Sr. Manager, Software Development

Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple engineering teams and drive the delivery of high-impact software products. You’ll play a key role in shaping the technical roadmap, building high-performing teams, and ensuring engineering excellence across systems and processes. 

This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone who thrives on scaling teams, optimizing performance, and collaborating across product, design, and operations. 

Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy 

Lead and mentor a team of engineers and engineering managers, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and accountability. Define and execute the engineering roadmap in collaboration with Product and Design teams. Drive long-term technical vision, architecture evolution, and scalability improvements. 

Technical Leadership & Architecture 

Lead architecture and system design for major engineering initiatives, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability. Act as the senior technical authority across teams, guiding engineers through complex design decisions and trade-offs. Drive cross-team architecture alignment, defining service boundaries, platform patterns, and engineering standards. Step in to unblock teams on challenging technical problems involving distributed systems, performance, and system reliability. Partner with senior engineers and tech leads to evolve platform architecture and ensure systems scale with business growth. 

Technical Excellence 

Lead and review system design for complex distributed systems, APIs, and services. Maintain high standards for software quality, reliability, and performance through code reviews, design reviews, and tech audits. Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and practices to improve velocity and developer experience. 

Delivery & Execution 

Manage multiple cross-functional projects, ensuring on-time and quality delivery. Establish clear OKRs, KPIs, and sprint goals to measure and optimize engineering productivity. Collaborate closely with stakeholders to prioritize work, manage dependencies, and balance business needs with technical debt. 

People & Culture 

Hire, onboard, and develop engineering talent; conduct regular 1:1s and performance reviews. Foster diversity, inclusion, and psychological safety within engineering teams. Build succession plans and leadership pipelines to scale the organization sustainably. 

Operations & Optimisation 

Own uptime, reliability, and monitoring metrics in partnership with DevOps/SRE teams. Manage budgets, cloud costs, and resource allocation across projects. Continuously refine engineering processes to improve predictability and reduce cycle times. 

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. 9–12 years of total software engineering experience, with 3–5 years in management. Proven success managing multiple teams or managers in a fast-paced environment. Strong technical background in one or more areas: backend systems, microservices, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), or full-stack development. Deep understanding of agile software development, CI/CD, system reliability, and modern software delivery practices. Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Experience scaling engineering teams, improving developer productivity, and driving org-wide engineering initiatives. 

Nice-to-Have 

Experience in high-scale SaaS or platform-based products. Familiarity with modern AI/ML integration, data engineering, or DevOps automation. Exposure to cross-border or distributed teams. MBA or equivalent business understanding is a plus. 

What You’ll Bring 

A growth mindset with strong analytical and decision-making ability. Passion for mentoring engineers and helping teams perform at their best. Balance between strategic thinking and execution focus. Desire to build scalable, secure, and impactful technology systems.