
CTO/Head/ Chief Architect - Engineering
at Y-Combinator backend Shopify-like Platforms for creators
Head/ Chief Architect - Engineering
About Our Client
Our client is headquartered in California and Y Combinator backed Shopify-like platform for creators & knowledge professionals (coaches, instructors, experts, artists etc.) to launch, manage and grow their business online. Founded by IIT/ IIM/ BITS/ Yale/ BCG Alumni and 3X Entrepreneurs, they are well funded and backed by top Indian VC firms along with start-up veterans like Kunal Shah (CRED). The company is founded by alumni from top IITs, IIMs, BITS, Yale including ex-entrepreneurs and from firms such as BCG, Hike, Dunzo and P&G.
Since the launch of its first version in December 2020 they have grown 25X. Creators have earned more than $1 Million since launch through the platform.
We have just closed our series A (yet to announce) and are looking to build out our leadership team across functions.
About the role:
About the job
- Own and drive product development and engineering management in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Deliver architectural initiatives that drive revenue and improve efficiency inline with business strategy.
- Develop and maintain a aspirational architectural road map
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of IT industry best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging technologies.
- Build and lead the technical team with focus on infusing culture resulting in energetic & positive outcomes.
Requirements
- Relevant prior experience in a software product-based company in a leadership position. Minimum of 5+ years experience building applications in high level programming languages - Java, Python or Go
- Strong experience in either or all of databases: MySQL, MongoDB, NOSQL, SQL Server, Oracle. -Strong working knowledge on AWS & Google Cloud & Cloud security.
- Strong working knowledge of Web, caching technologies, API integration technologies & protocols.
- Experience with managing AGILE development methodology and inspire the team to follow best Scrum practices.
- Fair understanding of DevOps would be ideal
- Must be a strong and enthusiastic team player with excellent verbal and written communications skills.
- You are a good communicator who can explain technical concepts to product managers, designers, support and other engineers and you have curiosity about how things work
- Skills in Microservices Architecture, Product Roadmap& tech team management
Regards
Team Merito

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Company: CorpCare
Title: Head of Engineering/ Head of Product
Location: Mumbai (work from office)
CTC: Annual CTC Up to 25 Lacs
About Us:
CorpCare is India’s first all-in-one corporate funds and assets management platform. We offer a single-window solution for corporates, family offices, and HNIs. We assist corporates in formulating and managing treasury management policies and conducting reviews with investment committees and the board.
Job Summary:
The Head of Engineering will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and management of our corporate funds and assets management platform. This role demands a deep understanding of the broking industry/Financial services industry, software engineering, and product management. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in engineering leadership, a proven track record of delivering scalable technology solutions, and strong product knowledge.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and communicate a clear engineering vision and strategy aligned with our broking and funds management platform.
- Conduct market research and technical analysis to identify trends, opportunities, and customer needs within the broking industry.
- Define and prioritize the engineering roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer requirements.
- Lead cross-functional engineering teams (software development, QA, DevOps, etc.) to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.
- Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and architecture to development and deployment, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
- Write detailed technical specifications and guide the engineering teams to ensure clarity and successful execution.
- Leverage your understanding of the broking industry to guide product development and engineering efforts.
- Collaborate with product managers to incorporate industry-specific requirements and ensure the platform meets the needs of brokers, traders, and financial institutions.
- Stay updated with regulatory changes, market trends, and technological advancements within the broking sector.
- Mentor and lead a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Recruit, train, and retain top engineering talent to build a world-class development team.
- Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for engineering projects to ensure successful delivery and performance.
- Analyze system performance, user data, and platform metrics to identify areas for improvement and optimization.
- Prepare and present engineering performance reports to senior management and stakeholders.
- Work closely with product managers, sales, marketing, and customer support teams to align engineering efforts with overall business objectives.
- Provide technical guidance and support to sales teams to help them understand the platform's capabilities and competitive advantages.
- Engage with customers, partners, and stakeholders to gather feedback, understand their needs, and validate engineering solutions.
Requirements:
- BE /B. Tech - Computer Science
- MBA a plus, not required
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Strong understanding of the broking industry and financial services industry.
- Proven track record of successfully managing and delivering complex software products.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Deep understanding of software architecture, cloud computing, and modern development practices.
