred: Experience in regulated industries or enterprise SaaS.
• Proven ability to read/decode legacy codebases (JAR/WAR, monolithic) and lead migration to containerized microservices (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of event-driven and distributed systems, messaging, queuing, consistency, and fault tolerance.
• Highly motivated self-starter; fills process gaps proactively.
• Hands-on proficiency with Jira and Confluence for sprint ceremonies, backlog, and documentation standards.
• Technical & Domain Expertise
• Strong backend proficiency: Java (Spring Boot, microservices), Python (FastAPI, Flask, or equivalent).
• Solid frontend and API design skills (React, Angular, REST, GraphQL).
• Experience with cloud-native patterns: containerization, CI/CD, serverless architectures.
• Familiar with relational/NoSQL databases, data modeling, and optimization.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms, deployment models, and cost management.
• Understanding of software security, authentication/authorization, and OWASP best practices.
• Exposure to AI/ML and LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI API); agentic AI architectures is a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack).
• Experience with legacy Java app packaging, deployment, and migration to containers.
• Command of SOLID principles, design patterns (GoF), distributed architecture, message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and orchestration.
• Core Competencies
• Deep technical skill with leadership experience.
• People-first leadership, promoting growth and best work.
• Ownership of delivery, removing blockers proactively.
• AI & LLM fluency for engineering and product integration.
• Ability to translate technical complexity for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Growth mindset, continuous learning, comfortable with ambiguity. Why Join Bidgely?
• Shape the future of clean energy and sustainability.
• Work in a rapid-paced, diverse, cross-functional environment.
• Competitive pay, benefits, and growth opportunities.
• Make an impact at the intersection of AI, data, and climate tech. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity
• Bidgely values unique backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities to benefit the company, clients, and community.
• Commitment to an inclusive workplace where all can grow and contribute.

📌 Engineering Manager (India)
🏢 Bidgely
📍 India