Engineering Manager

DO:

• •Highlight hiring, mentoring, and team scaling initiatives
• •Show measurable improvements in engagement or retention
• •Include examples of 1:1s, career development, and performance reviews
• •Demonstrate ability to build culture and reduce attrition

DON'T:

• •List leadership without impact
• •Ignore team size or composition
• •Omit metrics around engagement or onboarding
• •Overemphasize technical skills without leadership outcomes

DO:

• •Mention OKRs, sprint execution, and delivery predictability
• •Quantify system reliability, uptime, or incident reduction
• •Showcase collaboration with Product, Design, and QA
• •Highlight ability to manage multiple product lines or squads

DON'T:

• •Leave out impact of delivery cadence
• •Forget to mention system uptime or incidents
• •Exclude cross-functional alignment
• •Use generic 'delivered features' without measurable impact

DO:

• •Show how engineering efforts contributed to business growth
• •Highlight OKR success rates and roadmap execution
• •Demonstrate balancing short-term delivery with long-term scalability
• •Include stakeholder communication and executive alignment

DON'T:

• •Focus only on code-level achievements
• •Exclude revenue/user growth impact
• •Forget product partnership or design alignment
• •Neglect to mention scaling beyond technical execution

Performance Metrics:

• •Delivered 99.99% platform uptime across 12 months
• •Improved engineering engagement score by 24 points
• •Reduced onboarding time by 50% with new buddy program
• •Achieved 92% OKR completion rate over 6 quarters

Scale Metrics:

• •Managed teams of 12+ engineers across backend, frontend, and QA
• •Scaled platform to 10M+ active users with <1% incident rate
• •Spearheaded hiring of 8 engineers in under 12 months
• •Oversaw delivery of 3 product lines simultaneously

Business Metrics:

• •Supported revenue growth through 5M+ user product adoption
• •Reduced operational downtime by 85%
• •Improved productivity via re-architecture and CI/CD adoption
• •Increased client satisfaction by aligning technical and business goals

Leadership:

People Management, Mentorship, Hiring & Scaling, Performance Reviews, Team Engagement

Technical Management:

Engineering Roadmap Planning, Agile Delivery, OKRs, Cross-functional Collaboration, Technical Program Management

Tech Stack:

AWS, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, Node.js, Java, Go, React, Datadog