Manager, Software Engineering

Join Kobie's India Tech Hub as a Manager of Software Engineering, leading one or more Agile development squads within the Software Engineering group.

As a key leader, you will work closely with Product Owners, QA, Architects, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into well-designed technical solutions.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading Agile development squads, delivering scalable and high-quality platform capabilities and client solutions
• Partnering with Product Owners, Solution Architects, and teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Driving end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring predictable execution, high quality, and alignment with product and client implementation goals
• Mentoring and supporting engineers through technical guidance, coaching, and performance feedback
• Contributing to the design and development of modern distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Championing strong engineering practices, including code quality, automated testing, documentation, and operational readiness
• Working with QA and SDET teams to improve test automation coverage and quality engineering practices
• Defining and evolving CI/CD strategies and infrastructure, enabling automated, secure, and efficient deployments
• Fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment that drives team momentum, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• 8-10 years of software development experience, with 2+ years of engineering leadership or team management
• Proven experience leading Agile development teams delivering production-grade software systems
• Hands-on expertise in modern backend and frontend technologies (e.g., Java, Spring, Angular) and testing methodologies
• Strong understanding of modern Java architecture, including event-driven design, Kafka, pub/sub messaging patterns, and scalable microservices
• Familiarity with event-driven design and messaging platforms such as Kafka or similar pub/sub systems
• Experience running production workloads in cloud-based, containerized environments using tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Demonstrated ability to define and evolve CI/CD strategies and infrastructure, enabling automated, secure, and efficient deployments
• Knowledge of test automation strategy and frameworks, including test coverage analysis, parallel test execution, and integration into CI pipelines
• Experience with testing tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Rest Assured, Postman, SoapUI, or similar frameworks and test-first development approaches, preferably BDD
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization
• Ability to mentor engineers, drive team accountability, and maintain focus on delivering high-quality outcomes