Associate Engineering manager

Engineering Manager – Backend 

Location: Flexible / Hybrid (Mon–Fri)

Website: https://www.solarsquare.in

About the Role

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.

If you've only ever executed someone else's roadmap, this isn't the right fit. If you've ever built something from scratch and felt personally responsible for whether it worked.

What You'll Own

Team & Culture

• 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.
• Maintain team health, retention, and motivation through periods of rapid change and ambiguity

Technical Strategy

• Define and drive the architectural roadmap
• 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

Delivery

• Translate business goals into engineering priorities  and push back when the translation is wrong
• Set clear goals, metrics, and delivery expectations; hold yourself and the team accountable to them
• Manage trade-offs between short-term product velocity and long-term engineering health

Cross-Functional Influence

• Partner with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders  and influence decisions upstream.
• Communicate technical risk, cost, and complexity clearly to non-technical leadership
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What We're Looking For

• 7–10 years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years leading teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems design: idempotency, retries, DLQs, circuit breakers, eventual consistency, you've had to debug these in production.
• 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've designed or operated systems handling meaningful traffic  ideally 10K+ RPS. significant daily transaction volumes, or consumer-scale user bases (1M+ users)
• You understand what 99.99% uptime actually costs to maintain and you've made the infrastructure and on-call decisions to back it.
• You've written or enforced SLOs, SLAs, and incident management processes.
• You've done a postmortem that changed something real about how the team operates.
• 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.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership  you've built or significantly improved a pipeline.
• 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.
• You've managed technical debt consciously: triaged it, prioritised it, and made the case to stakeholders for when to pay it down
• You've navigated a hard conversation with a product or business stakeholder  and changed the outcome
• Your engineers grow under you. You can point to people you've promoted, coached, or unblocked
• You know how to build alignment across functions where incentives don't naturally align
• You have clear examples of decisions you made under ambiguity  and you can articulate the trade-offs you weighed
• You've identified a systemic problem and fixed it without being asked
• You've built or rebuilt something that wasn't working  a team, a process, a system

Work Arrangement

Flexible work setup, including hybrid options. Monday to Friday. Learn more about us at https://www.solarsquare.in.

Roles & Responsibilities

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who treats engineering management as a systems problem, not a career milestone.

You’ll lead engineers while staying close to the technical core—owning architecture, modeling decisions, and execution quality in a domain where correctness matters as much as velocity.

Technical & Product Ownership

• Build and evolve core platform features
• Design and ship APIs, services, and integrations that power billing automation, usage metering, invoicing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting.
• Model complex financial workflows
• Work deeply on pricing logic, proration, true-ups, multi-currency handling, approval workflows, and event-driven billing pipelines—where small decisions have long-term consequences.
• Make architectural trade-offs
• Balance “ship it now” against “live with it forever” while scaling systems that process high-volume usage data and real-time financial calculations.
• Stay technically fluent
• You won’t write code every day, but you’ll review PRs, catch subtle bugs, and guide design discussions with confidence.

Team Leadership & Management

• Lead and grow the engineering team
• Mentor and manage engineers across experience levels, setting clear expectations and raising the bar on ownership, execution, and quality.
• Create high-output systems
• Establish clear problem definitions, focused execution cycles, code reviews that actually catch issues, and enough slack for engineers to think—not just ship.
• Debug team dynamics like software
• Observe signals, form hypotheses, intervene deliberately, and measure outcomes—whether the issue is delivery, alignment, or collaboration.
• Build the team intentionally
• Design interviews that surface real problem-solving ability, not just pattern matching. At this stage, every hire shifts the average.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Finance, and Customer Success to translate real-world contract terms into correct, scalable systems
• Partner with stakeholders to solve ambiguous problems where requirements evolve and trade-offs are unavoidable
• Ensure systems remain accurate, auditable, and compliant as the product scales

Ideal Candidate

1Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

2Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

3Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

4Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

5Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

6Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

7Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

8Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

9Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

10Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

11Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

6

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

2

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

3

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

4

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

5

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

6

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

9

Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

10

Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

11

Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

2

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

3

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

4

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

5

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

6

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

7

Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

8

Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

9

Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

10

Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Management:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of backend developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Promote a shared vision for the team, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational objectives.
• Conduct performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and create opportunities for team members’ professional growth.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration between development teams, designers, and product managers to deliver seamless and high-quality software.

Technical Strategy and Execution:

• Define and drive architectural decisions for both backend and frontend systems,ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Advocate and implement best practices in software development, including coding standards, test-driven development (TDD), and peer code reviews.
• Encourage the adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-driven tools to optimize development and testing workflows.
• Provide technical direction on backend development using modern frameworks and languages, as well as frontend development using React, Angular, or Svelte.

