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Location: Flexible - Remote or Based in India
Type: Equity-Based Partnership with Investment
Vesting Schedule: 4 years with a 1-year cliff
IMPORTANT: This is an equity-only position with investment until the business starts generating revenue.
About Dwichakra:
Dwichakra is the ultimate lifestyle app for motorcycle enthusiasts, providing everything riders need to fuel their passion for the open road. Our platform offers new routes, epic ride planning, and a vibrant community connection, along with an e-commerce shop, achievement tracking, expense management, and roadside assistance. Committed to AI-powered personalized route catalogs and instant support, Dwichakra ensures a thrilling journey for every motorcyclist.
Founded in 2016, Dwichakra is transforming the Indian two-wheeler industry by delivering an integrated ecosystem that caters to every aspect of a rider's journey. We are rapidly positioning ourselves as a pioneer in comprehensive services for motorcycle enthusiasts across India.
Time Commitment:
- Hours: 15-25 hours per week
- Flexibility: Can be managed alongside a full-time job
- Working Hours: Flexible
Compensation:
- Equity Partnership: Join a growing startup as a key partner
- Leadership Opportunity: Shape technology as a Director
- Future Revenue Sharing: As the business scales
- Potential Full-Time Role: As the company grows
Role Overview:
We are seeking a driven and visionary Director Of Technology to join Dwichakra as an integral contributor and investor. This role is perfect for anyone with entrepreneurial aspirations and a robust technical background who is ready to invest in our shared mission.
As a technologist and partner, you will provide technical leadership and expertise in developing and launching innovative technology solutions. Your contributions will be crucial in enhancing our product offerings and scaling the company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technology Strategy: Collaborate with founders to define and execute a technology roadmap that aligns with the company’s vision and growth strategy.
- Financial Investment: Commit to a financial contribution to support technology development, product launch, and scaling efforts.
- Technical Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of the platform, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
- Product Development: Direct the development of new features and enhancements, leveraging AI and other technologies for a superior user experience.
- Team Building: Recruit, mentor, and manage a talented technology team to foster innovation and excellence.
- Decision-Making: Participate in strategic and operational decisions to drive the company forward.
Shared Responsibilities:
- Operations Oversight: Collaborate with Founders for smooth daily operations in technology.
- Business Development: Partner with technology vendors, service providers, and stakeholders.
- Industry Representation: Represent Dwichakra at key industry events and technology forums.
- Visionary Leadership: Inspire the technology team to drive innovation and stay ahead of market trends.
Qualifications and Skills:
Essential:
- Proven experience in a senior technology leadership role (CTO or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of software development, AI applications, and mobile app technologies.
- An entrepreneurial mindset with a strategic approach to technology and business goals.
- Willingness and ability to make a financial investment in the company.
- Excellent leadership, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities.
Preferred:
- Experience in startups, product development, or technology commercialization.
- Familiarity with the motorcycle or automobile industry and market trends.
- A network of potential clients, investors, or technology partners.
Equity and Investment:
- Equity Offering: Based on contributions (financial, expertise, and operational involvement), equity shares will be negotiated with a vesting schedule.
- Investment Requirement: A minimum financial contribution of INR 15-25 lakhs to support technology development and product launch.
If you are an innovative and entrepreneurial-minded technology leader passionate about the startup community, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of Dwichakra. Apply today and help us create the ultimate experience for motorcycle riders and indian two-wheeler ecosystem!
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Must have basic knowledge of Software Technologies like PHP, JavaScript, etc.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing projects within the decided-upon budget, timeline, and scope. They will also effectively monitor and present project updates to relevant stakeholders, clients, or project team members.
Responsibilities:
1. Set project timeline
2. Monitor project deliverables
3. Monitor project baseline to ensure activities progressing as planned
4. Monitor project burndown charts
5. Monitor employee's performance with KPI's
6. Update relevant stakeholders or team members on the project progress
7. Coach and support project team members with tasks you assign them
Hrim is an innovation company with a vision to create and power meaningful action across the globe. The organisation delivers its innovation through its Ideation, Design & Build Services. Hrim’s ideation service materialises visions of leaders and companies into standout concepts. The design and build service propels concepts into tangible reality in the form of ventures, initiatives, services etc.
