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Engineering Manager

Aurora Energy Research
Gurugram, IND
Full-time
Senior
Hybrid
Discovered 1 months ago
TypeScriptNodeReactExpressJSSQLNoSQL

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Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the Gurugram engineering team, creating a positive, inclusive, high-trust culture with strong team health and engagement.
  • Hire, onboard, and retain great engineers, owning the hiring process end-to-end in partnership with HR and engineering leadership.
  • Coach, mentor, and develop team members through 1:1s, goal setting, feedback, and growth plans; support performance management when needed.
  • Contribute as a senior engineer: write and review code, guide architecture and technical design, and continuously raise the bar on engineering standards (testing, reliability, and maintainability).
  • Run effective engineering processes and ceremonies (planning, daily coordination, reviews, and especially high-quality retrospectives) that drive continuous improvement and predictable delivery.
  • Partner with Product and stakeholders to shape priorities, manage expectations, and ensure the team delivers valuable outcomes with a sustainable pace and high quality

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • Strong people leadership and emotional intelligence: able to build trust, communicate clearly, handle difficult conversations, and foster psychological safety.
  • Proven experience coaching, mentoring, and developing engineers (including regular 1:1s, feedback, goal setting, and progression support), with a genuine interest in people development.
  • Demonstrated hiring capability: defining roles, running structured interviews, assessing both technical and behavioural skills, and making high-quality hiring decisions.
  • Experience running effective team processes (e.g., planning, reviews, and retrospectives) and using outcomes to drive continuous improvement.
  • Able to lead within a distributed environment and collaborate effectively with Oxford-based colleagues through proactive communication and inclusion.
  • Experience working hands-on with our (or similar) stack: Node/TypeScript, ExpressJS, React, SQL/NoSQL, AWS and microservices.
  • Strong organisational skills: can balance competing priorities, create clarity, and follow through on commitments.
  • Experience using delivery metrics (e.g., DORA) to inform team practices.
  • Experience with engineering quality practices such as unit testing and CI/CD pipelines.

What we offer

  • Accidental, term life and medical insurance
  • Hybrid Work model
  • Employee’s Provident Fund Scheme
  • Maternity leave
  • A fun, informal, collaborative and international work culture
  • Access to the Aurora Academy, our training programme offering a range of opportunities to develop your skills within the responsibilities of your role and within the wider context of the industry.
  • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), offering a complete support network that offers expert advice and compassionate guidance 24/7/365, covering a wide range of personal and professional aspects

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