engineering manager - frontend

CRED

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

In-house pantry

Lunch and dinner provided

Paid sick leaves

Comprehensive health insurance

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Bengaluru is looking for an Engineering Manager - Frontend. You will lead the frontend engineering team to enhance CRED's consumer payments business, improve user experience, and drive innovation in the payments ecosystem. Ideal candidates have a hands-on approach with mobile platforms and experience leading engineering teams. The role offers benefits like provided meals and health insurance.

Qualifications

Hands-on experience in mobile platforms and frontend architecture within the last 2 years.
Ability to work closely with backend teams for performance and scalability.
Experience owning end-to-end consumer metrics.
Exposure to mobile testing frameworks and automation.

Responsibilities

Expand CRED's consumer payments business.
Enhance reliability and user experience of payment products.
Identify innovative payment use cases.

Skills

Mobile platforms (flutter, ios, or android)

Frontend architecture knowledge

Customer empathy

Problem-solving capability

Experience leading engineering teams

AI tools for functional code

Job description

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CRED is an exclusive community for India's most trustworthy and creditworthy individuals, where the members are rewarded for good financial behavior. CRED was born out of a need to bring back the focus on a long lost virtue, one of trust, the idea being to create a community centered around this virtue. a community that constantly strives to become more virtuous in this regard till they finally scale their behavior to create a utopia where being trustworthy is the norm and not the exception. to build a community like this requires a community of its own; a community special in its own way, working towards making this vision come true.

here's what will be in store for you at CRED once you join as a part of the team

What you will do

this role will be crucial in expanding CRED's consumer payments business, our biggest product line today. CRED customers currently have access to various payment products, including credit card bill payments, bbps (rent, school fees, utility bills, etc.), upi, and merchant payments. as the lead for the consumer payments frontend engineering team (with some backend responsibilities), you will steer the growth and adoption of upi payments like scan and pay and peer-to-peer, driving meaningful impact on user growth, product reliability, and innovation in the payments ecosystem over the next 1-2 years.

make CRED the go-to platform for all daily payment needs across scan-and-pay and peer-to-peer transactions. key metrics: increase in upi daily transacting users (dtu/mtu), total payment volume (tpv), transactions per user (tpu), % of CRED mtu adopting CRED upi, and % of rupay upi transactions via CRED.

enhance the reliability and user experience of all payment products by improving speed, reducing error and failure rates, and optimising transaction times. key metrics: increase upi m1/mx retention, adoption, multi-lob adoption, transaction success rate, session-to-transaction conversion rate, and reactivation.

identify innovative payment use cases to keep CRED ahead of industry trends. key metrics: develop new opportunities that positively impact the user metrics outlined above.

You should apply if you

hands-on understanding of at least one of the mobile platforms (flutter, ios, or android), with active coding experience when needed and knowledge of frontend architecture for the product or platform worked on. must have been in a hands-on role within the last 2 years.

ability to work closely with backend teams to ensure performance, scalability, and fault tolerance across upi backend systems; experience collaborating with platform teams is a plus.

deep problem-solving capability, with the ability to diagnose issues, evaluate solutions, and advocate passionately for the best approach.

customer empathy, prioritising user experience and design while balancing growth and retention.

proven experience owning end-to-end consumer metrics, with a focus on frontend (backend experience is a plus).

experience leading frontend-focused engineering teams in payments, with working knowledge of backend systems and integration flows.

exposure to mobile testing frameworks and automation.

ai-first mindset, comfortable leveraging ai tools to generate functional code.

passion for performance, visual polish, and app architecture.

Life at CRED

Working at CRED would instantly make you realize one thing: you are working with the best talent around you. Not just in the role you occupy, but everywhere you go. At CRED people always have talent up their sleeves. With the right company, even conversations can be rejuvenating. At CRED, we guarantee a good company.

Hard truths: pushing oneself comes with the role. CRED is in a continuous process of building an environment that helps the team rejuvenate itself: for example, an in-house pantry, lunch and dinner provided for all team members, paid sick leaves and comprehensive health insurance.

There are many more such eccentricities that make CRED what it is but that’s for one to discover. If you feel at home reading this, get in touch.

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