Engineering Manager – Backend

Versatile / Hybrid (Mon–Fri)

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SolarSquare is building the infrastructure for India's clean energy transition. We're looking for an Engineering Manager who doesn't just run a team — someone who builds one from the ground up, makes consequential technical bets, and treats engineering outcomes as business outcomes .

You'll own the technical strategy and delivery for our full-stack platform, lead a growing team of SDE1–SDE3 engineers, and work directly with product, design, and business to shape what we build and how fast we build it. This is a role for someone who has operated in resource-constrained environments, shipped systems that held up under pressure, and left every team they've led measurably better than they found it.

Build, hire, and develop a high-performing full-stack engineering team including setting the bar for what 'high-performing' means at SolarSquare

Create genuine career growth paths for engineers.

Make and own technical bets: when to invest in platform, when to ship fast, when to pay down debt

Establish observability, reliability, and security standards before they become production fires

Translate business goals into engineering priorities and push back when the translation is wrong





Manage trade-offs between short-term product velocity and long-term engineering health

Communicate technical risk, cost, and complexity clearly to non-technical leadership

7–10 years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years leading teams.

- Proven experience with event-driven architecture and Kafka including schema design, consumer group management, and failure recovery patterns.
- Comfort with relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, ) databases including query optimisation and schema design decisions at scale.
- You understand what 99.99% uptime actually costs to maintain and you've made the infrastructure and on-call decisions to back it.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure beyond just deploying services, cost optimisation, right-sizing, architecture decisions that meaningfully reduced spend
- Working knowledge of containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) enough to unblock your team.
- Experience with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or equivalent and more importantly, a philosophy about what to instrument and why
- You've made the call between monolith and microservices and you can defend it with context.
- Flexible work setup, including hybrid options. Monday to Friday. Skills:- MongoDB, PostgreSQL and AWS

📌 Engineering Manager - Full Stack (Bengaluru)
🏢 SolarSquare Energy
📍 Bengaluru