Associate Director Engineering

Cashfree Payments India Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Cashfree Payments India Private Limited is seeking an Associate Director of Engineering to define the technology vision, drive execution excellence, and scale engineering capability across a business unit. You will shape architecture, lead multiple teams, and ensure high-quality product outcomes aligned with business goals.

You will drive a strong Java-based stack, orchestrate cross-functional collaboration with Product, QA, UX, Operations, and Business stakeholders, and guide transformation to

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering with leadership experience.
• Proven track record delivering complex software products from inception to launch.
• Experience leading multiple teams or large engineering groups in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the technology roadmap for multiple products or platforms within the business unit, ensuring alignment with long-term security and cost efficiency.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage.
• Oversee end-to-end product delivery, ensuring high-quality releases within defined timelines.
• Establish and optimize engineering processes, development standards, and best practices to improve productivity and predictability.
• Drive data-informed decision-making using engineering metrics (velocity, quality, reliability, cost).
• Build, lead, and scale high-performing engineering teams, including Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders.
• Identify skill gaps and implement structured learning, upskilling, and leadership.
• Mentor Engineering Managers and senior engineers to enhance technical depth and leadership capability.
• Partner with Product, QA, UX, Operations, and Business stakeholders to ensure effective planning, staffing, and execution of initiatives.
• Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to executive and non-technical stakeholders.
• Align engineering priorities with business outcomes, customer needs, and operational goals.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices

Java ecosystem

Spring Boot

Hibernate

JPA

System design

OO design

Web & mobile stacks

CI/CD

DevOps practices

Agile methodologies

Production systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/IT

Job description

At Cashfree Payments, we’re not just shaping the future of payments—we’re moving fast to

scale businesses at every stage, with deep expertise in powering India’s D2C and e-commerce

growth.

Founded in 2015, we process transactions worth $80B annually and are trusted by more

800,000 businesses. Authorised by the Reserve Bank of India, we are one of the first entities to

receive critical licences like PA-PG, PA-CB and PPI in the sector. We enable seamless collections,

payouts, identity verification, and fraud detection.

We are backed by Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator, Apis Partners, Krafton Inc, State Bank of

India (SBI), and were incubated by PayPal.

Role Overview

As an Associate Director of Engineering, you will drive technology vision, execution excellence, and organizational capability for a business unit. You will operate at the intersection of strategy and delivery—shaping architecture, scaling teams, and ensuring high-quality product outcomes aligned with business goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the technology roadmap for multiple products or platforms within the business unit, ensuring alignment with the organization’s long-term security, and cost efficiency.
• Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage.

Execution & Delivery Excellence

• Oversee end-to-end product delivery, ensuring high-quality releases within defined timelines.
• Establish and optimize engineering processes, development standards, and best practices to improve productivity and predictability.
• Drive data-informed decision-making using engineering metrics (velocity, quality, reliability, cost).
• Build, lead, and scale high-performing engineering teams, including Engineering Managers and senior technical leaders.
• Identify skill gaps and implement structured learning, upskilling, and leadership.
• Mentor Engineering Managers and senior engineers to enhance technical depth and leadership capability.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product, QA, UX, Operations, and Business stakeholders to ensure effective planning, staffing, and execution of initiatives.
• Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs clearly to executive and non-technical stakeholders.
• Align engineering priorities with business outcomes, customer needs, and operational goals.

Core Requirements

• Strong expertise in designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices architectures, and event-driven systems.
• Deep experience with Java ecosystem (e.g., Spring Boot, Hibernate, JPA) and modern
• Solid understanding of data architectures, including relational databases and
• Proven ability in object-oriented design, system design, and architectural patterns.
• Good understanding of web and mobile technology stacks.
• Strong grasp of non-functional requirements and the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and automated testing frameworks.
• Hands-on familiarity with agile methodologies and modern software development practices.
• Experience managing and operating large-scale production systems.

Experience & Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant portion in leadership roles managing teams and large-scale systems.
• Proven track record of delivering complex software products from inception to launch and scaling them in production.
• Experience leading multiple teams or large engineering groups in a fast-paced
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related