CTO (Chief Technogy Office) at Happiword.com · Ahmedabad · 2 - 10 years · ₹4L - ₹5L / yr (ESOP available) · Bootstrapped · Posted 17 Sep 2026

🚀 We’re Hiring: CTO at Happiword.com
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About Happiword.com 📚🌍
Happiword.com is a book review and discovery platform building a global ecosystem for readers and authors.
Our mission is to make it easier for readers to discover, read, review, recommend, and connect around great books—while helping authors showcase their work and reach the right audience.
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What you will do
Technology & product leadership
- Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
- Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
- Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.
Engineering & platform management
- Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
- Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
- Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.
Innovation & AI strategy
- Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
- Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
- Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
- Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
- Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.
Technical leadership
- A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
- Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
- Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
- Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.
What success looks like
- Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
- Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
- Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.
Qualifications & experience
- Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
- A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
- Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
- Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
- Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.
Technical expertise
- Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
- Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).
Behavioural & leadership competencies
- Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
- Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
- High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
Job Title: Vice President – Technology (VP Tech)
Company: Timble Technologies Pvt. Ltd
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Experience: 15+ Years
About Timble AI
Timble Glance is a high-growth AI-powered RegTech and enterprise B2B SaaS platform delivering mission-critical solutions to the BFSI sector. Our infrastructure powers 30+ enterprise-grade APIs handling digital identity management, real-time fraud mitigation, automated compliance, and document intelligence. We engineer high-concurrency, resilient systems designed for extreme throughput, sub-second latency, and bank-grade data security.
Role Overview
As the Vice President – Technology, you will be the chief technical strategist and engineering executive driving Timble AI’s technical vision, platform modernization, and AI innovation. You will own the end-to-end architectural roadmap, lead cross-functional engineering pods, and scale high-volume distributed systems that safeguard critical financial data. This role requires an executive who combines boardroom strategic gravitas with deep hands-on engineering credibility, capable of bridging rapid B2B SaaS product iteration with rigorous BFSI regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities
· Technology Vision & Architectural Strategy: Define and execute a multi-year engineering roadmap across core product suites (Identity Verification, Fraud Detection Engines, and Document Intelligence), balancing cutting-edge feature delivery with enterprise-grade stability.
· Large-Scale Platform Engineering: Oversee the architecture and performance of 30+ high-scale APIs, ensuring 99.9% uptime, sub-second latency, fault-tolerant concurrency, and strict "efficiency by design" across multi-tenant cloud environments.
· AI/ML & Intelligent Engineering: Drive the productionization of proprietary AI/ML and Generative AI pipelines—moving capabilities from experimental R&D into secure, low-latency, scalable BFSI workflows while advancing patent-pending intellectual property (IP).
· Cloud Architecture & FinOps: Direct cloud economics and infrastructure investments across AWS and GCP, establishing containerization, microservice modularity, automated CI/CD pipelines, and robust disaster recovery frameworks.
· Information Security & Regulatory Compliance: Enforce bank-grade security protocols, data privacy governance, and industry-mandated regulatory compliance (ISO 27001, SOC2, RBI/BFSI data localization guidelines) to protect sensitive enterprise data.
· People & Engineering Culture Leadership: Attract, mentor, and scale a world-class engineering organization (from SDE-1 to Principal Architects and Engineering Managers); institute rigorous code reviews, automated testing benchmarks, and clear career ladders.
· Executive & Stakeholder Alignment: Partner directly with the Founder, C-suite, and Product Leadership to translate complex technological initiatives into clear business outcomes, enterprise client trust, and scalable revenue growth.
Required Qualifications & Experience
· Experience: 15+ years of progressive software engineering and technology leadership experience, with significant tenure leading engineering organizations in Fintech, RegTech, or high-scale B2B SaaS.
· Education: B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or related engineering field—Tier-1 institutes (IIT, IIIT, NIT) strongly preferred.
· Core Technical Mastery: Deep hands-on expertise in no, distributed system design, microservices, asynchronous architectures, API gateways, and relational/NoSQL database engines (PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB).
· Cloud & Infrastructure Rigor: Proven track record architecting enterprise systems on AWS/GCP, utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and modern APM/observability stacks.
