Product Engineering Lead

Job Title: Product Engineering Lead (Node.js & Fintech)

Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Job Type: Full-time

Experience Level: 6–10 Years

About the Opportunity

We are a profitable, founder-led digital commerce and fintech rewards enterprise operating for over a decade. As we scale our high-throughput transactional infrastructure to process over $1B+ in annual volume across payments, rewards, and financial services, we are hiring a hands-on Product Engineering Lead.

In this role, you will report directly to the founders, serving as both a core technical architect and a high-agency team leader (50% hands-on coding and architecture / 50% people leadership).

Key Responsibilities

• Payments & Transaction Infrastructure: Architect and scale resilient payment systems, reconciliation engines, settlement pipelines, exception handling, and third-party banking/aggregator integrations.
• Distributed Backend Systems: Design, build, and maintain production-grade microservices and APIs using Node.js, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and low latency under heavy throughput.
• Team Leadership & Engineering Standards: Directly manage, mentor, and recruit a squad of engineers; set code review benchmarks, enforce testing discipline, and uphold technical excellence across the sprint cycle.
• Data & Reliability Engineering: Manage production database schemas, telemetry, logging, and data pipelines for reporting and real-time transaction monitoring.
• Risk & Fraud Mitigation: Build real-time anomaly detection engines, risk intelligence rules, and security controls to safeguard financial flows.
• AI-Native Workflows: Champion AI adoption across the development lifecycle—integrating LLM assistants, automated testing, smart PR reviews, log parsing, and accelerated incident resolution.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Total Experience: 6–10 years in backend platform development and distributed systems architecture.
• Core Tech Stack: Advanced, current hands-on development expertise in Node.js and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystems.
• Fintech Domain Experience (Mandatory): Direct track record building and scaling payments, transaction gateways, reconciliation platforms, or financial technology rails.
• People Management Experience (Mandatory): Demonstrated experience directly leading, mentoring, and hiring software engineers.
• System Design & Databases: Deep practical understanding of relational and NoSQL databases, message brokers (Kafka/RabbitMQ), caching, and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
• AI-First Mindset: Active familiarity with embedding modern AI coding tools and automations into daily engineering workflows.
• Ownership: A high-ownership, founder-aligned mindset with the technical maturity to transition into broader engineering leadership.

Benefits & Work Perks

• Competitive compensation package with direct founder visibility.
• High impact on mission-critical payments architecture at massive scale.
• Fast-paced, high-ownership engineering culture without corporate bureaucracy.
• Collaborative workspace based out of Noida.

Pay: ₹2,528,787.34 - ₹5,038,167.51 per year

Work Location: In person