Engineering Manager

Interview Kickstart is a premier career transformation platform turbocharging tech careers through AI upskilling.

Founded in 2014 in Santa Clara by Soham Mehta, ex-Box Engineering Leader, and Ryan Valles, a transformative P&L leader and former CEO with a track record of scaling ventures, Interview Kickstart’s vision is to help every tech professional thrive in today’s fast-evolving tech industry.

With 40+ domain-specific courses—from foundational Machine Learning and Generative AI to Agentic AI, System Design, and DSA—Interview Kickstart equips engineers, PMs, data professionals, and tech leaders to accelerate their careers. Its 600+ instructors—industry practitioners, hiring managers, and senior engineers from FAANG+ companies—bring real-world insight and cutting-edge expertise into every classroom.

Beyond upskilling, Interview Kickstart offers end-to-end career support. Personalized mock interviews, resume and LinkedIn branding, career coaching, salary negotiation guidance, and performance-based job referrals ensure that your AI upskilling translates into real career breakthroughs. Over 25,000 professionals have already advanced their careers through Interview Kickstart.

Recognized by TIME x Statista and GSV 150 as a top EdTech company, Interview Kickstart is the go-to platform for tech professionals looking to future-proof their careers in the age of AI.

Who are we, you ask?

Interviews can be hard, especially at top tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Netflix. Many candidates fall short simply because they aren’t adequately prepared. That’s where we come in. Our acclaimed courses specialize in interview preparation and transitioning into high-demand tech fields such as AI, ML, and Data Science. At Interview Kickstart, current and former hiring managers have guided over 17,000 tech professionals through transformative career journeys, ensuring their success in landing coveted positions. Think of us as “the everything store” for career transitions and interview skill development.

How do we do that, you ask?

We have a structured approach to interview success, which includes:

• Career Accelerator Course
• Comprehensive end-to-end courses and platform
• A roster of over 600+ instructors from leading Silicon Valley companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Netflix
• A holistic approach that includes live classes, mock interviews, personalized coaching, resume refinement, career strategies, and invaluable referrals

What’s more exciting is - we are completely remote, and we are hiring the best people we can find regardless of geography.

Engineering Manager 

Description

• We are seeking dynamic and experienced leaders to grow our engineering teams, scale our development & release processes, and create world-class products.
• Our platform is built on the Python Django / DRF framework with a frontend in NextJs along with MySQL/Redis and a bunch of other Amazon Web Services on the backend.
• The job requires the following:
• Hands-on experience in architecting, designing, developing & scaling complex systems with highly available set-ups and large transactional and complex web-based systems
• Strong knowledge of design patterns and their applications.
• Good know-how of standard coding practices, quality and review guidelines
• Building / Hiring high-performance software engineering teams 
• Solid understanding of business processes and the application of technology to implement and thereafter streamline them
• Experience in presenting plans, updates, and risks to all stakeholders is a critical part of the role.
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of the latest technology trends and motivate the team for the same.
• Well-versed in productivity and AI tools to increase productivity.
• A technologist at heart and is passionate about the latest technological developments.

 

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in building software products and SaaS applications with strong hands-on development experience in web technologies.
• 3+ years of experience owning and operating high-volume production applications
• 3+ years of solid experience in designing loosely coupled and scalable architecture.
• 3+ years of collaborating experience with product design teams, customers, and other stakeholders to have timely deliverables.
• 3+ years of experience in AWS from an architecture and cost perspective.
• 2+ years of experience in building high-performance engineering teams and delivering great software.
• 2+ years of recent experience in managing software development teams with full responsibility for software releases, processes, and people management.
• Exceptionally well-organized individual with great listening, communication, and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

 

Key Responsibilities:

1. Ownership  - Must have trait 

• Provide leadership, guidance, and support to engineers, fostering their professional growth and ensuring a positive work environment.

1. Technology:

• Identify key system components, interfaces, and dependencies and prepare high level overview / documentation
• Participate in designing scalable systems and provide inputs to handle scalability, data volume, concurrency and system bottlenecks. 
• Review code and ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and quality guidelines. 
• Implement and maintain robust testing processes to ensure the reliability and scalability of the services and the applications.
• Work on bench-marking different technology options with underlying use cases to make the right architectural decisions.
• Perform intermittent code reviews to ensure high production code quality.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Closely work with team to ensure timely, bug-free releases
• Create RCA documentation and prevent the issues in future
• Arrange for retrospective calls to discuss learnings from the completed sprint

1. Management:

• Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to understand the product roadmap and plan the resources. 
• Strong experience with Build and Release, Agile processes, and Estimation/Planning
• Set up best practices and identify areas of continuous improvement of the product development life cycle.
• Should be able to manage the resources including creating POD charters for reutilizing the resources efficiently to improve the velocity and stability of the deliverables.
• Identify and mitigate risks in the deliverables.
• Managing the engineering team and taking care of their performance evaluations.
• Perform regular 1:1 meetings and share & seek feedback
• Work on measures to optimize team productivity and engineers' professional development
• Clear communication and 100% visibility of project status to all stakeholders

 

Why This Role Might Be For You

• You want to lead an engineering team in a high-ownership environment where you’re responsible for driving projects from concept to delivery.
• You’re excited by the opportunity to influence architecture, tooling, and engineering best practices across teams.
• You care deeply about building scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems while promoting a culture of quality, testing, and clean code.
• You enjoy partnering with product, design, and other stakeholders to deliver customer-centric solutions that solve real problems.
• You want to mentor and grow engineering talent while helping shape the technical direction and culture of a fast-paced, impact-driven organization.