Engineering Manager

Finkraft; Bengaluru South; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Finkraft in Bangalore, India is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team building production-grade, money-movement and compliance systems. This hands-on leadership role involves setting technical direction, reviewing architecture and code, and growing the team while owning delivery, reliability, and quality.

You’ll mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and observability, and partner with product, compliance, and other teams on integration architecture for payments and e-invoicing.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience with prior team management.
• Strong communication skills across engineering, product, compliance and business stakeholders.
• Hands-on with architecture reviews, design discussions, and delivery ownership.
• Experience in payments/money-movement domains like e-invoicing or reconciliation.
• Track record of building scalable, production-grade systems from day one.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of backend and full-stack engineers; own hiring, performance, and career development.
• Set and enforce technical direction and architecture decisions across services.
• Stay hands-on—review designs and code, debug production issues, and contribute to implementation when needed.
• Own end-to-end delivery for the team’s roadmap: scoping, sequencing, risk management, and shipping to production.
• Drive engineering practices—CI/CD, testing, code review, observability, and security.
• Partner with product, compliance, and other engineering teams on integration architecture for payments, e‑invoicing, and reconciliation systems.
• Own capacity planning and cloud cost accountability for the team’s services.
• Champion AI‑native engineering practices to increase velocity and output quality.

Skills

Go

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

PostgreSQL

Redis

Event-driven

Microservices

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Location: Bangalore | Experience: 12+ years | Full-time

Finkraft

Engineering Manager

About the Role

Finkraft is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building production-grade, money-movement and compliance systems at scale. This is a hands‑on leadership role: you will set technical direction, review and contribute to architecture and code, and grow a team of engineers, while owning delivery, reliability, and quality for your area. You should be equally comfortable in a design review, a production incident, and a 1:1 about someone's career growth.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend and full-stack engineers; own hiring, performance, and career development for your team.
• Set and enforce technical direction and architecture decisions across services, in partnership with senior engineers and other engineering managers.
• Stay hands‑on — review designs and code, debug production issues, and step into implementation when needed.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery for your team's roadmap: scoping, sequencing, risk management, and shipping to production.
• Drive engineering practices — CI/CD, testing, code review, observability, and secure software development — across the team.
• Partner with product, compliance, and other engineering teams on integration architecture for payments, e‑invoicing, and reconciliation systems.
• Own capacity planning and cloud cost accountability for your team's services.
• Champion AI‑native engineering practices to increase team velocity and output quality.

Requirements

Languages and Runtimes

• Go and / or Python at production scale.
• Comfort moving between typed and dynamic languages.
• JavaScript / TypeScript familiarity for adjacent work.

Cloud and Infrastructure

• AWS in production — ECS / Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, SQS, Lambda, KMS, IAM, CloudWatch, S3.
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Comfort with cloud cost modelling and capacity planning.

Data and Storage

• PostgreSQL at depth — schema design, query performance, transactions.
• Redis for caching and queues.
• Event stores, message queues, and the design choices between them.
• Familiarity with MongoDB or other NoSQL stores is useful.

Architecture

• Event‑driven systems, API‑first design, integration architecture, distributed systems.
• Microservices and modular monoliths — and the judgement to pick the right one.
• Idempotency, retries, audit trails, eventual consistency.

Domain Technology (Preferred)

• Payments systems, virtual card / VAN orchestration, settlement and reconciliation.
• E‑invoicing (Peppol, UBL), ERP or accounting integrations.
• Identity and KYC flows, tax‑tech, or comparable money‑movement and compliance systems.

Engineering Practices

• CI / CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, code review.
• Observability and monitoring, secret management, dependency and container scanning.
• Track record of building these into a team from day one — not bolting them on later.

AI‑Native Engineering

• Practical experience using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Sonar, Semgrep, Playwright, and modern CI/CD workflows to accelerate development, testing, documentation, code review, and operations.
• A track record of creating engineering leverage for a team, not simply writing more code yourself.

Leadership Experience

• 12+ years of overall engineering experience, including prior experience managing or leading engineering teams.
• Demonstrated ability to balance hands‑on technical depth with people management and delivery ownership.
• Strong communication skills for working across engineering, product, compliance, and business stakeholders.

Location

This role is based in Bangalore, India.