VP - Engineering

About this post:MantriAI is the search partner for this role. All applications come to us first. We screen and send only shortlisted profiles to the client. The client is a profitable fintech company based in Indore. They work in retail investing and trading. Company name will be shared after the screening call.The role:VP of Engineering, reporting directly to the CTO. We want someone who has run engineering as a business function, not just shipped code — owns architecture, owns delivery, owns the numbers behind both, and is comfortable being the person paged when something breaks.What you'll do: Lead backend, frontend, mobile, QA, automation and DevOps as one org. Hire, mentor and manage the people running each of these. Own the tech stack and architecture calls — scalability, security, performance, cost. Stay hands-on enough to make the hard calls yourself. Take engineering execution from technical planning to production release. Work with product and business to turn asks into real roadmaps. Own the engineering metrics that actually matter — cycle time, deployment frequency, defect leakage, MTTR, uptime — and show month-on-month movement on them, not just track them. Own Sev-0 and Sev-1 incidents end to end: response, root cause, and the fix that stops it happening again. Build the practices that don't exist yet — code review discipline, CI/CD, release process, documentation — from wherever they currently stand.Who should apply: 10+ years in software engineering, with 3+ years directly managing engineering teams — not just tech-leading with reports. You've led more than one function yourself (say, backend and QA, or backend and mobile) — this isn't a first-time-manager seat. You've personally operated a product at real scale — genuinely run something serving 1 lakh+ daily user logins, with the on-call and incident scars to prove it. Deep hands-on background in C#/.NET. Preferred if you've since moved into a newer stack like Golang. Your resume has numbers — uptime, MTTR, deployment frequency, whatever engineering metric you personally tracked and moved. You use AI tools in your own workflow — code review agents, copilots, whatever. Tell us what and how. You speak Hindi comfortably — you'll be managing a local team in Indore day to day. Stable work history. Multiple short stints are not preferred.Bonus: Experience in fintech, stock broking or another regulated industry. Strong experience here can relax the years-of-experience bar.Read this before applying: Location: Indore, work from office. No remote, no hybrid. Notice period: 30 days or less.Process: 15-minute screening call with MantriAI 45-minute Engineering round with MantriAI Interview rounds with the hiring company Final round with the CEO/Founder Offer, usually within 2 days of the final roundPosted by MantriAI, search partner on this mandate. Shortlisted candidates hear from us within 2 working days.