Engineering Manager

Overview

Lead the EV platform engineering team as a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing and developing intuitive, performant services, driving alignment across domains, mentoring engineers, and maintaining processes for quality and delivery speed.

What you'll do

• Own and implement systems for the EV platform.
• Champion a culture of innovation, continuous learning, collaboration, and empowerment within the team.
• Challenge current processes to reduce time-to-market by adopting proper engineering approaches.
• Drive and execute cross-team engineering projects as the single-threaded owner (STO).
• Collaborate with product and commercial partners to prioritize work to develop a modern event driven architecture.
• Enforce clear, metrics-driven measurements for developer productivity across the EV team.
• Run effective weekly and monthly mechanisms for planning, executing, and auditing workstreams.
• Partner with product and commercial leads to maintain a robust roadmap and define clear, interdependent OKRs.
• Collaborate with other Mobility engineering teams to promote reuse of development practices and components, minimizing duplication of effort.
• Hire, lead, manage, retain, and grow high-performance software engineers.
• Use active career growth planning and provide monthly and quarterly feedback for individuals' continual progress.
• Maintain a detailed, granular resource map showing developers and their month-over-month work streams.
• Present, influence, and communicate with the senior leadership team.
• Provide regular updates and insights to your manager regarding challenges and opportunities within the Mobility domain.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• 6+ years in software engineering experience, including 2+ years in an engineering management role.
• Strong hands-on background building and scaling modern event driven services.
• Proven experience driving engineering excellence in back-end systems.
• Experience partnering with Product, Design, and Backend teams to translate product vision into scalable and maintainable services.
• Solid understanding of security, privacy, and compliance considerations relevant to payment platforms, including authentication, authorization, and data protection.
• Familiarity with leveraging developer productivity tools, including automation and AI-assisted development, to improve code quality, velocity, and consistency.
• Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development for frontend engineers.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, make informed trade-offs, and lead teams through change in a fast-paced organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and clearly articulate technical and non-technical concepts.
• Exposure to analytics tools to track customers journeys between applications and convert the insights into features.

Nice to have

• Experience building high-performance distributed systems at internet-scale companies.
• Experience building credit card products, or experience developing solutions in a scheme/network.
• Experience working on closed-loop card systems.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.