Kinara Capital - Assistant Vice President - Engineering Management (10-12 yrs)

About Company :

Kinara Capital is a FinTech NBFC dedicated to driving Financial Inclusion in the MSME sector.

Our mission is to transform lives, livelihoods, and local economies by providing fast and flexible loans without property collateral to small business entrepreneurs.

Led by a women-majority management team, Kinara Capital values diversity and inclusion and fosters a collaborative working environment.

Kinara Capital is the only company from India recognized globally by the World Bank/IFC with a gold award in 2019 as 'Bank of the Year-Asia' for our innovative work in SME financing.

Kinara Capital is an RBI-registered Systemically Important NBFC.

Headquartered in Bangalore, we have 133 branches across Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and UT Puducherry with more than 2100+employees.

Job Title : AVP Engineering.

Department : Systems and Technology.

Reporting : Head of Engineering.

Purpose of Job :

Responsible for ensuring predictable, high-quality, and timely delivery of technology solutions that drive the company's business operations.

This role is crucial in establishing a scalable, resilient, and efficient engineering function that aligns with business goals and regulatory requirements.

Job Responsibilities:.

- Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, architects, and data engineers.

- Ensure predictable software delivery by implementing agile methodologies, sprint planning, and release management processes.

- Develop and maintain a structured delivery roadmap with clear milestones, dependencies, and risk mitigation plans.

- Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product, Business, Risk, and Compliance, and other teams to ensure seamless execution and alignment with business goals.

- Optimize DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automation to improve deployment speed, reduce cycle times, and enhance system stability.

- Monitor and improve engineering KPIs, including delivery predictability, sprint velocity, incident resolution time, and defect rates.

- Proactively identify bottlenecks and technical debt to enhance scalability, performance, and compliance adherence.

- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement within the engineering team to enhance agility and efficiency.

- Drive operational excellence by ensuring 99.

- 99% uptime, system reliability, and high-performance architecture for core fintech platforms.

- Experience with financial and transactional systems.

- Experience engineering for large volumes of data at scale.

- Experience with financial audit and compliance is a plus.

- Experience building a successful consumer facing web and mobile apps at scale.

Qualifications :

Education : Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science.

Work Experience : 10+ years of experience building and leading growing engineering functions, ideally for a fintech offering.

Other Requirements :

- A thoughtful and proven approach to hiring, mentoring and scaling a top-notch engineering team.

- Execute against strategy in cooperation with other teams, including Product Management, Data Science, Business, and Marketing Teams Should have experience of leading a team.

Skills & Competencies :

Technical Skills :

- A strong track record of creating engaging, intuitive and highly secure engineering products from conception to production.

- Experience in AWS infrastructure and developer operations environments.

- Ability to write clean code and have top-notch general programming skills along with experience coding JavaScript (Node.js) applications/services using frameworks such as Express.

- Experience with Python and Flask.

- Experience with SQL and No-SQL databases (e.MySQL, MongoDB).

- Performance production databases (e.MySQL, DynamoDB) is ideal.

- Data savviness.

Soft Skills :

- Entrepreneurial mentality with the passion for our mission and in building a highly successful company.

- Proven ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Analytical and problem-solving mindset.

- Deep Curiosity and Humility.

Competencies :

- High social responsibility and mission-driven culture.

- Team player.

- High Integrity and focus on Building relationships.

- Inspiring Leader who instills confidence.

- People-oriented and Goal-oriented.

Behavioral Traits :

- Constantly curious.

- Initiator.

- High Social Responsibility.

- Assertiveness.

Exp : 10-12 years