Jai Kisan - Director - Engineering - Consumer Lending Domain (1-2 yrs)

At Jai Kisan, we're not just building a neo-bank we're redefining the financial landscape in rural India.

As a team of innovators and problem-solvers, we're transforming the way rural communities, farmers, and small businesses interact with money, providing them with the financial tools and opportunities they need to thrive.

Since our inception in 2019, we've developed a comprehensive financial ecosystem that addresses the unique needs of rural India.

From supply chain finance to our rapidly growing consumer lending product , we empower small businesses with access to credit and a full suite of tailored financial services including payments, savings, deposits, and insurance.

We're on an exciting journey of 10x growth, and we're looking for driven individuals passionate about building impactful solutions to join us in shaping the future of rural finance in India.

If you're ready to make a transformative impact, Jai Kisan is the place for you.

Requirements.

Job Description:

- Build and Lead multiple teams of 15-20 top-notch engineers to own, drive & deliver critical parts of our products.

- Mentoring and ability to attract the best talent to enhance the productivity of all the application engineering teams.

- Work closely with Engineering Managers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.

- Set up the organization processes, best practices and champion their adoption to enable timely delivery of projects with high quality.

- Oversee Architecture & design of technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

- Define engineering practices, and product development patterns and drive product development to scale.

- Engage with product team and CTO office team to drive the functionality, usability and other non-functional requirements and hence the solution for the same.

- Ensure on-time launches by managing design, development, and integration efforts according to a standard or customized project plan.

- Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence.

- Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement.

- Show strong business and technical judgment that will accelerate time to market of releases, while incrementally moving our services towards the long-term vision.

- Be responsible for mentoring and developing front-line managers and engineers.

- Bachelor Degree or higher in Computer Science or related field from Premium Institutes.

- 10+ years of work experience in software development and 5+ years in a leadership role in Lending or BFSI Industry.

- Deep Understanding of enterprise-grade technologies.

- Experience in building and running distributed systems for 24x7 online services at scale.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.

- Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.

- Experience in defining and executing professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle.

- Strong analytic and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

- Strengths in problem-solving, issue resolution, ability to work in a deadline-driven work environment, attention to detail, and ability to multitask.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience.

- Engaging and influencing peers and executives.

- A strong sense of ownership, urgency and drive.

- Being a strong leader, mentor, and people manager.

- Besides Skills We Are Looking-.

- Startup and Entrepreneurial mindset.

- Execution oriented.

- Ability to think big.

- Collaborative mindset.