Director - Software Engineering

Role: Director of Engineering 
Company: PayU Finance India Pvt Ltd  
Location: Bengaluru  
Education: Bachelor / Master’s degree from reputed college in CS / ECE /Electrical  
Experience: 12+ years of product engineering Domain: fintech, ecommerce, web development at high scale  
Languages: Proficiency in Java 

 
  About the Role: 

At the heart of things, we offer you a great organization to work for, where you will get to do best work of your career and grow with the company. We strive to build a team of exceptional engineers to work with. And we encourage our engineers to lead us to be the best in our domain. 

 
  About the team: 

We also look at you as the future leader of our organization. Teamwork is of paramount importance. You must have prior experience in dealing with ambiguity and leading engineering teams. Flexibility, dedication and passion are important traits for you to shape your career and grow as an engineering leader and mentor. You will be expected to lead design discussions, initiate POCs, present technical topics in staff meetings; be curious; be a role model for juniors.  
 
Excited yet? Continue reading to find out more about the role: 

 
What you’ll be doing: 

Technology 

• Provide mentorship on system architecture & implementation approaches and mobile app development strategies. Work with the designers and product managers to understand their needs. Guide the technology team to stay agile so that they meet these fast paced requirements. 

• Priorities the tech projects and tasks as per the business needs while paying due consideration to tech debt. Coordinate and direct project plans while ensuring that the plans meet business objectives. 

• Ensure that the standard methodologies laid out by the tech organization are followed by the teams. 

• Budget for and make efficient technology investments for software and services. 

• Understand the compliance requirements, find ways to implement them smartly and always stay ahead of the compliance auditors. 

• Invest adequately in ensuring security is factored into design. Be paranoid about security and think creatively to erect security barriers 
   

Leadership 

• Guide engineering managers to arrive at efficient team structure and composition.  

• Collaborate & work closely with Product & Business teams. Understand business needs and plan ahead for any resources or tech investments. 

• Help priorities the goals for the functional unit within the organization. Set both short term and long term goals for the teams individually and together. 

• Work with other Engineering leaders & contribute positively to engineering practices and standards within the company. Unlock opportunities for achieving engineering efficiency across the organizational units. 

• Responsible for growing engineering managers and individual contributors in your team. Provide constant and constructive feedback to the managers and leads. 

• Promote the top performers, offer them opportunities to grow, ensure they are prepared for bigger roles. Be a role model for your team! 

What are we looking for? 

Must Haves: 

• Architect / Tech Practitioner: Experience in building mobile apps and can make a choice of tech. Sufficient knowledge in software systems across the stack: backend, frontend and cloud 

• 0 to 1 environment, start-up and enterprise experience 

• Engineering management: Played key people management role to maintain the engineering organization within their vertical or division. 

• Require top-notch security, compliance (Good to have) 

Desired Skills:  

• 15+ years of experience leading more than a few engineering teams with implementation of high velocity, high scale engineering products, delivering mobile apps having high DAUs and MAUs 

• Expertise taking care of risk and compliance requirements, typically in a fintech setting 

• Proven experience in building and hiring teams of engineers, to help them perform at their best 

• Solid understanding of modern technology architecture, software systems such as message queues, event based systems, RDBMS, distributed storage. 

• Ability to communicate complex technology details in simplified language to key partners and other non-tech audience. Experience in preparing accurate reports, making eloquent presentations to the top management 

What we offer 

• A positive, get-things-done workplace 

• A dynamic, constantly evolving space (change is par for the course – important you are comfortable with this) 

• An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. 

• Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale 

• Access to 5000+ training courses accessible anytime/anywhere to support your growth and development (Corporate with top learning partners like Harvard, Coursera, Udacity)