Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers.
• Own the architecture, development, scalability, and reliability of the user platform.
• Build and scale backend systems using Python and Java.
• Work with and contribute to services and applications built in Golang.
• Drive engineering best practices across design, coding, testing, deployment, and observability.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Risk, Data, Security, and other technology teams.
• Ensure high performance, availability, security, and scalability of user-facing platforms.
• Participate in system design, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making.
• Own engineering delivery, timelines, quality, and team development.
• Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2+ years in an engineering manager / technical lead / people-management role.
• Strong programming experience in Python and Java.
• Good knowledge of Golang and comfortable working with Go-based services/applications.
• Strong understanding of backend systems, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience building scalable, highly available, and reliable platforms.
• Exposure to databases, cloud platforms, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
• Experience in FinTech, lending, payments, banking, NBFC, or financial services is strongly preferred.
• Experience in KYC, authentication, identity, lending, payments, or customer lifecycle platforms.
• Strong people management, stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Good to Have:

• Experience with high-volume financial or transactional systems.
• Exposure to KYC, authentication, identity, lending, payments, or customer lifecycle platforms.
• Experience working in a high-growth startup or FinTech environment.
• Exposure to AWS/GCP/Azure and containerized environments.