Senior Engineering Manager

About Client

We are a next-generation, product-first HR Tech platform built for enterprises that demand configurability, scale, and intelligence. Designed by HR practitioners and engineered for complexity, We enable organizations to reimagine talent, skills, and employee experience without legacy constraints.

Post productmarket validation we are entering a focused scale-up phase, working with real

enterprise customers across India and global markets.

Role Purpose

The Tech Engineering Lead owns end-to-end engineering outcomes across execution,

architecture, quality, security, and delivery. This role blends deep hands-on technical

leadership with team management, production ownership, and close collaboration with

Product, Business, and Customers.

The role is expected to diagnose problems, challenge assumptions, and design pragmatic

solutionsnot just execute instructions.

End to end own the engineering execution for critical platform capabilities and product

modules, working closely with the CTO, Product, and Business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & Architecture

Own end-to-end delivery of core product modules and platform capabilities

Design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems

Make pragmatic architectural trade-offs balancing speed, quality, and scale

Remain hands-on through coding, reviews, and production debugging

Quality, Security & Compliance

Enforce high engineering standards across code quality, testing, performance, and reliability

Own Information Security and compliance standards including ISO 27001, SOC 2, DPDP, and applicable regulations

Design, implement, and monitor data security controls (access, encryption, logging,

Partner on audits and ensure ongoing compliance readiness

Team & Resource Management

Lead and mentor the engineering team with clear ownership and accountability

Align resources and skills to delivery priorities

Identify capacity and capability gaps and work with leadership on hiring or upskilling

Delivery & Production Ownership

Own project delivery and release execution end-to-end

Lead daily execution rituals, prioritization, and trade-off decisions

Participate in client-facing technical discussions and own relationships with client IT teams

Monitor production systems and infrastructure health, availability, and performance

Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements

Ideal Candidate Profile

Must Have

812 years of strong, hands-on engineering experience

Background in product-led SaaS or platform companies (non-services mindset)

Proven ability to deliver complex systems with high quality

Strong problem-solving and structured thinking, should demonstrate Benevolve

values

Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments

Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs to stakeholders

Good to Have

Experience in HR Tech or enterprise B2B platforms

Exposure to cloud-native and microservices architectures

Experience working with distributed teams

What Success Looks Like

Predictable, high-quality engineering delivery

Stable, scalable, and secure production systems

Minimal critical production incidents and reduced tech debt

Strong trust with Product, Business, Customers, and Client IT teams

Audit-ready security and compliance posture

Why Join Us Now

Join post-validation, pre-scalewhere your decisions have lasting impact

Work directly with founders and product leadership with minimal hierarchy

Shape the core architecture, quality culture, and engineering standards

Build a platform used by real enterprises solving real problems

Opportunity to grow with the organization