About Navi

At Navi, our mission is to simplify finance for a billion people, through technology-first products built at scale. Founded in 2018 by Sachin Bansal and Ankit Agarwal, Navi has grown rapidly across Loans, UPI, Insurance, Mutual Funds and Digital Gold – building products designed around speed, simplicity and customer experience. Today, millions of customers use Navi for experiences like instant personal loans, fully digital home loan sanctions within minutes, low-cost mutual funds, instant credit lines in minutes and one of India’s fastest-growing UPI platforms. What makes Navi different is the way we build. We move fast, solve real customer problems and give people the ownership to create meaningful impact early in their journey.

Why Explore a Career at Navi?

Where Ownership Creates Real Impact At Navi, ownership starts early. People here are trusted to solve problems, make decisions and drive outcomes that directly shape the products and experiences used by millions of customers every day.

Where Careers Accelerate

Growth at Navi is driven by impact, not tenure. We strongly believe in promoting from within and creating opportunities for people to take on larger responsibilities as they grow. If you consistently raise the bar, you’ll find the space to grow quickly here.

Where Great Talent Builds Together

We take pride in building high talent-density teams where ambitious people learn from one another every day. Working on high-scale business and technology problems creates steep learning curves, quick execution cycles and opportunities to make visible impact throughout your journey.

About the Team

Navi’s Engineering team builds the backbone of our financial products-spanning lending, upi & payments, insurance, investments, and debt management. We operate as cross-functional teams that work closely with Product, Data, and Business functions to deliver reliable, high-performance systems at scale. Our engineers focus on solving real-world challenges through scalable architecture, automation, and long-term thinking, along with providing quality feedback ensuring every Navi product is built to serve millions efficiently and seamlessly.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager at Navi, you'll lead a team of engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable systems to serve customer and business needs.



You'll ensure high-quality delivery, drive operational excellence, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to actively

co-own technical and business roadmaps

and drive business outcomes. You'll also mentor and grow engineers and help shape the technical direction of the team.

What You’ll Own

Lead and mentor a team of ~10 engineers, fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented, and high-performance workplace, which includes

developing role-specific growth plans

and effectively

calibrating and differentiating performance

across all team members. Set clear

goals and expectations

for individuals and the team, continuously track performance and coach for improvement. Collaborate with business, product, and HR stakeholders

to align engineering initiatives with company goals, including the ability to

push back with logic

on priorities and handle conflicts constructively. Provide strong technical direction

and hands-on support to ensure delivery of scalable and robust solutions. Champion production excellence

with a strong focus on observability, monitoring, and debuggability of systems. Drive execution of technical deliverables

with a focus on quality, timely delivery, and long-term impact, while ensuring execution predictability. Support hiring efforts

through workforce planning, interviewing, and evaluation with a strong focus on building a diverse and skilled team. Set the

vision for your team

and reinforce a business impact-oriented culture, driving a focus on long-term initiatives.

What Makes You a Great Fit

Strong technical expertise in designing and delivering

scalable, reliable, and observable

backend systems, including the ability to

deeply understand systems to challenge design choices

and identify failure points, dependencies, and scalability issues. Experience driving

end-to-end project delivery

including planning, estimation, risk mitigation, and execution tracking.



Solid understanding of

SDLC best practices

(code reviews, testing, CI/CD, on-call processes) and driving operational excellence through metrics .

Soft Skills & Traits

Demonstrated

ownership

and

accountability

for team outcomes and delivery. A strong mindset for

Product Thinking and Business Ownership , thinking beyond execution to understand customer and business problems, and linking technical decisions to measurable business outcomes. Strong

people management

skills and

stakeholder communication . Ability to

navigate ambiguity, prioritize competing demands

based on business impact, and

make trade-offs

pragmatically between business value and technical needs. A continuous improvement and

highly solution-oriented mindset , prioritizing

achieving business outcomes

and constantly looking to elevate team efficiency and engineering quality.

The Navi OS

The Navi OS is our Operating System for how we work every day. Success at Navi is defined by living these core values.

Start with the Customer Master the Details Act with Urgency Own the Outcome Build for a Decade - Not a Day Win as One We hire talented individuals who already show these strengths, because those who share these values thrive at Navi and grow with the organisation. To read more about the Navi OS, visit

navi.com/our-values

Life at Navi

Life at Navi is fast-paced, ambitious and deeply collaborative. Beyond work, teams come together through sports, celebrations, offsites, music jams, team outings and many more shared experiences that make the journey exciting and memorable. We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, through flexible leave policies, strong health and wellness benefits, free financial, legal and medical consultations, ESOPs and a workplace designed for both productivity and well-being. Whether it’s the sports turf, gym, focus zone or nap rooms, the campus is built to make everyday work more enjoyable. If you’d like to know more about life at Navi, our culture and employee benefits, head to our careers page:

navi.com/careers/life-at-navi

If solving meaningful problems, building at scale and growing alongside ambitious teams excites you, Navi could be the place for you.

📌 Engineering Manager (Backend) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Navi
📍 Bengaluru