Software Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager - Software

Location: Pune / Bangalore

About Spiro Spiro is building the operating system for electric mobility across Africa - spanning battery swapping infrastructure, fleet operations, energy commerce, and CRM - live across nine markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, Togo, and Cameroon). Backed by $200+M in funding, we're working on top-notch, cutting-edge technology to solve problems at genuine IoT, fintech, and mobility scale - real-time data pipelines, connected hardware, and platforms that run physical infrastructure, not just dashboards. We build systems designed to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, and engineered for 99.999% uptime.

We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders to join us in Pune or Bangalore to help build this platform. This isn't a big company problems, big company headcount environment - you'll own systems end-to-end, with a bar for technical rigor set by experience at top product tech companies, but a working style built for a company still being built.

The Role

We're looking for an Engineering Manager who has led high-performing teams at scale and wants to trade org-chart depth for real ownership. You'll run one or more core engineering teams - hiring, coaching, unblocking, and shipping - while staying close enough to the code to make sharp technical calls, owning your systems end-to-end.

What You'll Do

• Own delivery and quality for your team(s) end-to-end, balancing roadmap commitments against technical debt and platform reliability across our nine live markets.
• Hire and grow engineers; run structured interview loops, write leveling rubrics, and build scorecards that raise the bar rather than just fill seats.
• Partner with Architecture and Product to translate ambiguous business needs (e.g., new market launches, new hardware integrations) into scoped, sequenced engineering plans.
• Drive engineering excellence: CI/CD health, DORA metrics, incident response quality, and on-call sustainability across systems built to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, engineered for 99.999% uptime.
• Represent your team in OKR planning and hold it accountable to measurable outcomes (swap uptime, pipeline latency, deployment frequency, defect escape rate).
• Be hands-on when it matters - reviewing designs, unblocking incidents, and occasionally writing code - without becoming a bottleneck.

What You Bring

• 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years directly managing engineers, ideally at a top product tech company followed by high-growth startup experience.
• Track record of shipping distributed, data-intensive, or IoT-adjacent systems in production at meaningful scale.
• Strong fundamentals in event-driven architectures, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to build and run structured hiring processes, not just conduct interviews.
• Comfort operating with incomplete information, thin support structures, and a figure it out mandate - this is a startup, not a division.
• Strong written communication; you can turn ambiguity into a clear plan colleagues can execute against.

Nice to Have

• Experience with emerging-market or multi-country infrastructure products.
• Exposure to IoT messaging platforms, OTA firmware delivery, or fleet/telematics systems.
• Experience managing globally distributed or hybrid teams.