Engineering Manager

About the role

Join the Team as Our New Engineering Manager – MP Marketplace Operations!

Are you passionate about building high-performing engineering teams and solving complex technical challenges? Join Protolabs Network as our Engineering Manager – MP Marketplace Operations in India, where you'll have the opportunity to build and lead a team from the ground up, shape the technical direction of a critical global manufacturing marketplace, and drive the transformation of legacy systems into modern, scalable solutions. If you bring strong technical expertise in Python, a passion for engineering excellence, and the ability to translate business challenges into impactful technology solutions, we'd love to hear from you!

What You'll Do: - Build and lead the Marketplace Operations engineering team in India, including hiring, onboarding, mentoring and developing engineers.

- Define the team's technical direction, lead architecture and design decisions, and contribute hands-on to development when required.

- Drive the reliability, scalability and operational health of marketplace systems through effective incident management, observability and continuous improvement.

- Lead the gradual migration of marketplace capabilities from the legacy supply monolith to independent, scalable services.

- Own critical marketplace capabilities across the complete order lifecycle, including order allocation, supplier management, production workflows, quality control and shipment planning.

- Balance day-to-day operational priorities with long-term engineering initiatives, ensuring consistent delivery and continuous improvement.

- Collaborate closely with Product, Operations and global Engineering teams to define roadmaps, establish priorities and deliver business-critical solutions.

- Establish engineering standards, best practices and effective ways of working to strengthen the overall backend engineering ecosystem.

What It Takes:

- 10+ years of experience building, developing and managing web applications and backend services in production environments.

- 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring and developing technical talent.

- Proven experience building engineering teams from the ground up or scaling existing teams significantly.

- Strong proficiency in Python, with the ability to drive technical decisions, guide architecture and contribute hands-on when needed.

- Demonstrated experience in monolith decomposition, incremental service extraction, microservices architecture and API/event contract design.

- Strong experience managing production systems, including on-call support, incident management, observability and reliability engineering.

- Hands-on experience with relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL.

- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure and CI/CD environments.