Engineering Manager

### **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.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across global teams.

• *Good to Have:**

• 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.

### **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.

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