FDE Engineering Manager

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

Job summary

fde is seeking a management-track leader in Gurugram, India, as part of India's first pure-play FDE firm. You will lead pods across concurrent enterprise deployments while staying hands-on, and play a founding-manager role at a Cars24-backed, OpenAI-partnered venture that is rapidly hiring.

You will shape the org and define what an Indian FDE team looks like. Report into the founding team; this is an in-office, Gurugram role embedded with large enterprises, including Cars24 as the first customer

Responsibilities

• Lead pods of forward-deployed engineers across concurrent enterprise deployments as a player-coach — hiring and growing the team while still shipping.

Job description

Not disclosed (founding team + equity) india management track player-coach

Gurugram, India · Posted August 13, 2026

Why it's interesting

The management-track seat at India's first pure-play FDE firm — lead pods across concurrent enterprise deployments while staying hands-on. A founding-manager role at a $5M Cars24-backed, OpenAI-partnered venture that's stampeding to ~50 hires this month: you build the org that defines what an Indian FDE team even looks like.

The role

Lead pods of forward-deployed engineers across concurrent enterprise deployments as a player-coach — hiring and growing the team while still shipping. Embedded pod model inside India's largest enterprises; Cars24 as first customer, OpenAI as deployment partner. Reports into the founding team. In-office, Gurugram.