This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Engineering Manager - Conversations based in India.

The role sits at the heart of a high-scale, real-time communication platform that powers how millions of businesses interact with their customers every day. You will lead the engineering team responsible for building and evolving a mission-critical omnichannel inbox that unifies SMS, email, WhatsApp, calls, and social messaging into a single workspace. This is a high-impact leadership role where product thinking, technical depth, and execution excellence come together. You will shape both the architecture and roadmap of a system used at massive global scale, ensuring speed, reliability, and intuitive user experience. The environment is fast-moving, ownership-driven, and highly collaborative across product, design, and platform teams. You will play a key role in defining what modern business communication infrastructure looks like. This is a hands-on leadership position for someone who wants to build category-defining software.

Accountabilities

You will own the end-to-end delivery, performance, and evolution of the Conversations product area, leading a team of engineers building a high-scale omnichannel inbox. You will drive both technical and product execution, ensuring the platform remains fast, reliable, and scalable while continuously improving user experience.

Lead and grow a team of 10+ engineers working across frontend, backend, and platform components of the Conversations product.
Own architecture and system design decisions for real-time messaging, multi-channel communication, and large-scale state synchronization.
Partner closely with product and design teams to define roadmap priorities, translate requirements into technical execution, and challenge solutions where needed.
Ensure system reliability, low latency, and scalability across high-volume messaging workloads and distributed infrastructure.
Drive engineering execution through strong operational practices including sprint planning, delivery tracking, and incident management.
Establish engineering best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and performance optimization.
Guide technical direction across Vue.js frontend systems, Node.js/Go backend services, and cloud-native infrastructure.
Foster a high-performance team culture through mentorship, structured feedback, hiring, and career development.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a strong engineering leader with deep hands-on technical expertise and proven experience building and scaling complex, high-traffic systems. You combine architectural thinking with strong product judgment and are comfortable operating in fast-paced environments.

8+ years of software engineering experience with 2-3+ years in engineering management roles leading teams of 8+ engineers.
Strong hands-on technical background with ability to review architecture, debug production systems, and contribute to critical technical decisions.
Experience building or scaling high-scale distributed systems or real-time communication platforms.
Strong understanding of frontend and/or backend systems at scale, ideally both.
Proven ability to deliver customer-facing products with strong product intuition and quality focus.
Experience working with event-driven architectures, APIs, and cloud-native systems.
Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated ability to build, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams.

Benefits

Competitive compensation aligned with experience and market standards
Remote-first working model with flexible collaboration
Opportunity to work on a high-scale global product used by millions of users
Fast-paced, ownership-driven engineering culture
Strong focus on learning, experimentation, and technical growth
Exposure to modern distributed systems and large-scale real-time architecture
Collaborative environment across engineering, product, and design teams.

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