Senior Engineering Manager - Payments Domain.
1. Technical Leadership
- Drive architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable services primarily using Java and
- modern cloud-native technologies.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals — databases, caches,
- message brokers, streaming platforms, API-first and event-driven architectures.
- Establish engineering standards around code quality, architecture reviews, performance
- engineering, observability, security, and maintainability.
- Drive platform modernization, technical debt reduction, and reusable engineering capabilities across teams.
- Design systems with regulatory compliance, security, and customer trust as foundational principles
- — not afterthoughts.
2. AI-Native Mindset
- Champion the adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle and engineering operations.
- Encourage teams to rethink traditional software development practices through AI-first approaches
- — not merely incremental automation.
- Stay current with emerging AI technologies and continuously evaluate opportunities to improve
- engineering effectiveness and product capabilities.
- Leverage AI to fundamentally accelerate engineering productivity, code quality, and software
- delivery.
3. Business & Product Stakeholder Management
- Partner closely with Product & Business teams to translate strategy into scalable technology
- solutions.
- Influence product roadmap by bringing strong technical judgment, platform thinking, and deep
- customer empathy.
- Evaluate platform investments through the lens of customer experience, payment success rates,
- operational efficiency, and business outcomes.
- Drive engineering prioritization using business impact, customer value, and operational
- considerations.
- Balance speed of execution with long-term architectural sustainability.
- Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical
- stakeholders.
- Build trusted partnerships across cross-functional teams to deliver strategic initiatives.
Must Haves :-
- 15+ years of polyglot engineering experience, with at least 3 years building payment or fintech
- products.
- Strong system design skills and the ability to guide architecture decisions for complex, multi-system
- payment workflows.
- Experience designing and operating high-availability & low latency systems (99.99%+) where
- failures have direct financial and customer-trust consequences.
- Hands-on experience with one or more payment systems: payment gateways, UPI integrations, card
- payment flows, wallet infrastructure, loan origination system, settlement and reconciliation systems
- etc.
- Understanding of Indian payments & fintech regulatory landscape: RBI, NPCI guidelines, PPI
- regulations, PCI-DSS requirements.
- Proven track record of building and growing engineering teams; ability to hire strong engineers and develop them into senior contributors.
