Engineering Manager - System Design

We are looking for an experienced and high-caliber Engineering Manager to take over leadership of our engineering function. This foundational leadership role is responsible for setting the technology vision, building and scaling systems, and leading a high-performing team. You'll drive innovation, reliability, and execution across our entire product stack at a time of significant business growth and strategic transformation.

Responsibilities :

- Drive architectural and infrastructure decisions across all platforms (mobile, web, backend, devops).

- Ensure platform stability, availability, and scalability in a regulated fintech environment.

- Hire, mentor, and grow a strong engineering team.

- Foster a culture of quality, ownership, and velocity.

- Implement best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and operations.

- Work closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to deliver features at speed and scale.

- Own delivery timelines and engineering quality across squads.

- Lead the design of secure, high-performance systems capable of handling large-scale financial data and transactions.

- Prepare the tech stack to meet future NBFC regulatory and compliance needs.

- Own and evolve the long-term technology roadmap in alignment with business goals.

- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that offer a competitive advantage.

- Partner with founders and leadership teams across Product, Business, and Operations.

- Align technical initiatives with business priorities and regulatory developments.

- Handle all audits and certifications related to fintech (PSI-DSS, CISA)

- Collaboration with third-party vendors and setting up a cadence with them around billing and TAT.

Requirements :

- 8+ years of overall experience in software engineering.

- 3+ years in senior leadership roles (Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, etc. ).

- Proven experience building and scaling backend-heavy, data-driven systems.

- Deep expertise in system design, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and modern software architecture.

- Strong command over tech stacks such as Node.js, Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, React, MySQL.

- Track record of building and managing high-performance engineering teams.

- Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.

- Strong sense of ownership, bias for action, and outcome-oriented leadership.