At a glance
- Experience
- 3+ years experience
- Location
- Pune
About the role
- Fictiv is seeking an Engineering Manager to provide strong technical leadership while guiding and developing a high-performing engineering team.
- This role combines deep technical expertise with people leadership, focusing on building reliable, scalable solutions while mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of engineering excellence and continuous growth.
Responsibilities
- Coach, mentor, and develop engineering talent through regular feedback, performance management, and career growth planning, while helping scale the team as needed.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, clarify objectives, and translate needs into scalable technical solutions and platform capabilities.
- Establish and continually improve team processes to enable iterative delivery, innovation, and high reliability.
- Drive near- and long-term improvements to engineering-wide activities such as development practices, hiring / onboarding, team cohesion, and incident response.
- Resolve systemic obstacles to team health, system performance, and team delivery.
- Embrace and extend a culture of transparency, safety, and growth.
Requirements
- 12 - 18 years of professional software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an engineering management role.
- Experience managing technical teams of 5-8 engineers with demonstrated ability to scale teams.
- Demonstrated experience in project planning and execution, including scope definition, prioritization, risk management, and delivery tracking across multiple work streams.
- Strong ability to manage cross-functional dependencies and drive alignment across engineering and product teams while leading delivery using Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), including sprint planning, milestone management, and stakeholder communication.
- Track record of building high-performing teams and developing engineering talent.
- Proven ability to balance competing priorities while ensuring on-time delivery, quality, and long-term platform scalability.
- Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
- Strong working experience in platform and API development using Node.js and GraphQL, frontend enablement using React and TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Proven experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native services on AWS, with an understanding of scalability, security, and cost optimization.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, and modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness.
Skills
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- AWS
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- CI/CD
