Sr. Engineering Manager

As a Senior Manager / Manager of Managers, you will own the engineering leadership layer for a department or multi-team charter - leading Engineering Managers (and through them, engineers) to deliver on Mercari's mission at scale. You will operate one level removed from day-to-day team execution, focusing on org design, leadership development, and cross-functional strategy.

We are looking for people who believe in our services, mission, and values, and who want to work where engineers can go bold, use the latest technology and take on challenges at a rapid pace. People with the enthusiasm, empathy, and seniority to lead and develop other leaders - not just individual teams.

Responsibilities:

• The main components of the role are as follows: Leading, coaching, and developing a team of Engineering Managers, including their own people-management practice (recruiting, goal-setting, evaluation, and feedback for their reports).
• Owning organisational design for your department: team topology, span of control, role clarity, and scaling plans as headcount and scope grow.
• Setting and driving multi-quarter engineering strategy in partnership with Product, Design, and other functional leaders.
• Building and operationalising a leadership pipeline - identifying and growing future EMs and tech leads from within the org.
• Holding the department accountable for delivery, quality, and operational health (SLOs/SLAs, incident response, technical debt posture) across multiple teams.
• Driving budget and resourcing decisions for your part of the organisation.
• Representing engineering in senior cross-functional and leadership forums, including with stakeholders outside India.
• Identifying and resolving systemic organisational issues (process, communication, culture) that span multiple teams.
• Planning and sponsoring department-wide initiatives and events that deepen technical expertise and organisational cohesion.
• Engineering Culture: Bold Challenges.

Requirements:

• Shared understanding of and belief in Mercari Group's mission and values.
• 15+ years of overall experience in software development and engineering leadership.
• At least 4+ years of experience managing managers (Engineering Managers / Team Leads), in addition to direct engineering people management experience.
• Track record of building, scaling, and restructuring engineering organisations (20+ engineers across multiple teams).
• Demonstrated experience setting multi-team / multi-quarter technical and organisational strategy.
• Strong stakeholder management experience with senior leadership, Product, and cross-functional partners.
• Experience developing and operating large-scale, high-traffic consumer products.
• Strong track record of identifying, hiring, and developing engineering leadership talent.

Skills

consumer, engineering, software