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Job Profile: Engineering Manager

Location: Bangalore | Karnataka

Years of Experience: 8 - 10

ABOUT THE TEAM & ROLE:

As part of the Revenue and Growth team, the New Initiatives vertical targets Swiggy’s uber vision of being Kings of Convenience by providing the on-demand guaranteed deliveries for the newer business lines including Instamart, Genie, Minis and Stores Marketplace. This technical vertical inside the Swiggy Tech ecosystem focuses to solve multiple business use cases for increasing Swiggy's revenue and providing growth in terms of monthly orders, new customer acquisitions, customer retention, etc. We try to understand our customer behavior and build smart products using cutting-edge technologies to solve these problems at scale. We operate on a scale of millions of customer interactions on the Swiggy App daily.

Engineering Managers in Swiggy contribute not only to the high-level architecture of several systems but also to the product's overall success by driving technology and best practices in engineering in their respective teams.

They establish technology vision for respective teams and demonstrate how to solve a deeply complex and hard technical challenge, and help communicate that vision upward (CTO), inward (peers and engineering team) and outward (product & business teams).

What will you get to do here?
• Engineering Manager at Swiggy will work closely with the Product Management, Business, Development, Design and Operations team, enabling them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.
• They co-own the technology vision of the respective team and significantly contribute to the overall success of the team
• You will manage your business goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow
• Architect & design technically robust, flexible and scalable solution
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption and at the same time

What qualities are we looking for?
• We are looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial, hands-on Engineering Manager to join the Bangalore Swiggy Engineering team
• 8-10 years of experience in developing products with 1+ years in leading a team of 10+
• In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of application and front-end / Back-end engineers to drive innovation in full-stack product development, while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Technically Hands-on, prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of (5-10)
• Coaching, mentoring managers and Architects in the team. Good team management skills with ability to multitask, strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience working with Product Managers and UX Designers
• Experience with web technologies, Java/Golang, MySQL, NoSql, redis, Python, Linux, AWS etc.
• Experience with high performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus with an ability to bring in software engineering life cycle best practices

Visit our tech blogs to learn more about some of the challenging Problem Statements the team works at:-
• https://bytes.swiggy.com/engineering-challenges-at-swiggy-430dea6c86a3
• https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-swiggy-delivery-challenge-part-one-6a2abb4f82f6
• https://bytes.swiggy.com/what-serviceability-means-at-swiggy-c94c1aad352a
• https://bytes.swiggy.com/architecture-and-design-principles-behind-the-swiggys-delivery-partner s-app-4db1d87a048a
• https://bytes.swiggy.com/swiggy-distance-service-9868dcf613f4
• https://bytes.swiggy.com/the-tech-that-brings-you-your-food-1a7926229886

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law.