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The Opportunity NPCI is looking for an accomplished Engineering Manager to lead the engineering of its public-facing website and associated content-management platform. The website handles approximately 60 lakh requests per month and experiences substantially higher demand during important announcements, campaigns, and ecosystem events. It therefore requires high availability, strong security, predictable performance, accessibility, effective observability, and readiness for sudden traffic peaks. This role offers the opportunity to shape and operate a high-visibility digital platform in India’s payments ecosystem. The Engineering Manager will lead a cross-functional team responsible for frontend, backend, content-management, quality engineering, release readiness, and production support. The technology landscape primarily includes Node.js, React.js, Express.js, Strapi, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, caching, databases, CDN and reverse-proxy integration, and secure CI/CD practices. The position combines people leadership, technical direction, delivery governance, stakeholder management, and production accountability. It is not a purely administrative role. The incumbent must remain technically credible, guide architecture and engineering decisions, review material risks, mentor engineers, and lead the team through complex releases and production incidents. 2. Job Details Job Title Engineering Manager - NPCI Website and Content Platform Function Technology / Application Engineering Experience 10-14 years of software-engineering experience, including 3-5 years in technical leadership, engineering management, or an equivalent role Location Hyderabad / As per NPCI policy\nEmployment Type Full-time Role Type Engineering leadership, people management, technical governance, delivery ownership, and production accountability Team Scope Cross-functional full-stack engineering team covering frontend, backend, CMS, testing, observability, release readiness, and application production support Technology Context Node.js, React.js, Express.js, Strapi, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST APIs, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenTelemetry, databases, distributed caching, CI/CD, CDN and security controls 3. Key Skills and\nExperience Required Leadership and Management\nProven experience leading, coaching, and developing engineering teams responsible for business-critical or high-traffic digital platforms.\nStrong people-management capabilities covering goal setting, performance management, career development, feedback, hiring, onboarding, workforce planning, succession, and retention.\nAbility to develop technical leads and senior engineers, delegate ownership, resolve team impediments, and reduce key-person dependencies.\nDemonstrated stakeholder-management, prioritization, negotiation, risk-management, vendor-management, and executive-communication skills.\nAbility to balance delivery timelines with security, reliability, maintainability, compliance, and total cost of ownership. Technical and Engineering\nStrong engineering foundation in Node.js, React.js, Express.js, Strapi or comparable headless CMS platforms, JavaScript ES6+, and TypeScript.\nSound understanding of Node.js runtime behaviour, asynchronous programming, event-loop performance, streams, worker threads, memory management, error handling, connection pooling, and application lifecycle management.\nExperience governing REST API design, validation, authentication, authorization, structured logging, caching, rate limiting, timeouts, retries, secure headers, API documentation, and automated testing.\nPractical experience with Docker, Kubernetes-based application delivery, CI/CD pipelines, relational or document databases, Redis or equivalent distributed caching, and Linux production environments.\nExperience designing or operating highly available public-facing applications, including capacity planning, load and endurance testing, peak-event readiness, graceful degradation, disaster recovery, incident response, and root-cause analysis.\nPractical knowledge of OpenTelemetry or equivalent observability approaches covering distributed traces, metrics, structured-log correlation, dashboards, alerts, context propagation, and telemetry controls.\nStrong understanding of application security, OWASP-aligned secure engineering, secrets management, dependency governance, vulnerability remediation, and SAST, DAST, software-composition and container-scanning controls.\nAbility to review architecture, non-functional requirements, code, test strategy, Kubernetes configuration, and production-readiness evidence at an appropriate depth without becoming a delivery bottleneck. Qualifications and Preferred Experience\nBachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.\nExperience in banking, payments, financial services, or another regulated and security-sensitive domain is preferred.\nExperience with CDN, Web Application Firewall, API gateway, reverse proxy, object storage, enterprise identity, SEO, Core Web Vitals, accessibility, and structured metadata is advantageous.\nExposure to blue-green, canary, or rolling deployments; performance tools such as k6, JMeter, or Gatling; and platforms such as SonarQube or equivalent security and quality tooling is preferred.\nAgile, project-management, cloud-native, security, or architecture certifications are advantageous but not mandatory. 4. Accountabilities with Major Activities A. People and Engineering Leadership\nBuild, lead, coach, and retain a capable cross-functional engineering team.