Easyship - Engineering Manager(Ruby on Rails)

• Easyship powers the shipping operations of over 100,000 merchants worldwide — and the engineering behind it is what makes that possible. Our platform handles real-time carrier rate comparisons, automated shipping rules, tax and duty calculations, label generation, and deep integrations with carriers across 200+ destinations. It's a technically rich domain, and the engineering work is genuinely interesting. • We're hiring an Engineering Manager for our Bangalore team — someone who leads by doing, not just directing. This is a hands-on EM role: you'll be deeply involved in technical decisions, architecture, and code, while also owning the health, growth, and output of your squad. You'll work within a small, product-aligned squad model — typically one EM, one senior backend, one senior frontend, a QA, and a PM — meaning your technical fingerprints are on everything the squad ships. • The right person for this role is equally comfortable reviewing a pull request, designing a system architecture, and running a 1:1. You care about clean, maintainable code. You've started to explore how AI tooling can accelerate your team's output — whether that's agentic workflows, LLM integrations, or AI-assisted development — and you're curious about where it's going. You thrive in a distributed, EU-hours environment and know how to build trust across timezones. • This is a full-time, onsite role based at our Bangalore office, working broadly aligned to EU/UK hours to collaborate effectively with our engineering teams in Portugal and across Europe. • What You’ll Be Responsible For: • Lead and mentor a backend-focused squad, driving technical quality, delivery velocity, and team wellbeing • Stay hands-on with the Ruby on Rails codebase — actively contributing to architecture decisions, code reviews, and complex feature development • Own the technical architecture of your squad’s domain: design scalable, maintainable backend systems on our Rails monolith and evolving microservices layer • Partner with product managers and engineering leadership to translate roadmap priorities into clear technical plans with realistic timelines • Champion engineering best practices — testing, observability, security, and clean code — and raise the bar across the team • Identify and introduce AI-augmented workflows (agentic tooling, LLM integrations, AI-assisted development) to accelerate delivery and reduce toil • Drive continuous improvement: own retrospectives, unblock your team, and create an environment where engineers grow fast • Collaborate cross-functionally with other EMs and the Head of Engineering to improve engineering processes across the organisation • You Might Be a Good Fit If… • You have 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an engineering management or technical lead capacity • You’re deeply hands-on with Ruby on Rails — this is not a “managed from a distance” role; you’ll be in the code regularly • You have strong architecture experience: you’ve designed and evolved backend systems at scale, made hard tradeoffs, and owned the consequences • You’re comfortable working on a large Rails monolith and have opinions about how to evolve it sustainably • You have exposure to agentic AI or LLM tooling — whether in production, side projects, or active experimentation — and can bring that thinking into the team • You’re a strong async communicator and can collaborate effectively with distributed teams across EU/India timezones • You lead with empathy — you know how to give direct feedback, run a good 1:1, and create psychological safety in a team • Nice to have: experience with microservices, Kafka, or distributed systems in a high-volume SaaS environment • Nice to have: prior experience working in a shipping, logistics, or eCommerce platform • If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. • What We Bring to the Table as an Employer: • Generous remuneration and stock units • Comprehensive health coverage • We reimburse gym and wellness expenses so you can invest in your health • Zomato digital meal credits and a pantry full of wholesome snacks to keep you fuelled through the workday • The freedom to ‘Work from Anywhere’ for 4 weeks in a year • Generous vacation policy, plus duvet days and mental health days to truly recharge • How we value inclusion in our recruitment practices: