Location: Sola, Ahmedabad

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 15+ Years

Astics Techlabs is looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to join our growing engineering organization.

We are looking for a strong people manager with solid technical depth who can lead engineering teams, develop talent, improve execution, and work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to deliver scalable, high-quality software.

The ideal candidate combines strong engineering management experience with a modern approach to software development, including the effective use of AI and automation to improve engineering productivity.

Key Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop software engineering teams.
Establish clear goals, ownership, accountability, and engineering best practices.
Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, coaching, and career-development discussions.
Participate in hiring, onboarding, and development of engineering talent.
Drive effective planning, prioritization, and timely delivery of engineering initiatives.
Improve development processes, team collaboration, and engineering productivity.
Promote effective use of AI-assisted development and automation across the software development lifecycle.
Provide technical guidance and participate in architecture and system-design discussions.
Ensure high standards for software quality, scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
Partner closely with Product, QA, DevOps, and business teams.
Provide clear visibility into engineering priorities, progress, dependencies, and risks.
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous learning, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

15+ years of software engineering experience.
8+ years of direct engineering management experience.
Proven experience leading and developing software engineering teams.
Strong experience with performance management, hiring, mentoring, and team development.
Strong technical foundation in modern web and cloud application development.
Experience with Node.js, React.js, Express.js, MongoDB and/or similar technologies.
Experience with AWS, databases, APIs, CI/CD, and modern software-development practices.
Understanding of AI-assisted software development and engineering automation.
Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Ability to balance people leadership, technical quality, and business priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience managing engineering teams in SaaS or product-based technology companies.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps practices.
Exposure to mobile application development.
Experience using AI development tools to improve engineering productivity.

What We're Looking For

A people-first engineering leader with strong technical credibility who can build strong teams, develop engineers, improve execution, embrace modern AI-enabled development practices, and help us continue scaling our technology and engineering organization.

Senior Engineering Manager