Engineering Manager

Know the Company

PeepalCo is a canopy for brands serving India with tailored wealth-tech products, Making Money Equal for All. Founded by Ashish Singhal, Govind Soni, and Vimal Sagar Tiwari, PeepalCo’s products include CoinSwitch. The Group is backed by blue-chip investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Tiger Global, Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India), Ribbit Capital, Paradigm, and Coinbase Ventures.

 

PeepalCo is the brand name for our Group entity and will house all our wealth-tech brands. The largest of our brands, CoinSwitch, will be housed under PeepalCo, so will our forays into Indian Equities and Mutual Funds.


For more information, visit: https://peepal.co | For media queries, contact: press@peepal.co

 


About The Role

We are looking to hire an Engineering Manager for our team in Bangalore. If you are excited about building products that will be used by millions of consumers worldwide, you need to join us!

 

What You Will Be Doing

  • Lead and coach a group of engineers in delivering scalable, flexible and secure features to our customers

  • Leading engineering teams composed of backend, frontend, iOS, Android developers and QA.

  • Deep dive into work of your team, review the code submitted by your team, and resolve the root cause of problems

  • Coach your team members how to increase the quality of their code based on real examples

  • Involve in hiring for your teams

  • Drive a continuous improvement process - introduce new tools & automations based on real data analysis

  • Manage the development pipeline to deliver features on schedule while maintaining a high bar for quality.

  • Closely Interact with other functions such as PM/Product, Design, Business and deliver planned features.

  • Deliver Web, Android and iOS applications with integration to backend services deployed on the cloud with high quality and responsiveness.

  • Create strong practices around test driven development, automating delivery of apps to the marketplace with strong CI/CD practices.

  • Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.

  • Prioritise  to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.

  • Hands on with programming with 50%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.

  • Create detailed engineering plans, processes, and procedures for engineering staff to use and abide by

  • Check and confirm the accuracy of the work performed and the methods used by engineering staff.

 

What You Should Have

  • A highly talented developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience.

  • Must have at least 4+ years of experience in an engineering management role, and a clear record of success prior to that as a senior/staff engineer.

  • Must be compelling and clear communicator, able to represent your team to internal and external audiences with differing levels of technical fluency.

  • Good Analytical, Problem solving and Debugging skills.

  • Hands on experience in Designing, Coding and release management.

  • Continuously increasing your team's work quality & performance.

  • Analytical and mathematical mind, capable of evaluating and solving various complex problems.

  • Leadership skills necessary to manage and develop a team.

  • Organisational competencies and project management skills to keep projects, processes, and the entire engineering team on track.

  • Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask and thrive in a timeline-driven environment.

  • Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience.

  • Ability to work individually or as part of a team

  • Experience with writing and maintaining unit-tests, functional tests, and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Ability to think from a product mindset.

 

Life at PeepalCo

We take great pride in what we do, and are committed to our mission. And we have a lot of fun while at it!

Here’s how we do things at PeepalCo:

  • Customer-first: That’s the North Star. Everything we do is to make our users’ investment experience better and simplified.
  • Ownership: We don’t sport lab coats, but we experiment—a lot. And we take ownership. We even have a catchphrase for this: Think big, fail fast, and build better.
  • Data-driven: The source of truth. Simple as that.
  • Fun: PS5, anyone? Or do you prefer Foosball? Or perhaps Carrom? And yes, our HR team has a whole list of activities: Disco nights, offsites, gift boxes, and more!

Speaking of lists, the perks and benefits are so extensive, this space isn’t enough. Here are a few:

  • Parenthood: Up to 8 months of Maternity leave and 1 month of Paternity leave
  • Gender Reassignment Surgery: Be the best version of you! We’ll support you and reimburse your medical bill.

Disclaimer: We are an equal opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.

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