Engineering Manager at Simpl · Remote, Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 7 - 12 years · ₹20L - ₹50L / yr · Raised funding · Remote friendly · Posted 20 Jan 2023
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Ruby on Rails (ROR)Simpl is focused on transforming how the people of India deal with money. Its first product is a payment mode that lets users skip traditional forms of payments entirely. Instead, all the transactions get added into a single bill, payable on the 1st and 16th of every month. This way, the checkout process takes less than a few seconds - making it a win-win for merchants and users alike.
In place of traditional forms of identification and authentication, Simpl integrates deeply into merchant apps via SDKs and APIs. This allows for more sophisticated forms of authentication that take full advantage of smartphone data and processing power.
Simpl was founded in 2015 by Nityanand Sharma and Chaitra Chidanand, and went live in 2016.
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for the implementation and evolution of key parts of this application.
Leadership Skills
● Manage a team of engineers and coach them to reach their full potential
● Develop engineers in their career path: Set objectives, provide feedback and review
performance.
● Ability to manage remote teams is essential.
● Prior experience with remote teams is helpful.
● You will be expected to bring these best practices to the rest of the organization.
● Act as the scrum master
● Ensure that the team builds high quality software by writing unit tests
● Interface with Product and Operation teams to resolve issues
Engineering Skills
● Be hands on: Write secure, efficient, good quality code
● Conduct peer code reviews
● Have a deep understanding of the techniques and technologies that are necessary for
scalability and performance.
● Experience with data modeling and relational databases
● Deep knowledge in one of the ROR/Golang/NodeJS/Java
Shubham Vishwakarma
Full Stack Developer - Averlon
About Simpl
About
Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers a 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection. It aims to empower merchants to own their customer's checkout experience. With Simpl merchants are able to provide consumers with an easy, safe, and intuitive user experience that builds a trusted relationship between the two.
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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team building scalable, high-quality products.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and grow a team of engineers
- Own delivery, quality and technical decisions
- Work with product on roadmap and priorities
- Hire and onboard engineers
Requirements
- 7+ years in software engineering
- 2+ years managing engineering teams
- Strong system design skills
We are looking for a hands-on Engineering Lead who can own backend engineering, DevOps, and delivery management.
This is not a coordination-only role. You will contribute technically while establishing the processes, accountability, and
operating rhythm needed for predictable delivery. You will manage multiple engineers and effectively use AI coding
agents and automation tools to improve the team's output without compromising quality.
Key Responsibilities
• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and reliability of our backend systems.
• Lead engineers through clear goals, task breakdowns, ownership, reviews, and regular feedback.
• Establish a process-oriented delivery system covering planning, estimation, execution, testing, release, and
retrospectives.
• Translate product requirements into technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and measurable deliverables.
• Track execution proactively, identify delivery risks early, and communicate status clearly.
• Remain hands-on with critical development, debugging, architecture, code reviews, and production issues.
• Own CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, deployment practices, and operational readiness.
• Improve engineering quality through coding standards, automated testing, documentation, and review processes.
• Delegate work effectively across team members according to their strengths and development needs.
• Use AI coding agents and engineering automation to parallelise suitable work, while reviewing and validating all
outputs.
• Build a culture of accountability in which work has clear owners, acceptance criteria, deadlines, and definitions of
done.
• Collaborate closely with product and business stakeholders to balance speed, scope, quality, and technical debt.
What We Are Looking For
• 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of experience leading or managing an engineering team.
• Strong hands-on backend development experience with modern backend technologies and frameworks.
• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, containers, monitoring, and production operations.
• Experience working in a mature, process-oriented engineering environment.
• Demonstrated ability to improve delivery predictability and engineering throughput.
• Strong understanding of agile planning, estimation, sprint execution, incident management, and retrospectives.
• Ability to manage multiple people and concurrent streams of work.• Experience reviewing architecture, pull requests, test plans, and production-readiness requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to give direct, constructive feedback and hold team members accountable.
• Sound judgement about when to build, delegate, automate, or reduce scope.
AI-Assisted Engineering
The ideal candidate should be comfortable incorporating AI into the software-development lifecycle. This includes:
• Breaking work into tasks that can be delegated safely to coding agents.
• Running multiple human and agent-led workstreams concurrently.
• Providing agents with clear context, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
• Reviewing generated code for correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.
• Using automation to accelerate testing, documentation, refactoring, and operational workflows.
• Measuring whether AI tooling produces genuine delivery improvements.
We do not expect blind reliance on generated output. The Engineering Lead remains accountable for the quality and
correctness of everything shipped by the team.
Success in the First 90 Days
• Understand the existing architecture, infrastructure, team capabilities, and delivery bottlenecks.
• Take ownership of backend and DevOps execution.
• Introduce a consistent planning, tracking, review, and release cadence.
• Establish visibility into ownership, progress, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Improve CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production-readiness practices.
• Create an effective delegation model across engineers and AI agents.
• Deliver at least one meaningful product or platform milestone predictably from planning through production.
Nice to Have
• Experience scaling an early-stage or growing engineering team.
• Experience hiring, mentoring, and performance-managing engineers.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, security practices, and cloud-cost optimisation.
• Experience managing migrations, reliability improvements, or legacy-system modernisation.
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.NETAbout the role
You'll join a growing engineering team as a Lead Engineer / Architect, leading a small team in India and working closely with engineering teams in the US and Mexico. You'll be responsible for driving technical execution, solving complex engineering problems, and leading a team to build, deliver, and maintain reliable software.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone with strong backend engineering expertise who can also contribute across the stack when needed.
Location: Hyderabad
Work Mode: Hybrid
What you'll do
- Lead a small engineering team in India, driving day-to-day technical execution and delivery
- Work closely with teams in the US and Mexico to plan, develop, and deliver software
- Design and build robust, scalable backend systems using .NET
- Own technical decisions around architecture, implementation, and engineering best practices
- Contribute across the full stack when needed.
- Break down complex technical problems and drive them through to implementation and delivery
- Mentor engineers and help maintain a high standard of engineering quality
- Collaborate with distributed teams and communicate technical decisions clearly
What we're looking for
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with experience in a lead-level role
- 2+ years of experience leading a team
- Strong, hands-on expertise in .NET and backend engineering
- Strong understanding of software architecture and scalable backend systems
- Full-stack experience is preferred, with React being a plus
- Experience leading a small engineering team and driving technical delivery
- Excellent communication skills, particularly when working with distributed teams
- Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach to engineering
- AI expertise is a plus
- Experience with payment systems or payment-related products is a plus
Who you are
- You take ownership and drive work through to completion
- You're hands-on and enjoy solving challenging engineering problems
- You're curious, resourceful, and always looking to learn
- You communicate clearly and work well with teams across different locations
- You lead by example and help the team deliver high-quality work
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