[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Orbitshift.ai

Role Description

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a pod of engineers (SDE 1 through SDE 3, plus QA) building and operating the services behind the OrbitShift platform. You will sit at the intersection of people leadership, delivery, and technical direction:

• Coaching engineers and growing their careers.
• Owning a clear roadmap and predictable execution.
• Setting the engineering bar for how we design, build, and run systems at scale.

This is a hands-on-enough management role. You are not expected to be the strongest coder on the team, but you are expected to have real standing in architecture and design discussions, understand the codebase well enough to lead by example — participating in design and code reviews, and occasionally in implementation — and keep short-term delivery pressure from eroding the long-term health of the platform.

Qualifications

• B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or a related field, preferably from a reputed institute (IIT, BITS, NIT, or equivalent).
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years directly managing and growing a team of engineers (hiring, performance, career development).
• 3+ years in a technical leadership role, overseeing the design and delivery of complex projects.
• A track record of shipping and operating production systems at scale — strong system design fundamentals, distributed systems, and cloud (AWS preferred).
• Experience architecting for reliability and scaling, and knowledge of full-lifecycle engineering practices: code reviews, source control, build, testing, and live site/operational health.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results and make progress in a fast-changing, ambiguous problem space, adjusting course as new information emerges.
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills — able to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences and align cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• Lead and grow the team.
• Recruit, coach, mentor, and retain top engineering talent across levels.
• Run meaningful 1:1s, give clear and timely feedback, own performance and career development, and develop future leaders within the team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, engineering craftsmanship, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
• Own the charter and roadmap.
• Turn ambiguous product and business goals into a scoped, sequenced roadmap with a balanced portfolio of foundational investments, new capabilities, and run-the-business work.
• Plan and deliver against the roadmap with clear, incremental milestones.
• Own delivery and operational excellence.
• Drive predictable execution and hold the team to the metrics that matter — on-time delivery, quality and regression rates, incident response, and system reliability.
• Own operational metrics, on-call, SLOs, and support for your services, and drive blameless postmortems that make the platform steadily more robust.
• Set technical direction.
• Guide architecture and technology choices for scalable, reliable, maintainable systems.
• Champion strong engineering practices and processes across the full development lifecycle — design and code review, testing, source control, CI/CD, and live site operations.
• Drive their adoption across the team, and manage technical debt deliberately.
• Partner across the org.
• Work closely with product, design, and the founding team to align on priorities and navigate technical trade-offs.
• Be the voice of the customer and the product within your team, translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences, manage expectations, and represent your team in reviews with senior leadership and, where needed, with enterprise customers.
• Ensure the team understands OrbitShift's goals and how their work connects to the bigger picture.

Benefits

• Lead a team building real, enterprise-grade software at a fast-growing startup — systems customers run in production, not demos.
• Direct line to the founding team and a seat in the decisions that shape the product and the org.
• Work alongside a world-class team — engineers and operators from Amazon, McKinsey, IIT, and Stanford.
• A fast growth curve, strong ownership, and competitive compensation with equity.