Senior Engineering Manager (I)***

Responsibilities

• End-to-end ownership of broad project scopes.
• Translate team goals into actionable plans.
• Design and deliver moderately complex features that span multiple components or services.
• Apply genuine attention to modularity, scalability, and resiliency.
• Evaluate solution options, sharing well-reasoned recommendations, and proactively addressing technical debt before it compounds.
• Contribute to reusable test automation frameworks.
• Adopt better observability, CI/CD, and automation practices.
• Features monitoring and issues are tackled before reaching production.
• Build deep knowledge on product architecture, dependencies, and data flows.
• Make independent technical decisions and author design documents with minimal guidance.
• Conduct architecture reviews for junior engineers' work, offering constructive and actionable feedback.
• Lead triage and debugging, contribute root cause analyses, and drive concrete preventive actions through post-incident reviews.
• Write clear, unambiguous technical specifications that serve as effective context for both AI tools and junior engineers.
• Identify when AI-generated code introduces technical debt or security risks
• Establish team-level norms for reviewing AI-generated output before it merges.
• Actively mentor junior team members — sharing knowledge, breaking down problems, and providing constructive feedback.
• Identify opportunities, drive workstreams, and synthesise data into clear recommendations.
• Anticipate risks and put mitigations in place before they become blockers.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration and ensure projects are delivered effectively.
• Navigate disagreements constructively, facilitating alignment among team members and stakeholders.
• Challenge existing processes for improvement and drive change initiatives.
• Support team coordination by communicating project goals and priorities clearly.
• Help team members understand how their individual work connects to broader objectives.
• Conduct regular check-ins with one or two direct or indirect reports, focusing on work progress and basic feedback delivery.
• Help team members work through day-to-day blockers with technical mentoring.
• Assist in recruitment activities where applicable.

Requirements

• Strong software engineer with demonstrated ability to build software
• Able to write code to solve abstract programming problems
• Able to debug
• Able to talk and reason about code with other engineers

Ethos Search Associates Pte. Ltd.

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