Engineering Manager

About the role: We, at ThoughtSpot, are looking for an Engineering Leader - Backend to lead and grow the team based out of Bangalore. Come join a team of world-class engineers in the Search Data team building ThoughtSpot’s relational search engine. This team is responsible for building ThoughtSpot’s natural language relational search engine, personalised data exploration engine, universal object search engine, AI powered ranking and relevance engine, distributed in-memory search indexing infrastructure and much more. In this role, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible to manage a team that designs, builds and scales to help millions of business-people make smarter decisions. What you'll do: Manage and mentor backend engineers to be more effective at their work and grow their careers. Drive the quality and stability of the product by getting hands-on as required with code, design and test plan reviews, and debugging distributed systems issues Build a culture of operational excellence with a focus on observability, performance, scalability, cloud cost and security. Architect, design, develop and operationalize high performance, scalable, resilient and secure systems. Collaborate with multiple stakeholders across product and engineering teams, to establish KPI for different services and own end-to-end delivery and lifecycle management Identify and help implement the most appropriate technologies, protocols and frameworks leading to efficient solutions Defining strategy and technical roadmap for continuously improving release and deployment velocity, scale, performance and reliability of ThoughtSpot services Provide technical leadership, and lead initiatives across global team Recruit, inspire, and build world-class teams. Develop and grow leaders to continue pushing the boundaries of engineering excellence and execution for on-time delivery of projects with top quality Help evolve a culture of selfless-excellence in which each person does the best work of their lives and amplifies everyone around. Required skills/qualifications BS/MS in Computer Science or related fields, with 10+ years of experience in software development, 3+ years of of experience in leading teams Prior expertise in building SaaS platforms and applications Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development Experience in architecting secure, highly available, and performant systems Experience in one or more programming languages C++, Java, Python, Go. Brings in a high level of self-motivation to solve complex problems and challenges You have experience in hiring, managing, and growing teams You love building and leading exceptional teams in a fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful You are obsessed with customer-experience and uncompromising engineering standards Mandatory and Required Skills for All ThoughtSpot Roles Spotters are expected to demonstrate AI literacy and workflow integration to include to ability to: Comfortably and confidently integrate artificial intelligence into their daily workflow to increase productivity and quality. Hands-on experience to leverage AI tools (industry-leading LLMs) to increase productivity, automate routine tasks, and improve work quality. Speak to the experience of using AI for research, content creation, and document summarization while maintaining ownership of judgment and final decisions. Write effective prompts to get the most accurate and creative results from AI tools. Spotters are expected to exemplify these key traits and AI Mindset: Curiosity in exploring new AI tools Adaptability to quickly learn and implement new, emerging AI technologies Critical thinking to know when to identify when AI should be used versus when human judgement is necessary This combination of curiosity, adaptability, and discernment defines the AI mindset, and it’s required for every role at ThoughtSpot. AI Mindset for All Spotters At ThoughtSpot, we b ... (truncated, view full listing at source)