Process and Quality Management:

• Ensure robust integration between backend APIs and frontend systems for seamless user experiences.
• Establish and enforce coding, testing, and deployment standards for both backend and frontend teams.
• Implement and optimize automated testing frameworks for backend and UI layers to ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Monitor system performance and application stability, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices for efficient and reliable delivery cycles.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Act as a bridge between engineering teams, business stakeholders, and leadership, ensuring effective communication and alignment.
• Translate complex business requirements into actionable technical solutions and guide teams through their implementation.
• Provide regular updates on progress, challenges, and innovations to stakeholders.

Innovation and Exploration:

• Stay updated on advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and integrate them into development and quality assurance workflows where applicable.
• Encourage the exploration of cutting-edge technologies, tools, and frameworks for both backend and frontend development.
• Champion the use of AI and machine learning tools for performance optimization, automated testing, and enhanced developer productivity.

Skills & Qualifications:

Must-Have Skills:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role.
• Strong technical background in backend technologies (e.g., Java, Spring Framework).
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker.
• Solid knowledge of Agile methodologies, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-powered tools into development workflows.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks for both backend (e.g., JUnit, Postman) and frontend (e.g., Playwright).
• Understanding of DevOps practices and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Exposure to AI/ML frameworks and libraries for enhancing application features and team efficiency.

What will you need to be successful in this role?

• Own end-to-end engineering and delivery for an organisation of ~150–200 people across client-deployed and product-owned engagements.
• Build and develop the leadership layer of Delivery Managers, Software Development Architects, and Solution Architects.
• Own P&L across all engagements – revenue, margin, cost, SOW governance, and contract negotiation.
• Own senior client relationships and lead governance forums (QBRs, steering committees) for top accounts.
• Drive engineering quality, technical standards, and engineer career development across the organisation.
• Establish the operating rhythm – weekly delivery review, monthly engineering review, quarterly client governance.
• Support pre-sales through estimates, proposals, and client pitches, and identify growth opportunities within accounts.
• 18+ years of total experience spanning engineering and delivery, with 5+ years in senior leadership.
• Proven track record running an organisation of 100+ engineers with direct P&L responsibility.

Good to have:

• Experience running both client-deployed (staff augmentation, embedded teams) and product-owned delivery models in one organisation.
• Technical awareness across Angular, React, .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to AI-enabled delivery (RAG, agentic systems, MCP, A2A).
• Hands-on familiarity with Jira Align, MS Project, or similar portfolio tooling.
• MBA or equivalent business qualification; relevant certifications a plus (PMP, PgMP, SAFe).

Competencies:

• Engineering leadership and technical depth – credible with architects and senior engineers on architecture and trade-offs.
• Strong commercial acumen across P&L ownership, contract governance, and margin management.
• Excellent communication (written, verbal, presentation), persuasion, and negotiation skills at executive level.
• Proven ability to coach and develop delivery managers, architects, and senior engineers as a manager-of-managers.
• Sound judgement under pressure, balancing multiple priorities and stakeholders.
• A proactive, can-do and can-think approach to organisational change and problem-solving.
• Excellent academic record – B.E./B.Tech CS/IT with MBA or M.S.

Location: Remote - India

Job Title: DevOps Manager

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: Pune

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Manager with strong hands-on technical expertise and leadership capabilities to manage cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, deployments, and platform reliability. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Shell Scripting, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Terraform, and production DevOps environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the DevOps engineering team.

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.

• Manage scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS / Azure / GCP.

• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration automation using Ansible.

• Manage Docker and Kubernetes based environments.

• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell/Bash Scripting and Python.

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.

• Handle production incidents, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and preventive actions.

• Drive infrastructure security, performance, scalability, and cloud cost optimization.

• Collaborate with Development, QA, Security, Architecture, and Delivery teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related roles.

• Strong hands-on experience in Shell / Bash Scripting.

• Experience with AWS / Azure / GCP cloud platforms.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.

• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

• Strong experience with Terraform and Ansible.

• Experience with Linux administration, Git, networking, IAM, and cloud security.

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.

• Strong troubleshooting, communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

• Python scripting experience.

• Cloud / Kubernetes / Terraform certifications.

• Experience with SRE, observability, high-availability architecture, and cloud cost optimization.

ROLE SUMMARY:

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting people, technical processes, and engineering execution to ensure projects are delivered as per scope, budget, and timelines.

This role includes developing detailed project plans and comprehensive technical documentation, managing project Engineers and their availability, measuring engineering performance, tracking progress, and communicating project status to clients and internal stakeholders. You will work directly with Solutions Architects, Tech Leads, and Engineering teams to evaluate technical trade-offs, drive system design feasibility, and unblock engineering bottlenecks.

