Engineering Manager

💻 Position: AVP Engineer

📍Remote

🗓️ Working Days: Monday to Friday

📌 Experience Required: 7+ years

About Fundamento

We’re on a mission to reinvent how enterprises talk to their customers.

At Fundamento, we’re building voice agents that are transforming how India’s biggest lenders- like IIFL, Paytm, Hero FinCorp, Shriram Finance and Jio Financial Services- talk to their customers. Backed by Google, led by experienced entrepreneurs (Harvard, Oxford, Booth Alumni), and trusted by the financial service giants- this is your chance to work at the heart of AI revolution.

Role Overview:

We are seeking an accomplished and hands-on AVP Engineering to lead, mentor, and scale our software engineering organization. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, proven experience building AI-driven products with LLMs, and a strong MERN stack foundation. This role blends technical leadership with people management and strategic execution to build high-performing teams and scalable systems that fuel rapid innovation and growth.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Leadership & Team Building:

-Build, mentor, and retain world-class engineering talent across multiple teams or pods.

-Foster a high-performance culture centered around innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement.

-Coach engineering managers and tech leads to scale their teams effectively and deliver high-impact outcomes.

2. Scale & Execution:

-Lead engineering strategy for scalable, resilient, and high-availability systems.

-Define and optimize engineering processes for velocity, quality, and operational excellence.

-Manage and prioritize multiple initiatives across product and platform domains.

3. Technology & Architecture:

-Provide technical leadership on MERN-based architectures and modern cloud-native systems.

-Drive innovation through LLM-powered applications, AI integrations, and intelligent automation.

-Review and guide architecture decisions, code quality, performance, and security best practices.

-Ensure a robust engineering foundation with CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure scalability.

4. Cross-functional Collaboration:

-Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to translate business goals into engineering outcomes.

-Collaborate with AI research and product teams to implement and operationalize LLM-driven features.

-Communicate technical strategy, progress, and risks to executive stakeholders.

5. Culture & Process:

-Champion engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, and innovation.

-Establish frameworks for growth, learning, and technical leadership within teams.

-Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Qualifications:

-7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3–5 years in engineering leadership roles (managing managers or multiple teams).

-Proven experience in building and scaling engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

-Strong technical background in MERN stack and modern web application architectures.

-Hands-on experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, or similar platforms)- understanding of model integration, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning workflows.

-Deployment of your own model.

-Should have worked with Python + FastAPI - Pytorch.

-Deep knowledge of distributed systems, micro-services , and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).

-Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have:

- Experience in setting up platform teams or developer productivity initiatives.

- Exposure to MLOps or productionizing AI models.

What We Offer:

1. High-Impact Work:

2. Ownership & Autonomy:

3. Learning & growth:

Have questions? Reach out to meenakshi@fundamento.ai

Join us at Fundamento to shape the future of AI-powered enterprise conversations. Be part of a team where AI, strategy, and customer impact come together—and where your work drives real change for some of India’s leading financial institutions.