Engineering Manager

About Symphony Technology Group (STG)STG is a Silicon Valley (California) based private equity firm that has a long and successful track record of transforming high potential software and software-enabled services companies, as well as insights-oriented companies into definitive market leaders. The firm brings expertise, flexibility, and resources to build strategic value and unlock the potential of innovative companies. Partnering to build customer-centric, market winning portfolio companies, STG creates sustainable foundations for growth that bring value to all existing and future stakeholders. The firm is dedicated to transforming and building outstanding technology companies in partnership with world class management teams. With over $5.0 billion in assets under management, including a recently raised $2.0 billion fund. STG expansive portfolio has consisted of more than 30 global companies.https://www.stg.com
About STG Labs India STG Labs is the incubation center for many of STG s portfolio companies building their engineering, professional services, and support delivery teams in India. STG Labs offers an entrepreneurial start-up environment for software and AI engineers, data scientists and analysts, project and product managers and provides a unique opportunity to work directly for a software or technology company. Based in Bangalore, STG Labs supports remote working from home and from multiple locations across India. Come join the Gresham Family with-in STG Labs.https://www.stglabs.com
What you’ll do
On any given day, you might:
Lead People: Recruit, mentor, and grow a diverse team of engineers. Foster a culture built on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Coach Technically: Provide hands-on guidance in code design, and implementation. Be the person who can jump in, pair program, or review a tricky PR to help the team move forward.
Plan & Execute: Drive critical initiatives from idea to delivery. You are able to balance long-term platform health with short-term needs, and ensure reliable, high-quality outcomes. You keep the team on track to wrap up loose ends and bring projects to completion.
Shape Vision: Define and evolve platform capabilities to support future growth. You work with product management to keep the team’s roadmap aligned with company goals while looking around corners for what’s next.
Build Operational Excellence: You make sure that the team is building scalable, reliable, and secure systems. Use metrics and postmortems to continuously raise the bar and push for high quality work.
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Product, Design, Security, and other Engineering teams to help drive outcomes for projects that span multiple teams.
Technical Contributions: Writing new code. Reviewing your report’s code. Helping to design code improvements.
Quality Infected: You push the team to view quality as a foundational element of producing valuable code
What you bring
7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2–3 years in engineering management.
Proven player-coach track record: able to lead people and teams while still making hands-on contributions to code, architecture, or design.
Technical expertise in domains involving high throughput and distributed systems.
Experience designing and running distributed systems and multi-tenant SaaS platforms on modern cloud providers (preferably Google Cloud Platform).
Hands-on expertise across the stack: designing microservices in Python and Elixir (GraphQL, REST, gRPC), building React/TypeScript frontends, managing data with PostgreSQL and Cloud Storage, scaling with Redis and Pub/Sub, and implementing observability with Cloud Logging, Monitoring, and Sentry.
A history of recruiting and retaining great engineers, while fostering an inclusive and collaborative culture.
Operational mindset: monitoring, alerting, incident response, and building systems that meet strict SLAs/SLOs.
Strong communication and influencing skills – you can translate technical tradeoffs into clear options for business partners.
Comfort with on-call participation, ensuring business-critical systems get timely attention.
Why this role matters
The delivery team helps send out millions of messages per day and is working on some of the most important new features that our business is building. This team is on the critical path for our product and is working on exciting new initiatives that will expand our ability to deliver messages for our customers. If you want to be part of a thriving and growing team that is contributing to features that have c-suite buy-in this is the role for you.

Work arrangement
Yes