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.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across global teams.
- Experience working with marketplace platforms or operational systems such as finance, payments, manufacturing or quality control.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed systems.
- Experience with internal tooling platforms such as Retool.
Good to Have:
What's In It For You – India:
- Build Something from the Ground Up: An opportunity to establish and lead the Marketplace Operations engineering team in India and shape its growth.
- Global Business Impact: Work on technology that powers a global manufacturing marketplace and directly contributes to operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
- Technical Ownership: Take ownership of critical engineering decisions, architecture, system reliability and the evolution of core marketplace capabilities.
- Work on Meaningful Engineering Challenges: Lead the transformation of legacy systems into modern, scalable and independently managed services.
- Modern Technology Ecosystem: Work with technologies including Python, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and event-driven architectures.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with global Product, Operations and Engineering teams, contributing to strategic decisions and business priorities.
- Leadership and Growth: Shape engineering practices, build high-performing teams and create a lasting impact on the organisation's engineering capabilities.
Skills Required
- 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
- Experience building engineering teams from the ground up or significantly scaling existing teams
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience driving technical decisions and guiding architecture
- Experience with monolith decomposition, incremental service extraction, microservices architecture, and API or event contract design
- Experience managing production systems, 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
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across global teams
- Experience with marketplace platforms or operational systems such as finance, payments, manufacturing, or quality control
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed systems
- Experience with internal tooling platforms such as Retool
Protolabs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Protolabs and has not been reviewed or approved by Protolabs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision options are broadly available and described as good to excellent. Additional protections like short- and long-term disability and life insurance bolster the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A starting PTO allotment plus paid holidays, along with added wellness and volunteer time, is emphasized, with some roles noting PTO growth over tenure. Paid caregiver leave appears in postings and supports flexibility for life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting is offered, supporting long-term savings. This foundation is frequently cited alongside core financial benefits as a strong element of total rewards.
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What We Do
Protolabs is the world's fastest digital manufacturing source for rapid prototyping and on-demand production. The technology-enabled company produces custom parts and assemblies in as fast as 1 day with automated 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding processes. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables accelerated time to market, reduces development and production costs, and minimizes risk throughout the product life cycle. 3D Printing Our 3D printing service offers a wide selection of materials and technologies to create prototypes and end-use parts with complex geometries and detailed features. With tight process controls, careful design reviews, and extensive quality monitoring, we ensure precise and repeatable 3D-printed parts, every time. CNC Machining We use 3- and 5-axis milling along with turning to machine parts from commercial-grade plastics and metals. Our online quoting system and automated manufacturing process enable us to ship parts within 24 hours, helping customers accelerate development and reduce time to market. Sheet Metal Fabrication Protolabs is an industry leader in quick-turn sheet metal parts for both prototyping and low-volume production. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables us to fabricate sheet metal parts in as fast as 5 days. Additionally, we can support our customers’ development efforts with component assemblies, several finish options, and screen printing. Injection Molding Our injection molding service offers two options—prototyping and on-demand manufacturing—which provide customers a tooling solution that aligns with their project’s requirements. It’s used for quick-turn prototyping, bridge tooling, and low-volume production of up to 10,000+ parts in 15 days or less.
