At FinBox, this team is where real-world complexity meets engineering. - a high-impact team responsible for delivering rapid feature rollouts, custom solutions, and complex client integrations. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery. You'll combine hands-on technical leadership with team management to drive execution in a rapid-paced, evolving environment.

The Candidate Will Have Responsibilities Across The Following Functions Drive Execution, Product and Delivery:

- Own end-to-end delivery across core product enhancements, new capability development, and client implementations.
- Translate ambiguous business and client requirements into scalable system designs and extensible product solutions.
- Drive execution across multiple concurrent workstreams, balancing rapid delivery with long-term product and architecture goals.
- Ensure high-quality releases with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Provide Hands-on Technical Leadership

- Design scalable backend systems and APIs.
- Contribute to code and unblock teams on complex technical challenges.
- Guide architecture decisions with a balance of speed and long-term thinking.

Own Production And Reliability

- Take responsibility for production systems, uptime, and performance.
- Lead incident management, debugging, and root cause analysis (RCA).
- Continuously improve system reliability and engineering practices.

Build And Lead Teams

- Hire, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing engineers.




- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support engineers in their growth while maintaining a strong delivery focus.

Collaborate Cross-functionally

- Work closely with Product, Customer Success, and external stakeholders.
- Align engineering efforts with client needs and business priorities.

Requirements

- 10+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems and distributed architectures in production environments.
- 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams, with a focus on driving execution while staying close to the code and design.
- Strong expertise in system design, API architecture, and building scalable, extensible platforms.
- Proven ability to translate complex, ambiguous requirements into robust product and engineering solutions.
- Deep experience owning production systems, including incident management, performance optimisation, and root cause analysis (RCA).
- Demonstrated ability to balance rapid delivery with long-term architecture and product quality.
- Experience in fintech, SaaS, or API-first platforms is a plus.

Good To Have

- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, evolving environments.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Balance between execution speed and engineering quality.
- Interest in mentoring and building teams.
- Comfort working across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This job was posted by Nikila Belle from FinBox.

📌 Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 FinBox
📍 Bengaluru