You will be a reliable and crucial team member who can anticipate client needs and translate complex technical requirements into actionable project milestones.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be the point of contact for all stakeholders from initiation to closure and will be responsible for leading the technical delivery team to achieve project objectives. You will work towards balancing technical constraints, technical debt, and Engineer availability on the project. You will report project status to client and internal stakeholders, escalate technical and operational issues as needed, and perform risk management to identify and mitigate architectural and delivery risks while maintaining strong advocacy within your spheres of influence.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Technical Project Manager with 7+ years experience: Including minimum 3 years of IT (Mobile/Web) project management experience and a prior background as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, or Developer.

Strong expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

Must have handled end-to-end SDLC projects as a Technical Project Manager or Scrum Master.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE?

Handle a portfolio of technical projects and clients in parallel and across geographies.

Develop an execution plan for projects, release schedules, CI/CD milestones, and team allocation.

Partner with technical leads to review high-level system designs, break down complex requirements into epics and user stories, and challenge technical estimates effectively.

Maintain strong relationships with product delivery, engineering leads, sales teams, clients, and account managers.

Expertise in project estimation, planning, tracking, scope control, technical risk and issues management, as well as engineering status reporting.

GOOD TO HAVE:

Hands-on or architecture exposure to.NET/Java/AWS/Azure or microservices architectures.

PMP / PMI-ACP / CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) certification.

Jira/Confluence project management tools expertise, Git workflows, and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

COMPETENCIES:

Strong commitment to professional client service and engineering excellence.

Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation), persuasive, and negotiating skills—with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Encourage, motivate, and mentor team members on agile practices and technical ownership.

Proactive can-do and technical problem-solving approach to the job.

Regards

Sapical  is looking for an experienced Full Stack Technical Lead to provide technical leadership, engineering governance, delivery management, and people leadership across multiple software development projects.

The role combines hands-on full-stack technical expertise with project delivery and team management responsibilities. You will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of scalable, secure, and high-quality enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience across React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, APIs, integrations, cloud technologies, and microservices, along with proven experience leading engineering teams.

Experience Required

• 8+ years of overall software engineering experience
• At least 3 years of experience in a Technical Lead, Engineering Lead, or Delivery Lead role
• Experience managing teams of 10+ members
• Strong experience in full-stack application development and technical leadership

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical design, architecture reviews, and engineering governance across multiple projects.
• Provide technical oversight for React.js, Node.js, MongoDB, APIs, integrations, and cloud-based solutions.
• Manage multiple project streams, delivery plans, risks, dependencies, and resource allocation.
• Drive Agile delivery practices including sprint planning, estimation, tracking, and release management.
• Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
• Mentor development teams and support technical and professional growth.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders, business users, architects, QA, and DevOps teams.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular status reporting to leadership.
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and team development.
• Ensure successful delivery within agreed scope, schedule, quality, and budget expectations.

AI & Automation

• Drive the strategic adoption of AI and automation technologies across engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering productivity and delivery efficiency through AI and automation.
• Help reduce development effort and time-to-market through effective adoption of emerging technologies.

Technical Requirements

Frontend Technologies

• Strong hands-on experience with React.js
• JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript
• Modern JavaScript frameworks and state management libraries
• Experience building responsive and performance-optimized web applications

Backend Technologies

• Strong experience with Node.js
• Express.js and/or NestJS
• REST APIs and GraphQL
• Microservices architecture
• API integrations and enterprise application development

Databases

Experience with one or more of:

• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• MS-SQL

Cloud & DevOps

• Docker
• CI/CD pipelines
• AWS and/or Azure
• Monitoring and observability tools

Leadership & Delivery Competencies

• Project planning and delivery management
• Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Stakeholder management
• Risk and issue management
• Resource planning and team allocation
• Executive reporting and communication
• Team leadership and mentoring
• Continuous improvement and process governance

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale digital transformation projects
• Experience managing distributed teams
• Experience working in client-facing engagements

What Success Looks Like

• Successful delivery of multiple concurrent projects
• High customer and stakeholder satisfaction
• Strong engineering quality and governance
• Effective team leadership and retention
• Consistent adherence to project timelines and delivery commitments

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to take ownership of full-stack engineering and technical delivery, while leading teams and driving engineering excellence across enterprise projects.

You will play a key role in shaping technical solutions, improving engineering processes, mentoring teams, and driving the adoption of AI and automation across engineering.

Key Skills

React.js | Node.js | TypeScript | JavaScript | Express.js | NestJS | MongoDB | PostgreSQL | REST API | GraphQL | Microservices | Docker | CI/CD | AWS | Azure | Agile | Technical Leadership | Team Management | AI & Automation