Engineering Manager at BillTrim · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 3 - 7 years · ₹30L - ₹50L / yr (ESOP available) · Raised funding · Posted 11 Jan 2022
BillTrim uses ML + Human to negotiate and monitor all utility bills such as cable, internet, cell phone, electricity, auto insurance, etc
BillTrim negotiates a better rate and protects our customers from overpaying.
BillTrim is San Francisco-based growing startup funded by well-respected and proven investors.
Why work with us?
BillTrim is here to make history. We are passionate to solve problems.
We deeply care about our customers.
To work on something great, something big not average.
We do not compromise with quality. To make SAAS that customers will love and appreciate.
To witness crazy growth and take your career and take it to new heights.
We believe in one outstanding employee gets more done and costs less than two adequate employees.
Less is better, do not clutter unnecessary text, images, buttons, or even a line of code.
We follow Silicon Valley culture.
Personality traits to become a part of BillTrimmer's famiy:
Go to attitude
Tenacious and hungry to make a name
Willing to learn and adapt
Willing to work on weekends if need be
Filled with curiosity and not afraid to ask questions
Think independently and be open-minded to possibilities
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Why We Need You
Our current engineering team is growing fast and we’ll need leadership to support a focused team effort across a variety of projects and priorities.
We’re looking for someone who will help us with:
- Manage, mentor, and grow an extremely talented and energetic engineering team
- Define our engineering culture and process broadly as our first management hire
- Work closely with product and design in determining the strategy and direction of your team
- Define the development process of the team to create a constructive and efficient work environment
Your Role:
- Lead the development of APIs, customer/developer experience, and supporting systems
- Be actively involved in our long-term strategic direction, working closely with the CTO/co-founder
- Experience scaling teams and processes in a high growth environment
- Empower the team to achieve a high level of technical productivity
- A strong belief in high engineer agency, responsibility, and accountability
- Own the existing SCRUM & SPRINTS & make sure throughput and DEADLINES are me
- A compassionate but clear and focused approach to leadership
- Ability to ruthlessly prioritize in a chaotic and ambiguous environment
Experience that would help you succeed: (Note, we don't expect you to a spike in all aspects, but to grow there in time)
Growth-minded: You have a keen product sense and an exceptional track record for delivery, as well as examples of innovation and/or influential impact.
Experienced: You will develop our current team, hire additional team members, and empower each member to have an owner mentality within their role. You have a large task ahead and building a high-output team will be your top priority.
Driven: You have experience in the past that lends itself to being able to dive in on tactical problems, while also being able to scale with the company as the needs change.
Technical: You’re able to leverage a strong technical background and have hands-on experience in solving large and difficult technical problems, with the ability to make decisions swiftly and thoughtfully.
Apply only if the answer is yes to all of the following :
- 3+ years of Engineering Manager of team size 10-50 experience
- Proven ability to manage high complexity projects
- Motivated by a fast-paced, high impact environment
- Proactive and comfortable with ambiguity
- Well versed with Hiring as well as Firing
- HAVE worked in a B2C Startup for at least a year?
- CAN join in within 30-45 days?
Shubham Vishwakarma
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About BillTrim
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About BillTrim:
BillTrim uses ML + Human to negotiate and monitor all utility bills such as cable, internet, cell phone, electricity, auto insurance, etc
BillTrim negotiates a better rate and protects our customers from overpaying.
BillTrim is San Francisco-based growing startup funded by well-respected and proven investors.
Why work with us?
BillTrim is here to make history. We are passionate to solve problems.
We deeply care about our customers.
To work on something great, something big not average.
We do not compromise with quality. To make SAAS that customers will love and appreciate.
To witness crazy growth and take your career and take it to new heights.
We believe in one outstanding employee gets more done and costs less than two adequate employees.
Less is better, do not clutter unnecessary text, images, buttons, or even a line of code.
We follow Silicon Valley culture.
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Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and grow a team of engineers
- Own delivery, quality and technical decisions
- Work with product on roadmap and priorities
- Hire and onboard engineers
Requirements
- 7+ years in software engineering
- 2+ years managing engineering teams
- Strong system design skills
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This is not a coordination-only role. You will contribute technically while establishing the processes, accountability, and
operating rhythm needed for predictable delivery. You will manage multiple engineers and effectively use AI coding
agents and automation tools to improve the team's output without compromising quality.
Key Responsibilities
• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and reliability of our backend systems.
• Lead engineers through clear goals, task breakdowns, ownership, reviews, and regular feedback.
• Establish a process-oriented delivery system covering planning, estimation, execution, testing, release, and
retrospectives.
• Translate product requirements into technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable deliverables.
• Track execution proactively, identify delivery risks early, and communicate status clearly.
• Remain hands-on with critical development, debugging, architecture, code reviews, and production issues.
• Own CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, deployment practices, and operational readiness.
• Improve engineering quality through coding standards, automated testing, documentation, and review processes.
• Delegate work effectively across team members according to their strengths and development needs.
• Use AI coding agents and engineering automation to parallelise suitable work, while reviewing and validating all
outputs.
• Build a culture of accountability in which work has clear owners, acceptance criteria, deadlines, and definitions of
done.
• Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders to balance speed, scope, quality, and technical debt.
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• 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of experience leading or managing an engineering team.
• Strong hands-on backend development experience with modern backend technologies and frameworks.
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• Ability to manage multiple people and concurrent streams of work.• Experience reviewing architecture, pull requests, test plans, and production-readiness requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to give direct, constructive feedback and hold team members accountable.
• Sound judgement about when to build, delegate, automate, or reduce scope.
AI-Assisted Engineering
The ideal candidate should be comfortable incorporating AI into the software-development lifecycle. This includes:
• Breaking work into tasks that can be delegated safely to coding agents.
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Success in the First 90 Days
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