Engineering Manager / Senior Engineering Manager (Product Engineering)

ABOUT OOLIO:

Oolio is a leading B2B SaaS platform transforming how hospitality venues operate and grow. Trusted by more than 22,000 venues, we power mission-critical POS, payments, online ordering, kiosks, loyalty, kitchen management, and real-time insights all within one connected ecosystem.

We are building the operating system for modern hospitality simplifying complex operations, accelerating service, and unlocking smarter, data-driven decisions. Built by hospitality professionals with decades of industry experience, we understand the realities of every shift, every service rush, and every guest interaction. From cafs and quick-service restaurants to pubs, multi-site groups, and stadiums, Oolio enables venues to operate seamlessly at scale. With next-business-day settlements, powerful third-party integrations, and 24/7 real human support, we go beyond software we become long-term partners in growth.

As a rapidly scaling product-led organisation, were shaping the future of hospitality technology.

We build the technology backbone that powers modern hospitality businesses to perform, compete, and thrive at scale.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

At Oolio, Engineering Managers/Senior Engineering Managers are builders first and leaders always. You will own the technical excellence, delivery quality, and growth of engineering teams building core B2B SaaS platforms at a scale-up stage. You will work closely with CTOs, CEOs, Product, and Business leaders to translate business strategy into robust, scalable engineering systems designed for growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Own end-to-end delivery of complex product features and platformsfrom architecture and design to deployment, observability, and customer impact.
2. Lead architecture and design discussions, driving best practices in event-driven, distributed, and scalable systems.
3. Hands-on technical leadership in Golang, Node.js and React ecosystems, including code reviews, design reviews, and critical problem solving.
4. Design and evolve event-driven architectures using async messaging, queues, streams, and pub/sub patterns to support high-scale, low-latency systems.
5. Build systems that scaleoptimize performance, throughput, reliability, and cost as the product and customer base grows.
6. Drive cloud-native and hybrid architectures, with experience across cloud(preferably AWS) deployments, based on customer and business needs.
7. Ensure strong engineering quality through automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, performance), CI/CD pipelines, and release best practices.
8. Own production excellencemonitoring, alerting, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement of system reliability.
9. Partner with Product and Business leaders to influence and execute product strategy, balancing speed, quality, and long-term technical health.
10. Actively mentor, coach, and grow Senior and Lead Engineers, running career growth conversations and building strong technical leaders.
11. Build and scale high-performing engineering teams, partnering closely with recruiting to hire top-tier engineers aligned with Oolios bar.
12. Translate business problems into technical solutions, ensuring engineering teams deeply understand the why behind what they build.
13. Demonstrate strong ownership and accountabilitythink beyond feature delivery to customer success, adoption, and business outcomes.
14. Drive engineering best practices across architecture, security, performance, documentation, and operational excellence.
15. Collaborate closely with the top management to understand long-term business goals and ensure engineering execution supports Oolio Groups vision.

REQUIREMENTS:

Role: Engineering Manager/Senior Engineering Manager - Final role will depend on candidate experience and credentials

Experience: 10 18 Years (with strong technical/hands on - 80% + people leadership - 20%)

Education: Pref - MCA/B.Tech/B.E/M.Tech/M.E/M.S

Technology Stack: Golang, Node.js, React, SQL, event-driven and distributed architecture, AWS, HLD, LLD, Application Design, Performance, Scalability, testing

Other Requirements:

1. Strong understanding of data consistency, concurrency, fault tolerance, and system design trade-offs
2. Proven track record of partnering with leadership to set product and engineering strategy
3. Actively coached engineers and helped them grow into senior and leadership roles
4. Strong sense of ownership and accountabilityend-to-end, not just code
5. Customer-obsessed mindset: developers using Oolios products must succeed
6. Comfortable operating in high-growth environments