Engineering Project Manager

About Rupeek Rupeek, established in 2015 and headquartered in Bangalore, stands as India's leading asset-backed digital lending fintech platform. Committed to making credit accessible to Indians in a fair and convenient manner, Rupeek pioneers innovative financial products focused on monetizing India's $2 trillion gold market. Leveraging state-of-the-art technology and an automated asset-light supply chain, Rupeek is transforming the gold loan disbursal landscape across 40+ cities in India. With a customer base exceeding 5,00,000+, the company's strategic partnerships with top banks and financial institutions underscore its commitment to building gold-backed assets through low-risk, low-touch, and friction-free processes. Join us in redefining the future of finance through innovation, technology, and a commitment to financial inclusivity. We are looking for a seasoned and visionary Director of Engineering to lead high-performing engineering teams aligned to strategic business functions. The Director of Engineering will lead technical delivery, strategy, and team development for Rupeek’s LOS and LMS platforms. This high-impact leadership position demands proven experience in building scalable, secure lending systems, and the ability to drive innovation while ensuring operational rigor. The ideal candidate brings deep lending domain expertise and the vision to translate business priorities into robust engineering outcomes. Job Title: Director of Engineering Experience: 13–18 years of overall technical experience. Build, manage, and mentor diverse, high-performing engineering teams for LOS/LMS. Drive hiring, talent development, and performance management with a focus on collaboration and growth culture. Foster team motivation, wellbeing, and retention by modeling empathy, trust, and inclusion. Co-own delivery of business KPIs, including customer experience, system reliability, and process automation. Champion innovative lending and post-disbursement solutions fit for a fast-growing digital market. Architect robust, scalable, secure lending platforms using modern cloud, API, and devops practices. Drive SDLC excellence, automate deployment and QA, improve production systems hygiene and uptime. Develop lean, outcome-oriented engineering processes (agile, incident management, OKRs). Ensure cross-functional alignment with Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Finance. Serve as technical authority in regulatory readiness, data migration, lending compliance, and security best practices. Skills & Experience: Proven Leadership in Scaling Engineering Organizations: Strong talent development, mentoring, and inclusive culture-building capabilities. Extensive hands-on experience with Loan Origination Systems (LOS), Loan Management Systems (LMS), fintech architecture, credit workflows, regulatory compliance (especially NBFC/gold loan domain). Mastery of SDLC & DevOps Practices: Expertise in managing full Software Development Life Cycle, implementing lean agile methodologies, continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD), devops automation, incident management, and production system hygiene to ensure reliability and uptime. Strategic and Analytical Thinking: Ability to analyze complex lending and risk scenarios, set a clear technical vision aligned with business goals, and translate that into executable technology roadmaps and measurable KPIs. Skilled in cross-functional engagement with business, compliance, product, risk, finance, and operations teams. Adept at balancing tradeoffs, managing expectations, and building consensus across diverse stakeholder groups. Business & Financial Acumen: Understand lending key metrics (portfolio performance, risk management, regulatory landscape). Able to align technology priorities with business objectives and financial constraints. Strong full-stack software engineering background, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), API design and integration, data architecture, and security best practices. Agile Governance & Outcome Orientation: Experience running lean, outcome-focused sprints, setting and tracking OKRs, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate vision, technical concepts, and project status to technical teams, senior leadership, and external partners. Work alongside top-tier talent across functions