Software Engineering Manager (Video Streaming)

Job Title: Software Engineering Manager (Video Streaming)

Department: Technology

Reports to: CTO

Required experience: 8+ years

Location: Ahmedabad, India-Remote

As leaders in property technology, Genea provides cloud-based physical security, submeter billing and on-demand HVAC solutions to over 1 million users across 39 countries. But Genea is more than just a workplace. We’re a mission-driven team that collaborates, innovates, and engineers the proptech solutions of tomorrow to solve the challenges of today. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment of transparency and authenticity, where you can be yourself. But don’t take our word for it. Genea has been recognized as a Top Workplace for the last 5 years (2021- 2025) with a rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars on Glassdoor, and 4.4 stars out of 5 on AmbitionBox. Our team members love our competitive benefits, including remote work options, comfortable work-life balance, paid time off (PTO), personal and family health insurance options, paid family leave, and development/training opportunities. 

Genea is looking for a Software Engineering Manager (Video Streaming) to lead the team building Genea Video, our cloud-native video solution built directly into the Genea security platform alongside access control and visitor management. Genea Video lets customers connect compatible RTSP cameras through the Genea Gateway (an on-site NVIDIA Jetson appliance that runs AI at the edge) or stream supported Axis cameras straight to the cloud. Customers can then watch live view and recorded playback, build camera walls, search across every camera with AI, and see the door and badge event behind every clip. You will own the engineering of this video streaming pipeline end to end, from camera ingest and edge processing to cloud storage, playback and search, and participate in the full SDLC from system analysis to testing and deployment. This hybrid engineering role combines hands-on technical leadership with people management, building high quality, high performance software alongside a great team.

What you would do, day-to-day?

• Lead and grow the team building Genea Video, from camera ingest and edge processing to cloud storage, playback and search.
• Have a keen eye on code quality, with scalability, maintainability and readability in mind.
• Have a solution-oriented mindset and design high-load, low-latency video streaming systems that scale across thousands of cameras and locations.
• Estimate and delegate work across streaming, edge (Genea Gateway) and web/mobile client workstreams.
• Manage the people on a large engineering team to keep them aligned and focused on achieving the team’s goals.
• Drive the design, strategy, and execution of video projects that support the Genea Video roadmap, including live view, recorded playback, camera walls, clip export and camera management.
• Lead the architecture of the video pipeline: RTSP ingest through the Genea Gateway, Axis Camera-to-Cloud streaming, transcoding, adaptive delivery, storage and retention.
• Oversee the daily activities and progress of multiple SCRUM teams working on Genea Video.
• Monitor, and continuously update, team metrics for engineering and operational excellence, including stream reliability, latency, uptime and cost per camera. Ensure a consistent, regular process for assessing goals and improving deliveries.
• Lead SCRUM teams through estimating engineering effort to build new features, such as AI-powered search and security automations, and to fix prior mistakes.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and the Access Control and Visitor Management teams to link video to door and badge events and deliver one unified platform experience.
• Implement a data-driven approach to execution to drive transparency, and partner with DevOps and Support to keep video services reliable around the clock.

What are we looking for? 

• 8+ years of total experience and 3+ years of relevant work experience as team lead
• Experience in microservice and event driven architecture.
• Proficient in backend technologies, preferably JavaScript, but we’re open to other technologies such as Go, Python or C++.
• Hands-on experience with video streaming technologies and protocols such as RTSP, WebRTC, HLS/DASH and RTMP, and with video codecs such as H.264 and H.265.
• Experience building or managing media pipelines for live and recorded video: ingest, transcoding, adaptive bitrate delivery, recording, storage and retention (for example, with FFmpeg or GStreamer).
• Experience with edge computing and on-device AI/computer vision. Familiarity with NVIDIA Jetson or similar embedded platforms is a plus.
• Understanding of IP camera ecosystems (RTSP, ONVIF, Axis) and VMS/NVR concepts, and of video security use cases such as video linked to access control events.
• Experience designing for low latency, high throughput and cost-efficient storage, with observability for stream health (uptime, latency, dropped frames).
• Proficient in frontend technologies, preferably React, but we’re open to any other JavaScript-based frameworks like Angular, Vue, etc. Experience building browser-based video players and live view/playback interfaces is a plus.
• Proficient in database technologies like MongoDB or RDBMS (We use PostgreSQL)
• Excellent understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC) with experience guiding teams through planning, development, and rollout using best in industry agile practices
• Having experience in work estimation and delegation is preferable.
• Understanding of testing practices like writing unit/integration test cases
• Strong Articulation skills - Ability to write/explain complex problems over email or call.
• Obsession for excellence - Should strive for being excellent at work in terms of quality and speed.
• Professionalism - Sincere, Integrity, Commitment, Ownership
• Strategic thinker with the ability to formulate product and business strategies.
• Prior experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams of manager, senior engineers simultaneously working on multiple projects and technologies.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills at high levels.
• Possess innate customer service skills including the ability to be empathetic, accurate, compassionate, responsive, resourceful, and conscientious.
• Strong relationship management, strategizing, project management, problem solving, and change management skills.
• Experience working with AWS is highly preferable. We work with AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, SNS, RDS, SQS.

Competencies:

• Initiative - Volunteers readily; Undertakes self-development activities; Seeks increased responsibilities; Takes independent actions and calculated risks; Looks for and takes advantage of opportunities; Asks for and offers help when needed.

• Planning/Organizing - Prioritizes and plans work activities; Uses time efficiently; Plans for additional resources; Sets goals and objectives; Organizes or schedules other people and their tasks; Develops realistic action plans.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Teamwork - Balances team and individual responsibilities; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
• Written Communication - Writes clearly and informatively; Edits work for spelling and grammar; Varies writing style to meet needs; Presents numerical data effectively; Able to read and interpret written information.

Perks & Benefits:

✨ Work Your Way: Enjoy a flexible working environment that suits your lifestyle.

✨ Time Off: 24 days of PTO and 10 holidays to unwind and pursue your passions.

✨ Comprehensive Leave Options: Including maternity, paternity, adoption, wedding, and bereavement leaves to support you during important life events.

✨ Health & Safety First: Benefit from family health insurance and personal accident coverage beyond your CTC.

✨ Top Workplace Honors: Celebrated as a Top Workplace from 2021 to 2025.

✨ Balanced Workweek: Embrace a balanced life with our 5-day work schedule