About Rapido
Founded in 2015, Rapido is Indias leading multi-modal mobility platform. What began with bike taxis has rapidly evolved to include auto-rickshaws, cab-hailing, and peer-to-peer deliveries. Today, Rapido commands a dominant 70% market share in bike taxis, 40% in auto rides, and holds the second-largest position in the cab segment with a 22% shareestablishing us as the overall market leader in ride-hailing. With over 4 million rides completed daily and more than 2 billion rides served to date, Rapido operates in 200+ cities and is aggressively expanding toward a presence in 500 cities. In 2024, we proudly achieved unicorn status with a valuation of $1.1 billion. Driven by technology and innovation, were expanding into new categories while remaining committed to improving last-mile connectivity and empowering livelihoods at scale.
Job Summary
As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading the engineering teams, envisioning our products future roadmap, and driving engineering efforts to achieve the business goals. Our engineers work on real-time problems at scale and are constantly looking for newer technologies and ways of working to deliver the best value to our customers and captains. You will also support the team to define and drive the vision necessary to achieve the best-of-breed scale and availability.
Job Responsibilities
- Drives end-to-end product delivery from the ideation, planning, development, validation, rollout, and operating in production with a deep focus on quality, design & architecture.
- Drive and champion the engineering best practices for the team.
- Define all aspects of projects and programs including understanding the problem statement, ideating the product requirements, prioritization, sprint planning, capacity planning.
- Data-driven tech analysis to influence technical priorities and business strategy in collaboration with Tech leads, Product managers and decide the team capacity.
- Brings a strong perspective that drives change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems.
- Initiate cross-functional collaborations with development teams throughout Rapido and gather feedback and requirements.
- Ensuring any blockers and dependencies across teams are coordinated with the respective team lead.
- Responsible for the growth of the engineers in the team by having focused one-on-one discussions and being a mentor/coach to help them grow.
- Ensure the product delivered is of the highest quality by working with quality engineers and having best quality practices in place.
- Responsible for people management like collaboration, reviews, feedback mechanisms, and growth.
- Help the team build the mindset of building and operating end-to-end focus on value delivery over task completion.
- Care more about outcomes over outputs.
Job Requirements
- B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience.
- A hands-on and passionate Engineering Manager with a minimum of 6 to 8 yrs of development experience working with multiple technology stacks (must : Java / Nodejs) and understanding its pros and cons.
- Excellent working experience in sprint planning, user stories writing, OKRs, envisioning product roadmap and defining capacity.
- Experience building scalable and distributed software products & infrastructure and understand its impact on the business.
- Experience in architecture patterns (Microservices | Event-driven systems).
- Experience working with cross-functional teams of Product Managers, Quality Analysts, Tech Leads, Developers, and UI / UX Designers.
- Experience managing product backlog and tracking the delivery with clear metrics.
- Solid technical fundamentals, ability to convert business requirements into technical design
Why should you join Rapido
- Learning and growth : The learning curve is humongous! You learn on the go. You will have visibility of any feature that is being added. Experience the features yourself in real-time and make changes. There's a considerable amount of responsibility given to everyone so you learn along with the companys growth.
- Culture : We are neither new nor old but have the tech freedom with the scale challenge always in mind. No approval hierarchy to implement a change. Just back your decision with data points and propose the solution.
- Right place at right time : A developer has to do a lot of planning when it comes to the development of product features, make tech choices, and code as well. And this is an apt opportunity for an EM whose primary role is to create a proper structure and strategy that can lead to the end goal and help the company grow.
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