· AI Production Track Record: Demonstrated experience successfully deploying, monitoring, and scaling machine learning, computer vision, or NLP/LLM models in latency-critical production environments.
· Governance & Delivery: Strong command of modern engineering methodologies (Agile, DevSecOps, TOGAF/ITIL principles) with a proven history of managing high-throughput, zero-downtime platforms.
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· Technically Credible Executive: Capable of engaging in deep-dive architectural RFCs with engineering teams while articulating business impact and ROI to board members and enterprise BFSI clients.
· Builder Mindset: Thrives in high-ownership, agile environments, successfully balancing rapid product velocity with uncompromised software quality and data integrity.
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We are looking for an Engineering Lead to own the entire technology stack — from onboarding and underwriting to disbursals, repayments, and collections — and to build the engineering function into something genuinely AI-native.
What You'll Own
● Full tech stack: backend, frontend, infrastructure, integrations, and data pipelines
● Real-time underwriting and decisioning systems
● LOS/LMS architecture — onboarding, disbursals, repayments, and collections
● Integrations with bureaus, KYC providers, account aggregators, and payment gateways
● Reconciliation systems — disbursement, repayment, and NACH reconciliation end-to-end
● AWS infrastructure: scaling, reliability, uptime, and cloud cost ownership ● Data infrastructure for the credit and risk team — feature pipelines, model serving, experiment infrastructure
● Engineering leadership: hiring, sprint planning, code reviews, and execution standards
● Compliance systems: RBI guidelines, DPDP, KYC/AML, e-NACH, e-sign
AI-Native Engineering
This is a core part of the role, not a bonus. You will build a machine-readable knowledge base of the entire codebase — architecture, data models, service contracts, coding standards, decision history — so that AI agents working on code have the context to produce accurate, consistent output. You will build skills for code review, developer onboarding, and recurring engineering workflows. You will build a code review pipeline where agents do the first pass on every pull request. The knowledge base and the skills improve over time as the team grows and the product evolves.
What We're Looking For
● 7+ years in software engineering, with at least 2 years leading teams or architecture
● Strong hands-on experience with Python, Django, and React Native
● Deep expertise in AWS and cloud-native architecture
● Experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases
● Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API design
● Experience owning reconciliation or payment flow infrastructure in a lending or payments context
● Prior experience in fintech / NBFC / digital lending — mandatory
● Strong understanding of the full loan lifecycle — mandatory
● You have used LLMs seriously as engineering tools and have strong opinions about what makes AI-assisted development produce good output versus mediocre output
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What Success Looks Like
● scales with strong uptime, performance, and reliability
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● The credit team is never blocked on an engineering dependency
● Engineering health metrics are tracked and visibly improving
● AI agents are doing the structured first pass on code reviews, and the system gets smarter over time
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Tech Lead to design, build, and integrate AI-driven systems that automate and enhance real-world business workflows. This is a high-impact role for someone who enjoys full-stack ownership — from backend AI architecture to frontend user experiences — and can align engineering decisions with measurable product outcomes.
You will begin as a strong individual contributor, independently architecting and deploying AI-powered solutions. As the product portfolio scales, you will lead a distributed team across India and Australia, acting as a System Integrator to align engineering, data, and AI contributions into cohesive production systems.
