Associate Engineering Manager

Role: Associate Engineering Manager

Location: India (Delhi, Hybrid)

Experience: 711+ years

Role Summary

We are hiring an Associate Engineering Manager to scale engineering execution, code quality, and people leadership across teams at ThrivePass. This role focuses on delivery predictability, engineering standards, and Team Lead growth, enabling senior engineering leadership to operate strategically.

This is a leadership role with selective technical involvement, centered on outcomes, standards, and team maturity rather than day-to-day coding.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Execution & Delivery

• Govern delivery of priority initiatives across projects.
• Ensure consistent sprint and SDLC execution.
• Identify risks early and drive corrective actions with Team Leads.
• Act as an escalation point when execution or commitments break down.
• Define, track, and improve delivery KPIs related to speed, reliability, and predictability; proactively suggest metrics to measure execution health.

Code Quality & Standards

• Own org-level code quality tracking and PR discipline.
• Enforce engineering standards and policies.
• Reduce recurring defects, regressions, and avoidable incidents.
• Partner with Team Leads to close quality and process gaps.
• Own root-cause analysis for major incidents and ensure preventive actions are implemented and tracked to closure.

Technical Guidance (Selective)

• Participate in critical code reviews and design discussions.
• Guide technical trade-offs and technical debt decisions.
• Drive execution of leadership initiatives to completion.
• Ensure long-term maintainability and operational stability.

People Leadership

• Manage Team Leads
• Run independent 1:1s, performance feedback, and improvement plans.
• Conduct people gap analysis and drive upskilling.
• Recommend promotions, role changes, and people risk analysis with clear justification.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Act as an escalation point across Engineering, Product, and Ops.
• Coach Team Leads to push back on unclear or inadequate requirements.
• Escalate risks and alignment issues when needed.
• Communicate clearly with Product and business stakeholders to understand requirements, articulate trade-offs, and align on execution outcomes.

What This Role Is Not

• Not a ticket or Jira manager
• Not a feature-level IC role
• Not a proxy Product Manager
• Not a UAT or release coordinator

Required Experience

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Prior experience as Tech Lead, Module Lead, or Acting Engineering Manager.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, sprint execution, and delivery governance.
• Proven ability to raise code quality and engineering standards.
• Experience managing senior engineers or Team Leads.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage business and product teams, clarify requirements, and communicate execution risks early.

Technical Background:

• Backend or full-stack experience (C#/.NET, Angular, SQL preferred), with comfort reviewing code and guiding design decisions.