Senior Engineering Manager - Backend

About the role

At slice, we are building the next generation of financial platforms and applications in payments. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead backend engineering teams, drive technical and execution excellence, and build strong engineering leadership within the organisation.

In this role, you will work closely with Product, Business, and Technology leaders to translate business goals into engineering outcomes. You will manage and mentor Engineering Managers, help them build high-performing teams, and ensure the delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-quality systems.

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader who can operate independently, develop future leaders, and balance technical depth with people leadership and business impact.

What You will do

• Lead engineering teams through managers: Manage and mentor Engineering Managers, helping them improve team performance, technical decision-making, execution, and people management.

• Drive engineering execution: Own engineering roadmaps, delivery commitments, and execution across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with product priorities and business goals.

• Build scalable backend systems: Guide teams in designing and delivering reliable, secure, and scalable backend services and financial platforms.

• Strengthen technical excellence: Establish high standards for system design, architecture, code quality, testing, operational readiness, and engineering practices.

• Develop engineering leaders: Coach Engineering Managers on team building, performance management, career development, conflict resolution, and stakeholder management.

• Drive cross-functional alignment: Partner with Product, Business, and other Technology teams to prioritise initiatives, manage dependencies, and deliver business outcomes.

• Build high-performing teams: Drive hiring, talent development, succession planning, and retention while creating an environment of accountability and continuous learning.

• Improve engineering effectiveness: Identify opportunities to improve development processes, productivity, release practices, system reliability, and overall engineering efficiency.

• Own operational excellence: Ensure teams build and operate production systems with a strong focus on reliability, incident management, observability, and continuous improvement.

• Drive organisational impact: Identify systemic challenges across teams, make informed trade-offs, and introduce practices that improve engineering outcomes at scale.

What You will need

• 11–14 years of overall experience in software engineering, with 4–5 years in engineering management.

• Experience leading engineering teams, ideally with 2.5+ years in a Senior Engineering Manager role. Candidates with at least 1 year of relevant senior-level leadership experience may also be considered.

• At least 1 year of experience managing Engineering Managers, including involvement in performance reviews and appraisal cycles.

• Strong understanding of backend architecture, distributed systems, system design, scalability, and modern software engineering practices.

• Proven experience delivering complex, business-critical platforms in a fast-paced product engineering environment.

• Experience managing multiple teams, driving execution across dependencies, and balancing technical quality with business priorities.

• Demonstrated ability to coach Engineering Managers, develop leadership capability, and build high-performing engineering organisations.

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with fintech, banking, payments, or other regulated technology environments is preferred but not mandatory.

Life at slice

Life so good, you’d think we’re kidding:

• Competitive salaries. Period.

• An extensive medical insurance that looks out for our employees & their dependents. We’ll love you and take care of you, our promise.

• Flexible working hours. Just don’t call us at 3AM, we like our sleep schedule.

• Tailored vacation & leave policies so that you enjoy every important moment in your life.

• A reward system that celebrates hard work and milestones throughout the year. Expect a gift coming your way anytime you kill it here.

• Learning and upskilling opportunities. Seriously, not kidding.

• Good food, games, and a cool office to make you feel at home. An environment so good, you’ll forget the term “colleagues can’t be your friends”.

About Us

slice

A new bank for a new India

slice’s purpose is to make the world better at using money and time, with a major focus on building the best consumer experience for your money. We’ve all felt how slow, confusing, and complicated banking can be. So, we’re reimagining it. We’re building every product from scratch to be fast, transparent, and feel good, because we believe that the best products transcend demographics, like how great music touches most of us.

Our cornerstone products and services: slice savings account, slice UPI credit card, slice UPI, and slice business are designed to be simple, rewarding, and completely in your control. At slice, you’ll get to build things you’d use yourself and shape the future of banking in India. We tailor our working experience with the belief that the present moment is the only real thing in life. And we have harmony in the present the most when we feel happy and successful together.

We’re backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Advent International, Blume Ventures, and Gunosy Capital.