Engineering manager - Application

Role: Engineering Manager (Application)

Location: Delhi / Bengaluru (5 Days Work from Office) 

Experience: 8+ years

About ONDC

ONDC is democratising digital commerce for all of India. The applications, developer SDKs and protocol tooling engineers build here don't sit in a demo — they reach shopkeepers, farmers and consumers across the country, and help decide how the nation transacts.

That is where you come in.

The Role

This is a chance to build for a billion people. You'll lead the engineers building the applications, developer SDKs and protocol tooling that bring ONDC's network to life.

You'll grow and inspire a team, mentor junior engineers into their best work, and put the right people and technology on the right problems — partnering with the Application Architect on the bigger picture. You'll also help pull the team into the future of engineering, championing agent-assisted, AI-driven software development.

This is a high-ownership role reporting to Engineering Leadership and partnering closely with the Application Architect.

What You'll Own

· Mentor and grow the team — coach junior engineers through pairing, reviews and career development.

· Plan, prioritise and deliver many concurrent projects on time with predictable quality across the portfolio.

· Deploy the right engineers, frameworks and tooling on the right problems.

· Partner with the Application Architect to consolidate overlapping apps and SDKs into shared building blocks that accelerate everyone.

· Champion AI-assisted engineering — adopt and spread agent-assisted software development best practices, and lead by example.

· Own quality — strong code review, testing, CI/CD and observability across every owned surface.

What Success Looks Like

You become the trusted lead of an engineering team that ships consistently — with mentored engineers doing their best work, shared building blocks replacing one-off apps, and AI-assisted engineering practices spreading across the team.

What We're Looking For

· 8+ years in software engineering, including 2+ years managing and mentoring engineers.

· Proven delivery of web/mobile apps and developer SDKs at scale, from concept to production.

· Strong front-end (React / Next.js, TypeScript) and back-end / microservice / API foundations.

· Hands-on fluency with agent-assisted software development best practices, with a track record of moving teams in that direction.

· Sound build-vs-reuse-vs-consolidate judgment in partnership with architects.

· Cloud, containers and CI/CD know-how, with excellent communication and stakeholder skills.