Engineering Manager

Cashfree Payments India Private Limited; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cashfree Payments India Private Limited seeks an Engineering Manager to lead, coach, and scale a team of engineers building distributed backend systems and cloud applications. You will balance people management with system architecture oversight to deliver scalable, resilient software.

You will hire, mentor, and retain a high-performing team; guide architectural trade-offs for large-scale microservices; partner with Product, Design, and QA to align roadmaps, and champion CI/CD, automated

Qualifications

• 2+ years of formal people management experience leading software engineers.
• 8+ years of software engineering background designing and building applications using Java and modern frameworks (Spring Boot / Spring MVC).
• Hands-on experience designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices, and asynchronous architecture patterns.
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS) and database systems (MySQL, MongoDB).

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and retain a team of software engineers.
• Oversee system design and architectural trade-offs for large-scale distributed applications.
• Partner with Product, Design, and QA leadership to align on roadmaps, manage project execution, and refine agile workflows.
• Drive best practices across API design, automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring.

Skills

People management

Performance evaluations

Hiring

Mentoring

Career development

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Spring MVC

AWS

MySQL

MongoDB

Job description

About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead, coach, and scale a team of high-performing engineers building distributed backend systems and cloud applications. In this role, you will balance people management, system architecture oversight, and cross-functional execution to deliver scalable, resilient software.

Key Responsibilities

• People & Team Leadership: Hire, mentor, and retain a team of software engineers. Conduct performance evaluations, establish clear career development paths, and build an inclusive, high-ownership engineering culture.
• Technical Direction & Architecture: Oversee system design and architectural trade-offs for large-scale distributed applications, balancing delivery speed, system resilience, and scalability.
• Delivery & Process: Partner with Product, Design, and QA leadership to align on roadmaps, manage project execution, and refine agile development workflows.
• Quality & Engineering Standards: Drive best practices across API design, automated testing, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), and operational monitoring.

Requirements

• Management: 2+ years of formal people management experience leading software engineers (including performance appraisals, career mentoring, and hiring).
• Technical Foundation: 8+ years of software engineering background designing and building applications using Java and modern frameworks (Spring Boot / Spring MVC).
• Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices, and asynchronous architecture patterns.
• Cloud & Data Systems: Experience with cloud technologies (AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS) and database systems (MySQL, MongoDB).