Review Criteria:
Mandatory:
- Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles
- Must have 8+ years of overall Software Engineering/Development experience
- Must have 3+ years of experience as Engineering Manager / Team Lead role, with ownership of technical direction, delivery, and people management
- Must have hands-on Backend development experience using Python or Java, with frameworks such as FastAPI / Django / Spring / Express (Node.js)
- Must have Frontend development exposure using ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Must have experience designing and building APIs, services, and integrations, including system design, PR reviews, and architectural decision-making.
- Must have experience leading engineers end-to-end – mentoring, code reviews, execution planning, and improving team productivity/quality
- Must be from Product Companies / Startups (early to growth stage), B2B SaaS + Fintech industry is highly preferred
- This role will be 80% team management and 20% IC (hands on coding required)
Preferred:
- Tier 1 engineering college
Role & Responsibilities:
We’re looking for an Engineering Manager who treats engineering management as a systems problem, not a career milestone.
You’ll lead engineers while staying close to the technical core—owning architecture, modeling decisions, and execution quality in a domain where correctness matters as much as velocity.
Technical & Product Ownership:
- Build and evolve core platform features
Design and ship APIs, services, and integrations that power billing automation, usage metering, invoicing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting.
- Model complex financial workflows
Work deeply on pricing logic, proration, true-ups, multi-currency handling, approval workflows, and event-driven billing pipelines—where small decisions have long-term consequences.
- Make architectural trade-offs
Balance “ship it now” against “live with it forever” while scaling systems that process high-volume usage data and real-time financial calculations.
You won’t write code every day, but you’ll review PRs, catch subtle bugs, and guide design discussions with confidence.
Team Leadership & Management:
- Lead and grow the engineering team
Mentor and manage engineers across experience levels, setting clear expectations and raising the bar on ownership, execution, and quality.
- Create high-output systems
Establish clear problem definitions, focused execution cycles, code reviews that actually catch issues, and enough slack for engineers to think—not just ship.
- Debug team dynamics like software
Observe signals, form hypotheses, intervene deliberately, and measure outcomes—whether the issue is delivery, alignment, or collaboration.
- Build the team intentionally
Design interviews that surface real problem-solving ability, not just pattern matching. At this stage, every hire shifts the average.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Work closely with Product, Finance, and Customer Success to translate real-world contract terms into correct, scalable systems
- Partner with stakeholders to solve ambiguous problems where requirements evolve and trade-offs are unavoidable
- Ensure systems remain accurate, auditable, and compliant as the product scales
Ideal Candidate:
- Must have 8+ years of engineering experience, with 3+ years leading teams or owning technical direction
- You’ve built systems where the hardest part was correctly modeling messy, real-world business logic
- You default to first principles when no documented solution exists
- You’ve grown engineers by giving them problems slightly beyond their comfort zone—and supported them through productive struggle
- You’re energized by constraints, ambiguity, and unsolved problems
- Billing, fintech, or payments experience is a plus—but curiosity and depth of thinking matter more than domain checkboxes
You Should Not Apply If:
- You need a fully defined problem before you can start working
- You moved into management to avoid technical complexity
- You optimize for process over outcomes
- You find edge cases annoying rather than interesting
Nice to Have:
- Experience with financial systems, billing platforms, or fintech applications
- Knowledge of SaaS business models and compliance frameworks
- API design and integration experience
- Prior experience working at a startup
- Not taking yourself too seriously.
Perks, Benefits and Work Culture:
- Variable: Based on performance
- ESOPs (for full time roles)
- Remote (USA)
Benefits (for full-time roles):
- Health insurance
- Generous vacation policy
- Learning and development budget
- Team events and company offsites
- Maternity and Paternity benefits
- Company Laptop
- Friday game nights