Sr. Engineering Manager/ Engineering ManagerAbout RupeekRupeek, established in 2015 and headquartered in Bangalore, stands as India's leading asset-backed digital lending fintech platform. Committed to making credit accessible to Indians in a fair and convenient manner, Rupeek pioneers innovative financial products focused on monetizing India's $2 trillion gold market. Leveraging state-of-the-art technology and an automated asset-light supply chain, Rupeek is transforming the gold loan disbursal landscape across 40+ cities in India. With a customer base exceeding 5,00,000+, the company's strategic partnerships with top banks and financial institutions underscore its commitment to building gold-backed assets through low-risk, low-touch, and friction-free processes.Rupeek's impressive journey is supported by key investors such as Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Bertelsmann, and GGV Capital. In Apr 2024, Rupeek turned profitable and raised $25M in equity capital from Manipal Group and Elevation Capital to fund its next phase of growth. Join us in redefining the future of finance through innovation, technology, and a commitment to financial inclusivity.Position OverviewAt Rupeek, Engineering Managers (EMs) lead teams of diverse and high performing groups of people (avg span of 10-12 people) which are moving towards realising the company vision. The EM owns the entire engineering for their functional area and takes ownership of all activities like development (SLDC practices), support (incidents management), devops (infra planning, hygiene of production systems), product/tech roadmap and people (team health and dynamics) related to their area of influence.Job Title: Sr. Engineering Manager/ Engineering ManagerEducation: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.Experience: 8-12 YearsLocation: BangaloreRole:The Engineering Manager role is expected to work on four different dimensions.People - Team motivation and growth, Performance management, Org Health, individual connect and partnering with people to meet their career aspirations.Product - Partnering with Biz and product to define the roadmap and new disruptions in the fintech domain.Tech - Partnering with Devs to ensure that the tech systems and roadmap are in place (and probably “ahead”) to support the product roadmap.Execution - Defining lean and efficient processes to continuously improve on production support, OKR execution, SDLC processes, and partnering with stakeholders on both the biz side and tech counterparts from other teams.This specific role is for the lending and post disbursement areas in Rupeek that directly deals with loan life cycle, lender integrations and LOS and LMS systems.Probable Candidate Description :A good EM candidate should have the below mandatory traits: Courage - Be able to ask the hard questions to people around, including her direct reports, stakeholders, and management.Visionary - Be able to visualise/define the long term vision and architecture for her product/tech platforms.A go-getter - We are a very fast growing company and we need people who can get things done reliably and in the right way.Empathetic and Trustworthy - We feel empathy and trust are the key ingredients for having deep connections with people around and building a very closely knit team.Practically, we feel that to develop all the above traits at the required level it will take anyone around 8-12 years of technical experience around building performant and scalable systems and at least 2-3 years of experience around managing a team. That being said, we are open to talking to you if you feel that you meet the above requirements, even at a lesser experience.. :-)Why Join Us?Be part of a high-growth fintech/NBFC environment.Work on innovative financial products with cutting-edge technology.Lead impactful projects that shape the future of digital lending.Competitive compensation and benefits.If you’re an experienced engineering leader with a passion for innovation and a desire to make an impact, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and join Rupeek in shaping the future of finance!
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Engineering Manager