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).