Sr. Engineering Manager in India at Jobgether
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Job Description
This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Sr. Engineering Manager in India.
This role sits at the intersection of engineering leadership, platform strategy, and site ownership within a globally distributed tech organization. You will lead multiple engineering teams responsible for building and maintaining mission-critical integrations that power enterprise customer experiences at scale. Beyond team management, you will shape technical direction, drive AI-first engineering practices, and ensure high reliability across complex distributed systems. You will also serve as the senior engineering leader in India, helping define local culture, hiring strategy, and organizational growth. This is a highly visible role that blends people leadership, technical credibility, and cross-functional influence. You will collaborate closely with product, design, customer-facing teams, and global engineering peers to deliver robust, scalable solutions that directly impact customer success and business growth.
In this role, you will lead engineering execution, people development, and technical strategy across multiple teams while ensuring strong alignment with global priorities and enterprise integration needs.
- Lead, mentor, and develop multiple engineering teams, including senior ICs and tech leads, while building a strong pipeline of future leaders and managers
- Own end-to-end team performance including delivery predictability, reliability, quality, incident response, and engineering engagement
- Define and drive technical strategy for critical integration systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Guide architectural decisions and participate in design reviews, ensuring consistency across distributed systems and APIs
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Sales, Support, and Customer Success to align technical execution with business and customer needs
- Drive AI-first engineering practices by embedding AI tools into development workflows, system design, testing, and operational processes
- Act as the senior engineering leader in India, shaping hiring strategy, culture, onboarding, and organizational development
- Oversee operational excellence, including incident escalation, system reliability, and continuous improvement of engineering processes
The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering leader with strong technical depth, proven people leadership skills, and the ability to operate in complex, distributed environments.
- 7+ years of engineering experience with 4+ years in engineering management, including multi-team or manager-of-managers scope
- Strong background in leading high-performing engineering teams in complex, distributed systems or integration-heavy environments
- Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain senior and staff-level engineers while scaling teams effectively
- Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, APIs, authentication, and system design principles
- Hands-on experience contributing to architecture discussions, design reviews, and occasionally production code
- Demonstrated success in driving engineering performance using metrics such as delivery speed, quality, reliability, and engagement
- Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional partners including Product, Design, and GTM teams
- Strong communication and storytelling skills with the ability to align technical and business stakeholders
- Deep familiarity with AI-driven engineering workflows and modern developer productivity tools
- Customer-centric mindset with experience improving product reliability and user-facing integration systems
- Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives
- Fully remote-first work environment with global collaboration opportunities
- Flexible working hours supporting work-life balance
- Comprehensive health coverage (varies by region)
- Equity/stock participation opportunities (based on role eligibility)
- Strong learning and development culture with leadership growth opportunities
- Opportunity to lead and shape a high-impact engineering site in India
- Access to AI-first tooling and cutting-edge engineering practices
- Inclusive, distributed team culture focused on autonomy and ownership
- Opportunities to work on large-scale enterprise integrations used globally