Senior Engineering Manager

Requirements

• Strong background as a software engineer with experience in backend, distributed systems, payments, or large-scale platforms.
• Experience leading teams that build and operate highly available, low-latency systems.
• Proven track record of delivering projects end-to-end in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, data pipelines, and modern development tooling.
• Ability to drive alignment across teams, resolve ambiguity, and balance long-term strategy with immediate execution needs.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers through coaching, performance feedback, and career development.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, high standards, and continuous improvement.
• Scale the engineering team through effective hiring, onboarding, and talent development initiatives.
• Promote diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and collaborative team dynamics.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance in system design, architecture reviews, and code quality practices.
• Ensure engineering best practices across areas such as CI/CD, testing, observability, reliability, and security.
• Partner with architects to design scalable, fault-tolerant systems capable of supporting high-volume transactions and real-time financial operations.
• Understand and influence technical roadmaps, prioritization, and implementation strategies.
• Lead end-to-end execution of complex engineering projects—from requirements definition to production rollout.
• Drive operational excellence by establishing KPIs for availability, latency, reliability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Ensure timely delivery of roadmap commitments while balancing innovation, technical debt, and long-term platform health.
• Evaluate trade-offs and make data-informed decisions that align with business priorities.
• Partner with Product Management to define priorities, translate business needs into technical requirements, and establish clear execution plans.
• Work with Security, Compliance, and Risk teams to ensure all systems meet regulatory and operational standards required for financial services.
• Collaborate with SRE/Infrastructure teams to ensure high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and robust operational processes.
• Coordinate communication across engineering, product, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
• Oversee production systems, lead incident response, and guide teams in root-cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• Build and maintain dashboards, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
• Continuously improve monitoring, alerting, reliability, and performance tuning practices.
• Ensure adherence to secure coding practices, threat modeling, and audit / compliance requirements.

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