Example Project
Design and deploy a multi-agent AI system to automate critical stages of a company’s sales cycle, including:
- Generating client proposals using historical SharePoint data and CRM insights
- Summarizing meeting transcripts
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- Feeding structured insights into dashboards and workflow tools
The solution will combine RAG pipelines, LLM reasoning, and React-based interfaces to deliver measurable productivity gains.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement AI workflows using LLMs, vector databases, and automation frameworks
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- Drive architecture decisions balancing scalability, performance, and security
- Collaborate with product managers, clients, and data teams to translate business use cases into production-ready systems
- Mentor junior engineers and evolve into a broader leadership role as the team grows
Ideal Candidate Profile
Experience Requirements
- 5+ years in full-stack development (Python backend + React/JavaScript frontend)
- Strong experience in API and microservice integration
- 2+ years leading technical teams and coordinating distributed engineering efforts
- 1+ year of hands-on AI project experience (LLMs, Transformers, LangChain, OpenAI/Azure AI frameworks)
- Prior experience in B2B SaaS environments, particularly in AI, automation, or enterprise productivity solutions
Technical Expertise
- Designing and implementing AI workflows including RAG pipelines, vector databases, and prompt orchestration
- Ensuring backend and AI systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and secure
- Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SharePoint, Teams, Databricks, Azure)
- Experience building production-grade AI systems within enterprise SaaS ecosystems
Read This Before Anything Else
We have 6 developers who can ship. What we don't have is someone who turns that into a real engineering function: real architecture, real leverage, real AI-driven advantage. If that gap sounds like an opportunity rather than a headache, you're in the right place. If it sounds like a lot of undefined work with no playbook handed to you, this one probably isn't for you. That's completely okay. There are plenty of great roles that fit differently.
About CraftMyPlate
CraftMyPlate is Hyderabad's go-to platform for food experiences for micro-events: house parties, birthdays, office celebrations, festive gatherings, and more. We're building the operating system for how India discovers, customises, and orders food for smaller events. We're backed by established founders and investors, and we're funded and growing fast. The next phase of that growth runs through engineering.
Where We Stand
Some numbers, because they matter more than adjectives. Order volume has grown 50x in two years, and we're compounding at roughly 3x year over year, without giving up equity to fund it. That means the business runs on its own economics. The growth is real demand, not runway bought with dilution, and every efficient architectural decision this role makes directly protects that.
Most people size up an opportunity by asking what's going to change in ten years. The more useful question, and the one this company is built around, is what won't change. People will keep gathering. They'll keep celebrating, hosting, and marking festivals, in 10 years and in 20. That permanence is the bet. You're not building infrastructure for a trend cycle. You're building for a category that outlasts the current AI wave, the next funding round, and probably us too.
The Technical Reality
Here's an honest read of the engineering problem, not a sanitized version of it.
Event-driven commerce doesn't scale like typical e-commerce. Demand isn't smooth, it's spiky: weekends, festival calendars, and event dates create real load concentration, and each order is tied to a hard deadline that can't slip the way a shipped package can. That has direct architectural consequences: systems need to handle bursty, unpredictable traffic without paying for idle capacity the rest of the time, which is exactly why we're serverless-first on AWS rather than running a fixed fleet sized for peak.
Underneath that, every order touches multiple systems that have to stay consistent: kitchen and vendor fulfillment status, inventory across partners, payment gateway settlement, and refunds, often in real time and often across more than one vendor for a single event. Getting that consistency right across SQL and NoSQL stores, without it becoming a source of support tickets and manual reconciliation, is a real architecture problem, not a CRUD problem.
The AI-agent layer is the next lever, and it's a business lever as much as a technical one. Every workflow we can hand to a well-orchestrated agent instead of a new hire is a workflow that scales without adding headcount, which is exactly how a company grows 3x a year without diluting equity to fund the team behind it. That's why agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph, sits in the "go deep" tier of this role rather than being a nice-to-have.
You'll likely find some of this framing right and some of it worth challenging once you're actually in the codebase. That's expected, and honestly preferred over someone who just nods along.
Why This Role Exists
You'll be the most senior technical person in the company, reporting directly to the founder. Not a manager brought in to run standups. An owner. You set the architecture, you write code yourself, and you make the team materially better. You also own where AI and automation take this company next, starting with our first in-house AI agent product (details shared in the interview), and expanding from there into how the company runs, department by department: HR, finance, marketing, design, development, all sitting on an engineering layer that you design.
If you've outgrown a role where you plan but don't build, or where good ideas die in a committee, this is built to be the opposite of that.
What You'll Own
- Architecture, end to end. Scalable, cost-efficient systems from day one, not "fix it later" engineering. You own the decisions and their long-term consequences.
- Hands-on building. You are still writing code and shipping. This isn't a seat where you review other people's work all day. You lead by building.
- The engineering team. Directly manage, mentor, and level up our 6 developers. Build the technical bar, the review culture, and the calibration that lets the team ship independently.
