Technical Program Manager - Software

Job Description – Technical Program Manager - Software Department: Software Reports To: VP of Engineering Location: Pune / Bangalore About Spiro Spiro is building the operating system for electric mobility across Africa - spanning battery swapping infrastructure, fleet operations, energy commerce, and CRM - live across nine markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, Togo, and Cameroon). Backed by $200M in funding, we're working on top-notch, cutting-edge technology to solve problems at genuine IoT, fintech, and mobility scale - real-time data pipelines, connected hardware, and platforms that run physical infrastructure, not just dashboards. We build systems designed to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, and engineered for 99.999% uptime. We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders to join us in Pune or Bangalore to help build this platform. This isn't a "big company problems, big company headcount" environment - you'll own systems end-to-end, with a bar for technical rigor set by experience at top product tech companies, but a working style built for a company still being built. The Role We need a Technical Program Manager who can hold together cross-team delivery across a genuinely complex platform - many engineering teams, nine markets, hardware and software dependencies colliding constantly, building toward systems designed to scale to billions of events a day and over 1 million transactions a day, engineered for 99.999% uptime. This isn't status-update TPM work; you need enough technical depth to spot risk in a design doc, not just a Gantt chart. What You'll Do Own end-to-end program management for cross-cutting initiatives (e.g., new market launches, security frameworks, platform migrations) that touch multiple engineering teams and external partners (telecom carriers, hardware vendors, regulators). Translate FY OKRs into sequenced, dependency-aware execution plans across our CRM, Energy Commerce, Battery Swapping, Fleet Operations, and Platform Services domains. Identify and de-risk technical dependencies before they become blockers - you understand enough about our modern, top-notch technology stack and cloud infrastructure to ask the right questions in design reviews, not just track ticket status. Run rigorous but lightweight program rituals: no bureaucracy for its own sake, but enough structure that nothing falls through the cracks across nine markets and multiple time zones. Drive DORA-style delivery metrics and CI/CD health reviews in partnership with Engineering Managers and DevOps. Manage vendor and partner coordination where programs depend on external parties (e.g., connectivity providers, hardware manufacturers). Escalate early and clearly - your job is to surface risk before it's a crisis, not to protect a green status report. What You Bring 8 years in technical program management, ideally with experience at a top product tech company running complex, multi-team programs, followed by startup or scale-up experience. Strong enough technical background (former engineer, or long TPM tenure in distributed systems environments) to evaluate technical risk directly rather than relying entirely on engineering leads. Proven track record running programs with hardware/software dependencies, multi-region rollouts, or regulated-market complexity. Excellent structured communication - you can write a one-page plan that a CTO and a field operations lead both understand. Comfort with startup-level ambiguity: no dedicated PMO, no army of coordinators - you build the process you need as you go. Nice to Have Experience in IoT, mobility, fintech, or energy sectors. Experience coordinating multi-country regulatory or telecom partner dependencies (e.g., eSIM/M2M connectivity rollouts). Familiarity with Jira/Confluence-based program tracking at scale. Why Spiro Real infrastructure, real stakes: your systems run physical battery swap stations and vehicle fleets, not just dashboards. We're looking for exceptional engineers and leaders - the technical bar of a top product tech company, without the bureaucracy - you'll make decisions and see them shipped in weeks, not quarters. A genuinely hard, genuinely interesting problem space: distributed IoT, real-time data at scale, multi-market operations, and emerging-market infrastructure constraints all at once, built on top-notch, modern technology. Our Footprint: Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Morocco, Benin, Togo, Cameroon. Spiro is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all candidates based on merit, without regard to race, gender, religion, nationality, or any other protected status.