Senior Engineering Manager

MishiPay; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 4,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holidays

Hybrid work (36 days WFH)

Monthly awards

Training budget

Company events

Free lunch in Bangalore

MacBook

Career progression

Job summary

MishiPay is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineering Manager in Bengaluru to lead a critical engineering team at our technology hub. You will split your time between people management and hands-on coding, focusing on core product engineering and global client integrations.

You will guide architecture, design scalable services with Python/Django and Azure, and drive modern delivery practices including CI/CD and observability. This role combines leadership with technical execution.

Qualifications

• 3+ years people management in a startup.
• 5+ years launching and maintaining software products.
• 5+ years software development experience (in last 8 years).
• Founder experience in growth-stage startups.

Responsibilities

• Lead system design and architecture for product features and client customisations.
• Hands-on coding 50-60% of time, design and solve integration challenges.
• Mentor and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing, observability and SRE practices.
• Lead client integrations and tailor solutions for retailers.
• Manage project priorities and stakeholder communication.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Python

Django

Startup experience

Client delivery

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes AKS

Django REST Framework

CI/CD tooling

Job description

MishiPay - Global POS / Checkout Technology

Competitive basic salary and bonus

Bangalore (office based plus 36 WFH days a year)

Unlimited Holidays

About Us

MishiPay is an international, leading checkout technology company that empowers shoppers to checkout in-store using either self-checkout via their own smartphones, or using MishiPay's industry leading, minimalist, low cap-ex kiosks. We are creating an enjoyable and convenient in-store shopping experience for leading retailers globally.

MishiPay now also runs Mobile POS, Click and Collect and Cash registers, so that merchants, who initially start with our self-checkout, can eventually run their whole store checkout process on MishiPay. With our technology, retailers have proven reductions in cost, due to requiring fewer cashiers, a marked increase in sales due to improved basket sizes, higher frequency of shopper visits and reduction in abandoned baskets, and in addition, all our retailers can access rich and priceless data about their customers. This enables a much better understanding of the customer journey in their bricks and mortar stores.

We now have major international retail customers in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Australia and the USA, and we’re expanding!

About The Role

We are growing rapidly and are looking for a hands‑on Senior Engineering Manager to lead a critical engineering team from our tech hub in Bangalore. This team is at the heart of our business, responsible for both our core product engineering and the strategic customization and integration of our platform for major global clients.

This is a technical leadership role where you will split your time between managing the team and contributing as a senior developer. We expect you to spend roughly 50-60% of your time on hands‑on coding, technical design, and solving complex client integration challenges.

We'd like to speak to you if you have strong Python and Django skills, you've been a Founding or early stage member of a startup and you are happy to code and lead. These requirements are essential.

This is not a super senior Director of Engineering role, although it is one of our Delivery Leads.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Architecture:

• Lead system design and technical architecture for both product features and client customizations, creating Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD), system architecture diagrams, and API specifications.
• Develop comprehensive Technical Specification Documents and Solution Design Documents based on Statement of Work (SoW) requirements.
• Act as a hands‑on technical authority; conduct code reviews, contribute to critical path development, and troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Architect, design, and guide the implementation of scalable, resilient, and secure services using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework.
• Lead our cloud infrastructure strategy on Microsoft Azure, with deep hands‑on expertise in Kubernetes (AKS) for container orchestration, scaling, and management.

Hands-On Execution & Delivery:

• As a contributing developer, you will design, write, test, and deploy code for critical services, client‑specific features, and integration endpoints.
• Explore and integrate modern technologies, including generative AI and machine learning services, to build smarter, more adaptive retail solutions.
• Estimate effort, define project timelines, and manage technical delivery from conception through completion.
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex projects, from core platform features to high-priority client customizations.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in software engineering, including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and SRE principles.

Client Solutions & Customization:

• Architect and implement scalable solutions for client‑specific requirements, creating detailed technical documentation for both internal and client stakeholders.
• Lead the technical delivery of client integrations, working directly with client technical teams when necessary.
• Design and build robust, configurable systems that can be tailored for different retail environments without requiring one‑off code forks.

Team Leadership & Process Excellence:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high‑performing team of software engineers.
• Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging the experimentation with and adoption of AI‑powered development tools to improve code quality, testing, and system reliability.
• Utilize a data‑driven approach to improve team performance and system reliability through DORA metrics and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Manage team capacity and allocation across the dual streams of product roadmap and client commitments.
• Manage project priorities, track risks and blockers, and ensure transparent communication with all stakeholders.

About You

As well as your startup/co‑Founding experience and your ability to inspire, lead, mentor and code, you’ll also have:

• Minimum of 3 years of people management experience in a start‑up
• Minimum of 5 years of recent experience launching & maintaining software products
• Minimum of 5 years of recent software development experience (in last 8 years)
• Prior experience as a Founder in growth‑stage startups.
• Prior experience in managing a P&L, budgeting, trade‑offs, headcount, cash burn, etc
• Excellent communication skills - oral and written - meaning that you are able to speak with clarity to customers, succinctly with investors and with precision to engineers
• Valid Passport and any other essentials to travel offshore

In return, you’ll get to work in a fast‑paced, ever changing environment that’s impacting retailers across the world.

Why MishiPay?

You’ll work with an ambitious and inspirational multi‑cultural team who are redefining the retail industry globally.

We offer a tight‑knit, collaborative and exciting work environment, coupled with the opportunity to see the apps you develop put to use in some of the world’s largest retailers.

We also offer:

• Unlimited holidays
• Hybrid Working (36 days WFH a year)
• Monthly Employee Awards
• A small monthly training budget
• Company events
• Free lunch in Bangalore
• MacBook
• Career progression and a chance to work with some of the brightest minds in tech.