- The AI-agent roadmap. Own the architecture behind our first AI agent product, then the broader strategy for AI agents and automation across every function in the company, with engineering as the layer underneath all of it.
- Team scaling. Build the next layer of leads under you so execution quality scales without you being the bottleneck.
- Technical accountability. When something breaks, you fix it. You don't escalate and wait.
Our Stack, and the Depth We Expect
Not everything on this list needs the same level of mastery. Some of it you need to own at an architectural level. The rest you need to be strong enough to build yourself, direct the team on, or delegate to AI agents with confidence.
Go deep here. This is where the real architecture decisions live, and where the business impact is highest:
- AWS, serverless first. You should be genuinely well versed in AWS application development, not just "have used AWS." You should be able to design and guide serverless architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, and similar) as our default way of building, because our demand curve is spiky by nature and fixed infrastructure is money left on the table.
- TypeScript, our primary language across backend and frontend.
- Agent orchestration across multiple LLMs, using LangGraph. This is core to our AI roadmap and our path to scaling operations without scaling headcount. You own how it's architected, not just how it's used.
Working proficiency. Build it yourself, direct the team, or hand it to an AI agent and know if the output is right.
This Is You If
- You've built and shipped real production systems yourself, not just reviewed other people's architecture from a distance.
- You go deep wherever the problem is, and you're comfortable owning the exact stack described above, not just "full-stack" in the abstract.
- You've made engineers around you measurably better, whether or not you've held the title for it yet.
- You're already using AI coding tools and agents seriously, like Claude, Cursor, or similar tools, as part of how you build, not as something you tried once. We'll likely explore this together in the interview.
- You have a bias toward leverage over hours. You'd rather automate or systematize a problem than grind through it. But when something's live and needs to be done right, you see it through completely, with no half-finished work.
- You want to build something for years, not land somewhere comfortable. We'll know the difference from how you talk about your last three years.
This Might Not Be the Right Fit If
- You'd prefer a stable, well-defined role with clear boundaries and someone else making the calls. That's a fair thing to want, just not what this is.
- You'd rather receive direction than bring us architecture and AI strategy yourself.
- You haven't yet gotten hands-on with AI coding tools in your daily work.
- You're drawn more to the title than the work behind it.
If none of that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
Requirements
- 5 to 7 years of experience in software engineering, with real ownership of architecture-level decisions, not just feature delivery.
- Prior experience leading or mentoring engineers, formally or informally.
- Tier-1 or Tier-1+ engineering college strongly preferred (IIT, BITS, top NIT tier, or equivalent). We'll consider other institutions only with clearly commendable, verifiable work: real systems you can walk us through in depth, strong open-source contributions, or a track record that speaks for itself. Pedigree is a proxy for speed, not a checkbox. We test for the underlying ability regardless.
- Comfortable in an early-stage environment: undefined problems, few processes, and the expectation that you help define both.
Compensation
Competitive, with equity. We're formalizing a structured ESOP program alongside this hire. Specific numbers are discussed directly in later interview rounds.
If reading this got you a little excited about what you'd build here, we'd genuinely love to talk. If it didn't quite land, no hard feelings. We just want the right fit for both sides.
Staff Engineer - AI:
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Job Description
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In this role, you will (But are not limited to):
- Design and develop highly scalable and resilient cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates with on-premises systems
- Drive the team’s goals and technical direction to find and pursue technical opportunities that make Egnyte’s cloud platform more efficient
- Effectively communicate complex design and architecture details
- Understand company and industry-wide trends to help develop new technologies
- Conceptualize, develop, and implement changes that prevent key systems from becoming unreliable, under-utilized, or unsupported
- Own all aspects of critical software projects from design to implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring
Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD. in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8-15 years of professional experience in engineering with a history of technical innovation
- Experience providing technical leadership to engineers
Bonus Qualifications (Good to Have)
- The breadth of knowledge across infrastructure domains, with the ability to reason about everything from data center machine software to database solutions to machine learning infrastructure to front-end web or mobile applications
- Demonstrated success in designing and developing large-scale, complex systems
- Expertise with multi-tenant, highly complex, cloud solutions; experience with Hybrid and/or on-premises solutions desired
About Egnyte
In a content critical age, Egnyte fuels business growth by enabling content-rich business processes, while also providing organizations with visibility and control over their content assets. Egnyte’s cloud-native content services platform leverages the industry’s leading content intelligence engine to deliver a simple, secure, and vendor-neutral foundation for managing enterprise content across business applications and storage repositories. More than 16,000 customers trust Egnyte to enhance employee productivity, automate data management, and reduce file-sharing cost and complexity. Investors include Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers, and Goldman Sachs. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com
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Responsibilities (What you'll do)
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Qualifications (What you'll bring)
Who We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate is a seasoned professional in cloud software development with a strong foundation in data processing and scalable software systems. You thrive in collaborative environments and are passionate about advancing cloud technology and data architecture to new heights. You are a leader who enjoys mentoring, guiding, and inspiring others.
