Engineering Manager at Cogo Freight · Mumbai, Gurugram · 7 - 10 years · ₹60L - ₹70L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 16 Aug 2022
Cogoport Story
Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?
Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.
The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.
Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR) by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.
Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.
Cogoport Leadership
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Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.
With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.
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Why Cogoport?
International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn. When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.
As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.
Areas of Impact for you
- Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
- Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
- Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
- Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
- Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
- Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
- Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
- Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
- Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
- Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
- Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
- Experience with Agile development.
Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.

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About the company
The client is the home base for hardware engineers. They give the teams building robots, rockets, medical devices, and the next generation of physical products a single place to move fast without breaking things, turning CAD chaos into a system of record engineers actually love to work in. We're profitable, post-Series A, and growing our Hyderabad engineering team.
About the role
We're looking for a tech lead to set the technical direction for a growing team and raise the bar for everyone around them. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll still write production code, but your largest impact comes through architecture, mentorship, and the standards you instill. You own outcomes for a team, not just your own commits.
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Technical Project Manager.
Run delivery for 15–25 backend, frontend, and AI engineers building construction
tech and CAD drawing-automation software — with structural engineers on one
side of you and the codebase on the other.
FULL-TIME
MANAGER · 7+ YRS
Engineering — Delivery & Program Management
TEAM YOU’LL RUN
15–25 engineers · Backend · Frontend · AI
LOCATION
India
EXPERIENCE
6–7 yrs min · 4+ yrs managing engineers
WORK MODE
Hybrid
DOMAIN
ENGAGEMENT
AEC · CAD / BIM automation · Multi-tenant SaaS
About BuildTwin
BuildTwin is a multi-tenant SaaS platform that runs the day-to-day operations of construction
and infrastructure companies — their workforce, projects, commercials, and documents — on a
single system. Alongside it we build an AI drawing-automation platform that turns structured
element data into production-ready technical drawings and exports them to PDF and DXF.
Both products are built by a small, senior engineering group in India: backend engineers on an
AWS serverless platform, frontend engineers on Angular and React, and AI engineers working
on drawing generation and data extraction. Sitting next to them — not in another building, not
in another timezone — are the structural and detailing engineers who define what a correct
drawing actually is.
That adjacency is our biggest advantage and our hardest coordination problem. This role exists
to make it work.
Role overview
We are hiring one Technical Project Manager to own delivery across our engineering teams in
Bengaluru. You will run 15–25 engineers across backend, frontend, and AI workstreams, and
you will be the person who turns requirements originating with our structural and detailing
engineers into scoped, sequenced, shipped software.
This is a technical role. You will not be handed a groomed backlog and asked to move cards
across it. You will sit in the design discussion and have a view on how and when — you will
push back on an approach that will not scale, ask why a trade-off was made, and know the
difference between a two-day change and a two-sprint one. You are not expected to write
production code. You are expected to read it, understand the system, and never be the least
informed person in a technical conversation you are chairing.
The centre of gravity of this job is the floor, not the calendar. Most of your day is
spent with the people building and the people specifying — closing the gap between what a
domain expert means and what an engineer can implement deterministically. Status
reporting is a by-product of doing that well, not the job itself.
What you’ll own.
Delivery ownership
Own the end-to-end delivery plan for every active workstream — scope, sequence,
dependencies, capacity, and dates that actually hold.
Break large, ambiguous product intent into engineering-sized increments with explicit
acceptance criteria, agreed with the people who will build them.
Run the operating cadence: planning, standups, refinement, demos, and retrospectives that
change something the following week.
Maintain one honest view of status — on track, at risk, slipped, and why — visible to the
founders and to the team at the same time.
Manage cross-team dependencies between backend, frontend, AI, and drawing-automation
workstreams so no team idles waiting on another.
Surface risk early, quantify it, and arrive with options — never an escalation without a
proposal.
Protect the team from thrash: absorb changing priorities, re-plan properly, and say no or not
now when a plan cannot take more.
Drive releases to genuinely done — QA, UAT with domain experts, documentation, and post
release verification included.
Own and improve the delivery metrics that matter: cycle time, predictability of committed
scope, defect escape rate, and rework.
Run the release calendar across two products so neither becomes the permanent second
priority.
Technical partnership
Participate substantively in technical discussions on design, sequencing, and trade-offs —
and hold your own with senior engineers.
Understand the architecture well enough to reason about blast radius: what a schema
change touches, why a migration is risky, why an API contract must be agreed before two
teams start.
Challenge estimates that look wrong in either direction, and recognise when an estimate is
uncertain because the problem is still unclear.
Translate technical constraints into decisions leadership can act on, and business constraints
into direction engineers can act on.
Keep testing, observability, and debt-reduction work on the plan instead of losing to features
every single quarter.
Insist that decisions get written down — architecture choices, drawing rules, API contracts,
and the reasoning behind each.
Stay close to the artefacts: read the tickets, the design docs, the PR titles, and the incident
write-ups.
Chair technical discussions where the outcome is a decision with an owner and a date, not a
longer discussion.
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
About the role
You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.
Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office
What you will do
Technology & product leadership
- Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
- Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
- Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.
Engineering & platform management
- Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
- Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
- Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.
Innovation & AI strategy
- Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
- Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
- Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
- Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
- Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.
Technical leadership
- A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
- Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
- Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
- Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.
What success looks like
- Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
- Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
- Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.
Qualifications & experience
- Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
- A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
- Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
- Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
- Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.
Technical expertise
- Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
- Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).
Behavioural & leadership competencies
- Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
- Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
- High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.









