Engineering Manager

About Organisation:

Akshayakalpa is India's first and most significant, Organic Milk producer every day reaching about 150,000 households in Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. We believe a lot of wrong has been done to farmers and food in the last few decades and our attempt is to make it right for both. We do this by creating role model farmers in villages who can inspire other farmers to stay put, grow and thrive in their own villages.

About Role:

We're looking for a strong Engineering Manager with 12-14yrs of experience who can lead the technical transformation , manage distributed teams (including legacy PHP developers, newer Java/React and Springboot teams), and drive engineering excellence in everything from app delivery to DevOps, backend architecture, and internal tooling. You will work closely with Product, UX, Data, and Business stakeholders to prioritize effectively, deliver reliably, and help build a system that can scale for the next 5 years.

 Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & Planning

• Lead a multi-tiered engineering team across legacy (PHP/SQL) and modern (Java/React/Flutter/Springboot) stacks.
• Drive sprint planning, estimations, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Mentor junior engineers, support career development, and build a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Partner with the Architecture Lead to define scalable patterns and best practices.
• Planning and projections for skill management (hiring, 3rd party, re-alignment etc), engineering budget preparation
• Contribute to engineering cost optimisation

Execution & Delivery

• Own technical delivery of internal tool migration from PHP to Java + React.
• Oversee transition of the D2C customer app (currently in Kotlin & externally managed) to an internal Flutter-based setup.
• Ensure delivery velocity across internal tools (admin, delivery mgmt, CRM workflows, farm visits, etc.) is consistent and high quality.
• Maintain close coordination with DevOps, QA, and Product for deployment readiness.
• Drive Test Automation
• Working with vendors (e.g. cloud support providers, NAS vendors etc) and establish SLAs, timelines etc
• Collaboration and coordinating with multiple teams on org-wide rollouts (e.g. app adoption, SAP rollouts)

DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and enforce release/deployment hygiene.
• Collaborate on Dev/Test environment setup, monitoring, rollback strategies, and incident response protocols.
• Work with AWS infrastructure—provisioning, cost monitoring, SSH/jump box security, access control, and database permissions.

Process & Documentation

• Institute strong documentation practices for product logic, RCA (Root Cause Analysis), server access, deployment flows, and handoffs.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to clarify requirements and de-risk vague features early in the cycle.
• Propose, use and drive adoption of suitable tools for effective collaboration (internal as well as across other teams)

Scalability & Architecture

• Guide architectural decisions across microservices, event-driven systems, and front-end state management.
• Work with data engineering to define scalable pipelines for analytics and external apps integration (e.g. MoEngage, Shopify, Mojro etc).

 Required Skills & Experience

• 12–14 years of overall experience, including 6–7 years in a leadership/managerial role.
• Strong hands-on development background in Java (Spring Boot preferred), React , and working knowledge of Flutter .
• Understanding of PHP/SQL legacy systems and experience managing transitions.
• Prior experience in DevOps (CI/CD, GitLab, AWS, CloudWatch, IAM) .
• Experience managing internal tool ecosystems, complex business workflows, and API integrations.
• Good knowledge of analytics/data pipelines and understanding of how to structure data access across functions.
• Strong knowledge and experience in usage of task management systems like JIRA
• Familiarity with tools and platforms like Yellow.ai, Kapture, MoEngage, Razorpay etc., is a plus.

Preferred Qualities

• Strong ownership mindset and ability to operate in ambiguity.
• Balanced approach to trade-offs between perfect architecture and business urgency.
• Strong communicator—able to collaborate with Product, Business, and cross-functional teams.
• Exposure to D2C/ecommerce/SaaS platforms is a bonus.