Technical Manager

Role Overview

• Hands-on Technical Leadership: You lead from the front by remaining deeply hands-on with the codebase, tackling the most complex technical challenges while establishing the high standards and best practices the team follows.
• Architectural Integrity: Own the team-level architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and align with global engineering standards.
• Practical AI Application: Maintain a strong understanding of how AI tools and workflows can be applied to improve efficiency. While AI expertise is a bonus, you are expected to guide the team in practical AI adoption where it adds clear value.
• Mentorship & Coaching: Provide direct line management to a team of engineers. You focus on their professional growth, helping them navigate technical hurdles and career milestones.
• High-Performance Culture: Foster a high-trust, accountable environment. You conduct regular 1-on-1s, update Skills Matrices, and identify high-potential talent within your team.
• Recruitment: Lead technical interviews to identify and attract top-tier engineering talent that complements the team’s needs.
• Roadmap Execution: Work closely with Product Managers to translate high-level product roadmaps at the Portfolio level into actionable technical plans.
• Continuous Improvement: Proactively use data to continuously improve ways of working and quality, identifying bottlenecks in delivery and implementing technical or process-based solutions.
• Resource Optimization: Manage capacity and technical resourcing to ensure the team is equipped to meet delivery commitments without compromising code health

Requirements

• Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience in the software industry with a proven track record as a Senior Engineer, including at least 1 year of experience leading and managing teams of 5 or more engineers.
• Architectural Stewardship: Strong ability to contribute to the design of scalable systems and ensure that global engineering standards are consistently applied and followed across the team.
• Analytical Mindset: Proficiency in using data to continuously improve ways of working and quality.
• AI Literacy and Application: A good understanding of how AI tools can be practically applied to software engineering to enhance productivity and quality will be a distinct advantage.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to bridge the gap between technical execution at the team level and product roadmaps at the Portfolio level

Benefits

• The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work every day.
• Flexible work environment (3 days work from office)
• Group Term Life Insurance paid out at 3x Annual CTC (Arbor India)
• 32 days holiday (plus Arbor Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra companywide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
• Work time: 9.30 am to 6 pm (8.5 hours only)
• Compensation
• 100% fixed salary disbursement and no variable component.