Engineering Manager for a leading BNPL Player

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the software development function, including developers, technical leads, architects, and QA engineers.
• Define and execute the software development roadmap in alignment with the company's business strategy and growth objectives.
• Oversee the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, secure, and high-performance software applications.
• Lead the development and enhancement of fintech platforms, financial applications, payment solutions, and digital financial products, as applicable.
• Drive API development, third-party integrations, banking integrations, payment gateway integrations, and other financial technology integrations.
• Establish software architecture standards, coding practices, development methodologies, and engineering best practices.
• Ensure application security, data protection, system reliability, scalability, and performance across software platforms.
• Drive the adoption of modern technologies, cloud-based solutions, DevOps practices, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Oversee software development life cycles, sprint planning, release management, quality assurance, and production support.
• Establish engineering KPIs, monitor team performance, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Collaborate with Product, Business, Compliance, Information Security, and Operations teams to translate business requirements into effective technology solutions.
• Ensure software development processes adhere to applicable regulatory requirements, security standards, internal policies, and IT governance practices.
• Manage technology budgets, external development partners, software vendors, and resource allocation.
• Mentor and develop engineering leaders, build a high-performing technology team, and foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization, technical debt reduction, and improvement in software delivery efficiency.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 15–20+ years of experience in software development, engineering, and technology delivery, with approximately 20 years preferred.
• Significant experience in leading software development teams and managing large-scale application development initiatives.
• Strong expertise in software architecture, system design, API development, databases, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience with modern programming languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and software engineering tools.
• Proven experience in developing scalable, secure, and high-availability applications.
• Experience in fintech, banking, payments, digital lending, financial services, or related technology domains is preferred.
• Understanding of financial data security, application security, regulatory compliance, and secure software development practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, engineering teams, delivery timelines, and technology priorities.
• Excellent leadership, strategic planning, analytical, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Work Location: In person

Location: Bangalore

Department: Engineering

Reports to: SVP

Experience required: 6+ years

About Tracxn:

Tracxn (Tracxn.com) is a Bangalore-based product company providing a research and deal sourcing platform for Venture Capital, Private Equity, Corp Dev, and professionals working around the startup ecosystem.

We are a team of 600+ working professionals serving customers across the globe. Our clients include Funds like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, GGV Capital, and Large Corporations such as Citi, Embraer & Ferrero.

Founders

• Neha Singh (ex-Sequoia, BCG | MBA - Stanford GSB)
• Abhishek Goyal (ex-Accel Partners, Amazon | BTech - IIT Kanpur)

About Technology Team: 

Tracxn's Technology team is 60+ members strong and growing. The technology team is subdivided into multiple smaller teams, each owning one or more services/components of the technology platform. Ours is a young team of motivated engineers with a minimal management structure where almost everyone is actively involved in technical development and design activities. We have a team-centric culture where the ownership and responsibility of a feature or module lie with a team compared to an individual.

We value ownership, continuous learning, consistency, and discipline as a team.

Our Tech Stacks:

We work on an array of technologies, including but not limited to backend and frontend systems such as Java, Python, Spring Boot, Node.js, ReactJS, Next.js, Webpack, and Storybook; cloud and serverless platforms like AWS, etc; data and infrastructure technologies such as Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, and Ansible; large-scale web crawling solutions; modern data pipelines and ETL workflows; and AI/ML-driven projects.

Job Overview:

We are looking for experienced software engineers with 6+ years of overall software development experience, including backend development and proven people-management skills. The ideal candidate will lead the engineering team(s), drive technical excellence, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers
• Own technical planning, architecture discussions, and execution
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders
• Drive best practices in software development, testing, and deployment
• Conduct code reviews and ensure high engineering standards
• Manage delivery timelines, resource planning, and technical risks
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management of engineers

Job Requirements :

Professional Experience

•  Proven experience leading or managing software engineering teams
• Track record of delivering complex, scalable software systems
• Experience driving technical initiatives and influencing architectural decisions
• Strong collaboration experience with product, design, and cross-functional teams.

Technical Leadership & Management

•  Ability to mentor, coach, and grow engineers across different experience levels
• Experience conducting performance reviews and providing technical feedback
• Strong ownership of team delivery, timelines, and quality
• Experience balancing hands-on technical work with people management

Backend & System Architecture Expertise

• Strong proficiency in modern backend architectures, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in at least one server-side programming language (e.g., Java, Python, etc.)
• Solid understanding of API design principles and implementation
• Hands-on experience with relational and non-relational databases and knowledge of data pipelines and data warehousing concepts.

Technical Competencies

• Strong system design and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of caching strategies, performance optimization, and scalability
• Understanding of data modeling and query optimization
• Familiarity with search and indexing technologies
• Understanding of security best practices in backend systems

Culture:

• Work with performance-oriented teams driven by ownership and passion.
• Learn to design systems for high accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.
• No strict deadlines, focus on delivering quality work.
• Meritocracy-driven, candid culture. No politics.
• Very high visibility regarding which startups and markets are exciting globally.

