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Lead Engineering Manager

Lead Engineering Manager

RecroBengaluru, Karnataka, India
26 days ago
Job description

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the engineering for customer-facing mobile and web apps.. This role involves leading both managers and ICs across platforms including Flutter (primary), React (for PWA / Web), and native

iOS / Android (Swift / Kotlin). You’ll work closely with product, design, and business teams to

deliver seamless, performant experiences at India scale.

This is a full-time in-office role in Bangalore.

What You'll Do

  • Lead engineering execution for all mobile and web apps at BigBasket, ensuring

performance, reliability, scale, and quality

  • Partner with product and design teams to convert business and user goals into

    • execution-ready technical plans

  • Manage and grow a mix of engineering managers and senior engineers; build leaders

    • who can independently drive scope and mentor others

  • Drive platform-wide consistency and standardization (shared components, reusable

    • frameworks, observability, etc.)

  • Lead efforts to build for India-scale, optimizing performance across low-end devices,

    • spotty networks, and regional diversity

  • Continuously improve engineering productivity through automation, CI / CD investments,

    • testing infrastructure, and tooling

  • Establish strong review and feedback mechanisms to drive engineering excellence and

    • peer accountability

  • Improve experimentation velocity, crash-free rates, app store ratings, and build-test-

    • release cycles

  • Lead RCA and recovery efforts for mobile / web-related incidents and ensure preventive

    • measures are systemically implemented

  • Create strong engineering metrics dashboards to track uptime, delivery velocity,

    • regressions, and tech debt

  • Instill a sense of ownership and urgency in teams; ensure clarity of goals and pride in

    • delivery

    What We’re Looking For

  • 13-15 years of software engineering experience with at least 5 years in engineering

    • leadership roles at high-scale B2C product companies

  • Deep technical expertise in mobile development (Flutter, Kotlin / Java, Swift) and modern

    • web (React, JS / TS, PWA)

  • Demonstrated experience delivering and scaling consumer-facing applications for India-

    • scale usage (millions of users, high concurrency, device / network fragmentation)

  • Strong grasp of app performance optimization, observability, crash analytics, and CI / CD

    • pipelines

  • Experience in growing senior engineers and managers into technical leaders
  • Familiarity with developer metrics and using engineering data to improve team

    • throughput and predictability

  • High agency and clarity of thought, able to challenge the status quo and align multiple

    • functions toward a common goal

  • Collaborative leadership style – works closely with product, design, QA, and business

    • teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes

  • Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder alignment skills

    • Nice to Have

  • Familiarity with experimentation platforms (Firebase Remote Config, A / B testing tools)
  • Exposure to AWS or similar cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with internal developer platforms or platform-as-a-product mindset
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    Engineering Manager • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India