This is a remote position. Shuru is a technology and AI-focused engineering company helping businesses build and scale high-impact digital products. We work with fast-growing organizations across fintech, eCommerce, data, AI, and product engineering, combining solid technical execution with a high-ownership culture. We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead a critical engineering area and manage a high-performing team of senior engineers. You will own delivery, technical direction, team development, and engineering excellence across multiple related product domains.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and mentor a team of 6–10 senior engineers, potentially across multiple squads.
• Own technical strategy, architecture, and delivery for complex engineering initiatives.
• Partner with Product and business stakeholders to align engineering priorities with business outcomes.
• Drive scalable, reliable, and high-performing system architecture.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, resource allocation, delivery risks, and technical trade-offs.
• Develop senior engineers and mentor future Engineering Managers and technical leaders.
• Drive hiring, performance management, succession planning, and team structure decisions.
• Balance feature delivery with technical debt, platform improvements, reliability, and scalability.
• Establish strong engineering practices around architecture, CI/CD, observability, quality, and operational excellence.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, accountability, experimentation,
and continuous improvement. Requirements
• 4+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including senior engineers.
• Strong experience delivering complex initiatives across multiple teams or product domains.
• Strong software engineering background with experience in technologies such as Java/Go, Kubernetes, Cloud Services, CI/CD, microservices, and messaging systems.
• Experience leading architecture discussions and influencing engineering strategy.
• Strong understanding of scalable distributed systems, APIs, reliability, and performance.
• Experience partnering closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders on roadmaps and prioritization.
• Proven ability to mentor senior engineers and develop future engineering leaders.
• Strong experience with Agile delivery and managing complex cross-functional dependencies.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making skills. Preferred Background
• Experience working in FinTech, Payments, Banking, eCommerce, or high-scale consumer technology products.
• Experience managing multiple squads or interconnected engineering domains.
• Experience building platforms or products serving large-scale user bases. Benefits
• Work on complex, high-impact engineering and product challenges.
• Lead experienced engineering teams with significant ownership and autonomy.
• Collaborate directly with senior product, technology, and business leaders.
• Remote-first working environment.
📌 Engineering Manager (India)
🏢 Shuru
📍 India