We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team in India supporting customer-facing Store systems for 7-Eleven. This role will manage a team of engineers building and enhancing retail and restaurant technology solutions using Java, SpringBoot, Node.js, JavaScript, React, React Native, and Azure cloud services. The ideal candidate will be responsible for people leadership, technical delivery, execution discipline, and strong collaboration with Product, Architecture, QA, and business stakeholders.

This person should be comfortable operating in a structured delivery environment, driving predictable outcomes, and ensuring high-quality releases for mission-critical store systems.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership &

- Delivery

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Lead and manage the software engineering team in India for store back-office and operations-related technology initiatives.

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Partner closely with engineering and product teams to align priorities, timelines, dependencies, and release plans.

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Drive sprint planning, task allocation, execution tracking, and overall delivery accountability for engineering workstreams.

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Establish a strong engineering culture focused on quality, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

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Coach and mentor engineers through regular feedback, career development, and technical guidance.

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Ensure the team delivers in a structured, predictable, and measurable manner.

Technical Oversight

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Provide technical leadership for applications built with Java, SpringBoot, Node.js, JavaScript, React, and React Native.

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Bring extensive experience architecting solutions on Azure;

experience with other cloud platforms is a plus.

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Demonstrate experience designing large-scale distributed systems and Node.js microservices with solid REST and asynchronous integration patterns.

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Bring experience with structured and unstructured databases

- MongoDB experience is a plus.

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Review architecture, design decisions, and implementation approaches to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.

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Support end-to-end feature delivery, including requirements clarification, technical notes, development, integration, testing,



and release readiness.

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Demonstrate deep understanding of design patterns, SOLID, DDD, and event-driven architectures, with sound trade-off decisions (stateful vs. stateless, synchronous vs. asynchronous, caching).

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Apply sound data modeling and database design practices across structured and unstructured data stores.

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Bring experience with micro-frontend architectures (e.g., Single-SPA) and cross-team UI composition.

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Balance technical debt, scalability, cost, and time-to-market using metrics-driven decisions.

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Oversee offline tolerance, resilience, error handling, retries, and client-side performance for kiosk/POS workflows.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

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Act as a primary engineering point of contact for product and business stakeholders.

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Work effectively across time zones with global teams to provide status updates, raise risks early, and drive issue resolution.

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Translate business and product requirements into clear engineering execution plans.

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Ensure implementation aligns with intended store associate and customer workflows in retail and restaurant environments.

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Facilitate strong communication across teams to reduce ambiguity and improve execution speed.

Engineering Quality &

- Operations

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Drive coding standards, peer reviews, test coverage, and adherence to SDLC processes.

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Ensure baseline coverage across unit and integration tests where applicable.

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Support CI/CD practices and ensure all changes meet acceptance criteria before release.

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Monitor delivery risks and production issues, and support release stabilization activities.

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Promote operational readiness and production support discipline for customer-facing applications.

AI-Assisted Development

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Encourage responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools such as Windsurf to improve developer productivity.

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Ensure AI-generated code is validated for correctness, security, maintainability, and alignment with enterprise standards.

Required Qualifications

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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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12+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years in engineering leadership or team management.

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Experience managing software development teams and working closely with global stakeholders.

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Hands-on technical background in Java and SpringBoot, with modern application development practices.

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Strong understanding of frontend and mobile technologies, including React, React Native, Node.js, JavaScript, and Azure.

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Experience delivering production-grade, customer-facing applications in a structured SDLC environment.

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Solid understanding of REST API integration, client-side architecture, performance optimization, and error handling.

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Experience with Agile delivery, sprint planning, code reviews, testing, release management, and production support.

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Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate status, risks, and dependencies across global teams.

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Proven ability to manage ambiguity, drive clarity, and deliver reliably within established processes.

Preferred Skills &

- Experience

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Experience in retail, restaurant, POS, kiosk, or store technology platforms.

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Strong experience with the following technologies and capabilities:

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Java

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Node.js

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JavaScript/TypeScript

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React (web)

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React Native

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Azure

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Streaming services

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MongoDB (good to have)

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Experience supporting applications with offline workflows, local persistence, and kiosk resilience needs.

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Familiarity with enterprise architecture, security, and compliance expectations for store systems.

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Experience collaborating with Product, Design, Backend, QA, and business operations teams.

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Practical experience using AI coding tools such as Windsurf in an enterprise development settings

📌 Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Eleven
📍 Bengaluru