Job Description

• Contribute to next-generation platform architecture vision. Drive and own multiple technology initiatives for bringing Platform vision to life

• Ensure platforms are designed for scale, availability and performance using microservices architecture and as per API first design principles

• Review and recommend improvements to operational processes and procedures utilizing automation.

• Responsible for key technical and product decisions.

• Implement best practices to ensure security and availability - devise processes and mechanisms to ensure expected uptime of production applications

• Maintain technical documentation, architecture references, change management and reporting

• Responsible for debugging critical technical issues inside a complex stack involving spring boot microservices, containers, cloud services, etc.

• Work closely with product teams and clients and help provide relevant inputs from the engineering team.

• Partnering closely with product teams to scope out releases and deliver high quality output.

• Coordinate and direct project execution, detailing plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of technical activities.

• Collaborating with peers to design and implement new operational capabilities as well as improving existing toolset

• From the technology perspective, mentoring other leads in the organization

• Forge and instill goals and standards for engineering performance

• Implementing best practice engineering methods. Mentoring and supporting the team by reinforcing XP practices such as Test Driven Development, pair programming, refactoring, enhance observability and CI / CD

• Present technical solutions, problem areas, proof of concepts to the team or wider audience

• Participate in cross team coordinated development activities

• Create and deliver on the long term road map for engineering efficiency.

• Be the go-to person for non-functional requirements such as scalability, and performance.

• Measure and ensure engineering, product delivery goals are met, at an acceptable velocity and without trading off quality and performance

• Ensure smooth communication channels within the team and with all stakeholders involved in the product development and delivery process

• Experience adopting and deploying foss tools in production

• Architecture and technical performance design (and reviews) for each engineers system

• Essentially this role entails combining the best of a project manager AND a technical architect

Team Management:

• Manage multiple technology delivery teams

• Lead engineering team(s) to ship high-quality software on predictable schedules.

• Managing a team of bright engineers, each of whom is building a production-ready system for various clients

• Augment skills and capability of the engineering team by recruiting and training the members across levels

• Responsible for coaching, developing, motivating & retaining team members

Technical Skills and Experience

• Engineering Lead / Tech Architect with 10+ years of experience in Product-Led Tech-First companies with an attitude to learn almost anything

• BTech/MTech from Tier1/Tier2 College

• Brilliant at communication, estimation and delivery, change management, and leadership capabilities

• Should have managed large technology team directly or through the hierarchy

• Passionate about working in finance domain and disrupting traditional workflows that are inefficient and lack transparency

• Wide experience in Security, Scale, Design and Architecture, API, Cloud Infrastructure, Tooling, and multiple frameworks

• Strong experience building products with microservices based approach. Background in transforming existing applications & coming up with a microservices based architecture (including technology migration) is a plus.

• Programming background: Strong hands-on experience on Java and GoLang. Preferably a polyglot

• Experience in distributed system design, cloud native technologies, and messaging systems like RabbitMQ & NATS

• Experience on working with SQL & NoSql databases and performance tuning

• In depth understanding of principles and best practices around code quality, clean code and design

• You live and breathe automation and have a firm grasp of Continuous Delivery and Deployment principals and techniques

• Experience with AWS services

• Experience implementing containerized applications with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration

• Experience with observability frameworks such as Prometheus, and Grafana for logging, monitoring and distributed tracing.

• Experience with Frontend technologies (JS Frameworks) / mobile development is a plus

• Very good communication & technology documentation skills.

• Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

• Embrace simplicity and evolutionary design over convoluted and heavy top down design solutions

• A strong preference for build over buy as far as software solutions are concerned

Qualifications & Experience

• BE/B.Tech/MCA/MSc. from premier institute and with 10+ years of experience

• Experience working in a fast growing fintech startup is a plus

• Experience leading an engineering team