Senior Engineering Manager

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Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, Shanghai, CHN
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software
The Role
Lead and develop an engineering team, improve delivery and system reliability, influence architecture and technical decisions, drive cross-functional projects, and build engineering capability through hiring, coaching, and process improvements.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager with strong technical judgement, people-management capabilities, and experience driving complex engineering initiatives.

You will lead an engineering team and help improve product delivery, system reliability, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires the ability to connect business priorities with long-term technical development, identify critical issues across the engineering organization, and drive continuous improvements in team capability, engineering practices, and delivery mechanisms.

You will also play a key role in major technical decisions, complex projects, and the continued development of the engineering organization.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the day-to-day management of an engineering team, including goal setting, resource planning, team development, and capability building.
  • Contribute to engineering strategy and planning, translating business objectives into appropriate technical and organizational priorities. 
  • Lead important engineering projects from requirements analysis and solution design through resource coordination, delivery, and post-launch improvement.
  • Participate in architecture design and technical reviews for core systems, identify key risks, and drive issues to resolution.
  • Continuously improve engineering processes, development standards, and quality mechanisms to enhance delivery efficiency and system reliability.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration across product, AI, engineering, and other relevant teams to achieve complex goals.
  • Identify long-term issues within the technology stack and engineering organization, and promote reusable solutions and systematic improvements.
  • Remain closely involved in critical technical decisions and complex problem-solving, balancing delivery speed, technical quality, and long-term sustainability.
  • Build a strong talent pipeline through hiring, coaching, performance feedback, and the development of key team members.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related discipline.
  • Extensive software engineering experience, together with experience managing an engineering or technical team.
  • Proven experience leading the design, development, and delivery of complex systems or large-scale engineering projects.
  • Strong technical foundations and sound architectural judgement, with the ability to understand and challenge important technical decisions.
  • Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle, with a systematic view of engineering quality, delivery efficiency, system reliability, and development standards.
  • Deep practical experience in one or more areas such as backend engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, test automation, quality engineering, or engineering productivity.
  • Ability to identify engineering problems at both system and process levels, and drive solutions through technology, tools, operating mechanisms, and team collaboration.
  • Strong goal-setting, project-management, and cross-functional execution skills, with the ability to deliver results in complex environments.
  • Proven people-management and talent-development capabilities, with experience building stable and effective engineering teams.
  • Ability to balance business priorities, technical quality, system complexity, and long-term architectural evolution.
  • Strong communication skills, ownership, and the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across different functions and levels.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with enterprise software, SaaS, AI-powered products, or other technically complex products.
  • Experience with data-intensive systems, automated testing frameworks, engineering quality systems, or internal engineering platforms.
  • Experience building an engineering team, technical system, or development practice from the ground up.
  • Experience with cross-team technical governance, engineering transformation, or organizational change.
  • A track record of combining strong people leadership with active involvement in core technical and architectural decisions.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related discipline
  • Extensive software engineering experience and experience managing an engineering or technical team
  • Proven experience leading design, development, and delivery of complex systems or large-scale engineering projects
  • Strong technical foundations and architectural judgement
  • Good understanding of the full software development lifecycle, engineering quality, delivery efficiency, and system reliability
  • Practical experience in backend, platform, data engineering, test automation, quality engineering, or engineering productivity
  • Ability to identify system and process level engineering problems and drive technical and organizational solutions
  • Strong goal-setting, project-management, and cross-functional execution skills
  • Proven people-management and talent-development capabilities, including hiring and performance feedback
  • Strong communication, ownership, and stakeholder collaboration skills
  • Experience working with enterprise software, SaaS, AI-powered products, or other technically complex products
  • Experience with data-intensive systems, automated testing frameworks, engineering quality systems, or internal engineering platforms
  • Experience building an engineering team, technical system, or development practice from the ground up
  • Experience with cross-team technical governance, engineering transformation, or organizational change
  • Track record of combining people leadership with active involvement in core technical and architectural decisions
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The Company
HQ: London
500 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

Founded in 2007, Patsnap is the company behind the world’s leading innovation intelligence platform. Patsnap is used by more than 10,000 customers in over 50 countries around the world to access market, technology, and competitive intelligence as well as patent insights needed to take products from ideation to commercialization. Customers are innovators across multiple industry sectors, including agriculture and chemicals, consumer goods, food and beverage, life sciences, automotive, oil and gas, professional services, aviation and aerospace, and education. To learn more about how Patsnap is improving the way companies innovate, visit www.patsnap.com.

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