Engineering Manager

Finkraft

Engineering Manager

Location: Bangalore Experience: 12 years Full-time

Finkraft is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building production-grade money-movement and compliance systems at scale. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will set technical direction review and contribute to architecture and code and grow a team of engineers while owning delivery reliability and quality for your area. You should be equally comfortable in a design review a production incident and a 1:1 about someones career growth.

Lead mentor and grow a team of backend and full-stack engineers; own hiring performance and career development for your team.

Set and enforce technical direction and architecture decisions across services in partnership with senior engineers and other engineering managers.

Stay hands-on review designs and code debug production issues and step into implementation when needed.

Own end-to-end delivery for your teams roadmap: scoping sequencing risk management and shipping to production.

Drive engineering practices CI/CD testing code review observability and secure software development across the team.

Partner with product compliance and other engineering teams on integration architecture for payments e-invoicing and reconciliation systems.

Own capacity planning and cloud cost accountability for your teams services.

Champion AI-native engineering practices to increase team velocity and output quality.

Languages and Runtimes

Go and / or Python at production scale.

Comfort moving between typed and dynamic languages.

JavaScript / TypeScript familiarity for adjacent work.

Cloud and Infrastructure

AWS in production ECS / Fargate Aurora PostgreSQL SQS Lambda KMS IAM CloudWatch S3.

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation).

Comfort with cloud cost modelling and capacity planning.

Data and Storage

PostgreSQL at depth schema design query performance transactions.

Redis for caching and queues.

Event stores message queues and the design choices between them.

Familiarity with MongoDB or other NoSQL stores is useful.

Architecture

Event-driven systems API-first design integration architecture distributed systems.

Microservices and modular monoliths and the judgement to pick the right one.

Idempotency retries audit trails eventual consistency.

Domain Technology (Preferred)

Payments systems virtual card / VAN orchestration settlement and reconciliation.

E-invoicing (Peppol UBL) ERP or accounting integrations.

Identity and KYC flows tax-tech or comparable money-movement and compliance systems.

Engineering Practices

CI / CD DevSecOps automated testing code review.

Observability and monitoring secret management dependency and container scanning.

Track record of building these into a team from day one not bolting them on later.

AI-Native Engineering

Practical experience using tools such as Claude Code Cursor Copilot Sonar Semgrep Playwright and modern CI/CD workflows to accelerate development testing documentation code review and operations.

A track record of creating engineering leverage for a team not simply writing more code yourself.

Leadership Experience

12 years of overall engineering experience including prior experience managing or leading engineering teams.

Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical depth with people management and delivery ownership.

Strong communication skills for working across engineering product compliance and business stakeholders.

This role is based in Bangalore India.

Languages and Runtimes

Go and / or Python at production scale.

Comfort moving between typed and dynamic languages.

JavaScript / TypeScript familiarity for adjacent work.

Cloud and Infrastructure

AWS in production ECS / Fargate Aurora PostgreSQL SQS Lambda KMS IAM CloudWatch S3.

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CloudFormation).

Comfort with cloud cost modelling and capacity planning.

Data and Storage

PostgreSQL at depth schema design query performance transactions.

Redis for caching and queues.

Event stores message queues and the design choices between them.

Familiarity with MongoDB or other NoSQL stores is useful.

Architecture

Event-driven systems API-first design integration architecture distributed systems.

Microservices and modular monoliths and the judgement to pick the right one.

Idempotency retries audit trails eventual consistency.

Domain Technology (Preferred)

Payments systems virtual card / VAN orchestration settlement and reconciliation.

E-invoicing (Peppol UBL) ERP or accounting integrations.

Identity and KYC flows tax-tech or comparable money-movement and compliance systems.

Engineering Practices

CI / CD DevSecOps automated testing code review.

Observability and monitoring secret management dependency and container scanning.

Track record of building these into a team from day one not bolting them on later.

AI-Native Engineering

Practical experience using tools such as Claude Code Cursor Copilot Sonar Semgrep Playwright and modern CI/CD workflows to accelerate development testing documentation code review and operations.

A track record of creating engineering leverage for a team not simply writing more code yourself.

Leadership Experience

12 years of overall engineering experience including prior experience managing or leading engineering teams.

Demonstrated ability to balance hands-on technical depth with people management and delivery ownership.

Strong communication skills for working across engineering product compliance and business stakeholders.