Engineering Manager

Flipkart Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 5,500,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Flipkart Group seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team shaping strategy, execution, reliability, and evolution of products spanning payments, fintech, and risk platforms, impacting hundreds of millions of transactions daily.

The role blends technical leadership with product influence, building resilient, scalable, secure, AI-enabled systems and growing engineers into senior contributors, in a fast-growth fintech environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of polyglot engineering experience with payments/fintech exposure.
• Strong system design skills to guide complex payment workflows.
• Experience operating high-availability, low-latency systems (99.99%+).
• Hands-on work with payment systems: gateways, UPI, cards, wallets, settlement.
• Understanding of Indian payments/regulatory landscape (RBI, NPCI, PCI-DSS).
• Proven track record of building and growing engineering teams; CS degree required.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical direction for scalable, secure fintech and payment products.
• Drive operational excellence and engineering discipline across teams.
• Foster an AI-native mindset to improve productivity and delivery.
• Manage business and product stakeholders to align strategy with execution.

Skills

polyglot engineering

fintech/payments experience

system design

high-availability systems

low-latency systems

hands-on payment systems

regulatory awareness

team leadership

Education

BE/BTech in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead high-performing team.

You will shape the strategy, execution, reliability, and evolution of products and platforms that span mission-critical payment systems, financial products, and fraud & risk platforms — directly impacting hundreds of millions of Indians transacting on Flipkart every day.

The role goes beyond engineering delivery. We are looking for a hands-on technology leader who can build high-performing teams, influence product strategy, drive technical excellence, and create products and platforms that are resilient, scalable, secure, AI-enabled, and built for hyper-growth.

You will solve challenges at a scale very few engineering teams in India face. Every architectural decision you make directly impacts hundreds of millions of customers. You will work with some of the sharpest fintech engineers in the country and partner closely with innovative product and business leaders in building financial products and payments infrastructure.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

We are looking for an engineering leader who combines deep technical expertise with strong product development, operational excellence, and exceptional people leadership skills. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building highly available, scalable, and secure fintech & payment products while growing engineering teams.

1. Technical Leadership.

2. Operational Excellence & Engineering Discipline

3. AI-Native Mindset

4. Business & Product Stakeholder Management

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Build scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems that operate reliably at high scale.
• Apply deep fintech and payments expertise to solve complex customer and business problems.
• Influence product direction through technical leadership and business acumen.
• Leverage AI to fundamentally improve engineering productivity and software delivery.
• Build exceptional engineering organisations by developing leaders, raising technical standards, and fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.

YOU (MUST HAVES)

• 10+ years of polyglot engineering experience, with at least 1 to 2 years building payment or fintech products.
• Strong system design skills and the ability to guide architecture decisions for complex, multi-system payment workflows.
• Experience designing and operating high-availability & low latency systems (99.99%+) where failures have direct financial and customer-trust consequences.
• Hands-on experience with one or more payment systems: payment gateways, UPI integrations, card payment flows, wallet infrastructure, loan origination system, settlement and reconciliation systems etc.
• Understanding of Indian payments & fintech regulatory landscape: RBI, NPCI guidelines, PPI regulations, PCI-DSS requirements.
• Proven track record of building and growing engineering teams; ability to hire strong engineers and develop them into senior contributors.
• BE/BTech in Computer Science or equivalent.

NICE TO HAVES

• Familiarity with TPAP (Third-Party Application Provider) architecture on the NPCI UPI stack
• Experience in card processing — authentication, authorization, clearing, and settlement flows; working knowledge of card scheme rules and interchange economics.
• Understanding of credit risk scoring, credit bureau integrations (CIBIL, Experian, CRIF), or credit lifecycle management for consumer/business lending.
• Exposure to real-time fraud & risk ML models and their integration into payment decisioning pipelines.
• Participation in fintech/payments industry forums or working groups.