Engineering Manager

💻 Position: AVP Engineer 📍Remote 🗓️ Working Days: Monday to Friday 📌 Experience Required: 7+ years About Fundamento We’re on a mission to reinvent how enterprises talk to their customers. At Fundamento, we’re building voice agents that are transforming how India’s biggest lenders- like IIFL, Paytm, Hero FinCorp, Shriram Finance and Jio Financial Services- talk to their customers. Backed by Google, led by experienced entrepreneurs (Harvard, Oxford, Booth Alumni), and trusted by the financial service giants- this is your chance to work at the heart of AI revolution. Role Overview: We are seeking an accomplished and hands-on AVP Engineering to lead, mentor, and scale our software engineering organization. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, proven experience building AI-driven products with LLMs, and a strong MERN stack foundation. This role blends technical leadership with people management and strategic execution to build high-performing teams and scalable systems that fuel rapid innovation and growth. Key Responsibilities: 1. Leadership & Team Building: -Build, mentor, and retain world-class engineering talent across multiple teams or pods. -Foster a high-performance culture centered around innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement. -Coach engineering managers and tech leads to scale their teams effectively and deliver high-impact outcomes. 2. Scale & Execution: -Lead engineering strategy for scalable, resilient, and high-availability systems. -Define and optimize engineering processes for velocity, quality, and operational excellence. -Manage and prioritize multiple initiatives across product and platform domains. 3. Technology & Architecture: -Provide technical leadership on MERN-based architectures and modern cloud-native systems. -Drive innovation through LLM-powered applications, AI integrations, and intelligent automation. -Review and guide architecture decisions, code quality, performance, and security best practices. -Ensure a robust engineering foundation with CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure scalability. 4. Cross-functional Collaboration: -Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to translate business goals into engineering outcomes. -Collaborate with AI research and product teams to implement and operationalize LLM-driven features. -Communicate technical strategy, progress, and risks to executive stakeholders. 5. Culture & Process: -Champion engineering excellence, knowledge sharing, and innovation. -Establish frameworks for growth, learning, and technical leadership within teams. -Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning. Qualifications: -7+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3–5 years in engineering leadership roles (managing managers or multiple teams). -Proven experience in building and scaling engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments. -Strong technical background in MERN stack and modern web application architectures. -Hands-on experience working with LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Vertex AI, or similar platforms)- understanding of model integration, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning workflows. -Deployment of your own model. -Should have worked with Python + FastAPI - Pytorch. -Deep knowledge of distributed systems, micro-services , and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP). -Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills. Nice to Have: - Experience in setting up platform teams or developer productivity initiatives. - Exposure to MLOps or productionizing AI models. What We Offer: 1. High-Impact Work: Shape the platform’s technical vision and architecture to support millions of real-time customer interactions for leading BFSI enterprises. 2. Ownership & Autonomy: Own end-to-end engineering execution, driving strategic decisions and guiding teams to deliver scalable, high-quality releases 3. Learning & growth: Annual learning allowance of ₹10,000+, mentorship, and hands-on AI exposure. Have questions? Reach out to meenakshi@fundamento.ai Join us at Fundamento to shape the future of AI-powered enterprise conversations. Be part of a team where AI, strategy, and customer impact come together—and where your work drives real change for some of India’s leading financial institutions.