As an Engineering Manager, you'll lead a team of software engineers to ensure high-quality software delivery. You'll mentor team members, drive strategic planning, oversee technical execution, enhance processes, promote a DevOps culture, facilitate problem-solving, and monitor performance metrics. This role requires collaboration across global teams to support product alignment with business objectives.
JOB DESCRIPTION
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a highly skilled team of software engineers in a “you build it, you run it” environment. Your primary responsibility will be to drive your team toward successful and efficient delivery of high-quality software, while fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. You’ll ensure the team is aligned with company goals, adheres to best engineering practices, and upholds robust DevOps principles, including designing, building, testing, deploying, and monitoring the applications and services they create.
About the Job
- Lead and Mentor: Provide technical guidance, career development support, and mentorship to team members, helping them to grow in both technical and soft skills.
- Team Leadership & Culture: Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and trust where engineers feel ownership of their work and are empowered to take initiative.
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with Product Management, UX, and other stakeholders to define and deliver on a roadmap aligned with company objectives and customer needs.
- Technical Execution: Ensure that technical designs, code, and testing meet high standards. Facilitate architectural and design discussions to guarantee scalable and resilient solutions.
- Process Management: Improve software development processes, implementing best practices for CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and deployment to streamline development and deployment cycles.
- Ownership of Operations: Champion a DevOps mindset, where the team not only builds but also runs and monitors their own applications in production, ensuring reliability, availability, and performance.
- Problem Solving: Facilitate solutions to complex technical problems, proactively identifying bottlenecks, risks, and quality concerns, and implementing measures to address them.
- Performance Monitoring: Track and report on team performance, KPIs, and quality metrics, ensuring a high level of transparency and focus on improvement areas. Prioritize talent development and help with hiring new talent and grow engineers that are already at Levi Strauss & Co.™
- Experience Working with Global Companies: Work with teams around the world and support your global-capable platform.
About You
- 10+ years of experience in product and/or platform engineering role, with tangible accomplishments in ecommerce or similar customer-facing digital experiences and APIs.
- Proven Experience: Minimum 7 of engineering experience, including hands-on software development and at least 2 years in a management or technical leadership role.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in any of java, nodejs, typescript, golang, with a deep understanding of modern software engineering and DevOps practices.
- Strong Leadership: Track record of managing and motivating a team, fostering a productive, collaborative, and high-accountability environment.
- Process Improvement: Demonstrated ability to identify process inefficiencies and implement improvements that accelerate development without compromising quality.
- Problem Solving & Decision Making: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make informed decisions and prioritize effectively.
- Stakeholder Management: Experience working with cross-functional teams, especially Product and UX, to ensure cohesive product development and delivery.
- Operational Excellence: Commitment to maintaining high standards for operational reliability, availability, and scalability, as well as familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools.
LOCATIONBengaluru, IndiaFULL TIME/PART TIMEFull timeCurrent LS&Co Employees, apply via your Workday account.
Top Skills
Go
Java
Node.js
Typescript
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