About Payfinia
Payfinia is a SaaS payment hub powering community banks and credit unions across the United States. Our flagship product, IPX (Instant Payment Exchange), enables real-time payment processing across major payment rails including FedNow and RTP. We build secure, scalable, cloud-native financial infrastructure that empowers smaller financial institutions to compete at the highest level.

We are a quick-growing engineering organization with deep roots in AWS, microservices, and payment compliance. We are looking for a seasoned Engineering Manager to join our leadership team at our India development center.

Role Overview
We are looking for an Engineering Manager based in India who is as comfortable reviewing a system design as they are running a sprint planning session. You will lead one of our core engineering teams, take full ownership of feature delivery, and work closely with Product, QA, and DevOps — as well as our US-based leadership, client teams, and financial institution partners.
This is a hands-on leadership role.



You will operate through 2–3 tech leads and senior engineers while personally engaging in architecture reviews, critical-path technical decisions, and AI-SDLC adoption — not just managing timelines. You will be expected to drive autonomous decision-making during India business hours and maintain proactive communication across a 10–15 hour time zone gap.

Key Responsibilities
People & Team Leadership
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 10–15 engineers across Java, Node.js, and React.js stacks, operating through 2–3 tech leads
Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations
Drive hiring — own technical interviews and build a high-quality engineering pipeline
Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, engineering pride, and AI-augmented productivity
Manage and coordinate with QA team, and external contractors

Technical Leadership
Actively participate in architecture, design, and code reviews across t

📌 Engineering Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Payfinia
📍 Bengaluru