Job Title: Product Engineering Lead (Node.js & Fintech)
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Job Type: Full-time
Experience Level: 6–10 Years
About the Opportunity
We are a profitable, founder‑led digital commerce and fintech rewards enterprise operating for over a decade. As we scale our high‑throughput transactional infrastructure to process over $1B+ in annual volume across payments, rewards, and financial services, we are hiring a hands‑on Product Engineering Lead.
In this role, you will report directly to the founders, serving as both a core technical architect and a high‑agency team leader (50% hands‑on coding and architecture / 50% people leadership).
Key Responsibilities
- Payments & Transaction Infrastructure: Architect and scale resilient payment systems, reconciliation engines, settlement pipelines, exception handling, and third‑party banking/aggregator integrations.
- Distributed Backend Systems: Design, build, and maintain production‑grade microservices and APIs using Node.js, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and low latency under heavy throughput.
- Team Leadership & Engineering Standards: Directly manage, mentor, and recruit a squad of engineers; set code review benchmarks, enforce testing discipline, and uphold technical excellence across the sprint cycle.
- Data & Reliability Engineering: Manage production database schemas, telemetry, logging, and data pipelines for reporting and real‑time transaction monitoring.
- Risk & Fraud Mitigation: Build real‑time anomaly detection engines, risk intelligence rules, and security controls to safeguard financial flows.
- AI‑Native Workflows: Champion AI adoption across the development lifecycle—integrating LLM assistants, automated testing, smart PR reviews, log parsing, and accelerated incident resolution.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Total Experience: 6–10 years in backend platform development and distributed systems architecture.
- Core Tech Stack: Advanced, current hands‑on development expertise in Node.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems.
- Fintech Domain Experience (Mandatory): Direct track record building and scaling payments, transaction gateways, reconciliation platforms, or financial technology rails.
- People Management Experience (Mandatory): Demonstrated experience directly leading, mentoring, and hiring software engineers.
- System Design & Databases: Deep practical understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), caching, and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
- AI‑First Mindset: Active familiarity with embedding modern AI coding tools and automations into daily engineering workflows.
- Ownership: A high‑ownership, founder‑aligned mindset with the technical maturity to transition into broader engineering leadership.
Benefits & Work Perks
- Competitive compensation package with direct founder visibility.
- High impact on mission‑critical payments architecture at massive scale.
- Fast‑paced, high‑ownership engineering culture without corporate bureaucracy.
- Collaborative workspace based out of Noida.
Pay: ₹2,528,787.34 - ₹5,038,167.51 per year
Work Location: In person