Sourabh Mehta

Engineering Manager

Gurugram, Haryana, India9 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Led a team to improve conversion velocity by 40%
Re-architected high-latency payment systems for scalability
Developed critical financial services products from scratch

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Engineering Manager in Fintech and Logistics sectors.

Contact

sourabhmehta001@gmail.com +919896690299 LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementMicroservicesSystem ArchitectureBackend DevelopmentFull Stack Development

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAdobe Experience ManagerAerospikeAnalytical SkillsApache KafkaBack-End Web DevelopmentCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CommunicationCore JavaData StructuresElastic searchElasticsearchGitGo langGoogle Cloud Platform

About

Engineering Manager with 9+ years of experience leading full-cycle product engineering and system design. Currently driving critical initiatives under the BookMyForex charter at MakeMyTrip, improving conversion velocity by 40% and scaling microservices architecture. Experienced across fintech, logistics, and enterprise domains — combining technical depth with people leadership and operational excellence. My key strengths include a deep understanding of software development principles, excellent problem-solving skills, and a strong ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams.

Experience

Makemytrip

2 roles

Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Jan 2026 · 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Leadership & Execution:
Leading an 8-member engineering team, owning sprint planning, delivery execution, and technical roadmap for BookMyForex.
Drove cross-team design reviews, architectural KT sessions, and onboarding for new services and engineers.
Partnered closely with Product and Ops to ship conversion-critical UX and delivery flows, contributing to ~40% improvement in conversion velocity.
System Architecture & Scale:
Re-architected a high-latency, payment-heavy listing system into a task-based orchestration platform, enabling parallel execution across pricing, discounting, and persuasion services.
Reduced end-to-end listing latency from >1.5s to sub-500ms, unblocking conversion growth and supporting 5–6× traffic scale.
Scaled order traffic from 30–50 RPM to 150–300 RPM while maintaining deterministic outcomes in payment flows.
Platform & Reliability:
Designed the listing service as a stateless orchestrator with strict service ownership, defensive timeouts, and failure isolation.
Solved out-of-order payment initiation and capture issues using idempotency keys and a state-machine driven workflow.
Improved system extensibility to support multi-currency, multi-card, and personalized forex offers.
Rule Engines & Decision Systems:
Lead implementation of a configurable, rule-driven vendor allocation engine covering 4,000+ pincodes and 88 currencies.
Implemented allocation using Chain of Responsibility, enabling rule ordering, explainability, and rapid experimentation without redeployments.
Introduced guardrails including rate deviation caps (±0.5%), vendor load limits, and TCS applicability checks.
Data, Caching & Performance:
Designed low-latency decision paths using Aerospike caching for rate and configuration lookups, ensuring zero impact on request SLA.
Enabled city-level and global vendor enable/disable with cached configuration and instant rollout capability.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Engineering ManagementTechnical ProficiencyTeam LeadershipProject ManagementKubernetes+9

Lead Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Dunzo

Software Engineer II

May 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Currently working to build growth-critical functionality in the Offer and Pricing Microservices in order to improve Dunzo's AOV target.
Tech Stack: Go lang, Mongodb, Elastic search, Newrelic, Coralogix
Infra - Google Cloud Platform (gcp), Pub/Sub
Brief on implementations done:
BXGY Construct for Category Coupons
Introducing a new Buy X Get Y construct with coupons that can be applied on specific category products.
Ladder implementation for Delivery fee discounts to increase Average Order Value
Developed delivery discount system with slabs to nudge user with a better order value slab with greater delivery discount. This is one of the important high visibility feature to meet AOV goals by Dunzo.
Improved Perception of Affordability on Dunzo App:
A critical feature to improve visibility of coupon eligible items in the cart before checkout. Ordering and Reordering of cart items based on coupon applicability.
Improved User Experience
Redesigned ranking implementation for Available Vs Unavailable coupons based on effective savings.
OnCall Contributor
Responsible for handling all production issues and newrelic alerts (one week every month) Responsible for handling backend issues related to Offer, Pricing and Persona Services

Go langMongoDBElastic searchGoogle Cloud PlatformPub/SubBackend Development+1

Airtel payments bank

Software Development Engineer II

Feb 2021 – May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Developed Financial Services products from scratch!
Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, Aerospike, apache Kafka
New insurance offering CHC on Mitra App
I was critically Involved to take this project to closure end to end.
With a team of 3 backend engineers, It involved a new partner api integration with a renowned insurer of India. This product was launched on Mitra app and became a hot selling product in no time!
Encrypted Apis for Insurance Microservice
Developed new insurance offering that involves an encrypted model to transfer/receive data to/from external 3rd party apis. A tricky transaction mechanism that involves token validation on each service call for better authenticity.
Re-developed Reporting Platform
Automated mapping Resultset of DB queries with dynamic excel sheets via code. This has brought credibility in data reporting to Product Owners and further Leaders.
Libraries Used: Java Excel Apis - Apache POI.
Bill Fetch service for PMSBY - Insurance Microservice
Delivered a Bill Fetch model to integrate with an auto payment debit system for an insurance offering. Once the payment is success, bill for that will be generated synchronously. This brings lot of ease for thousand of Insurance customers to pay premiums on time and ultimately a better revenue for bank.