Engineering Manager

The Role

We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality-conscious, product thinkers, and business-cognizant—not mere coders.

In this role, you will own engineering the Retail Media ecosystem in Flipkart Commerce Cloud. You will be expected to: Design and code independently across multiple tech components related to your functional area. Develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc., over time and make tech stack decisions accordingly. Actively mentor junior engineers and take ownership of the codebase quality. Amplify the impact of your work or creations with the scale that Flipkart operates at, which demands super-efficient solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Thought Leader for Tech and Domain Own the Retail Media functional area from product conceptualization to realization working with product teams. Drive Technical roadmap focusing more on platformisation, generic components and own tech metrics like product reliability, performance and availability. Tech Design and solution for well defined systems without supervision. "Go to” person within the team on the domain and the related concepts. Good understanding of partner eco-systems and interfaces. Familiar with academic research, industry trends and standards.

2. Lead By Example Leads across teams with cross functional stakeholders. Mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices. Has a strong impact in Senior Engineers hiring and improves hiring culture within the team. Accountable for Onboarding team members.

3. Be a Champion Breaks down into components, identifies dependencies, understands priorities, plans for iterations and feature creeps, provides accurate estimates that feed into the larger plan. Communicates with stakeholders in an effective and timely fashion. Capable of unblocking self and other teams whenever necessary. Finishes deliverables on time, ensures functional correctness and completeness. Contributes to non-functional aspects without supervision. Accountable for quality of deliverables and artifacts in adherence to defined processes for the entire team. Estimates cost of resources (including tech and non-tech resources).