About the role

Responsibilities:

Architect AI-integrated enterprise systems and workflows.
Build agentic/autonomous systems that interact with business platforms and execute governed actions.
Design high-scale distributed and event-driven systems (Kafka or similar).
Work on complex architectures: Event Sourcing, CQRS, DDD, Hexagonal.

Requirements:

Startup experience: Must have banking/payments/lending/insurance domain knowledge.
Bangalore and Mumbai | High Budget (Top of Market).
10+ years of experience as an engineer building AI-powered, agentic systems at scale for enterprise use cases.
Experience in banking / payments / lending / insurance domains.
Strong backend expertise (Java / Kotlin preferred).
Deep understanding of data consistency, concurrency, and transactions.
Exposure to AI/ML integrations + agent-based systems.
Ability to thrive in startup environments with high ownership.
Proven experience as an engineering manager/tech lead transitioning to EM.
Strong background in product-based companies or early-stage startups (must-have).
Experience building and scaling backend or full-stack systems.
Ability to drive architecture, execution, and team ownership end-to-end.
Strong focus on delivery, quality, and engineering culture.
Experience managing and mentoring high-performance teams.

Good to Have:

Engineering Manager