Engineering Manager

Company Description
MACROMILL, INC. is a marketing research company that helps businesses make better decisions through consumer insights, marketing research, and data analytics. By combining large-scale consumer panels, robust data infrastructure, and advanced technologies such as AI with human creativity and close client collaboration, Macromill delivers actionable insights that help clients address their business challenges.
Role Description
The Engineering Manager is a full-time, on-site role based in Bengaluru, India. This role combines strong technical leadership with people management. The Engineering Manager will guide architecture and implementation decisions, develop engineers, and take end-to-end accountability for engineering delivery, quality, and production reliability.
The role requires a technically strong leader who remains engaged in engineering through architecture discussions, design and code reviews, debugging, and hands-on contribution when needed. The Engineering Manager will break down ambiguous problems, evaluate technical trade-offs, resolve blockers, and ensure the team can deliver independently.
Working closely with product managers, designers, engineering teams, and stakeholders in Japan, the Engineering Manager will align technical decisions with product goals and business priorities. The role will also drive continuous improvement in engineering practices, developer productivity, and the effective use of AI-assisted development tools while maintaining high standards of quality, security, and maintainability.
Qualifications
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years leading engineering teams as an Engineering Manager or in an equivalent technical leadership role.
Strong technical foundation in software development, architecture, and system design, with the ability to evaluate implementation details and challenge technical decisions.
Demonstrated experience owning technical direction and making sound engineering decisions for production systems.
Proven ability to take end-to-end accountability for delivery, balancing scope, speed, engineering quality, reliability, and long-term technical health.
Strong understanding of modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, production operations, and incident management.
Experience identifying technical risks, resolving complex problems, and enabling engineers to deliver independently.
Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills: partnering with product and design, challenging assumptions constructively, balancing technical and business considerations, and aligning geographically distributed teams, including Japan-based stakeholders.
Experience mentoring engineers, delegating effectively, and developing technical ownership and decision-making capabilities within the team.
Experience using AI-assisted development tools or introducing AI-enabled engineering practices is an advantage.
Japanese language proficiency and familiarity with Japanese business culture are preferred.

Work arrangement
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