As a Software Engineering Manager in Finexus R&D department, you will lead the company's next generation of products and technologies. You will oversee a combination of company-wide platforms & frameworks meant to accelerate and modernize the company's entire tech stack.
You will report directly to the R&D Director and your initial scope will be Backend Platform, covering:
- Development frameworks Microservice frameworks (for Java & Python), Data Platform (OLTP), Data Engineering (OLAP)
- Deployment Infrastructure - CI/CD & Test Automation, Monitoring & Observability, Docker & K8s Infra.
- AI/ML Infra supporting applications such as eKYC, credit scoring, document analysis, fraud detection.
Your team's platform will be deployed company-wide to improve development efficiency and bring modern technologies and standards to new and legacy applications.
General Expectations:
Leadership & Collaboration
- Determines how to meet goals & schedules based on high-level company objectives that are determined in collaboration with senior management.
- Provides senior management with feedback on the feasibility of team strategy proposed by org-wide leadership
- Communicates well across teams and ensure that company-wide priorities are aligned with all related teams work. Must communicate priorities & strategy to team members.
Team Execution
- Serves as the team's Project Manager and Product Owner when there is no dedicated person for these roles.
- Ensures high-quality execution and attainment of the team's goals & constantly re-evaluates priorities ensuring the most important work is always put first.
- Ensures proper technical design and project plans, along with Tech Leads and PMs (if applicable)
- Ensures best practices & organizational processes are being followed within the team
- Responsible for producing a long-term strategic roadmap of the team, with ICs and tech leads being responsible for the more detailed components.
People Management & Growth
- Actively manages team performance & is ultimately accountable for the performance of their subordinates & regular appraisals
- Understands team member's strengths and weaknesses, areas of growth, whether they are meeting their specific role expectations, and has a plan to address under & over performance
- Responsible for proposing promotions, role changes, performance-improvement-plans.
- Ensures the growth of team members
- Coaches, provides timely, actionable feedback, and invests time in career development of team members
- Creates a healthy team environment & culture with low attrition & high team member satisfaction
- Conducts regular 1:1s, at least 2x per month, to review these topics.
Recruiting & Hiring
- Creates detailed recruiting plans for open roles, and hires qualified candidates in the most efficient time span possible
- Organizes & improves engineering interview processes, following and improving company standards.
- Trains engineering interviewers and provides continuous feedback.
- Helps close candidates by selling them on the opportunity and why it is a career boost.
Key Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with 2+ years as a lead or manager.
- Experience in a mix of MNCs and local companies is preferred.
- Experience in small-medium fast-paced companies or startups is a plus.
- Experience in fintech, banking or AI is a plus.
- Strong programming skills in either Java or Python (Java experience preferred)
- Familiarity with a modern tech stack, and expertise in a few components of it. Preferably:
- At least 1 year of experience in releasing software products within a CI/CD environment
- At least 1 year experience working with cloud services
