Technical Manager

Job Title: Technical Manager

Company: Sureify

Location: Hyderabad

About Sureify

Sureify is dedicated to modernizing the life insurance and annuity industry. We provide

cutting-edge digital solutions that empower insurers to easily engage with, sell to, and service

their customers. Our mission is to drive meaningful digital transformation by offering scalable

technology that enhances customer engagement and streamlines carrier operations. Sureify's

products deliver the advanced digital experiences that life insurance carriers, agents,

employees, and consumers now expect in this rapidly evolving technological landscape. At

Sureify, we cultivate a culture that prioritizes innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and highly-skilled Technical Manager who is responsible for

end-to-end delivery of software projects while also leading, mentoring, and managing

engineering teams. This role bridges technical execution, delivery management, and people

leadership to ensure high-quality, scalable solutions are delivered on time and teams continue to

grow and perform at their best.

What We Look For

We are interested in self-motivated individuals who can easily function in a high-demand,

performance-driven environment. In addition, we are looking for individuals who recognise the

team's accomplishments before their own and are sought after as people developers. If you are

passionate about problem-solving and helping our customers with some of their most complex

issues, this role is for you.

Key Requirements & Responsibilities:

1. Project & Delivery Management

Own end-to-end delivery of multiple software projects, from planning through execution

and release.

Manage Project scope and milestones effectively

Project estimations, assessing resource needs and allocation

Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget

Identify and mitigate delivery risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks

Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, QA, and other stakeholders to align

delivery with business goals

Track and report project progress, metrics, and outcomes to leadership

Ensure adherence to engineering best practices, SDLC processes, and quality

standards

2. Technical Leadership

Provide technical guidance and decision-making across projects

Review system designs, architecture, and key technical solutions

Ensure code quality through reviews, standards, and best practices

Support teams in resolving complex technical challenges

Drive adoption of modern tools, frameworks, and engineering practices

Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term technical scalability

3. People Management & Team Leadership

Lead and manage a team of software engineers and/or technical leads

Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development discussions

Set clear goals, expectations, and development plans for team members

Mentor and coach engineers to improve technical and professional skills

Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and inclusive team culture

Support hiring, onboarding, and team capacity planning

Address performance issues constructively and proactively

4. Stakeholder & Communication Management

Act as a primary point of contact for delivery-related communication

Translate business requirements into actionable technical plans

Communicate risks, trade-offs, and progress clearly to non-technical stakeholders

Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, UX, DevOps, QA, Support)

Required Skills & Qualifications

Overall 12+ years of Industry experience and a minimum of 4+ years of experience as

Technical Manager,

Strong Experience developing production code using TypeScript, Go-Lang, PHP, React,

Node JS. Expertise in a few of these technologies is mandatory.

Experience developing SaaS applications that run on top of AWS (and familiarity with

S3, EKS, RDS, EC2)

Familiarity with Docker

Experience with CI/CD tooling

Collaborate on complex customer requirements with internal and external stakeholders

Contribute towards the design of a specific customer implementation over the

development lifecycle, with a particular focus on delivery components

A desire to work with engineers to develop their test-driven development practice

A firm understanding of object-oriented design or functional programming, as well as

common data structures and algorithms

Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross

cross-functional team

Experience working with 3rd party software integrations (REST APIs, SOAP APIs, XML,

JSON, etc.)

Experience building secure applications and methodically improving application

performance (Profilers, APM tools, Security scanning tools)

Experience Needed to Qualify

Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Minimum 12+ years of work-related experience

Experience in developing complex integrated technical solutions involving vendor

software across the development lifecycle

Experience building customer solutions using existing assets and capabilities, including

alliances

Problem-solving skills, costing, and technology-based solutions with deals and offerings

Industry knowledge across different technologies, especially in Cloud/SaaS/PaaS

solutions and the role of IT in digital change

Experience in Insurance Technology solutions (preferably policy administration systems),

in Life & Annuity, will be an added advantage

Why Join Sureify?

At Sureify, youll be part of a collaborative, innovation-driven culture where your expertise will

directly influence the quality and success of products, transforming the life insurance landscape.

Youll work alongside passionate technologists and industry experts, tackling complex

challenges with cutting-edge technologies while helping shape the future of digital insurance.

Our Guiding Principles

Our products are for nothing if their creators are not fulfilled in their work. We want our

employees to flourish at Sureify. We do not fawn over status or titles; instead, we honour effort

and intelligence. The best idea wins, no matter which colleague proposed it. We do not shortcut

our mission with overblown claims or false promises. Sticking to the truth is both a strategy and

a principle for us.Sureify is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity. Qualified applicants will

receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship,

ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, age, disability, veteran

or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.