Aman Sinha

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 8 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led high-performing engineering teams of 15+ engineers.
  • Expert in building scalable backend systems and payment solutions.
  • Exploring Generative AI to enhance developer productivity.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech-focused Engineering Leader with expertise in scalable systems and consumer experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipPayments & Checkout ExpertiseSystem DesignConsumer-facing Product EngineeringBackend DevelopmentFull Stack Development

Other Skills

GenAI for Dev ProductivityJavaJavaScriptKafkaMentoringMessaging & StreamingMicroservicesMonitoring & ReliabilityMySQLPHPPerformance ManagementProblem SolvingPythonREST APIsStakeholder Management

About

Engineering Leader | CX | Checkout | Growth & Platform Engineering | GenAI | Scalable Systems | 9 Years of Experience | 15+ Engineers As an Engineering Manager with 9 years of experience in the tech industry, I specialize in building scalable backend systems, leading high-performing teams, and delivering seamless consumer experiences in fast-paced environments. I currently lead the Checkout engineering charter, along with Growth, Platform and CX engineering, where I drive innovation, reliability, and conversion-focused improvements across mission-critical user journeys. My role spans consumer experience, growth, and platform engineering, ensuring that both the end-user experience and internal developer velocity scale with the business. Previously led the Payments charter as well. I am also actively exploring Generative AI applications to enhance developer productivity, automate workflows, and reduce time-to-market for new features. Core Competencies & Technical Strengths: •Leadership: Proven ability to build, mentor, and scale cross-functional engineering teams that align with business objectives. •Payments & Checkout Expertise: Deep understanding of transactional flows, latency optimization, gateway integrations, retries, and compliance in a high-scale D2C environment. •Consumer-Facing Product Engineering: Focused on delivering intuitive, reliable user experiences that improve engagement and retention. •Tech Stack: Java, Python, PHP (core); working knowledge of JavaScript, C++, C; currently exploring Go. •System Design: Distributed systems, RESTful APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture. •Monitoring & Reliability: Skilled in tools like New Relic, Graylog, Nagios for observability and performance tuning. •Messaging & Streaming: Hands-on experience with RabbitMQ, Akka Streams for real-time data processing. •GenAI for Dev Productivity: Exploring AI agents and LLMs to augment engineering workflows, improve debugging, and auto- generate documentation and tests. I’m passionate about engineering excellence, team empowerment, and business impact—and I’m always open to connecting with like-minded professionals, builders, and leaders. Let’s connect and explore ways to innovate, scale, and lead the future of tech together

Experience

Licious

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building scalable systems and teams.
  • Playing with GenAI to increase developer productivity.
  • Leading a team of 15+ developers and SDETs working on consumer facing charters of checkout experience, platform engineering and growth engineering.
Engineering LeadershipTeam ManagementJavaPythonPHPPayments & Checkout Expertise

SDE 3

Dec 2021Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building the pricing & promotional ecosystem for the organisation to drive burn reduction, revenue increment, user acquisition and user retention.
  • Previously, led the backend for Payments and achieved highest ever PSR and lowest ever payments related O2C for the organisation.
  • Moved Payments to a true micro-service with its own isolated systems.
  • Integrated Kafka Queues for the conversation between payments and other services.
  • Continuously working on improving customer experience during payments. As a result of which payment success rate is running at an all time high and customer complaints related to payments is running at all time low.
  • Architected the refund flow
  • Created an automated enabling, disabling and showing warning message on payment modes based on their individual success rates
  • Code reviews and mentoring.
Payments & Checkout ExpertiseJavaKafkaMicroservicesSystem Design

SDE 2

Jul 2020Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built Payments as a Service for the organisation.
  • Architected and designed the Payments System from scratch.
  • Integrated various PGs.
  • Wrote Rest APIs that were consumed by the upstream services to complete the payment on Licious app and web.
  • Created a new asset management service from scratch which helps to upload, transform, optimise and render web assets like images and documents.
JavaREST APIsMicroservicesPayments & Checkout ExpertiseSystem Design

Quikr

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2018Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Worked as a Senior Engineer for the RealEstate vertical or Quikr, QuikrHomes and Commonfloor.
  • Built number of revenue generating features from scratch.
  • Gave architectural and system design signoffs for the team.
  • Mentored juniors and helped them take a deep dive into our system.
  • Peer reviews and approvals.
System DesignJavaPHPConsumer-Facing Product Engineering

Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2017May 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Worked on Architecture, design and Backend Development for Commonfloor.
  • After the acquisition of CommonFloor by Quikr, successfully brought entire User and Ads entity of CommonFloor to the same tech stack as Quikr.
  • Handled all the activities related to real estate listings. Wrote the backend for CommonFloor post Ad from scratch.
  • Designed a system through which the existing CommonFloor Ads could be migrated to Quikr System.
  • Also working on optimizing the current architectural and code flaws on both QuikrHomes and Commonfloor system.
  • Technologies worked on includes Java(Play Framework), PHP (Laravel and Symphony), Javascript(ES6 and Angular 1.0), Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, MySQL, Python and RabbitMQ
JavaPHPJavaScriptSystem DesignBackend Development

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2016May 2017 · 11 mos

  • 1. Currently working as a full stack developer for Quikr Homes, with work on both the back end and front end part.
  • Languages used: PHP,JavaScript, Java
  • Framework: AngularJS,Laravel,Play
  • Database: MySqL,ElasticSearch
  • 2. Worked on an internal tool for the Quikr telesales team under the real estate department of Quikr(QuikrHomes)
  • Languages used: PHP,JS,HTML
  • Frameworks: Laravel
  • Database: mySQL, MongoDB
PHPJavaScriptMySQLFull Stack Development

Summer Intern

May 2015Jun 2015 · 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Worked over 4 different projects.
  • 1. The first project was to develop a tool that would take input some small images, hit reverse google image search, download some of its larger and clearer versions and then map it to the respective projects.
  • 2. The second project was to develop an algorithm that would map the advertising listings with their respective projects.
  • 3. The third project was to develop a tool that would crawl all the data from Wikimapia and Open Street Map, parse them and store in the local Database.
  • 4. The fourth and final project was to use the data crawled from Wikimapia and OSM to develop a tool that would validate the polygons crawled, edit and manipulate them and them to the local database,

Education

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

Jawahar Vidya Mandir, Shyamali, Ranchi

Jan 2010Jan 2012

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