Engineering Manager

This position is exclusively only for Candidates-

1. Who have 7 plus years of experience in Product/ Tech companies
2. Who are willing to work 5 days a week from our Pune office

CVs shall be rejected if any of the above criteria are not met.

About the Role:

Were looking for a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead and mentor a high-performing scrum team within the OneXtel Engineering organization. Youll be responsible for building and scaling our omni-channel messaging platformcovering SMS, Email, Voice, and Social engineered to handle billions of transactions daily.

Youll bring deep technical expertise, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to drive excellence in engineering practices, delivery, and team culture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a scrum team delivering highly scalable, reliable, and high-performance messaging systems.
• Own the full product development lifecycle for your teamfrom design to deployment to support.
• Work closely with business and product teams to align delivery with business goals and customer needs.
• Define and measure engineering quality metrics, ensuring the team meets standards for performance, scalability, and code quality.
• Champion engineering best practices: agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, and strong documentation.
• Contribute to solution and subsystem architecture decisions, ensuring modularity, reuse, and maintainability.
• Conduct design and code reviews, guiding the team toward robust, clean, and efficient solutions.
• Manage team performance, career growth, hiring & building a motivated, high-caliber engineering group.
• Drive operational excellence and customer satisfaction through on-time delivery within cost and quality expectations.
• Lead POCs, benchmarking, and technical evaluations to support innovation and continuous improvement.
• Own production issues and drive quick, effective resolutions.
• Ensure engineering processes, version control, release management, QA are followed rigorously.
• Drive strategic initiatives like productivity, automation, and process optimization.

Skills Set:

• 7-12 years of experience in software development, with at least 5 to 3 years in a technical managerial or team leadership role.
• Deep, hands-on experience in designing and delivering scalable systems in Java/Spring.
• Solid understanding of message-oriented middleware and PostgreSQL.
• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge of functional programming and Erlang is a plus.
• Deep understanding of:
• Internet protocols (from application to physical layer)
• Virtual machine architecture
• REST API design
• Single-page applications
• Socket-level programming, TCP/IP protocol
• Strong exposure to Agile delivery, TDD, CI/CD, QA lifecycle, JIRA, and GitHub.

Desired skills:

• Erlang/Elixir
• SMPP Understanding

Education:

• Bachelors in Computer Science &/or Engineering.
• 5-8 years of solid experience in one or more elements of the above-mentioned tech stack.

Why Join Us:

1. Group Mediclaim Insurance floater policy for self, spouse and 2 dependent children
2. Group Personal Accident Insurance policy for self
3. Employee friendly leave policy - 30 leaves in a year - 18 Earned Leaves and 12 casual leaves, maternity and adoption leave, compassionate leave and advance leaves for medical exigency, self-wedding, or higher education.
4. 11 Annual Company Paid Holidays over and above leaves provided.
5. Mental Health & Wellness Support (EAP, Counselling sessions)
6. Employee referral scheme
7. Internal job mobility & career progression opportunities
8. Inclusive and collaborative work culture - culture that values innovation, ownership and work-life balance.
9. Flat hierarchy and open-door policy
10. Equal opportunity employer