Head of Engineering

VP – Engineering

About the Company

The organization is on a mission to make financial literacy and credit access simple, actionable, and inclusive for India’s large credit-underserved population. Having grown from personalized credit consulting in 2023 to empowering over a million users today, the company is now among the fastest-growing credit score and credit management platforms in the country.

Backed by top-tier venture funds and consistently ranked among the top finance apps in India, the company is in a rapid scale-up phase and building a strong leadership team to power its 1x to 100x journey.

About the Role

The VP – Engineering will lead the technology organization, partnering closely with the founder to shape and execute the product and tech roadmap. The role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution—driving new feature development, system performance, platform scalability, and team development.

This is an opportunity to architect and scale a high-impact consumer product while nurturing a high-performing engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

Technology Leadership

• Define and drive the long-term tech vision aligned with product and business goals.
• Plan and deliver new features, enhancements, and platform improvements.

Team Leadership & Development

• Build, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team.
• Establish strong engineering processes, learning pathways, and leadership within the group.

Operational Excellence

• Oversee system stability, performance, uptime, and reliability.
• Implement best practices across code quality, CI/CD, observability, and incident management.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with product, business, and operations teams to translate ideas into scalable solutions.
• Ensure seamless execution across projects, integrations, and releases.

Requirements

• 10-15 years of experience with 5+ Years in engineering leadership roles

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• Proven track record in building and scaling engineering teams of

  30+ members.

• Strong experience working in high-growth startup environments, preferably in

  B2C product companies with relevant experience in working on high scale platforms

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• Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier engineering institute.

• Deep understanding of system architecture, performance tuning, and scalable product development.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on problem-solving and execution.
• Comfortable working full-time from the Bellandur, Bangalore office (5 days a week).