Engineering Manager

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in backend development
• 2+ years of experience managing or leading engineering teams
• AI native development familiarity
• Hands-on coding experience and contribution is must to have, you would be expected to design and code the new system and lead with examples
• Strong experience designing and building distributed systems and scalable backend applications
• Experience working within lending, credit, fintech, payments, or a closely related financial domain
• Strong understanding of relational database design, optimisation, indexing, and query performance
• Strong knowledge of system design, software architecture, APIs, microservices, and asynchronous/event-driven systems
• Proven experience delivering complex technical projects from design through production
• Strong understanding of software development practices, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production operations
• Experience mentoring engineers and developing technical talent
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams
• Ability to balance technical quality, business priorities, and delivery timelines

Nice to Have

• Experience building or scaling credit decisioning, loan management, repayment, collections, or risk systems
• Experience working with high-volume transactional systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and modern DevOps practices
• Experience leading distributed or geographically dispersed engineering teams
• Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams in a fast-growing organisation

RESPONSIBILITES

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, creating a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture
• Own the technical direction and delivery of systems supporting lending and credit products
• Work closely with Product, Risk, Data, and other teams to define technical solutions and delivery priorities
• Drive the design, development, and scaling of reliable backend services and distributed systems
• Participate in architectural decisions and ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and resilient
• Set engineering standards around code quality, testing, deployment, observability, and system reliability
• Support engineers with technical guidance, code reviews, architecture discussions, and complex problem-solving
• Identify and address technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and system reliability issues
• Ensure effective planning, prioritisation, and timely delivery of engineering initiatives
• Establish and track engineering metrics around delivery, quality, reliability, and operational performance
• Support incident management and ensure effective root-cause analysis and follow-up
• Coach engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, career development, and performance management
• Participate in hiring and help build a strong engineering team

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