Engineering Manager

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our growing offshore engineering team for a leading US-based client, in Bengaluru. You will own team deliverables end to end, manage team performance, strengthen the client relationship, and identify opportunities to grow the engagement.

Responsibilities:

Delivery Ownership

Own end-to-end delivery of team commitments planning, execution, quality, and timelines across sprints and releases.

Anticipate delivery risks and dependencies; proactively communicate status, escalations, and mitigation plans to client and internal stakeholders.

Team Leadership & Performance

Serve as the direct reporting manager for the offshore engineering team in Bengaluru.

Manage team performance: set goals, provide regular feedback, run performance reviews, and build growth plans for team members.

Client Relationship & Presence

Build trusted day-to-day relationships with client engineering leaders and product stakeholders.

Represent the team in client forums sprint reviews, roadmap discussions, and leadership check-ins.

Business Growth

Identify and shape opportunities to expand the engagement new workstreams, additional teams, or new capability areas.

Partner with account leadership on proposals, staffing plans, and account growth strategy.

Required Skills & Experience:

15+ years of overall software engineering experience, including 3+ years managing engineering teams.

Strong hands-on background in backend technologies, primarily Java and/or Python able to review designs, guide technical decisions, and engage credibly in technical discussions.

Good working exposure to the AWS stack (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB/RDS, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, CloudWatch) and cloud-native architectures.

Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or equivalent).

Solid conceptual understanding of agentic AI LLMs, AI agents, tool use, RAG, and related patterns sufficient to understand the teams work and hold informed discussions with the team and the client.

Proven experience in client-facing roles managing stakeholder expectations, status reporting, and escalations in an onsite/offshore delivery model.

Strong grasp of Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), estimation, and release planning.