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! \n 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. \n