Engineering Director - Java Technologies
First seen by Alion on Jul 23, 2026.
Job Description : Director of Engineering (Java)
Location : Gurugram
Experience : 1620 Years
Industry : FinTech Unicorn (Female Candidates required)
About the Role :
We are looking for an experienced Director of Engineering to lead multiple high-performing engineering teams responsible for building highly scalable, secure, and resilient financial technology products. The ideal candidate will have a strong Java engineering background, proven experience leading engineering organizations, and expertise in building distributed systems capable of handling millions of transactions. This is a strategic leadership role requiring a blend of technical depth, people leadership, product thinking, and execution excellence.
Key Responsibilities :
1. Engineering Leadership :
- Lead and scale multiple engineering teams comprising Engineering Managers, Staff Engineers, Principal Engineers, and Software Engineers.
- Define engineering strategy aligned with business goals and product roadmap.
- Drive engineering excellence through best practices, code quality, architecture reviews, and operational excellence.
- Build an inclusive, high-performance engineering culture focused on ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor engineering leaders and establish succession planning.
2. Technology & Architecture :
- Design and oversee highly scalable, distributed microservices architecture using Java and cloud-native technologies.
- Drive architecture decisions for high availability, fault tolerance, security, and performance.
- Ensure engineering systems can handle high transaction volumes with low latency.
- Lead modernization initiatives involving event-driven architecture and API-first design.
- Establish engineering standards and governance.
3. Product Delivery :
- Partner with Product Management, Design, and Business stakeholders to deliver customer-centric solutions.
- Own engineering execution, sprint planning, delivery timelines, and release management.
- Ensure predictable delivery while balancing innovation and technical debt.
- Drive Agile engineering practices across teams.
4. People Leadership :
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineering talent.
- Coach Engineering Managers and Technical Leads.
- Conduct performance reviews, career planning, and leadership development.
- Build diverse engineering teams across multiple locations.
5. Operational Excellence :
- Define Engineering KPIs and SLAs.
- Improve system reliability and uptime.
- Lead incident management and root cause analysis.
- Drive automation, CI/CD adoption, and DevOps maturity.
6. Stakeholder Management :
- Collaborate with executive leadership on technology strategy.
- Partner with Security, Compliance, Risk, and Infrastructure teams.
- Present engineering roadmaps and progress updates to senior leadership.
- Influence strategic t echnology investments.
Technical Skills :
- Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microservices, REST APIs
- Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture, Messaging, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB
- Cloud Platforms: AWS
FinTech Experience :
Candidates should have experience building one or more of the following :
- Digital Payments
- Lending Platforms
- Banking Systems
- Credit Risk Platforms
- UPI
- Wallets
- Merchant Payments
- Fraud Detection
- Financial APIs
- Regulatory & Compliance Platforms
Leadership Competencies :
- Strategic Thinking, Technical Vision, Engineering Leadership, Organizational Scaling, Stakeholder Management, Executive Communication, Talent Development, Decision Making, Innovation, Customer Obsession
Required Qualifications :
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
- 1620 years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years leading engineering teams.
- Experience managing 50150+ engineers through Engineering Managers.
- Strong background in Java-based backend engineering.
- Experience building products from concept to scale.
Success Metrics :
- Engineering delivery predictability, Platform scalability and reliability, System uptime (99.99%+), Team engagement and retention, Engineering productivity, Technical debt reduction, Customer experience improvements, Security and compliance adherence
Why Join Us ?
- Build products used by millions of customers.
- Lead a world-class engineering organization.
- Solve complex, high-scale FinTech challenges.
- Work with modern cloud-native technologies.
- Drive the future of digital financial services.
Diversity Hiring :
- 1.2 Crore - 1.5 Crore
Skills
Engineering Management, Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microservices Architecture, MongoDB, PostgreSQL