Engineering Manager

Company: Options Executive Search Pvt Ltd

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Business Type: Startup

Company Type: Product

Business Model: B2B

Funding Stage: Series A

Industry: Fintech

Salary Range: ₹ 45-55 Lacs PA

Job Description Our client is a rapidly growing AI-driven SaaS company focused on transforming enterprise finance operations through intelligent automation. Their platform leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, and cloud-native technologies to automate complex workflows across Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions.

Backed by leading global investors and recognized by prominent industry analysts and technology platforms, our client is building next-generation AI-powered enterprise applications that help organizations improve operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, and gain real-time visibility into financial performance.

The organization operates at the intersection of AI, enterprise SaaS, automation, and financial technology, solving large-scale business problems through cutting-edge engineering and product innovation.

Our client is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building AI-enabled SaaS products for enterprise finance automation.

This role combines strong people leadership with deep technical expertise across full-stack engineering, cloud-native architecture, and applied AI systems. The ideal candidate will have experience managing engineering teams while remaining hands-on enough to guide architecture, technical decision-making, and delivery execution.

You will work closely with Product, AI/ML, and business teams to build scalable enterprise-grade applications leveraging LLMs, generative AI, and modern cloud infrastructure.

This is an opportunity to help scale both the engineering organization and the product platform in a fast-paced startup environment.

Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of full-stack engineers
• Provide technical guidance across architecture, design, development, and deployment
• Drive engineering excellence across cloud-native SaaS applications and AI-enabled product capabilities

Product Delivery

• Own end-to-end delivery and execution of critical product initiatives
• Ensure systems are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with customer requirements
• Balance execution speed with engineering quality and long-term scalability

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Product, AI/ML, and business stakeholders to define priorities and roadmap execution
• Work across distributed teams and time zones to deliver business impact

Engineering Excellence

• Champion best practices around coding standards, CI/CD, DevOps, Agile methodologies, code reviews, and testing
• Drive adoption of modern AI engineering tools, frameworks, and development workflows

Operational Ownership

• Ensure platform reliability, monitoring, security, observability, and high availability across cloud infrastructure
• Support scalable multi-tenant SaaS architecture and operational excellence

Team Building & Mentorship

• Recruit and develop strong engineering talent
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, learning, and collaboration
• Provide mentorship, performance feedback, and career growth support

Stakeholder Communication

• Communicate technical direction, delivery status, and risks effectively to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrate responsiveness, accountability, and execution focus

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building scalable enterprise products
• 2+ years of engineering management experience leading SaaS engineering teams
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Strong experience with modern full-stack technologies including Node.js, React.js/TypeScript, and Python
• Practical experience building AI/ML-enabled applications using LLMs, generative AI, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and agentic workflows
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs and embedding-based retrieval systems into production SaaS platforms
• Strong programming expertise in Python, REST APIs, FastAPI, JSON, and scripting
• Experience working with AWS or other commercial cloud platforms
• Strong background in distributed systems, scalable microservices, system design, and data modeling
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams
• Strong understanding of Agile development and product delivery practices
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Must be based in or willing to relocate to Hyderabad

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, or similar tools
• Exposure to deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Prior experience in FinTech, finance automation, or enterprise workflow platforms
• Familiarity with emerging GenAI tools and AI engineering ecosystems
• Experience scaling engineering organizations within startup or growth-stage environments
• Exposure to enterprise integrations including SSO, email systems, and multi-tenant SaaS architectures

What Our Client Is Looking For

• A strong engineering leader who can balance strategy with hands-on execution
• Someone comfortable managing both people and technical complexity
• An individual who thrives in fast-moving startup environments
• A builder mindset with strong ownership and accountability
• A leader who can combine AI innovation with practical enterprise software engineering
• Someone capable of scaling systems, teams, and delivery maturity simultaneously