Careers @ LENDINGKART

About Lendingkart

Founded in 2014 by Harshvardhan Lunia, Lendingkart has offices in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Gurugram, and has service reach across India. The group is financed by reputed international investors like Fullerton Financial Holding (FFH) (100% subsidiary of Singapore Sovereign Fund Temasek Holdings), Bertelsmann, Mayfield India, Saama Capital, Sistema Asia, India Quotient, and others and has raised around ₹ 1050 Crores of equity till date. Lendingkart Group is a fintech startup in the working capital space. The Company has developed technology tools based on big data analysis and machine learning algorithms which facilitate lenders to evaluate borrower’s creditworthiness and provide other related services. Lendingkart Group is on a mission to make credit available to MSMEs pan-India using technology and alternate data-first approaches. The company has built a proprietary platform to solve for the basic building blocks of MSME financing like distribution, origination, underwriting, engagement, and collections, and by democratizing access to this platform by providing open access to APIs across the funnel. Since its inception, Lendingkart Group has disbursed over INR 14,000 crores to over 2 lakh MSMEs in 4000+ cities and towns across all states and union territories of India, reaching over 11,700 pin codes -making it an NBFC having the largest geographical footprint in the country.

Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager you are responsible for the technology decisions that enable the business plan and will manage an engineering team in an agile environment. You will be responsible for providing guidance to engineers and making relevant decisions related to technology solutions. The key to the success of this position is having a strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Drive best practices and ensure development of high quality solutions/technologies through advocating for and ensuring standards for common assets and framework components
• Determine the right technology choices (upgrade decisions, hosting decision) to best delivery business value keeping in mind availability, scalability and reliability of solution.
• Build and manage a team of high caliber engineers and inform on resource allocation strategy.
• Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment and accountable by working with business owners for meeting delivery dates
• Guide product team(s) as appropriate, manage cross-product technical dependencies and drive resolutions to conflicts or remove barriers for the product team(s)
• Advocate for and ensure standards around technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes and guiding values of the domain architecture
• Ensure all solutions/technologies adheres to all development & security standards.

Skills

• Extensive technical knowledge and background, plus additional role-specific technical skills as required
• Good knowledge of open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Strong sense of ownership and problem solving skills.

Requirements

• MS or BS degree in computer science or equivalent with 8+ years of experience planning, designing, developing and delivering large scale platforms and products.
• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager leading software development teams.
• Hands-on experience with design and development of scalable web services and platforms
• Is a strong leader with the ability to lead & manage a high performing team, can creatively balance high-quality delivery with customer focus to meet business needs.
• Proven track record of delivering results in an aggressive and fast paced environment

Must have

1. At least two system design and development cycle experience with distributed services.
2. At least 50% technical routine contribution.

Industry-Product based/Startup

Job description 

Associate Director-Engineering

– As Sr Engineering Manager you are responsible for the technology decisions that enable the business plan and will manage an engineering team in an agile environment. You will be responsible for providing guidance to engineers and making relevant decisions related to technology solutions.

– The key to the success of this position is having a strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Responsibilities :

– Drive best practices and ensure development of high quality solutions/technologies through advocating for and ensuring standards for common assets and framework components

– Determine the right technology choices (upgrade decisions, hosting decision) to best delivery business value keeping in mind availability, scalability and reliability of solution.

– Build and manage a team of high caliber engineers and inform on resource allocation strategy.

– Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment and accountable by working with business owners for meeting delivery dates

– Guide product team(s) as appropriate, manage cross-product technical dependencies and drive resolutions to conflicts or remove barriers for the product team(s)

– Advocate for and ensure standards around technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes and guiding values of the domain architecture

– Ensure all solutions/technologies adheres to all development & security standards.

Skills :

– Extensive technical knowledge and background, plus additional role-specific technical skills as required

– Good knowledge of open source frameworks

– Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences

– Team-orientated, passionate about developing others skills and capabilities

– Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology

– Knowledge of Agile and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices

– Strong sense of ownership and problem solving skills

Requirements:

– BE/BTech/BS degree in computer science or equivalent

– Deep experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, etc)

– 10+ years of engineering experience

– 5+ years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for large, cross-functional projects

– Experience operating large scale systems

– Experience with test-driven development and software test automation