Senior Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager at Navi, you'll lead a team of engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable systems to serve customer and business needs. You'll ensure highquality delivery, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to actively co-own technical and business roadmaps and drive business outcomes. You'll also mentor and grow engineers and help shape the technical direction of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of ~10 engineers, fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented, and high-performance environment, which includes developing role-specific growth plans and effectively calibrating and differentiating performance across all team members.
• Set clear goals and expectations for individuals and the team, continuously track performance and coach for improvement.
• Collaborate with business, product, and HR stakeholders to align engineering initiatives with company goals, including the ability to push back with logic on priorities and handle conflicts constructively.
• Provide strong technical direction and hands-on support to ensure the delivery of scalable and robust solutions.
• Champion production excellence with a strong focus on observability, monitoring, and debuggability of systems.
• Drive execution of technical deliverables with a focus on quality, timely delivery, and long-term impact, while ensuring execution predictability.
• Support hiring efforts through workforce planning, interviewing, and evaluation with a strong focus on building a diverse and skilled team.
• Set the vision for your team and reinforce a business impact-oriented culture, driving a focus on long-term initiatives.

Requirements:

• Strong technical expertise in designing and delivering scalable, reliable, and observable backend systems, including the ability to deeply understand systems to challenge design choices and identify failure points, dependencies, and scalability issues.
• Experience driving end-to-end project delivery, including planning, estimation, risk mitigation, and execution tracking.
• Solid understanding of SDLC best practices (code reviews, testing, CI/CD, on-call processes) and driving operational excellence through metrics.
• Demonstrated ownership and accountability for team outcomes and delivery.
• A strong mindset for Product Thinking and Business Ownership, thinking beyond execution to understand customer and business problems, and linking technical decisions to measurable business outcomes.
• Strong people management skills and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to Navigate ambiguity, prioritise competing demands based on business impact, and make trade-offs pragmatically between business value and technical needs.
• A continuous improvement and highly solution-oriented mindset, prioritising achieving business outcomes and constantly looking to elevate team efficiency
• and engineering quality.

Skills

CI/CD, SDLC, backend