Preferred Qualifications
Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience with a modern programming language, with a focus on back-end systems and cloud-based technologies.
- Strong capability in architecting and designing robust, scalable software systems.
- Proficiency in AWS or another popular cloud platform.
Additional Qualifications
- Experience with big-data technologies such as Spark and Apache Kafka.
- Experience with Java (version 17), Scala, or other JVM programming languages.
- Experience with tools such as Amazon Redshift and MongoDB.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Travis CI, or similar platforms.
- Proficiency in test-driven development.
- Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
- Experience working on remote or distributed teams and projects.
Technical Architect – Product Engineering
Experience: 15+ Years
Location: Pune, India
Employment Type: Full-time
Desired Skills: Python, Technical Architecture, AWS, Microservices, SaaS / Multi-tenant Architecture, Kubernetes, System Design
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect to lead the architecture, design, and technical evolution of an enterprise SaaS product. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, strong product engineering experience, and the ability to build scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms.
The ideal candidate should be passionate about solving complex engineering problems, driving innovation, mentoring development teams, and effectively leveraging AI to accelerate software development.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the overall product architecture and technical roadmap.
- Design and build scalable, secure, and highly available enterprise applications.
- Lead the design and implementation of new product features from concept to production.
- Remain hands-on with coding and contribute to critical product components.
- Drive architecture reviews, code quality, performance optimization, and engineering best practices.
- Lead cloud architecture, security, scalability, and DevOps initiatives.
- Evaluate and adopt modern technologies to improve product capabilities and engineering efficiency.
- Leverage AI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate software development, code reviews, testing, documentation, debugging, and productivity.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 15+ years of software product engineering experience with at least 5 years in a Technical Architect role.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Python and modern backend frameworks.
- Deep experience with AWS services and cloud-native application architecture.
- Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation), Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
- Experience designing microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with scalable SaaS platforms, multi-tenant architectures, and secure application design.
- Excellent understanding of software design patterns, performance tuning, observability, and system reliability.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Role & Responsibilities
Responsibilities
• Business: Immerse in operations until you think like an insider.
Rapidly acquire domain expertise through direct observation, translate between business and engineering seamlessly, and mentor engineers in your area on immersion. Influence senior stakeholders effectively, manage complex stakeholder landscapes with competing agendas, and build trust rapidly with new stakeholders.
• Delivery: Lead rapid delivery initiatives across teams in your area, coach on prototype-first approaches, and establish trust through consistent fast delivery. Build complete applications rapidly across any technology stack, select the right tools for each problem, and define clear criteria for prototype-to-production transitions.
• Generative AI: Architect RAG systems for complex use cases across teams, implement advanced techniques (hybrid search, reranking, query expansion), mentor engineers on RAG best practices, and establish RAG standards. Lead evaluation strategy across teams, establishing annotation guidelines, training human-calibrated LLM judges, and building evaluation pipelines that connect tracing to datasets to experiments.
• People: Build high-performing teams across your area, navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, foster psychological safety, and create environments where diverse perspectives are valued. Influence through communication at all levels — from frontline to executive. Handle difficult conversations skilfully and train engineers in your area on effective communication.