About the role

You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.

Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office

What you will do

Technology & product leadership

• Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
• Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
• Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.

Engineering & platform management

• Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
• Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
• Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.

Innovation & AI strategy

• Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
• Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
• Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
• Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
• Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.

Technical leadership

• A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
• Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
• Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
• Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.

What success looks like

• Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
• Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
• Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.

Qualifications & experience

• Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
• A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
• Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
• Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
• Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.

Technical expertise

• Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
• Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).

Behavioural & leadership competencies

• Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
• Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
• High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
• Strong analytical and decision-making skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Management:

• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of backend developers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Promote a shared vision for the team, ensuring alignment with business goals and organizational objectives.
• Conduct performance reviews, provide constructive feedback, and create opportunities for team members’ professional growth.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration between development teams, designers, and product managers to deliver seamless and high-quality software.

Technical Strategy and Execution:

• Define and drive architectural decisions for both backend and frontend systems,ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Advocate and implement best practices in software development, including coding standards, test-driven development (TDD), and peer code reviews.
• Encourage the adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-driven tools to optimize development and testing workflows.
• Provide technical direction on backend development using modern frameworks and languages, as well as frontend development using React, Angular, or Svelte.

Process and Quality Management:

• Ensure robust integration between backend APIs and frontend systems for seamless user experiences.
• Establish and enforce coding, testing, and deployment standards for both backend and frontend teams.
• Implement and optimize automated testing frameworks for backend and UI layers to ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Monitor system performance and application stability, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
• Establish CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices for efficient and reliable delivery cycles.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Act as a bridge between engineering teams, business stakeholders, and leadership, ensuring effective communication and alignment.
• Translate complex business requirements into actionable technical solutions and guide teams through their implementation.
• Provide regular updates on progress, challenges, and innovations to stakeholders.

Innovation and Exploration:

• Stay updated on advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and integrate them into development and quality assurance workflows where applicable.
• Encourage the exploration of cutting-edge technologies, tools, and frameworks for both backend and frontend development.
• Champion the use of AI and machine learning tools for performance optimization, automated testing, and enhanced developer productivity.

Skills & Qualifications:

Must-Have Skills:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role.
• Strong technical background in backend technologies (e.g., Java, Spring Framework).
• Deep understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architecture.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker.
• Solid knowledge of Agile methodologies, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI-powered tools into development workflows.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Knowledge of automated testing frameworks for both backend (e.g., JUnit, Postman) and frontend (e.g., Playwright).
• Understanding of DevOps practices and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
• Exposure to AI/ML frameworks and libraries for enhancing application features and team efficiency.

ROLE SUMMARY:

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting people, technical processes, and engineering execution to ensure projects are delivered as per scope, budget, and timelines.

This role includes developing detailed project plans and comprehensive technical documentation, managing project Engineers and their availability, measuring engineering performance, tracking progress, and communicating project status to clients and internal stakeholders. You will work directly with Solutions Architects, Tech Leads, and Engineering teams to evaluate technical trade-offs, drive system design feasibility, and unblock engineering bottlenecks.

You will be a reliable and crucial team member who can anticipate client needs and translate complex technical requirements into actionable project milestones.

As a Technical Project Manager, you will be the point of contact for all stakeholders from initiation to closure and will be responsible for leading the technical delivery team to achieve project objectives. You will work towards balancing technical constraints, technical debt, and Engineer availability on the project. You will report project status to client and internal stakeholders, escalate technical and operational issues as needed, and perform risk management to identify and mitigate architectural and delivery risks while maintaining strong advocacy within your spheres of influence.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Technical Project Manager with 7+ years experience: Including minimum 3 years of IT (Mobile/Web) project management experience and a prior background as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, or Developer.

Strong expertise in Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

Must have handled end-to-end SDLC projects as a Technical Project Manager or Scrum Master.

WHAT WILL YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE?

Handle a portfolio of technical projects and clients in parallel and across geographies.

Develop an execution plan for projects, release schedules, CI/CD milestones, and team allocation.

Partner with technical leads to review high-level system designs, break down complex requirements into epics and user stories, and challenge technical estimates effectively.

Maintain strong relationships with product delivery, engineering leads, sales teams, clients, and account managers.

Expertise in project estimation, planning, tracking, scope control, technical risk and issues management, as well as engineering status reporting.

GOOD TO HAVE:

Hands-on or architecture exposure to.NET/Java/AWS/Azure or microservices architectures.

PMP / PMI-ACP / CSM (Certified ScrumMaster) certification.

Jira/Confluence project management tools expertise, Git workflows, and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

COMPETENCIES:

Strong commitment to professional client service and engineering excellence.

Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation), persuasive, and negotiating skills—with the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Encourage, motivate, and mentor team members on agile practices and technical ownership.

Proactive can-do and technical problem-solving approach to the job.

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