Senior Engineering Manager

About Client

We are a next-generation, product-first HR Tech platform built for enterprises that demand configurability, scale, and intelligence. Designed by HR practitioners and engineered for complexity, We enable organizations to reimagine talent, skills, and employee experience without legacy constraints.

Post product–market validation we are entering a focused scale-up phase, working with real

enterprise customers across India and global markets.

Role Purpose

The Tech Engineering Lead owns end-to-end engineering outcomes across execution,

architecture, quality, security, and delivery. This role blends deep hands-on technical

leadership with team management, production ownership, and close collaboration with

Product, Business, and Customers.

The role is expected to diagnose problems, challenge assumptions, and design pragmatic

solutions—not just execute instructions.

End to end own the engineering execution for critical platform capabilities and product

modules, working closely with the CTO, Product, and Business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & Architecture

• Own end-to-end delivery of core product modules and platform capabilities

• Design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems

• Make pragmatic architectural trade-offs balancing speed, quality, and scale

• Remain hands-on through coding, reviews, and production debugging

Quality, Security & Compliance

• Enforce high engineering standards across code quality, testing, performance, and reliability

• Own Information Security and compliance standards including ISO 27001, SOC 2, DPDP, and applicable regulations

• Design, implement, and monitor data security controls (access, encryption, logging,

• Partner on audits and ensure ongoing compliance readiness

Team & Resource Management

• Lead and mentor the engineering team with clear ownership and accountability

• Align resources and skills to delivery priorities

• Identify capacity and capability gaps and work with leadership on hiring or upskilling

Delivery & Production Ownership

• Own project delivery and release execution end-to-end

• Lead daily execution rituals, prioritization, and trade-off decisions

• Participate in client-facing technical discussions and own relationships with client IT teams

• Monitor production systems and infrastructure health, availability, and performance

• Lead incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements

Ideal Candidate Profile

Must Have

• 8–12 years of strong, hands-on engineering experience

• Background in product-led SaaS or platform companies (non-services mindset)

• Proven ability to deliver complex systems with high quality

• Strong problem-solving and structured thinking, should demonstrate Benevolve

values

• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous startup environments

• Ability to clearly articulate technical trade-offs to stakeholders

Good to Have

• Experience in HR Tech or enterprise B2B platforms

• Exposure to cloud-native and microservices architectures

• Experience working with distributed teams

What Success Looks Like

• Predictable, high-quality engineering delivery

• Stable, scalable, and secure production systems

• Minimal critical production incidents and reduced tech debt

• Strong trust with Product, Business, Customers, and Client IT teams

• Audit-ready security and compliance posture

Why Join Us Now

• Join post-validation, pre-scale—where your decisions have lasting impact

• Work directly with founders and product leadership with minimal hierarchy

• Shape the core architecture, quality culture, and engineering standards

• Build a platform used by real enterprises solving real problems

• Opportunity to grow with the organization