At EG, we build software that makes a difference.
Our industry-specific software helps people and businesses work smarter every day. From doctors spending more time with patients to builders running safer, more efficient projects.
Our software is built by peers from the industry and backed by EG's scale for stability, innovation, and security. We are a thriving global workforce of 3000+ employees, with a 900+ strong team based in Mangaluru, India.
If you are ambitious, curious, and take pride in ownership, you will thrive here. You will be trusted to grow your skills, shape meaningful solutions, and make an impact together with talented colleagues across borders.
Work Mode: Work from Office - Mangaluru
Location: Mangaluru
Years of Experience: 10+ years
As part of the department:
Facility & Energy Management is a fast-growing department of 80+ engineers building software that helps organizations optimize energy consumption, reduce costs, and run smarter, more sustainable facilities. Our product portfolio spans IoT sensor integration, AI-driven analytics, and operational management tools used by customers across Scandinavia and Europe every day.
We operate across two geographies, Mangaluru and Scandinavia, working as one close-knit team across time zones. Our work sits at the intersection of sustainability, enterprise software, and emerging technology, making us one of EG's most strategically important and technically exciting departments.
As Team Manager, you will oversee 2-3 product teams totaling 20-25 engineers, serving as the daily people leader, technical advisor, and delivery bridge between Mangaluru and our Scandinavian colleagues.
Your role, key Responsibilities:
- Support the Manager for F&EMS in fostering closer leadership proximity for engineers across the department.
- Balance being both a productive resource and a skilled professional, typically spending 40%-70% of time on management tasks, with the remainder spent on the same delivery tasks as the team.
- Assess and resolve complex software development challenges, making sound and confident decisions aligned with R&D priorities.
- Oversee a team of engineers and a business area with added complexity, and be responsible for day-to-day operations and people management.
- You are expected to have team management experience and lead the team accordingly, while continuing to receive support from the department manager to whom you report.
- Responsible for translating departmental plans into operational goals and priorities to address challenges and for leading the team in collaboration with the department manager to whom you report. Lead the team with direction and input provided by senior leaders.
Your workday, your tasks and mandatory skill set:
- Leading and managing 20–25 engineers across 2–3 product/feature teams — setting direction, removing blockers, and keeping teams motivated and focused.
- Collaborating daily with Product Owners to ensure epics and stories are well-understood, refined, and ready for implementation.
- Supporting teams in translating business requirements into well-designed technical solutions.
- Running regular 1:1s, performance conversations, and growth planning sessions with team members.
- Partnering with the Manager on capacity planning, team structure, and workforce planning to scale teams effectively.
- Taking an active role in recruiting, screening candidates, conducting interviews, and onboarding new hires into the team culture.
- Acting as the primary liaison between Mangalore engineering teams and Scandinavian product/business stakeholders, ensuring alignment across time zones.
- Tracking and improving team health metrics: delivery predictability, velocity, quality, and team engagement.
- Championing engineering best practices, including code quality, DevOps culture, CI/CD, and continuous improvement across all teams you manage.
You are the ideal candidate if
You are an experienced engineering leader who combines strong people management instincts with a solid technical foundation. You understand what it takes to run distributed, cross-cultural teams at scale, and you know how to create conditions where engineers do their best work.
Mandatory Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Science, or a related field.
- 10+ years of overall experience in software development, with at least 2-3 years in a people management or team lead role.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and develop large teams (15+ members) across multiple squads or product lines.
- Proven experience working in cross-cultural, distributed engineering environments, ideally involving European stakeholders.
- Exceptional communication skills: able to represent team needs upward and translate business priorities downward clearly.
- Knowledge of Scrum/Kanban Agile delivery processes and the ability to use metrics to drive team discussions and continuous improvement.
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills with a data-informed approach to team performance.
- Proven experience in software development within their respective technical area (e.g., backend, frontend, mobile, cloud, embedded systems, data engineering, AI/ML, DevOps, QA automation, or enterprise applications).
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development and productivity tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar LLM-based tools) to drive engineering efficiency and team-wide AI adoption.
Good to have Skills:
- Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery at scale (multiple teams, SAFe, or similar frameworks).
- Familiarity with microservices, architecture and cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
- Interest in learning Scandinavian or European ways of working and culture.
What you can expect from us:
- A professional and business-driven environment with lots of exciting projects
- Super talented and committed colleagues who know that they only get better through collaboration and active knowledge sharing.
- Possibility of personal and professional development
- Targeted training courses in our EG Academy
- Best in industry employee benefits
Our Values
- Lead the Industry - We bring deep industry expertise and help our customers lead their industry
- Make it Happen - We take ownership, move fast and deliver real impact
- Stronger Together - We collaborate across borders with high standards, trust, openness and no politics.
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