Job Description:
As the Build Lead specialising in Technology at Hrim, paralleling the role of a Head of Technology in a technology startup, your role is critical in translating innovative concepts into real-world technological solutions. This position requires a unique combination of technical mastery, strategic foresight, and leadership skills to take 0-1 build to success. You will be at the helm of developing and executing technology projects from their nascent stages to full-fledged operational status.
In this key role, you will oversee the entire lifecycle of our technology initiatives, spearheading it from concept asset development to market launch. Your responsibilities will be multifaceted, encompassing strategic planning and hands-on management of the technology ventures. Your leadership will be instrumental in evolving the concepts into fully operational, market-ready technologies.
Key Responsibilities
Project Development from 0 to 1:
- Lead the development of new technology projects at Hrim from conception (0) to launch (1).
- Utilize coding and technical expertise to create robust, scalable assets for the projects
- Oversee the entire project lifecycle, ensuring that technical objectives and timelines are met.
Technical Leadership and Team Management:
- Spearhead technical build of the concepts and lead the associated team on the project
- Manage resource allocation, project scheduling, and workflow to optimize team performance.
Technology Strategy and Innovation:
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends to inform innovation at Hrim
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members to ensure technology alignment with business goals.
Quality Assurance and Best Practices:
- Ensure the highest quality of code and implementation of best practices in software development.
- Conduct code reviews and oversee testing procedures to ensure reliability and efficiency of applications.
- Address technical issues and challenges promptly, ensuring minimal impact on project timelines.
Requirements & Qualifications
Educational Background:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. Advanced degrees or certifications in technology-related disciplines are a plus.
Technical Expertise:
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, JavaScript, or similar, with a strong understanding of software development principles.
- Demonstrated experience with full-stack development, including both front-end and back-end technologies.
- Knowledge of database management and experience with SQL or NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and understanding of scalable architecture design.
Experience in Project Development:
- 5 years of experience in technology development, with a significant portion dedicated to building projects from concept (0) to launch (1).
- Demonstrated ability to lead technology projects and oversee all stages of development, from ideation to deployment.
- Proven track record in delivering complex software projects on time and within budget.
Leadership and Team Management:
- Strong leadership skills with experience managing and mentoring a team of software developers and engineers.
- Ability to foster a collaborative environment and demonstrate innovation and creativity.
- Experience in resource planning, project scheduling, and agile methodologies.
Problem-Solving and Innovation:
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a focus on innovative solutions and continuous improvement.
- Ability to anticipate challenges and proactively address potential issues in the development process.
- A knack for translating complex technical concepts into practical, real-world applications.
Communication and Collaboration:
- Strong communication skills, capable of effectively articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and business analysts.
- Ability to clearly document and present project progress and outcomes.
Adaptability and Continuous Learning:
- Commitment to staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
- Willingness to adapt and learn new programming languages or technologies as required by project needs.
- Enthusiasm for tackling new challenges and the ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment.
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Application Development · Pioneer and drive Agile development practices, leading sprint teams and backlogs · Provide guidance to the team and ensure they adhere to development standards · Ensure team structure is optimized, and resources managed, to facilitate efficient project delivery - seamlessly integrate, mentor, and manage internal (remote) and external teams (contractors), continually monitoring quality and effectiveness · Innovation and product development – generate and facilitate ideas development, requirement gathering and user evaluation to continually develop new and exciting features and value add services · Balance competing priorities – have a good understanding of software technical debt and ensure we've got the right balance between paying it down, delivering new projects and offering outstanding customer support · Create and/or refine lean processes to ensure effective, scalable, and profitable workflows – identify and analyze problems and implement solutions. Ensure consistent and iterative delivery of high-impact, high-quality work · Ensure that the business objectives and customer requirements are at the heart of all processes and projects · Take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises - drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues and implement appropriate solutions Designers & Developers · Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots, and debugs software and is the go-to team for all aspects of maintenance starting with resolving software bugs, managing delivery of software and working on customer escalations · Work with product managers, designers & developers to translate internal and external customer and market requirements into a system, product, and technology roadmaps Vendor Sourcing & Management · Manage relationships with various technology vendors and contract agreements to ensure technically and economically efficient products and services are provided Application Management · Ensure new application upgrades or transformation are compliant with current applications, commercials involved in their upkeep and overlook the future need of applications and their upgrades from software development perspective · Ensure availability of in-house applications to business/ functional users as per requirement · Ensure that in-house application related incidents, events, problems, and service requests get closed in an efficient, consistent manner per the committed SLAs
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Excellent client/customer service mindset
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Bullspree is an experiential stock market gaming and learning mobile app. Founded by seasoned stock market professionals and IIT Alumni. With the vision to make stock market knowledge accessible to every Indian household, Bullspree is on a bull run. The venture is backed by renowned Industry Veterans and covered by leading media agencies.
