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.
- 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.