• AI-Augmented Development: Optimise AI tool usage across teams in your area, train engineers on AI-augmented and agentic engineering workflows, evaluate new AI development tools, and establish practices that balance AI speed with verification rigour.
• Scale: Design complex multi-component systems end-to-end, evaluate architectural options for large initiatives across teams, guide technical decisions for your area, and mentor engineers on architecture. Create debt reduction strategies across teams, influence roadmap decisions to include debt work, and teach engineers when to accept debt for speed versus when to invest in quality.
• Documentation: Define documentation standards across teams in your area, create documentation systems and templates, train engineers on spec-driven development, and ensure documentation quality across projects. Lead pattern generalization initiatives, defining criteria for when to generalize versus keep custom.
• Reliability: Define reliability standards across teams in your area, drive post-incident improvements systematically, design capacity planning processes, andmentor engineers on SRE practices.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong Staff Software Engineer / FDE profile (full-stack + production GenAI, multi-team technical leadership)
- Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated full-stack delivery across backend and frontend.
- Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have deep production experience with Python AND JavaScript/TypeScript, working comfortably across the full stack.
- Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have 2+ years of experience in generative AI applications developement — LLM integrations, vector databases, RAG systems, and evaluation pipelines
- Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React) and backend API development.
- Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP valued), including infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation / Terraform).
- Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have working knowledge of multiple database paradigms — relational (PostgreSQL), document, and key-value (Redis) — with ability to select the right storage per problem.
- Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions), containerization, and production deployment strategies.
- Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have demonstrable fluency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and proven ability to design agentic engineering workflows and train teams on them
- Preferred (Experience) – Advanced RAG techniques — hybrid search, reranking, query expansion — and establishing RAG standards across teams
Role Overview
The Principal Architect leads Byteridge’s Technology Strategy & Solutions Group (TSS). This is a senior, visible role responsible for defining technology point-of-view, shaping solution narratives, guiding enterprise conversations, and influencing revenue through differentiated thinking.
The Architect owns thought leadership, reference architectures, solution accelerators, and selective engagement on high-impact deals.
Key Responsibilities
- Own, enhance & execute Byteridge’s technology strategy across priority areas (Cloud, Data, Gen AI, Modernization).
- Create and maintain enterprise-grade reference architectures, solution blueprints, PoCs and accelerators.
- Lead strategic discovery workshops and executive-level solutioning for priority opportunities.
- Partner with Content Marketing to translate technical POVs into blogs, whitepapers, decks, webinars, and sales narratives.
- Enable the Enterprise Account Executive with differentiated solution stories and technical credibility.
- Build strong partnerships with Byteridge delivery teams to identify high-impact solutions and projects that can be leveraged as compelling capability showcases for existing customers and prospective clients.
- Work with Delivery Team Architects to influence delivery standards and architectural consistency across teams.
- Research market and industry trends across technologies, popular enterprise solutions, and buyer adoption patterns. Go deep into selected domains and verticals to continuously refine Byteridge’s technology strategy, solution approaches, and positioning.
- Act as a visible external voice through talks, webinars, and published content.
Ideal Profile
- 13–20 years of experience across technology architecture, solutioning, or technology consulting roles.
- Demonstrated ability to research and synthesize market trends, emerging technologies, and popular enterprise solutions.
- Experience developing deep expertise in specific domains or industry verticals and translating that into solution strategies.
- Strong background in modern software engineering, cloud platforms, data, AI, and enterprise systems.
- Proven track record of influencing client decisions and shaping solution direction, not just designing systems.
- Comfortable working at the intersection of technology, business strategy, marketing, and sales.
- Excellent communication skills with executive presence and the ability to articulate complex ideas clearly.
Success Metrics (KPIs)
- Quarterly technology and market POVs produced and adopted internally or externally.
- Creation and reuse of reference architectures, solution frameworks, and accelerators across deals.
- Number of high-impact delivery projects converted into capability showcases and sales assets.
- Influence on strategic opportunities, measured through deal quality, size, and AE feedback.
- Thought leadership visibility through blogs, webinars, talks, or industry participation.
- Internal adoption of architectural standards and solution approaches by delivery teams.













