Director - Product Engineering
First seen by Alion on Nov 6, 2026.
Designation: Director - Product Engineering
Location: Chennai
Who Are We?
M2P Fintech is a leading Banking Technology Platform, shaping the future of digital finance.
Established in 2014 and headquartered in Chennai, we have a strong footprint across 30+ countries in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Oceania.
At the forefront of next gen fintech, we drive innovation in banking, lending, and payments infrastructure.
Powering global fintech transactions, our comprehensive technology stack enables seamless banking solutions, lending platforms, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services, customized credit cards, prepaid cards, and more.
About The Role:
M2P Fintech is looking for a talented and experienced Director to drive new initiatives from scratch across cross functional teams and to rollout business transformational programs.
- Build and grow a new team of SDEs with the help of Leads and SEM.
- Work with PEs, Product Managers, Risk Managers, TPMs and Senior Leadership to design, develop and deliver results while fostering inputs and participation from all levels of the organization.
- Act as the engineering Owner for the products built by your teams.
- Ensure services built are highly scalable, low latency, secured and massively distributed.
- Responsible for growing and mentoring engineers in your team and setting the team culture.
- Actively coach and provide feedback to your team members and invest in their career growth.
- Ensure your team owns the design, delivery, deployment and actively manages operations of the services built.
What Will You Do in this Role:
- Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution - from conception to delivery to operations.
- Work with product managers in developing a strategy and road map to provide compelling capabilities that helps them succeed in their business goals.
- Work closely with engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
- Install best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
- Partner and integrate with the best in market to bring in best in class embedded fintech features.
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
- Solve complex problems in an innovative way and deliver quality solutions while taking ownership and accountability of assigned tasks.
- Lead and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices and ensure positive career development.
What You'll Need to be Successful in this Role:
- B.E or B.Tech in Computer Science or any equivalent degree.
- Experienced technology leader with 14+ years of software development experience including 5+ years in building and leading strong engineering teams.
- Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.
- Strong object-oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
- Strong service architecture and development experience with high performance and scalability.
- Strong at technical goal setting for a project with actionable success metrics.
- Good knowledge and experience on measuring a service from user experience angle.
- Strong on driving for results and self-motivated, strong learning mindset, with good understanding of related advanced/new technology.
- Keep up with the technology development in the related areas in the industry, which could be leveraged to enhance current architectures and build durable new ones.
- Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, facilitation, and interaction skills, including ability to effectively communicate architectural issues and concepts to multiple organization levels and executive management.
- Good problem-solving skills with strong analytical thinking.
- Hands On coder.
- Excellent debugging skills.
Perks and Benefits:
- Inclusive and People-First Culture.
- Health and Wellness Programs.
- Comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- Recognition Programs.
- Performance-based ESOPs.
- Learning Opportunities.
- Medical insurance
Skills
IT Product Management, IT Product Development, IT Product Strategy, Product Roadmap, IT Jobs in BFSI, Technical Architect