NIRA - Engineering Manager

NIRA is a consumer finance company offering small ticket loans to working Indians. At NIRA, our mission is to promote financial inclusion by creating simple, transparent products that empower individuals to live a life of choice and freedom.

NIRA was 1 of the 10 companies selected for the inaugural Techstars Accelerator in India. NIRA was also 1 of the 10 companies selected for Class III of the Google Launchpad Accelerator India. NIRA is now a part of India finals of the AWS Startup Architecture Challenge 2020. NIRA has raised $3m+ in seed & pre-series A funding.

As an Engineering Manager, you'll work directly with the founders and share the responsibility for driving the technology strategy while aligning with the short long term goals of the business.

Roles & responsibilities:

- Be a force multiplier for the engineers and stakeholders

- Build alignment across cross-functional teams

- Bring best engineering practices into the team

- Running point on big projects/product features

- Getting hands dirty and digging into nastiest bugs when required

- Run team building, recruitment and process improvements

- Prioritise efforts b/w product development, core infra, decision engine, automation & maintenance.

Skills & Qualifications:

- Experience building a scalable consumer product

- Experience running a size-able engineering effort

- Familiarity with multiple layers of infrastructure and application stack - UI, application layer, database

- Multiple stakeholders' management

- Be excited about the power of technology to transform finance for the better!

We're looking for someone who thrives in the early stages of a company, is able to think with clarity despite uncertainty and is self driven.