Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead and mentor a team of software engineers to build and scale platform and product capabilities. You will own technical execution, system design, and architectural decisions while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development
• Drive high-quality, on-time delivery of product features and platform improvements
• Own technical execution, system design, and architectural decisions for your team's domain
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to define and execute roadmaps
• Build a strong culture of ownership, code quality, and operational excellence
• Hire and onboard top engineering talent as the team scales
• Improve engineering processes, tooling, and best practices to support rapid growth
• Ensure teams take ownership from design through production, monitoring, and iteration

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 1 to 3 years of experience leading or managing engineering teams
• Strong computer science fundamentals and system design skills
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale using modern backend technologies (Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar)
• Proven ability to own projects end-to-end and deliver with high quality
• Excellent communication skills and a strong product mindset

Nice to have

• Experience in high-growth startups or engineering-first organizations
• Exposure to frontend or full-stack development
• Experience working on developer platforms, SaaS products, or AI-driven systems
• Prior ownership of highly available, customer-facing systems

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Meaningful equity
• Daily Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner provided
• Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible Working Hours

About the company

Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that generate, test, and deploy production applications from plain-language intent. The company is backed by Creaegis, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Lightspeed, Together, Y Combinator, Google, Claypond and Sentinel Global.