Technical Expertise:
- Front-End: React, Next.js, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
- Back-End: Node.js, Express.js, RESTful APIs
- Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), CI/CD pipelines
- Version Control: Git, GitHub/GitLab
- Other: TypeScript, Webpack, Babel, ESLint, Redux
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the broking or financial services industry.
- Familiarity with data analytics tools and methodologies.
- Knowledge of user experience (UX) design principles.
- Experience with trading platforms or financial technology products.
This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical expertise with a deep understanding of the broking industry and a passion for delivering high-impact software solutions.
Responsibilities
• Build high quality systems and applications that solve key challenges for the customer
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit and understand their requirements, challenges and develop potential solutions
• Proactively identify areas of improvements, come up with innovative solutions, and drive adoption
• Push boundaries on infrastructure and cost optimisation, reusability, simplicity and scalability • Own significant engineering projects end-to-end
• Sign-off on all significant architectures and technical designs regardless of front-end or back-end.
• Translate business requirements to tangible engineering deliverables
• Setup and streamline processes and introduce best practices to improve the overall efficiency and throughput of the engineering team
• Be an effective mentor and help in building capacity in the larger team, strategize and work towards helping junior engineers grow
• Stay current with latest tools, technologies, methodologies and ideas; spread the knowledge and conduct effective POCs to demonstrate applicability and benefits
Requirements
• 15+ years of strong experience in developing highly scalable backend and middle tier enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with large volume batch and real-time data processing applications
• Experience building enterprise SaaS applications. Strong knowledge of AWS.
• Programming Languages: Java (must have), Python (good to have)
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes
• Strong in problem solving, data structures and algorithm design.
• Clear Object Oriented Design and Design Pattern concepts
• Significant experience working with non-functional requirements such as performance, security, compliance, automation etc.
• Experience developing AI-based solutions is a big plus.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail
Head of Technology
He/She should be a ‘most technical business person’ and his/her goal is to build a great company, not only a technology which just sounds cool. Let’s make it simpler - the primary job of the Tech. head is to make sure the company's technology strategy serves its business strategy. We strongly believe along with technology understanding every Technology Head needs great understating of the business itself.
Role Overview:
Get “Tech” in order: Help answer fundamentals of technology blocks to be used, choice of certain platform/tech over other, helping team visualize product with the available resources and assets
Innovation through Research and continuous improvement. Head of technology is one strategic personnel who provides critical and factual inputs for IP Creation.
Connecting Business Requirements with activity: Given that, Head of technology is an executive Tech leader, it’s easy for him to understand the business opportunities which Tech Product could create. He/She bring the perspective of tech as a differentiator. He/She should understand the “Market Needs” language talked by his other executive colleagues.
Methodology: With time, help build progressive learning culture and establish predictable model of envisioning, designing and developing products/ platforms and services.
Architecture Practices: Making sure that best practices are defined and followed by team is very important. he/she may have to garbage guy and clean the code time to time. Making reviews on Code Quality is an important activity that he/she should follow. For example, you build an amazing product but during deployment and testing stage performance is hit, or a bug fixes are taking more time than actual building a feature etc. need to be avoided.
Help build, manage, and validate a Tech Roadmap for its Products. As validation of idea happen with acquisition of users and customers, product / platform / service may undergo transformation on required features set and Market needs. A roadmap to achieve those “vanity goals” for the project, and be able to successfully tweak an approach with changing needs is expected from Head of technology.
Responsibilities of the role:
- Plan the project & Assign tasks & complete them within the agreed timelines with client
- Use PMP tools to manage projects
- Attend client meetings and take briefings
Help Business teams to innovate and keep them updated with new technologies - Documentation as per the process – BRS, SRS, HLD & LLD
- Manage a team; set processes in place to facilitate everyday operations seamlessly
- If required, code.
What you will need:
- PHP/MySQL, Angular JavaScript, jQuery, Memcached
- Experience: Minimum 10+ year is required (PHP/MySQL)
- Good Understanding of MVC design patterns and frameworks (CodeIgniter / Zend/Laravel).
- Solid Knowledge of OOPS.
- Solid experience with MySQL - writing and optimizing SQL for high performance systems with large Database
- Extensively worked on Mobile platforms.
