Engineering Manager

ZAGENO Inc.

Engineering Manager overseeing ZAGENO’s eCommerce Search Experience team for product discovery and search. Focused on improving search relevance and user experience with innovations in AI/ML.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeBangalore • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudElasticSearchGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and frontend engineers (6–10 members).
Foster a culture of ownership, high performance, and continuous improvement.
Drive sprint predictability, engineering quality, and delivery excellence.
Define and evolve the architecture for scalable, high-performance search systems.
Drive design decisions across indexing pipelines, query processing, and ranking frameworks.
Own key search metrics: relevance, latency, CTR, and conversion.
Collaborate with Product, UX, and Data teams to define and execute the search roadmap.
Oversee end-to-end delivery of search platform enhancements—from design to production.
Communicate effectively with product, business, and senior leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

9–11 years of software engineering experience with 2–4 years in engineering management
Strong experience with search and retrieval systems (e.g., Elasticsearch/OpenSearch)
Proven track record in eCommerce or large-scale product discovery platforms
Hands-on experience with Java or Python and modern backend architectures
Deep understanding of: Search relevance tuning (synonyms, boosting, ranking strategies) Indexing pipelines and data enrichment Query understanding and optimization
Experience with Agile execution, sprint predictability, and engineering metrics.
Strong system design skills for high-scale, low-latency systems.
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Working for a mission-driven business with a meaningful challenge with a positive impact on the scientific community
A clear growth perspective
A learning and development budget to enable your ambitions to grow professionally in your field
A professional and dynamic team with a global vision and mindset
An exciting, international working environment - we have more than 40 nationalities!
We’ve got your health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
Hybrid Work with 3 days work from office in our Bangalore office
Staying healthy and fit is essential - we cover a part of your gym membership!
Holidays and allotted paid time off
Paid family leave
A budget to improve your home office environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringsearch and retrieval systemsElasticsearchOpenSearchJavaPythonsearch relevance tuningindexing pipelinesdata enrichmentcloud platforms

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationstakeholder managementcollaborationownershiphigh performancecontinuous improvementengineering qualitydelivery excellence