Senior Product Manager - FinTech

Job Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to own backend and platform products across market-data services, real-time pipelines, APIs, SDKs, and systems supporting charts, alerts, and trading.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in backend, platform, API, or data-heavy products, along with a solid understanding of trading, investing, fintech, or financial-data environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the backend and platform roadmap for market-data services, real-time pipelines, APIs, SDKs, and systems supporting charts, alerts, and trading.

- Write clear product specifications and acceptance criteria and partner closely with Engineering from design through product delivery.

- Own third-party data integrations end-to-end, including exchange feeds, broker connections, and market-data vendors, from evaluation and onboarding through production.

- Build scalable processes and playbooks to streamline future data integrations.

- Manage provider relationships from the product side, including scope, data quality, licensing constraints, SLAs, and ongoing feed health.

- Evaluate and make data-driven trade-offs across latency, reliability, cost, and coverage.

- Manage dependencies across Product and Engineering to ensure backend initiatives are clearly scoped, prioritized, and scheduled.

- Sequence initiatives based on US expansion priorities and ROI.

- Define and maintain quality and reliability standards for products and platforms.

- Work closely with Engineering to triage data and platform issues and close the loop with Support and power users.

Required Skills & Experience:

- 6-9 years of experience in Product Management, with strong experience owning backend, platform, API, or data-heavy products.

- Hands-on experience building OMS (Order Management System) and RMS (Risk Management System).

- Background in Trading, Investing, Fintech, or Financial Data.

- Strong understanding of market data and its users.

- Ability to participate effectively in technical discussions with Engineering teams.

- Experience shipping third-party or data integrations end-to-end, including provider evaluation, feed onboarding, and production data quality.

- Strong written communication skills with the ability to create clear product specifications and decisions.

- Strong prioritization and decision-making skills.

- Hands-on approach with the ability to work closely with Engineering and drive execution.

- Comfortable working in a lean, fast-scaling environment with high ownership and limited hand-holding.

- Willingness to work in person from the Chennai office.

Nice-to-Have:

- Experience with exchange feeds, broker APIs, or market-data vendors, including order book, tick, or OHLC data.

- Familiarity with real-time data infrastructure, streaming, WebSockets, and time-series storage.

- SQL or light scripting experience.

- Familiarity with payments, billing, or subscription products.

- Exposure to FIX protocol.

- Familiarity with Indian market structures such as NSE, MCX, and SEBI, and US market structure such as CME.

- Experience using modern tools and AI-native workflows.

- Background from a top-tier Indian institution such as IIT, NIT, or IIM is a nice-to-have, not a mandatory requirement