\nSet clear individual and team goals, ownership boundaries, engineering expectations, and measurable outcomes.\nConduct regular one-to-one discussions, performance reviews, career planning, feedback, recognition, and development interventions.\nPlan team capacity and skills, participate in hiring and onboarding, develop succession coverage, and address performance or capability gaps.\nCreate a culture of accountability, technical excellence, secure engineering, collaboration, continuous learning, and blameless improvement. B. Technical Strategy and Architecture Governance\nOwn the technical direction and modernization roadmap for the website and content platform.\nGuide architecture across Node.js, React.js, Express.js, Strapi, APIs, databases, caching, object storage, CDN, reverse proxy, Web Application Firewall, Kubernetes, and observability components.\nApprove material solution designs, non-functional requirements, technology selections, API contracts, failure-handling approaches, and major framework or platform upgrades.\nEnsure solutions are modular, secure, accessible, maintainable, testable, horizontally scalable, operationally supportable, and aligned with NPCI technology standards.\nMaintain architecture documentation, technical-decision records, reusable patterns, and engineering guardrails. C. Delivery and Release Accountability\nTranslate business, communications, marketing, regulatory, security, and operational needs into prioritized engineering plans and delivery milestones.\nOwn delivery predictability across discovery, estimation, design, development, testing, security review, deployment readiness, release, and post-production validation.\nManage scope, dependencies, capacity, technical debt, delivery risks, and cross-team impediments, with timely escalation and mitigation.\nCoordinate high-visibility content launches, planned releases, platform upgrades, migrations, and remediation programmes.\nEnsure release evidence, approvals, rollback procedures, operational documentation, and production validation are complete. D. High-Traffic Performance and Reliability\nEnsure the platform is engineered for approximately 60 lakh monthly requests and materially higher peak traffic, concurrency, and failure scenarios.\nDefine and govern targets for availability, latency, throughput, scalability, accessibility, recoverability, and graceful degradation.\nDrive stateless design, horizontal scaling, server-side and client-side caching, CDN utilization, compression, asset optimization, efficient APIs, database performance, pagination, controlled payloads, and connection management.\nEnsure appropriate timeout, retry, circuit-breaking, rate-limiting, back-pressure, bulkheading, and graceful startup and shutdown strategies.\nSponsor load, stress, spike, endurance, capacity, failover, and recovery testing; ensure identified bottlenecks and resilience gaps are resolved. E. Security, Risk, and Compliance\nBe accountable for secure engineering practices appropriate for a high-visibility public website in the financial ecosystem.\nEmbed threat modelling, secure design, peer review, dependency controls, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, auditability, and security testing into the delivery lifecycle.\nEnsure mitigation of web, API, CMS, file-upload, access-control, injection, cross-site scripting, request-forgery, server-side request forgery, path-traversal, sensitive-data exposure, and supply-chain risks.\nOwn timely remediation of SAST, DAST, software-composition analysis, container-scanning, penetration-testing, audit, and security-review findings.\nMaintain controlled currency and upgrade plans for Node.js, React.js, Express.js, Strapi, container images, and third-party dependencies. F. Observability, Production Support, and Continual Improvement\nDefine an OpenTelemetry-based observability approach using traces, metrics, and correlated structured logs across browser, APIs, CMS, databases, caches, and external dependencies.\nEstablish service indicators, objectives, dashboards, and actionable alerts for traffic, errors, latency, saturation, dependency health, event-loop delay, memory, API, and database performance.\nEnsure telemetry is useful, appropriately sampled, cost-conscious, and does not disclose sensitive information.\nLead engineering response for priority incidents, support clear stakeholder communication, and drive evidence-based service restoration.\nChair root-cause reviews and ensure corrective and preventive actions are assigned, prioritized, and completed.\nUse trends in incidents, escaped defects, vulnerabilities, change failures, recovery time, operational toil, and technical debt to guide engineering improvements. G. Quality Engineering and DevSecOps\nDefine standards for unit, component, integration, API, contract, security, performance, accessibility, and end-to-end testing.\nEnforce pragmatic quality gates covering code review, automated tests, static analysis, dependency controls, security checks, container checks, and release approvals.\nImprove CI/CD automation, environment consistency, deployment traceability, release safety, and rollback capability with DevOps and platform teams.\nGovern application readiness for Kubernetes, including probes, resource requests and limits, autoscaling, rolling updates, configuration, secrets, lifecycle handling, and diagnosis of application-level container issues.\nEnsure technical documentation, API specifications, deployment guides, release notes, operational runbooks, and recovery procedures are current. H. 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