FatakPay
Website:
fatakpay.com
Job details:
Job description
Job Title: Engineering Manager - Insurance
Location: Mumbai, Andheri
Experience: 5 Years
Type: Full-time | On-site
Kindly share your resume on mansi.chauhan@fdplfinance.com
ABOUT THE COMPANY
FatakPay Digital Private Ltd is a digital-first fintech platform focused on providing seamless, technology-driven financial solutions. We strongly believe in innovation, scalability, and building impactful products that simplify financial access for millions of users. We foster a culture driven by technology, ownership, creativity, and collaboration while solving large-scale fintech challenges through modern engineering practices.
Position Overview:
As an Engineering Manager at FatakPay Digital Private Ltd, you will lead the design, development, scalability, and operational excellence of our fintech platforms serving millions of users. You will be responsible for managing cross-functional engineering teams across backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and DevOps while driving high-performance, cloud-native, microservices-based systems.
The ideal candidate should possess strong technical expertise across backend systems, frontend technologies, mobile ecosystems, cloud infrastructure, event-driven architectures, and scalable database design. Experience in insurance/insuretech/fintech domains and handling high-scale production systems is highly preferred.
Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership
• Lead architecture, design, and development of scalable microservices-based applications.
• Drive engineering best practices, code quality, security, and scalability initiatives.
• Architect and optimize systems capable of handling a million-plus user scale.
• Design robust event-driven systems using Kafka and asynchronous task processing frameworks like Celery/Redis.
• Oversee deployment, monitoring, and scaling of applications on AWS or GCP infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability, performance optimization, and reliability across systems.
Backend & Database Management
• Design and maintain scalable backend systems using Python-based technologies.
• Build and optimize RESTful APIs and distributed systems. • Architect relational and NoSQL databases
systems:
◦ MySQL / PostgreSQL
◦ MongoDB
• Collaborate on analytical and data-driven systems using BigQuery/Hadoop where applicable.
Frontend & Mobile Oversight
• Work closely with frontend teams using:
◦ React.js
◦ Next.js
◦ Vue.js
• Collaborate with mobile teams working on:
◦ React Native
◦ Flutter (added advantage)
• Ensure seamless integration between frontend, backend, and mobile platforms.
Cloud & DevOps
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and cloud deployments.
• Work closely with DevOps teams on:
◦ Kubernetes
◦ Docker
◦ Infrastructure scaling
◦ Monitoring & observability
• Ensure cloud security and operational best practices
Team Management
• Lead and mentor a team of 10–15+ engineers, including:
◦ Backend Developers
◦ Frontend Developers
◦ Mobile Developers
◦ QA/Test Engineers
◦ DevOps Engineers
• Drive sprint planning, resource allocation, performance management, and hiring.
• Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and innovation.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6–8 years of experience in software engineering with leadership responsibilities.
• Proven experience managing engineering teams in high-scale environments.
• Strong understanding of:
◦ Microservices Architecture
◦ Event-Driven Systems
◦ Distributed Systems
◦ Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/GCP)
Technical Skills Required:
• Python • FastAPI / Django • REST APIs & Microservices • MySQL / PostgreSQL • MongoDB • Database Architecture & Optimization • Kafka • Redis / Celery • React.js / Next.js / Vue.js • React Native / Flutter • AWS / GCP • Docker • Kubernetes • CI/CD Pipelines • BigQuery / Hadoop (Good to have)
Preferred Experience
• Experience in the Insurance / InsureTech / FinTech domain.
• Exposure to AI-driven or data-heavy platforms is an added advantage.
• Experience handling large-scale production systems with high traffic and transactional volume.
Key Traits
• Strong ownership mindset
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Strategic thinking and decision-making ability
• Effective stakeholder and team management
• Passion for building scalable fintech products
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