Engineering Manager - Software

Quin | About the Company

Why this role exists

What you'll own

• Lead the software team day to day
• Grow engineers.
• Build a culture where everyone owns their work from start to finish, where problem-solving is an obsession, and people and achievements are celebrated.

• Own software hiring with senior leadership: plan the roles, run the technical assessments and make the call.
• Raise the bar with every hire.

• Set and enforce standards for code review, testing, CI/CD and documentation across mobile, backend and web.
• Improve quality aggressively. Move the team from manual testing at the end towards automated testing built in from the start.
• Remove single points of failure. Every critical system has a second owner and documentation that someone else can use.

• Review code and designs every week. Know the codebase well enough to spot risk early.
• Step in on hard problems: debug a production issue, unblock a stuck feature, or pair with an engineer on a tricky design.

• Work with the TPM on realistic estimates and capacity, so delivery dates are consistently hit.
• Work with Product and Design on requirements, playing a key role on what & why, not just how.
• Work with the Embedded / Platform Lead where app and cloud meet firmware and BLE.

Who you are

• You're a builder of people.
• You have grit.
• You're optimistic and honest.
• You know and can communicate the why.
• You're still an engineer. (eg You review code every week and would rather work on a hard bug than write a status report.)
• You're present. (eg You lead from the floor in Hyderabad, and your team always knows where to find you.)

Must-haves

• 7+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years managing engineers directly in a product company.
• Strong hands-on background in at least one of: mobile (iOS or Android), backend/cloud, or web. Working knowledge of the others.
• A track record of growing engineers, with people you can name who moved up under your leadership.
• Experience introducing engineering standards from an early stage: code review, automated testing, CI/CD and documentation.
• Hiring experience: you have designed technical assessments and built a team.
• Clear, direct written and spoken communication skills without depending on AI polish. You can explain a technical decision to an engineer, a product manager and/or a client.
• You use AI tools heavily in your own work and know how to make a team faster with them, but you could do the job without it.

Strong pluses

• Apps that work with connected hardware: BLE, IoT, wearables or automotive.
• Real-time or safety-critical systems, where a missed event matters.
• Data-heavy products: streaming sensor data, analytics or ML pipelines.
• Moving a team from manual QA to automated testing.
• Platforms serving enterprise customers with security and compliance needs (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).

How we work

Our hiring process & AI use