Overview
Money Forward aims to move people's lives forward by offering various SaaS applications for Back-office operations and eliminating non-essential work from complex daily tasks, and radically changing the quality of and time spent on work.
To spearhead these critical initiatives, we are seeking a Engineering manager to lead delivery of our products within HRS department. Our products are in a growth phase, so we are actively seeking an individual who can not only contribute technically but also grow the team with a strong technical foundation and leadership skills.
Role Summary
The Engineering Manager Role is very crucial at Money Forward India where the candidate will be directly responsible for success of the department having ownership Globally to coordinate with JP and Vietnam teams. An ideal candidate will have a product ownership mindset to collaborate with India engineers and JP team where he/she could drive initiation from Goal to planning and implementation. Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team with Talent management, hiring, thought leadership, people management.
Requirements
Technology- 12- 15 years of overall hands-on experience in software engineering, developing and operating web applications with at least 3+ years of experience leading teams.
- Experience with design, development, and operation of service-oriented or microservices architecture, demonstrating an understanding of scalable and modular architecture.
- Experience in architecture design and technology selection, showcasing the ability to make informed decisions for optimal solutions.
- Flexibility and adaptability to work with diverse technology stacks, with motivation to adapt to technologies like Ruby on Rails, Frontend frameworks and others in order to optimize our new systems.
- Lead triage and root cause analysis for production incidents, ensuring timely resolution and postmortem documentation.
- Contribute to changes in architecture from existing monolithic to modern architecture, API development , not limited to CI CD, monitoring and logging tools.
Process
- Proven track record of actively participating in team-based quality improvement efforts through code reviews and test code implementation.
- Previous experience working with Scrum and Agile development methodologies, contributing to efficient and collaborative project delivery.
- Track progress using agile metrics (velocity, cycle time, burn-down charts) and proactively address delivery risks.
People
- People management for talent retention, talent addressing and growth career frameworks for engineers. Set clear performance metrics and career frameworks fo team members including Goal settings with KPIs.
- Hands-on experience with test design, creation, and operation using documentation or testing tools like JUnit, Kotest, RSpec, Jest, or similar.
- Ensure balanced workload distribution and shared ownership of delivery outcomes across geographies.
- Foster cross-regional collaboration through weekly syncs, shared tooling, and unified engineering standards.
