Senior Engineering Manager

CoinDCX; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 11,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Design Your Own Benefits

Unlimited Wellness Leaves

Mental Wellness Support

Learning Sessions

Job summary

CoinDCX is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead backend infrastructure powering mission-critical, ultra-low latency systems. You will own high-performance distributed components such as OMS, RMS, matching engines, and real-time ledger pipelines, guiding design, performance, and resilience at scale.

Based in Bengaluru, you will mentor a team of engineers, drive observability, SLA/SLO definitions, and collaborate with product, risk, and infra groups to ship reliable, scalable fintech

Qualifications

• Experience designing distributed systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of concurrency and multi-threading.
• Proficiency in memory management and performance tuning.
• Solid knowledge of network stack fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with Linux internals (epoll, kernel tuning, NUMA).

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve backend systems for ultra-low latency workloads.
• Own performance benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning.
• Drive decisions on storage engines and in-memory stores.
• Ensure correctness under high concurrency and fault conditions.
• Lead production incident reviews and postmortems.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, and Infra teams.
• Define SLAs and SLOs for critical systems.
• Establish observability practices for latency and throughput.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Concurrency & multi-threading

Memory management & performance tuning

Network stack fundamentals

Linux internals

Tools

Java

C++

Rust

In-memory data stores

Event streaming systems

Lock-free architectures

High-throughput queues

Job description

The CoinDCX Journey: Building the Future of Finance

At CoinDCX, our mission is clear - to make crypto and blockchain accessible to every Indian and enable them to participate in the future of finance.

As India’s first crypto unicorn valued at $2.45B, we are reshaping the financial ecosystem by building safe, transparent, and scalable products that power adoption at scale.

We believe that change starts together. It begins with bold ideas, relentless execution and people who want to build what’s next.

If you’re driven by purpose and thrive in environments where your work defines the next chapter of an industry, you’ll feel right at home here.

About The Team

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead backend infrastructure powering mission-critical, ultra-low latency systems. This role will own high-performance distributed systems that process millions of events per second with strict SLA, determinism, and fault tolerance requirements.

You will lead a team building core components such as order management systems (OMS), risk engines (RMS), matching engines, market data pipelines, and real-time ledger systems.

This is not a generic backend role — this is systems engineering at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Architect and evolve backend systems for ultra-low latency workloads
• Own performance benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning
• Drive decisions on storage engines (e.g., RocksDB, in-memory stores, log-based systems)
• Ensure correctness under high concurrency
• Lead production incident reviews and postmortems
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, and Infra teams
• Define SLAs and SLOs for critical systems
• Establish observability practices for latency, throughput, and determinism

Strong Background In

• Distributed systems design
• Concurrency and multi-threading
• Memory management and performance tuning
• Network stack fundamentals
• Linux internals (epoll, kernel tuning, NUMA awareness)

Experience With

• Java / C++ / Rust (low-level performance optimization)
• In-memory data stores
• Event streaming systems
• Lock-free or low-lock architectures
• High-throughput message queues
• Load testing at scale

Good To Have

• Trading systems / exchange / fintech infra experience
• OMS, RMS, or matching engine exposure
• Deterministic system design
• Market data systems
• Kernel bypass (DPDK), if applicable

Leadership Expectations

• Think in microseconds, not milliseconds
• Performance-first mindset
• Strong bias for measurement over opinion
• Calm under production pressure
• High ownership mentality
• Ability to balance technical depth with people leadership

You’ll Know You’re Winning When

• Reduce p99 latency by X%
• Improve throughput capacity by Y%
• Zero Sev-1 incidents from system design flaws
• Build a strong backend team (hire N senior engineers)
• Establish measurable performance benchmarks and CI perf gates

Where We Work

We believe the best ideas emerge when people build together. Collaboration, speed and trust come alive when teams share the same space.

With this belief, we operate as a work‑from‑office organisation. This role is based out of our Bengaluru office, where energy, alignment and innovation move in real time.

Perks That Empower You

We believe great people deserve great experiences.

• Design Your Own Benefits: Flexible perks to match your lifestyle
• Unlimited Wellness Leaves: Rest and recharge as you need
• Mental Wellness Support: Access to therapy and wellness resources
• Learning Sessions: Bi‑weekly learning and growth opportunities

Ready to Build What’s Next?

If you’re looking for a role that gives you direct access to high‑stakes decisions, deep impact and a chance to build the future of finance, this is it.

Join CoinDCX and help us make crypto accessible to every Indian, together.