Tech Lead Manager (Android/Flutter)

Fam is India's first payments app for everyone above 11. FamApp helps make online and offline payments through UPI and FamCard. We are on a mission to raise a new, financially aware generation, and drive 250 million+ youngest users in India to kickstart their financial journey super early in their life.

Founded in 2019 by IIT Roorkee alumni, Fam is backed by some of the most respected investors around the world like Elevation Capital, Y-Combinator, Peak XV (Sequoia Capital) India, Venture Highway, Global Founder’s Capital and the likes of Kunal Shah, Amrish Rao as angel investors.

We’re looking for a Mobile Tech Lead Manager to lead and scale Fam’s mobile engineering teams powering products used by 10M+ users. This role sits at the intersection of technical leadership, people management, and execution excellence.

You will be responsible for owning delivery outcomes, growing and mentoring mobile engineers, and ensuring high standards of architecture, performance, and reliability across iOS and Android.

You’ll partner closely with Mobile Architect, Product, Design, and Platform teams to translate vision into high-quality execution at scale.

If you enjoy building strong teams, shipping complex mobile applications, and raising the engineering bar — this role is for you.

- Write production-quality code daily across core product features and shared mobile components

- Own design and implementation of complex mobile flows end-to-end

- Lead architecture and design discussions at the feature and module level

- Perform deep, high-signal code reviews to maintain quality, performance, and scalability

- Drive modularisation, reuse, and simplification of mobile codebases

- Debug and resolve complex production issues, performance bottlenecks, and crashes

- Partner with Backend teams to design APIs, caching, sync, and offline-first behaviour

- Own end-to-end delivery of mobile initiatives, from planning to release and post-launch stability

- Drive sprint execution, capacity planning, prioritization, and dependency management

- Partner with Product Managers to translate business goals into clear technical plans and milestones

- Ensure predictable delivery while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability

- Lead incident response, production issues, and postmortems for mobile systems

- Act as Tech Lead for a small squad (4–6 engineers)

- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through pairing, reviews, and design guidance

- Support growth of senior engineers into strong ownersProvide regular feedback and input into performance cycles

- Own end-to-end delivery of mobile initiatives — from planning to release and post-launch stability

- Drive sprint execution, capacity planning, prioritization, and dependency management

- Partner with Product Managers to translate business goals into clear technical plans and milestones

- Ensure predictable delivery while balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability

- Lead incident response, production issues, and postmortems for mobile systems

- Establish and enforce standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and release processes

- Track and improve key mobile metrics: app startup time, ANRs, crashes, latency, and reliability

- Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and platform guidelines

- Continuously improve developer productivity through tooling, automation, and processes

- 7–10 years of hands-on mobile development experience

- Strong production experience in Android (Kotlin) and/or iOS (Swift) (at least one deeply)

- Proven track record of shipping and operating consumer-scale mobile apps (10M+ users)

- Deep understanding of mobile architectures (MVVM, MVI, Clean Architecture, Redux-style)

- Excellent debugging skills across performance, memory, networking, and crashes

- Experience owning features end-to-end in a fast-moving product environment

- Prior experience as a Tech Lead / Senior IC mentoring other engineers

- Comfortable balancing coding first with light leadership responsibilities

- Experience working closely with Mobile Architects or Platform teams

- Exposure to fintech, payments, or high-scale transactional systems

- Familiarity with cross-platform technologies (Flutter, KMP, Jetpack Compose, SwiftUI)

- Experience with mobile security, data protection, and compliance requirements

- Track record of improving engineering processes and team maturity

- Lead and grow mobile teams building apps used by millions of users every day

- High ownership role with clear impact on people, delivery, and product quality

- Opportunity to shape mobile engineering culture and execution standards

- Work closely with founders, product leaders, and architects in a mobile-first company

- Solve challenging problems across scale, reliability, security, and user experience

• Relocation assistance to make your move seamless.

• Free office meals (lunch & dinner).

• Generous leave policy, including birthday leave, period leave, paternity and maternity support, and more.

• Salary advance and loan policies for any financial help.

• Quarterly rewards and recognition programs, and a referral program with great incentives.

• Access the latest gadgets and tools.

• Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family, mental health support.

• Tax benefits with options like food coupons, phone allowances, car/device leasing.

• Retirement perks like PF contribution, leave encashment and gratuity.

FamApp focuses on financial inclusion of the next generation by providing UPI & card payments to everyone above 11 years old. Our flagship Spending Account, FamX, seamlessly integrates UPI and card payments, enabling users to manage, save, and learn about their finances effortlessly.

FamApp has enabled 10 million+ users to make UPI and card payments across India, removing the inconvenience of carrying cash everywhere. Users get to customise their FamX card with doodles, which lets them add a personal touch to their payments.

We’re proud to be supported by renowned investors like Elevation Capital, Y-Combinator, Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital India), Venture Highway, Global Founder’s Capital, and esteemed angels Kunal Shah and Amrish Rao.

At Fam, our people-first approach is reflected in our generous leave policies, flexible work schedules, comprehensive health benefits, and free mental health sessions. We don’t mean to brag, but we promise you’ll be surrounded by some of the most fun, talented and passionate people in the startup space.

Want to see what makes life at Fam so awesome? Check out our shenanigans at @lifeatfam 😛