- Must have Experience on either of Social API like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail
- Good knowledge of GIT, SVN
About the Organization
Real Estate Syndicators leverage SyndicationPro to manage billions in real estate assets and thousands of investors. Growing at 17% MoM, SyndicationPro is #1 Platform To Automate Real Estate Fund Raising, Investor Relations, & Close More Deals!
What makes SyndicationPro unique is that it is cash flow positive while maintaining a healthy growth rate and is backed by seasoned investors and real estate magnates. We are also a FirstPrinciples.io Venture Studio Company, giving us the product engineering, growth, and operational backbone in India to scale our team.
Our story has been covered by Bloomberg Business, Yahoo Finance, and several other renowned news outlets.
About the Role
SyndicationPro.com is looking for an experienced Technical Lead who has scaled Enterprise SaaS Products built using JavaScript and AWS. Past experience in building a secure and scalable app is a critical requirement.
50,000 ft View
- Technology Evangelist: Research, create proofs of concept and introduces new technologies to the team
- Evolve System Architecture: Evolve the architecture to support future requirements and defines its SLAs
- People Coordination: Coordinate team members providing effective feedback and moderating discussions
- Define Process: defines the right processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline
Here is a visual representation of what we are expecting from this role
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More Granular View:
You will work with the team on the following:
- Architecture and System Design & Integration
- Tech Mentoring, Adoption and Alignment
- Technical Spikes and Experiments
- Code Reviews and Feedback
- Technical Capacity Planning
- Production Issues Escalation
- System SLAs, Metrics & Monitoring
- Platform Direction, Patterns and Practices
- Alignment with other Tech Leads
- Hands-On Coding 30% to 70% of the Time
- Playing an important part in building the company technical roadmap and development processes
- Playing the role of Engineering Manager as required
Tech Stack
MERN & MEAN Stack
AWS
What Success Looks Like
In 90 Days
- Clear understanding of the platform, current code base, and the product roadmap
- Understanding of the your team member’s strengths and weaknesses
- Clear plan of action to tackle the product roadmap, address technical debt, and upskilling team members
In 180 Days
- Work with the team to deliver the planned roadmap and address technical debt
- Leading the development of POCs, managing code reviews, and process design and implementation
- Building and maintaining the SLAs that we define together
- Playing an important role in hiring out for key technical roles
In 365 Days
- We have built a solid team and systems, processes, and infrastructure in place to scale
- We have delivered against the product roadmap
- Becoming an important part of the company leadership team by being a voice for the tech team
Location
- Preferred: Bangalore, India.
Open for Remote work with the right candidate
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We are looking for a Tech Lead (React Native/ReactJS & Node.Js) in Chennai, who can lead the development of all the front-end and back-end applications.
We are an early-stage company building our founding team, and we're looking for passionate members to work towards the vision of the company with their own ideas and approaches.
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Responsibilities
- Design and implement features spanning across systems in a manner that satisfies requirements of performance, scale, security and robustness
- Contribute to improvement of technology and execution processes in the company
- Collaborate in setting technology standards with technology leaders across the company
- Serve as a knowledge center on current and emerging technologies, and help train others when required
- Foster a strong technical culture by mentoring other engineers
- Keep up to date with the latest technologies, evaluate new tools
Relevant Experience and Qualifications
- Demonstrated expertise in system-level design of large scale distributed systems on the Java stack, and experience with web services and service oriented architectures
- Solid experience with Spring (Core/Boot/Security/MVC/Data)
- Have 8 - 12 years of professional experience in software development.
- Extensive experience with modern open source systems including relational / non relational data stores and bigdata processing
- Experience with AWS stack, at least the common datastores and services
- Experience with containerization technologies and concepts including Docker
- Basic knowledge about security concepts and secure coding
- Excellent analytical, conceptual and communication skills in spoken and written English.
- Experience leading projects developed across continents.
Great to have Experience and Qualifications
- Knowledge of machine learning concepts, and some hands-on experience implementing machine learnt models
- Experience with infrastructure design for cloud based apps, especially AWS.
- Past experience with information and data security standards (PCI-DSS, ISO27000) very nice to have.
own the tech platform
build business with the founder
exp in cloud and ecommerce domain
hands on ecommerce development and rollout scaling business.
ready to be long term player
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