About this post :

The company is the search partner for this role. All applications come to us first. We screen and send only shortlisted profiles to the client. The client is a profitable fintech company based in Indore. They work in retail investing and trading. Company name will be shared after the screening call.

The role :

VP of Engineering, reporting directly to the CTO. We want someone who has run engineering as a business function, not just shipped code - owns architecture, owns delivery, owns the numbers behind both, and is comfortable being the person paged when something breaks.

What you'll do :

- Lead backend, frontend, mobile, QA, automation and DevOps as one org.

- Hire, mentor and manage the people running each of these.

- Own the tech stack and architecture calls scalability, security, performance, cost.

- Stay hands-on enough to make the hard calls yourself.

- Take engineering execution from technical planning to production release.

- Work with product and business to turn asks into real roadmaps.

- Own the engineering metrics that actually matter cycle time, deployment frequency, defect leakage, MTTR, uptime and show month-on-month movement on them, not just track them.

- Own Sev-0 and Sev-1 incidents end to end: response, root cause, and the fix that stops it happening again.

- Build the practices that don't exist yet code review discipline, CI/CD, release process, documentation from wherever they currently stand.

Who should apply:

- 10+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years directly managing engineering teams not just tech-leading with reports.

- You've led more than one function yourself (say, backend and QA, or backend and mobile) this isn't a first-time-manager seat.

- You've personally operated a product at real scale genuinely run something serving 1 lakh+ daily user logins, with the on-call and incident scars to prove it.

- Deep hands-on background in C#/.NET. Preferred if you've since moved into a newer stack like Golang.

- Your resume has numbers uptime, MTTR, deployment frequency, whatever engineering metric you personally tracked and moved.

- You use AI tools in your own workflow code review agents, copilots, whatever. Tell us what and how.

- You speak Hindi comfortably you'll be managing a local team in Indore day to day.

- Stable work history. Multiple short stints are not preferred.

- Bonus: Experience in fintech, stock broking or another regulated industry. Strong experience here can relax the years-of-experience bar.

Read this before applying:

- Location: Indore, work from office. No remote, no hybrid.

- Notice period: 30 days or less.

Process:

- 15-minute screening call with the company

- 45-minute Engineering round with the company

- Interview rounds with the hiring company

- Final round with the CEO/Founder

- Offer, usually within 2 days of the final round

Posted by the company, search partner on this mandate. Shortlisted candidates hear from us within 2 working days.