Engineering Manager (Remote)

Stealth Startup; India; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP starts Year 2

Base salary with attractive bonus

Job summary

Stealth Startup in India is recruiting for a late-stage payments company with a scalable backend handling millions of transactions daily. This is a fully remote role within IST hours, with an emphasis on engineering judgment and ownership.

You will design and own APIs, debug production incidents, and push half-formed ideas to shipped features, while making architectural calls and writing code that is reliable at 3am on-call moments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production backend experience in any modern language.
• Experience scaling systems and learning from failures.
• Practical cloud experience with AWS or equivalent, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Clear written and spoken English across a multinational team.

Responsibilities

• Design and own APIs handling millions of daily transactions.
• Debug production incidents across microservices.
• Turn ideas into shipped features with prudent judgment.
• Make architectural decisions, not just implement.
• Write maintainable code for on-call 3am scenarios.

Skills

Backend development

Cloud experience

Distributed systems

English communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

We are recruiting for a late-stage payments company (2 Billion Dollar Unicorn) operating at scale across the Middle East. Millions of people use our product to pay, split purchases, and manage their money. This is a confidential search, so we share the company name in the first conversation. Three things worth knowing before you read further

One day, four conversations, a decision. No take-home assignment. No six-week process where you chase a recruiter for updates. You block out a day, you talk to four people, and you get an answer.

Genuinely remote within IST. Not hybrid. Not "remote-first with mandatory quarterly onsites." Our engineering team already works this way and the tooling and rituals were built for it, not retrofitted.

Remote, IST hours

What you will actually do

• Design and own APIs that carry millions of transactions a day
• Debug production incidents where the root cause is three services away from the symptom
• Turn half-formed product ideas into shipped features, including pushing back when the idea is wrong
• Make architectural calls, not just implement someone else's
• Write code that the person on call at 3am can reason about

What we are looking for

• 3+ years building and running backend services in production, in any modern language
• Systems you scaled that held up, and at least one that did not, plus what you learned from it
• Practical cloud experience (AWS or equivalent, Kubernetes, Docker)
• Distributed systems in anger: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar, including the failure modes
• Clear written and spoken English. Our team spans several countries and most decisions happen in writing.

Our stack, honestly

We hire for engineering judgement rather than syntax, and we have brought people across from Python, Node, C#, and Scala. That said, our core services are Java and Go, and you will be working in them. If you want to be told you can bring any stack you like, we would rather be upfront: you cannot, but we will give you the runway to pick ours up.

The interview process

60 min - Code pairing - We build something together in your IDE, in a language you choose

50 min - System design - Architecture and trade-offs, drawn from problems we have actually hit

50 min - Technical deep dive - Your past work, in detail, at the level you care about

30 min - Culture conversation - Leadership, direction, and your questions for us

Employment and logistics

- India EOR with Base and Attractive Bonus Structure. ESOP starts Year 2. Full Time role with less than 5% attrition over the last 18 months.

• We welcome candidates from different backgrounds and paths into engineering. Good products come from teams that see problems differently.
• Also open to Senior Engineering Managers

We welcome diverse backgrounds and perspectives - that's how we great products are built.