
At iDreamCareer, we’re on a mission to democratize career guidance for millions of young learners across India and beyond. Technology is at the heart of this mission — and we’re looking for an Engineering Manager who thrives in high-ownership environments, thinks with an enterprising mindset, and gets excited about solving problems that genuinely change lives.
This is not just a management role. It’s a chance to shape the product, scale the platform, influence the engineering culture, and lead a team that builds with heart and hustle.
As an Engineering Manager here, you will:
- Lead a talented team of engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture and development.
- Champion the use of AI/ML, LLM-driven features, and intelligent systems to elevate learner experience.
- Inspire a culture of high performance, clear thinking, and thoughtful engineering.
- Partner closely with product, design, and content teams to deliver delightful, meaningful user experiences.
- Bring structure, clarity, and energy to complex problem-solving.
- This role is ideal for someone who loves building, mentoring, scaling, and thinking several steps ahead.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Ownership
- Lead end-to-end development across backend, frontend, architecture, and infrastructure in partnership with product and design teams.
- Stay hands-on with the MERN stack, Python, and AI/ML technologies, while guiding and coaching a high-performance engineering team.
- Architect, develop, and maintain distributed microservices, event-driven systems, and robust APIs on AWS.
AI/ML Engineering
- Build and deploy AI-powered features, leveraging LLMs, RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector databases, and model evaluation frameworks.
- Drive prompt engineering, retrieval optimization, and continuous refinement of AI system performance.
- Champion the adoption of modern AI coding tools and emerging AI platforms to boost team productivity.
Cloud, Data, DevOps & Scaling
- Own deployments and auto-scaling on AWS (ECS, Lambda, CloudFront, SQS, SES, ELB, S3).
- Build and optimize real-time and batch data pipelines using BigQuery and other analytics tools.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for Dockerized applications, ensuring strong observability through Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, CloudWatch.
- Enforce best practices around security, code quality, testing, and system performance.
Collaboration & Delivery Excellence
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, and QA to deliver features with clarity, speed, and reliability.
- Drive agile rituals, ensure engineering predictability, and foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement
Required Skills & Experience
- 8–12 years of experience in full-stack or backend engineering with at least 5+ years leading engineering teams.
- Strong hands-on expertise in the MERN stack and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems.
- 5+ years building and scaling production-grade applications and distributed systems.
- 2+ years building and deploying AI/ML products — including training, tuning, integrating, and monitoring AI models in production.
- Practical experience with SQL, NoSQL, vector databases, embeddings, and production-grade RAG systems.
- Strong understanding of LLM prompt optimization, evaluation frameworks, and AI-driven system design.
- Hands-on with AI developer tools, automation utilities, and emerging AI productivity platforms.
Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.) and advanced tool-calling workflows.
- Experience building async workflows, schedulers, background jobs, and offline processing systems.
- Exposure to modern frontend testing frameworks, QA automation, and performance testing.

About iDreamCareercom
About
iDreamCareer is India’s most trusted Career Guidance company, working with leading pvt schools, CSR & govt and career counsellors, since 2012. We are the Technical Partner to CBSE for Career Guidance, and were the first Career Guidance company to feature on Shark Tank India.
BlueSpring is our private school program, while for govt school students, we implement PathShila, in partnership with CSR & other social impact bodies like the UN.
Both BlueSpring and PathShila have three foundational pillars - Process, People & Platform (PPP).
Process - refined over the last 13 years and is designed to be holistic and customised for each school / partner.
People - we manage iDC Council: India’s largest community of 550+ active certified career counselors. Today, our certification is accredited by Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.
Platform - iDC ONE is India’s most comprehensive Career Guidance tech platform, designed for students, counsellors & school management.
This PPP approach has enabled us to achieve the highest counseling efficacy in the Career Guidance ecosystem. And this is how we deliver a structured, unbiased, informed & empathetic career counselling for students.
At iDC, we do what we do so that ultimately, we can build a world where every child gets to have a joyful career & a meaningful life.
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Job Location : Bangalore
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