Engineering Manager — Scalable Backend for Fintech

Bluswap; Hinoba-an; On-site; PHP 7,519,000 - 11,278,000; Full time

Job summary

bluSwap is building the rails that power India’s digital economy. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and business delivery. You’ll own critical systems, ship fast, and grow a team that scales them.

Work closely with Product and external banks/partners to translate priorities into engineering reality. You’ll lead incidents, design scalable systems, and raise the bar on engineering practices with a bias for ownership and impact.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years building and scaling backend systems in production.
• Experience leading an engineering team while staying close to code and design.
• Strong system design and API architecture chops; you've built platforms, not just features.
• Background in fintech, SaaS, banking tech, or e-commerce.
• Experience with high-traffic, client-facing systems.
• A track record of turning ambiguous requirements into working engineering solutions.
• Real ownership of production systems: incident management, performance tuning, RCA.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery across product enhancements and client integrations.
• Turn messy, half-formed business requirements into scalable system designs.
• Run multiple workstreams in parallel without wrecking long-term architecture.
• Ship releases with focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Design backend systems and APIs for high-traffic workloads.
• Lead by being useful and hands-on when blocked.
• Make architecture calls balancing rapid delivery with long-term stability.
• Own uptime and performance through incidents and RCAs.
• Lead incident response, debugging, and RCAs when required.
• Raise the bar on engineering practices and ownership.
• Hire, mentor, and grow backend engineers to build real systems.
• Collaborate with Product, Business, and external partners to translate priorities into engineering reality.

Skills

Leadership

System design

API architecture

Backend engineering

Fintech domain

Production systems

Incident management

Mentoring

Job description

bluSwap is building the rails that power India’s digital economy. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and business delivery. You’ll own critical systems, ship fast, and grow a team that scales them.

Work closely with Product and external banks/partners to translate priorities into engineering reality. You’ll lead incidents, design scalable systems, and raise the bar on engineering practices with a bias for ownership and impact.