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Engineering Manager@Phonepe | 12+ Years Exp | Building & Scaling High-Performing Teams (25+ Engineers) & Systems (0 to 150M+ Users)

About

Outcome-oriented Engineering Manager with 12 years of deep technical and leadership experience, specializing in building high-performing engineering teams and scaling distributed systems under extreme load. At Indus Appstore (PhonePe), I led a 25+ member backend engineering team, steering the platform's technical strategy and architecture from inception (0) to over 150 million users. Over my 12-year career, I have evolved from hands-on system building to organizational leadership—driving end-to-end recruitment, fostering an engineering culture of accountability, and delivering high-impact business outcomes. Core Highlights: Hyper-Scale Systems: Architected and scaled backend infrastructure from 0 to 150M+ users with strict performance and availability SLAs. Team Building & Hiring: Built and structured a 25+ backend engineering team from scratch; active driver of tech hiring, mentoring, and performance management. Outcome-Driven Delivery: Aligned engineering execution directly with growth KPIs, ensuring rapid shipping without sacrificing system stability. Diverse Technical Background: 12 years spanning individual contribution, system architecture, and people management across fast-paced environments.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

github copilot

hugging face

kimi

mcp

Work experience

Engineering Manager at PhonePe, Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Team Lead at Indus OS, Sep 2019 - Present · 7 yrs, Mumbai Area, India

Lead Engineer at FlexiLoans, Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Mumbai Area, India

Senior Software Engineer at BookMyShow, Oct 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs, Mumbai Area, India, Achievement: Shifted the Bookmyshow default communication channel from SMS to Whatsapp, making bookmyshow the first company in India to integrate with Whatsapp Messenger. media article : http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/social/now-get-bookmyshow-ticket-confirmation-message-on-whatsapp-4844869/ I work as a Senior developer and acting lead in the research/systems team in bookmyshow with a focus on backend technologies like RabbitMQ, Nodejs, Express, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Kapaticor, Docker etc. I lead all the projects in the systems and research team. My day-to-day work includes coding, reviewing code written by other team members, devising strategies and deciding software architecture for existing and new products.

Senior Software Engineer at Browntape Ecommerce, Jan 2016 - Oct 2016 · 10 mos, Porvorim, Goa, Project 1 : Built a desktop application in nwjs, nodejs, angularjs for integrating tally erp 9 accounting software with all eCommerce marketplaces. The application manages inventory and orders across all eCommerce platforms where a seller is selling his/her products. Project 2 : Advanced Analytics dashboard for analyzing and visualizing seller ecommerce data using angularjs , Highcharts an the front end and laravel php framework and elasticsearch server as the backend Project 3 : phase by phase complete rewrite of the existing browntape web application using angularjs and related technologies in the front end and cakephp in the backend (as REST API).

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Fr Conceicao Rodrigues CollegeOf Engineering

H.S.C, SCIENCE, C.B.S.E

Public links

github: https://github.com/surajJha

medium: https://medium.com/@skj48817