Engineering Manager

Job Description

Role: Engineering Manager

Location: Bengaluru

What you’ll do

We’re MiQ, a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so you will be too. No matter the role or the location, we’re all united in the vision to lead the programmatic industry and make it better.

• As an Engineering Manager in our Engineering department, you’ll have the chance to:

Lead high performance technology teams.

Lead from the front and lead by example

Hire & develop talented leads & engineers.

Own and drive business features into technology requirements.

Work closely with Product Managers, Customers to align technology choices with business

requirements.

Ensure high quality and timely release & support of products.

Actively guide teams to evolve architecture and design of products and APIs.

Stay updated on emerging technologies and apply them.

Be a catalyst and drive continuous improvement of engineering practices and improve

engineering efficiency.

Actively guide teams to evolve design reviews, code reviews and troubleshooting.

Be an evangelist for high quality products and driver of best practices.

Who are your stakeholders?

Key stakeholders include the Product Leads of various products, Leads of various teams across Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Trading departments.

What you’ll bring

10+ years’ experience bringing innovative products to the market.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering.

Experience building multi-tier web applications, experience working on all layers of the stack is a plus.

Excellent understanding of Object-Oriented Design & Design Patterns.

Excellent grasp of or more languages including an OO language.

Experience with cloud technologies, SaaS, PaaS & IaaS.

Good understanding of NoSQL technologies and Distributed systems.

Experience with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

Prior experience with Microservices based architectures is a must

Strategic Leadership: Drive the technical strategy and roadmap for developing and integrating innovative Generative AI features into our core product suite, from ideation to production.

AI Technical Oversight: Oversee the architecture and implementation of scalable, reliable systems that leverage GenAI, making key decisions on using third-party APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini).

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Data Science, and UX teams to define product requirements, establish evaluation metrics, and ensure the responsible and ethical deployment of AI and engineering products.

Internalized and practices agile best practices.

Leadership skills to build high performance teams & continuously raise the bar on innovation,

Quality and efficiency.

Team Enablement: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on building products powered by Cloud infrastructure, Microservices, Big data operations and Large Language Models (LLMs), guiding them through the unique challenges.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Innovative in terms of product, technology and processes.

Stay up to date with the latest technologies.

Participate in formulation of the technical roadmap and strategy.

Collaborates with both internal and external stakeholders and leads cross-functional teams in the development of the roadmap.

Good communication and presentation skills.

We’ve highlighted some key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But please don’t worry if you don’t meet every single. Our talent team strives to find the best people. They might see something in your background that’s a fit for this role, or another opportunity at MiQ.

If you have a passion for the role, please still apply.

What impact will you create?

You will identify & evangelize frameworks and methodologies for building highly available, high-performance systems. You ensure that design/architecture documents incorporate these practices and introduce new tools and methodologies when appropriate to simplify or increase efficiency of development. You’ll drive evaluation of new tools via POCs and continuously evaluate how the team operates in different areas of software engineering and GenAI. You will Initiate changes necessary to move the team a step higher in adopting best practices and critique the software product design and architecture and contribute to its evolution from the inception.

What’s in it for you?

Our Center of Excellence is the very heart of MiQ, and it’s where the magic happens. It means everything you do and everything you create will have a huge impact across our entire global business.

MiQ is incredibly proud to foster a welcoming culture. We do everything possible to make sure everyone feels valued for what they bring. With global teams committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we’re always moving towards becoming an even better place to work.

Values

Our values are so much more than statements. They unite MiQers in every corner of the world. They shape the way we work and the decisions we make. And they inspire us to stay true to ourselves and to aim for better. Our values are there to be embraced by everyone, so that we naturally live and breathe them. Just like inclusivity, our values flow through everything we do - no matter how big or small.

We do what we love - Passion

We figure it out - Determination

We anticipate the unexpected - Agility

We always unite - Unite

We dare to be unconventional - Courage

Benefits

• Every region and office have specific perks and benefits, but every person joining MiQ can expect:

A hybrid work environment

New hire orientation with job specific and training

Internal and global mobility opportunities

Competitive healthcare benefits

Bonus and performance incentives

Generous annual PTO paid parental leave, with two additional paid days to acknowledge holidays, cultural events, or inclusion initiatives.

Employee resource groups designed to connect people across all MiQ regions, drive action, and support our communities.

Apply today!

Equal Opportunity Employer

• Ensure high quality and timely release & support of products.
• Actively guide teams to evolve architecture and design of products and APIs.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and apply them.
• Be a catalyst and drive continuous improvement of engineering practices and improve