Director of Engineering

About Navi

Navi is one of the fastest-growing financial services companies in India providing Personal Home Loans, UPI, Insurance, Mutual Funds, and Gold. Navis mission is to deliver digital-first financial products that are simple, accessible, and affordable. Drawing on our in-house AI/ML capabilities, technology, and product expertise, Navi is dedicated to building delightful customer experiences.

Founders: Sachin Bansal Ankit Agarwal

Know what makes you a Navi_ite :

1.Perseverance, Passion and Commitment

Passionate about Navi s mission and vision

Demonstrates dedication, perseverance and high ownership

Goes above and beyond by taking on additional responsibilities

2.Obsession with high quality results

Consistently creates value for the customers and stakeholders through high quality outcomes

Ensuring excellence in all aspects of work

Efficiently manages time, prioritizes tasks, and achieves higher standards

3.Resilience and Adaptability

Adapts quickly to new roles, responsibilities, and changing circumstances, showing resilience and agility

Key Responsibilities

Oversee and lead development of UPI ecosystem, Core Payment Platform, BBPS, Credit over UPI, and UPI switch for Navis payment solutions, ensuring seamless, secure, and scalable experiences.

Work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product and Business teams across multiple products to drive buy-in on customer experiences and engineering frameworks. Make critical decisions that contribute to the success of Navi.

Work closely with your s and other engineering teams with a keen eye towards scalable architecture to design and implement new 0 1 solutions with an appetite to quickly scale from 1 n across products

Build an engineering team and move fast in converting ideas to product collaborating with Product, Design, Leadership and other functions, while maintaining high product quality and reliability.

Drive customer first behavior and ownership behavior in the team to make sure highest quality products are shipped to the customers. Empowering the delivery team to self coordinate.

Staying ahead of the curve by lending a stable structure to the teams and products while bringing operational excellence as products mature.

Ensure teams have clear priorities and adequate resources.

Provide technical guidance, career development, and mentoring to team members

What You ll Need

12+ years of overall experience with 3+ years of Engineering Management experience, managing a diverse set of candidates (frontend, backend, mobile), across various technologies. Good software engineering methodology-meaningful and deeply-rooted opinions about testing and code quality, ability to make sound quality/speed trade-offs

Exceptional technical skills in the backend with significant experience building and operating critical high-scale systems with a hands on approach to lead from the front when the situation calls for it.

Strong design and architectural skills.

Expertise and interest in growing teams- interviewing junior and senior engineers, collaborating with a recruiting team, smoothly onboarding new team members.

Great management and team development skills - ability to set roadmap and goals for the teams and the members in his team, delegate intelligently, mentor engineers, deliver frequent and honest feedback, help team members grow in their careers, and deliver results