Description :

Job Title : Senior Engineering Manager

Role Overview :

We are looking for a deeply technical, hands-on Senior Engineering Manager who can build scalable systems while leading a high-performing engineering team.

This is not a pure people-management role - the expectation is 30 - 50% hands-on technical contribution, alongside mentoring responsibilities and delivery ownership.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design and build scalable, high-availability systems

- Lead system design and ensure high code quality standards

- Own production reliability and performance outcomes

- Manage and mentor a team of 5+ engineers

- Drive hiring, execution planning, and predictable delivery

- Establish engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, automation)

Required Qualifications :

- 6+ years of experience in software engineering

- 1+ year managing a team of 5+ engineers

- Strong backend development experience

- Proven experience designing distributed systems

- Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and SQL/NoSQL databases

- Experience working with AWS, caching mechanisms, and messaging systems

- Strong production ownership and debugging expertise

Good to Have :

- Fintech, payments, or lending domain experience

- Experience with event-driven architecture

- Kubernetes experience

- Observability practices and performance optimization experience

What Success Looks Like :

- A high-performing engineering team

- Reliable and scalable production systems

- Improved delivery velocity and a strong technical culture