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We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing, cross-functional development team at Punchh (a PAR company). You will play a critical role in building new cloud-based products and improving core systems aligned with our platform strategy.
Position Location: Jaipur/Gurugram
Reports To: Senior Director / Engineering Leadership Team
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 12+ years of total experience in Software Development
- 2+ years of proven engineering management experience
- Strong coding background in Python, Java, C#, Golang, or Ruby on Rails
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud technologies, DevOps, and NoSQL
- Proficient in design patterns, data structures, and Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Experience building scalable microservices, web services, and distributed systems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience managing a team of 10+ engineers
With a Side Of (Additional Skills)
- Technical leadership and team-building capabilities
- Familiarity with agile methodologies and rotating on-call ownership
- Experience conducting code reviews, architecture reviews, and performance feedback
- Ability to collaborate on roadmaps with Product, Architecture, and Tech Leads
- Passion for coaching, mentoring, and grooming future engineering leaders
- Exposure to AI/ML-driven product features such as recommendations, personalization, forecasting, search, or automation
- Experience collaborating with Data Science, ML Engineers, and Product Managers on AI-powered use cases
- Familiarity with LLM-based systems, including prompt engineering concepts, embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Understanding of data pipelines, feature stores, and data quality considerations for ML systems
- Experience integrating AI services using frameworks or platforms such as OpenAI APIs, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, or similar
- Awareness of AI ethics, bias, privacy, and responsible AI practices in production systems
Unleash Your Potential: What You Will Be Doing and Owning:
- Provide technical leadership on major projects and critical product development
- Build and lead an engineering team of 10–15 engineers
- Mentor engineers and help drive their career development and growth
- Contribute to the codebase early on, as the team scales
- Establish and enforce best practices for code quality and system design
- Own and operate your team's services, employing DevOps practices
- Maintain balance between building new features and managing tech debt
- Act as an ambassador for the Punchh culture and help recruit top talent
- Be part of the broader Engineering Leadership Team and help shape organizational growth
- Provide technical leadership in building and scaling AI-assisted product capabilities within a SaaS platform
- Guide the team in architecting AI-ready microservices, including inference APIs, async processing, and observability
- Partner with Product and Data teams to translate business problems into AI-driven solutions
- Establish best practices for model deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Balance rapid experimentation with production-grade reliability for AI features
- Drive adoption of AI-powered developer productivity tools (coding assistants, testing automation, observability insights)
Nice To Have / Bonus Skills (Optional Section)
- Familiarity with MLOps concepts: CI/CD for models, model versioning, drift detection, A/B testing
- Hands-on exposure to vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, OpenSearch)
- Experience leveraging AI for internal efficiency (support automation, analytics insights, campaign optimization)
- Prior work in data-heavy SaaS domains such as MarTech, FinTech, Retail Tech, or Enterprise SaaS
Interview Process
Interview #1: Phone Screen with Talent Acquisition Team
Interview #2: Video interview with the Technical Teams (via MS Teams/F2F)
Interview #3: Video interview with the Technical Teams (via MS Teams/F2F)
Interview #4: Video interview with the Hiring Manager (via MS Teams/F2F)
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