Software Development Manager at A product development company · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 10 - 13 years · ₹50L - ₹60L / yr (ESOP available) · Posted 30 Jul 2021

· Lead an engineering group that comprises of Software development engineers.
· Report on status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to leadership
· Develop the long-term strategy for your solutions and translate that into an achievable road-map/action plan
· Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
· Management of staffing, mentoring, growing, and maintaining a best-of-class engineering team.

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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
About the Role
Pendo is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead teams building core product capabilities across Analytics, Guides, and Platform services. These are the systems that power how hundreds of millions of end users experience the software.
In this role, you will drive execution against business objectives, direct complex initiatives from kickoff through delivery, and build a team that operates with clarity and focus. You will set clear expectations, delegate effectively, and partner closely with product, design, and senior engineering leadership to keep teams aligned and moving. You default toward action, push teams to deliver value daily, and actively use AI tools as part of how you work.
If you're energized by directing high-impact teams, developing strong engineers, and building a culture where craft and velocity coexist, this role is a great fit.
What You'll Do
Team Leadership & Hiring
- Create an environment where engineers are encouraged to take risks, experiment, and challenge the status quo.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers through clear expectations, coaching, and timely feedback.
- Own hiring end-to-end, partnering with recruiting to attract and close top engineering talent.
- Build an inclusive, high-performing team culture grounded in ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Delivery & Execution
- Maintain a high bar for velocity, predictability, and quality.
- Own team execution against product and engineering goals.
- Partner with Product and Design to define roadmaps, scope work, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Identify and remove blockers, manage risks, and ensure strong planning and prioritization.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with product, design, infrastructure, and other engineering teams to deliver cohesive customer experiences.
- Align team priorities with broader organizational goals and strategy.
Operational Excellence
- Drive improvements in system reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Establish strong practices around monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
- 3+ years of experience managing and growing engineering teams.
- Proven track record of hiring and building high-performing teams.
- Experience delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives in a product-driven environment.
- Strong technical foundation in backend, distributed systems, or full-stack development.
- Proven ability to lead teams through ambiguity and change while maintaining execution.
- Actively uses AI tools in day-to-day work and helps drive adoption across teams.
- Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience working on analytics products, user-facing SaaS platforms, or data-intensive systems.
- Experience managing teams across both frontend and backend domains.
- Familiarity with modern cloud environments and scalable architectures.
- Experience working in distributed teams across multiple time zones.
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.
About us
EDMO is an AI-powered company that provides enrollment-centric solutions to universities,
colleges, and higher education institutions. By streamlining repetitive tasks—such as document verification, transcript evaluation, SOP/essay reviews, and applicant matching.
EDMO enables its clients to process student applications faster and more accurately. Its intelligent workflows
not only reduce administrative workload but also empower admission advisors to focus on personalized guidance and student engagement.
With features like AI-powered chatbots, Photo ID verification, GPA calculator, and transfer credit evaluation, EDMO ensures transparency and efficiency across the enrollment journey. Institutions using EDMO services report significant time savings, improved decision-making, and
enhanced student satisfaction.
At its core, EDMO is built to reimagine & streamline admissions—making them smarter, quicker, and more human-centric.
Website - https://goedmo.com/
Position Overview
We're seeking an exceptional Lead Software Engineer / Senior Tech Lead who can energize and guide a team of brilliant engineers while driving rapid, high-quality product development using AI and innovative technologies. The ideal candidate brings deep full-stack and backend
engineering expertise combined with strong leadership capability and a hands-on approach to architecture and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and mentor a team of 5–8 senior engineers across AI, Salesforce, and full-stack development
• Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions — including backend, API design, and system design — for EDMO's product portfolio
• Own and evolve backend architecture using Node.js / NestJS and front-end solutions in React or Angular
• Define and implement telemetry, observability, and monitoring standards (logging,tracing, alerting) across services
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical excellence
• Manage sprint planning, code reviews, and technical delivery timelines
• Collaborate closely with product management and design teams
• Guide technical hiring and team scaling decisions
• Ensure code quality, security, and performance standards
• Lead technical discussions with university clients and stakeholders
• Drive adoption of best practices, tools, and development methodologies
Required Qualifications
Experience & Leadership
• 8+ years of software development experience with 3+ years in technical leadership roles
• Must have: Proven track record of leading high-performing technical teams
• Must have: Experience energizing and motivating senior engineers to achieve exceptional results
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and DevOps practices
• Excellent communication skills with ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience with performance management, career development, and team building
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to make decisions under pressure
Technical Stack — Must Have
• Node.js and NestJS — production-grade backend services, microservices, and API design
• TypeScript — Good Have
• React or Angular — front-end development and component architecture
• Backend and system architecture — designing scalable, maintainable, distributed
systems
• Telemetry & monitoring — hands-on experience with logging frameworks, distributed tracing (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, or similar), and alerting pipelines
• Cloud platforms — GCP preferred; AWS or Azure acceptable
• Databases — PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or equivalent; Redis for caching/queuing
• CI/CD — GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or equivalent pipelines
Additional Technical Background
• Strong background across multiple domains: AI/ML integration, web development, cloud- native architecture• Microservices patterns, API gateway design, event-driven architectures
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in EdTech, SaaS, or B2B technology companies
• Background in AI/ML or emerging technologies
• Experience scaling engineering teams from startup to growth stage
• Knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem and integrations
• GCP certifications or demonstrated GCP production experience (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, GKE)
• Experience building and operating observability stacks (dashboards, SLOs, on-call runbooks)
• MBA or advanced degree in technology or business
• Track record of successful product launches and customer implementations
• Experience working with US-based clients and distributed teams
Leadership Philosophy We Seek
• Servant Leadership: Empowering team members to achieve their best work
• Technical Excellence: Setting high standards while maintaining development velocity
• Growth Mindset: Continuously learning and helping others grow
• Results-Oriented: Delivering measurable business outcomes through technology
• Cultural Builder: Creating an inclusive, innovative, and collaborative team environment
Growth Opportunities
• Path to VP of Engineering
• Opportunity to build and scale EDMO's India engineering organization
• Lead major strategic partnerships and technical initiatives
• Drive innovation in AI-powered educational technology
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)
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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






