Credgenics- Associate Director of Engineering

Nexthire; Dadri; On-site; INR 30,00,000 - 50,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in India is seeking an experienced Engineering Leader to oversee teams across platform and DevOps. The ideal candidate will possess over 12 years of engineering experience including at least 5 years in leadership roles, with a deep understanding of distributed systems, AWS, and Agile methodologies. This role involves strategic responsibilities from architectural design to client engagement, ensuring scalable and secure solutions in a fast-paced environment. Competitive compensation and opportunities for growth are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Career development opportunities

Health benefits

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership roles.
• Proven track record designing and scaling distributed microservices-based systems.
• Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Experience in fintech or regulated industries with sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineering teams across various domains.
• Define long-term architecture vision and engineering roadmap.
• Drive predictable execution using Agile frameworks.
• Manage security and compliance with relevant standards.

Skills

Leadership

Software Architecture

Cloud Cost Optimization

Agile Development

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in a relevant field

Tools

Python (FastAPI)

Java (Spring Boot)

Kubernetes

AWS

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Redis

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and mentor engineering teams across Platform, DevOps, Database, and Java backend.
• Define the long-term architecture vision, engineering roadmap, and team scalability plan.
• Build and reinforce a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Promote Agile development practices across teams to improve delivery velocity, collaboration, and product quality.
• Work closely with Product, Security, and Business stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure solutions.

Architecture & Technical Ownership

• Own high-level and low-level system design for distributed microservices using Python (FastAPI) and Java (Spring Boot).
• Drive best practices for REST APIs, WebSockets, async models, and event‑driven architecture.
• Ensure platform scalability, performance, resilience, observability, and high availability (HA/DR).
• Standardize architectural patterns across microservices, API contracts, and integration workflows.

Cloud, Infrastructure & DevOps

• Lead AWS workload design and governance across compute, networking, storage, IAM, and monitoring.
• Govern Kubernetes deployments including orchestration, auto‑scaling, cluster governance, and resiliency.
• Mature SRE and DevSecOps practices across CI/CD, GitOps, infrastructure automation, and operational playbooks.
• Drive Cloud Cost Optimization through data‑driven architecture and resource utilization strategies.

Data, Storage, Messaging & Integration

• Develop strategy for supporting OLTP and OLAP workloads across relational and NoSQL databases.
• Oversee performance, HA/DR, and scaling across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and analytical data platforms.
• Govern Kafka and RabbitMQ messaging frameworks for distributed and event‑based workloads.
• Scale Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines for real‑time data synchronization across services.
• Lead data pipelines and ETL/ELT flows with a focus on reliability, encryption, lineage, and compliance.
• Ensure Redis‑based caching delivers consistent low‑latency performance for critical workloads.

Security & Compliance

• Champion secure SDLC, zero‑trust engineering, and secure‑by‑design architecture.
• Enforce IAM governance, encryption, tokenization, secret management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Support fintech regulatory and audit frameworks such as PCI DSS, SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, etc.

Execution & Delivery

• Drive predictable execution using Agile development frameworks, sprint planning, and continuous delivery.
• Ensure milestone‑based planning, risk management, and efficient dependency coordination.
• Track key engineering KPIs: performance SLAs, uptime, MTTR, deployment frequency, defect density, and cloud spend KPIs.
• Promote blameless postmortems and structured RCA programs to improve engineering maturity.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Represent Engineering on client calls, technical escalations, architecture reviews, and roadmap discussions.
• Provide clear articulation of trade‑offs, timelines, technical risks, and delivery expectations.
• Translate business objectives into actionable technical plans and cross‑team execution.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in leadership roles across cross‑functional teams.
• Proven track record designing and scaling distributed microservices‑based systems.
• Deep technical expertise in:
  • Python FastAPI & Java Spring Boot
  • REST APIs and WebSocket‑based real-time systems
  • System design, async programming, event‑driven architecture
  • Kubernetes (EKS preferred) & AWS
  • PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and OLTP/OLAP database systems
  • Kafka & RabbitMQ
  • Redis
  • CDC and high‑throughput data pipelines
• Strong understanding of Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and scaled agile delivery.
• Hands‑on experience with DevSecOps, SRE, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/Helm), monitoring, and observability.
• Proven ability to execute Cloud Cost Optimization at scale.
• Experience working in fintech or other regulated industries with sensitive data requirements.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in enterprise architecture.
• Experience supporting PCI DSS, ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR controls.
• Experience scaling high‑growth SaaS or multi‑tenant cloud platforms.
• Must be from Tier1 college or Product company (SaaS/Fintech) background.