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As a Software Engineering Manager in Finexus’ R&D department, you will lead the company’s next generation of products and technologies. You will oversee a combination of company-wide platforms & frameworks meant to accelerate and modernize the company’s entire tech stack. 

You will report directly to the R&D Director and your initial scope will be Backend Platform, covering: 

• Development frameworks – Microservice frameworks (for Java & Python), Data Platform (OLTP), Data Engineering (OLAP) 
• Deployment Infrastructure - CI/CD & Test Automation, Monitoring & Observability, Docker & K8s Infra. 
• AI/ML Infra – supporting applications such as eKYC, credit scoring, document analysis, fraud detection. 

Your team's platform will be deployed company-wide to improve development efficiency and bring modern technologies and standards to new and legacy applications.

General Expectations:

Leadership & Collaboration 

• Determines how to meet goals & schedules based on high-level company objectives that are determined in collaboration with senior management.
• Provides senior management with feedback on the feasibility of team strategy proposed by org-wide leadership 
• Communicates well across teams and ensure that company-wide priorities are aligned with all related teams’ work. Must communicate priorities & strategy to team members. 

Team Execution 

• Serves as the team’s Project Manager and Product Owner when there is no dedicated person for these roles.  
• Ensures high-quality execution and attainment of the team’s goals & constantly re-evaluates priorities ensuring the most important work is always put first. 
• Ensures proper technical design and project plans, along with Tech Leads and PMs (if applicable) 
• Ensures best practices & organizational processes are being followed within the team 
• Responsible for producing a long-term strategic roadmap of the team, with ICs and tech leads being responsible for the more detailed components. 

People Management & Growth 

• Actively manages team performance & is ultimately accountable for the performance of their subordinates & regular appraisals 
• Understands team member’s strengths and weaknesses, areas of growth, whether they are meeting their specific role expectations, and has a plan to address under & over performance 
• Responsible for proposing promotions, role changes, performance-improvement-plans. 
• Ensures the growth of team members 
• Coaches, provides timely, actionable feedback, and invests time in career development of team members 
• Creates a healthy team environment & culture with low attrition & high team member satisfaction 
• Conducts regular 1:1s, at least 2x per month, to review these topics. 

Recruiting & Hiring 

• Creates detailed recruiting plans for open roles, and hires qualified candidates in the most efficient time span possible 
• Organizes & improves engineering interview processes, following and improving company standards. 
• Trains engineering interviewers and provides continuous feedback. 
• Helps close candidates by selling them on the opportunity and why it is a career boost. 

Key Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field. 
• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, with 2+ years as a lead or manager. 
• Experience in a mix of MNCs and local companies is preferred. 
• Experience in small-medium fast-paced companies or startups is a plus. 
• Experience in fintech, banking or AI is a plus. 
• Strong programming skills in either Java or Python (Java experience preferred) 
• Familiarity with a modern tech stack, and expertise in a few components of it. Preferably: 
• At least 1 year of experience in releasing software products within a CI/CD environment 
• At least 1 year experience working with cloud services