Technical Engineering Manager

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world's leading business travel marketplace. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact. There's an exciting road ahead of us, where travel needs real, impactful change.

With offices in New Zealand, Australia, North America, and China, we are thrilled to be expanding our global footprint, landing our new hub in Bengaluru, India. With rapid a growth plan in place for India, we're hiring people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to help us build a world-class team and product.

Join us as an Engineering Manager in Bengaluru, where you'll lead talented Software Engineers building products that scale. We're looking for a hands-on technical leader with strong people management skills and experience in high-growth, product-led environments.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager with a strong product and technical mindset—someone who has led high-performing teams in GCCs, startups, e-commerce, or product-driven companies. You will drive end-to-end delivery across multiple domains, collaborating closely with foundations, security, and data teams, while mentoring your team to grow technically and professionally.

What you'll do

• Lead and grow a high-performing team: Inspire a team of 8–10 engineers through hands-on coaching, mentoring, performance reviews, and career development frameworks.

• Drive product and technical strategy: Co-define the technical vision for your domain, making architectural and engineering decisions that align with business objectives.

• Own delivery end-to-end: Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and business stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of high-impact, customer-focused outcomes.
• Build scalable, resilient systems: Ensure the platform supports millions of users globally with high availability, security, and performance.
• Design future-ready architecture: Lead the development of cloud-agnostic, distributed, and microservices-based systems built to scale.
• Integrate advanced capabilities: Accelerate innovation by embedding AI/ML into core systems, such as recommendation engines, demand forecasting, and real-time decisioning.
• Stay technically hands-on: Contribute code, review designs, and maintain engineering best practices while keeping the team ahead of emerging technologies.

What you'll bring to the team

• 8+ years in software engineering with hands-on experience building distributed, cloud-native systems.
• 4+ years leading engineering teams of 8+ engineers in high-performance environments.
• Proven experience scaling platforms, products, or services to handle high RPS and 99.99%+ uptime.
• Hands-on expertise designing and building microservices and event-driven architectures (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar).
• Strong coding proficiency in Java, Python, Go, or .NET, with active involvement in engineering deliverables.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure and tools: Kubernetes, Istio, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across product, systems design, security, and data teams.
• Experience in GCCs, startups, e-commerce, or product companies is highly desirable.
• Excellent project management, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.

At Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work.  This means you'll be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality, and delivering innovative and efficient results. Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.

• Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:
• A competitive base pay
• Medical Benefits
• Discretionary incentive plan based on individual and company performance
• Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform and opportunity for you to own your career pathways
• Flexible work policy.
• Competitive base pay ranging from ₹30–45 LPA, commensurate with experience, skill depth, and market alignment.

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