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You will shape the strategy, execution, reliability, and evolution of products and platforms that span mission-critical payment systems, financial products, and fraud and risk platforms directly impacting hundreds of millions of Indians transacting on Flipkart every day. The role goes beyond engineering delivery. We are looking for a hands-on technology leader who can build high-performing teams, influence product strategy, drive technical excellence, and create products and platforms that are resilient, scalable, secure, AI-enabled, and built for hyper-growth. You will solve challenges at a scale very few engineering teams in India face. Every architectural decision you make directly impacts hundreds of millions of customers. You will work with some of the sharpest fintech engineers in the country and partner closely with innovative product and business leaders in building financial products and payments infrastructure.\n\nWe are looking for an engineering leader who combines deep technical expertise with strong product development, operational excellence, and exceptional people leadership skills. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for building highly available, scalable, and secure fintech and payment products while growing engineering teams\n\nThe core responsibilities for the job include the following:\n\nTechnical Leadership: \nDrive architecture, design, and implementation of highly scalable services primarily using Java and modern cloud-native technologies.\nDemonstrate deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, databases, caches, message brokers, streaming platforms, API-first and event-driven architectures.\nEstablish engineering standards around code quality, architecture reviews, performance engineering, observability, security, and maintainability. Drive platform modernisation, technical debt reduction, and reusable engineering capabilities across teams.\nDesign systems with regulatory compliance, security, and customer trust as foundational principles, not afterthoughts.\n\nOperational Excellence and Engineering: \nDiscipline Own the operational health, reliability, and resilience of mission-critical payment platforms.\nBuild engineering organisations that treat reliability and security as product features, not operational overhead.\nEstablish data-driven operational reviews and continuously improve platform reliability, deployment velocity, and service quality.\nOwn end-to-end execution for strategic engineering initiatives from concept through production.\nDeliver predictable outcomes while balancing innovation, technical debt, and operational commitments.\nImprove engineering productivity through standardised development practices, automation, and continuous improvement.\nMeasure success through engineering and business metrics: delivery predictability, platform reliability, customer impact, engineering velocity, and team health.\n\nAI-Native Mindset: \nChampion the adoption of AI across the software development lifecycle and engineering operations.\nEncourage teams to rethink traditional software development practices through AI-first approaches, not merely incremental automation.\nStay current with emerging AI technologies and continuously evaluate opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness and product capabilities.\nLeverage AI to fundamentally accelerate engineering productivity, code quality, and software delivery.\n\nBusiness and Product Stakeholder Management: \nPartner closely with product and business teams to translate strategy into scalable technology solutions.\nInfluence product roadmap by bringing strong technical judgement, platform thinking, and deep customer empathy.\nEvaluate platform investments through the lens of customer experience, payment success rates, operational efficiency, and business outcomes.\nDrive engineering prioritisation using business impact, customer value, and operational considerations.\nBalance speed of execution with long-term architectural sustainability.\nCommunicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nBuild trusted partnerships across cross-functional teams to deliver strategic initiatives.\n\nTeam Leadership and Culture: \nBuild, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering.\nHire exceptional talent and create a strong leadership pipeline through coaching, mentoring, and succession planning.\nRaise the engineering bar through high standards for technical excellence, execution quality, and operational rigour.\nFoster a culture of ownership, accountability, continuous learning, and customer obsession.\nCreate an inclusive, collaborative environment where diverse perspectives are valued and engineers are empowered to do their best work.\nDrive regular performance feedback, career development, and growth opportunities for engineers and managers.\nLead organisational change effectively while maintaining high team engagement and morale.\n\nResponsibilities: \nBuild scalable, resilient, and secure distributed systems that operate reliably at high scale.\nApply deep fintech and payments expertise to solve complex customer and business problems.\nInfluence product direction through technical leadership and business acumen.\nLeverage AI to fundamentally improve engineering productivity and software delivery.\nBuild exceptional engineering organisations by developing leaders, raising technical standards, and fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.\n\nRequirements: \n12+ years of polyglot engineering experience, with at least 3 years building payment or fintech products.\nStrong system design skills and the ability to guide architecture decisions for complex, multi-system payment workflows.\nExperience designing and operating high-availability and low-latency systems (99.99%+) where failures have direct financial and customer-trust consequences.\nHands-on experience with one or more payment systems: payment gateways, UPI integrations, card payment flows, wallet infrastructure, loan origination systems, settlement and reconciliation systems, etc.\nUnderstanding of the Indian payments and fintech regulatory landscape: RBI, NPCI guidelines, PPI regulations, and PCI-DSS requirements.\nProven track record of building and growing engineering teams; ability to hire strong engineers and develop them into senior contributors.\nBE/BTech in computer science or equivalent.\n\nNice to Have: \nFamiliarity with TPAP (Third-Party Application Provider) architecture on the NPCI UPI stack.\nExperience in card processing authentication, authorisation, clearing, and settlement flows; working knowledge of card scheme rules and interchange economics.\nUnderstanding of credit risk scoring, credit bureau integrations (CIBIL, Experian, CRIF), or credit lifecycle management for consumer/business lending.\nExposure to real-time fraud and risk ML models and their integration into payment decisioning pipelines.\nParticipation in fintech/payments industry forums or working groups.\nSkills\nPCI-DSS, UPI, architecture, distributed systems, fintech, high availability, java, low latency, payment gateways, payments, system design","description_format":"text","description_chars":7276,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":11,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Marketplaces","Online Groceries"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-22T18:35:15Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["seen:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-24T06:02:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/flipkart-sr-engineering-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/flipkart-sr-engineering-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-24T20:21:59Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29719,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2722},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2722"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fflipkart-sr-engineering-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fflipkart-sr-engineering-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fflipkart-sr-engineering-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/flipkart-sr-engineering-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fflipkart-sr-engineering-manager"}]}