Engineering Manager

Otavo.ai is a global AI-driven platform focused on senior recruitment for roles ranging from $50K USD to $2M+ in compensation. Founded by serial entrepreneur Mahak Garg, a Stanford MBA and Forbes Under 30 honoree, the company builds on her prior experience scaling Udayy with leading global investors. Otavo.ai currently partners with 30+ fast-growing companies worldwide to address their senior talent hiring needs. The platform maintains a curated network of 10,000+ high-performing candidates with 5–20 years of experience, including alumni from top global schools and leaders across marketing, product, and strategy in major firms and startups. For each open role, Otavo.ai provides a small set of pre-vetted, well-matched candidates rather than long lists of low-fit profiles, enhancing hiring efficiency and quality.

Position: Engineering Manager

Location: Gurugram

Compensation: ₹70 LPA+ plus ESOPs

Company Overview:

A well-funded Indian deep-tech company is hiring an Engineering Manager. It builds quantum-safe cybersecurity products for enterprises and government, recently raised ₹200 crore, and is valued at over ₹1,000 crore. This is a hands-on, full-stack engineering leadership role for someone who has built and scaled complete products.

Location & Work Mode

-> Gurugram, work from office.

Compensation

-> ₹70 LPA fixed

-> ESOPs.

Key Responsibilities

-> Lead and grow an engineering team of 15–20 engineers.

-> Own engineering delivery across the full application, frontend and backend.

-> Make architecture and technical decisions while staying hands-on and close to product.

-> Drive scalability, performance and reliability as the products grow.

-> Balance execution, team management and product outcomes in a fast-moving, low-silo environment.

Must Have

-> Someone who has built and owned a complete software product end-to-end, not just a module or component.

-> Someone who has worked hands-on across both frontend and backend development.

-> Someone who has worked at a product or technology startup.

-> Someone who has managed a team of at least 10 engineers.

Good to Have

-> Someone who has worked at a startup building networking products or solutions.

-> Someone who has led an engineering team of 15–20 engineers.

-> Someone who has solved scalability, performance, concurrency or latency challenges in application architecture.

-> Someone who has worked with SQL databases.

-> Someone who has used AI tools or features in their product or engineering work.