Engineering Manager

Dezerv is a house of investing solutions for high-net-worth and affluent Indians. Dezerv is co-founded by Sandeep Jethwani, Vaibhav Porwal, and Sahil Contractor. They have led and founded successful wealth management businesses and managed over USD 7 billion in assets. The Dezerv team brings together decades of investing expertise from leading global financial institutions like JP Morgan, UBS, BNP Paribas, etc. Our team of experts monitor the performance of portfolios and rebalance them if required to ensure long-term success. We are backed by marque firms like Premji Invest, Accel, Elevation, Matrix, etc. Since inception, our clients have trusted us with over 15000+ crs of their assets.

Why are we building Dezerv

Investing is stressful and emotional. Building & growing wealth is difficult and time-consuming. Most individuals struggle with managing their investments and money. Our goal is to help individuals grow their wealth without the stress, time, and costs involved in a traditional investment. At Dezerv, We are building a platform that leverages our decades of investment expertise to help individuals invest better for their future.

What are we trying to solve/mission

We are passionate about helping Indians invest better. We manage investments with active oversight to help both, sophisticated and new investors build long term wealth across various market conditions.

About the Role:

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can lead a team of strong engineers and drive technical excellence, product velocity, and a culture of ownership. This role needs someone who is technically hands-on, passionate about building high-quality systems, and experienced in growing senior engineers into future leaders.

If you have build & scaled products in high-growth tech orgs, love solving complex engineering problems, and enjoy building empowered teams - this is the role for you.

What You'll Own:

Team Leadership & People Growth

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of backend, frontend & full-stack engineers.
• Support career growth for your team through structured feedback, development plans, and technical guidance
• Build a culture of high ownership & engineering rigor

Technical

Technical Direction

• Set and drive the technical roadmap in partnership with Product & Design
• Make strong architectural decisions that balance speed with long-term scalability
• Dive deep into code when needed debugging, reviewing critical paths, and unblocking engineers
• Maintain high engineering standards for system design, performance, observability, and reliability

Execution Excellence

• Deliver high-quality features on time across multiple parallel work-streams
• Establish strong engineering processes code reviews, incident postmortems, testing culture, release pipelines, etc.
• Collaborate closely with product managers to shape problem statements and solution approaches
• Ensure engineering output directly contributes to business outcomes and customer experience

What We're Looking For

• 8-10 years of total experience in software engineering
• 23+ years managing teams of 8+ engineers, with proven success leading senior talent
• Strong technical depth in one or more: distributed systems, backend architectures, API design
• Experience shipping products at scale in fast-paced product/tech organisations (fintech a plus)
• Ability to influence architecture and drive high-quality systems end to end
• Strong communication skills and the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders
• A builder's mindset pragmatic, data-driven, and comfortable navigating ambiguity

Why Dezerv

• Opportunity to shape the technology behind an industry-defining investing platform
• Work with an ambitious, high-calibre engineering, product, and design team
• Ownership, autonomy, and a chance to lead high-impact systems end to end
• Fast-paced, learning-driven culture that rewards initiative and excellence