About the role:
This is the role of the VP of Technology at Bullspree that is expected to work closely with the founders to drive the day-to-day technology development at Bullspree. There is no bar in compensation for deserving candidates. Get in touch if you think this sounds interesting to you.
Desired Skills:
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent streams from Top Tier Institutes.
- 3 – 7 years of experience in designing and developing highly scalable, high performance and fault tolerant mobile application products with infrastructure hosted on Cloud
- Proficiency in developing ReSTful APIs, flutter, mobile libraries, Android OS, App Development language (PHP/Kotlin/Java/JavaScript or equivalent)
- Knowledge of Cloud Services, Containers, Databases, disaster recovery, and message queues (Kafka / RabbitMQ) is highly preferable.
- Experience with DevOps and delivering into cloud-based environments using standard CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Spinnaker, SonarQube) and best practices
- Good proficiency in SQL
- Good understanding of database technologies like MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, etc.
- Sound debugging skills with the ability to identify performance bottlenecks and drive optimization efforts
Good to have:
- Strong experience working with multi-cloud (AWS/GCP/AZURE), Docker, and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes and Terraform
- Good understanding of observatory tools and logging
- Enthusiasm for open-source contribution
- Previous experience working in an environment with microservices
- Knowledge of IT security
- Experience in distributed and big data technologies
- The CTO will set company’s technological vision and lead its execution.
- Responsible to build and scale an online B2B / B2C platform from the scratch
- Build a solid technical team across Software development, Architecture & design, Dev Ops / Infrastructure.
Requirements
- Min 5 years of experience must have headed a full journey experience of scaling up software product & technology from scratch within a B2C or B2B environment during zero to one phase of the startup
- Proven ability to work in the intersection of technology and business to drive revenue growth. Must have experience of working in a start-up during zero to one phase along with Founder/s or at a Founder/s minus 1 level.
- Proven experience of building and leading engineering teams that have scaled along the journey.
- Must have experience managing teams across Software development, Architecture & design, Dev Ops / Infrastructure
- Candidate must have nuanced understanding of trade-offs among features, risks and costs.
About First Principles
We are a Tech Holding Company and our portfolio companies generate millions in revenue. What is unique about FirstPrinciples is that most of our companies remain controlled and majority owned by First Principles and its team members rather than by external investors. We are proud that our product engineering team builds world class products from India. https://firstprinciples.io/">https://firstprinciples.io/
About this Role
As we scale and build our organisation, we would like to add an individual to our core Technical Leadership who can scale our key products and projects and help us build and foster relationships with Enterprise clients.
We are looking for an experienced Technology Leader to join our fast growing organisation to help us with driving Technical Strategy, Approach and oversee the Implementation for internal and external products. You should be someone who loves Engineering, have amazing debugging skills and slay problems with technology.
In this role, you will undertake Technical / Solution Architecture and should also be able to help team with Engineering and coding wherever required. That includes, working along with the team, writing code, doing R&D or POCs, ensuring we follow modern industry standards and building beautiful high performing Software and Applications and thus delivering a better solution and product. You will also help FP build strong relationships with clients and technical leadership on the client side.
You would be required to have a minimum of 10+ years of experience with a mix of Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Cyber - Network Security, Enterprise Application Maintenance, Database Management along with Project, Client and People Management skills which are necessary to lead the team and be their voice. You should be a leader and not just a manager who loves delegating things to the off-shore team, but rather someone who would not hesitate to take over Git-Pull and start writing code and show ‘here is how it’s done’ and amaze everyone with your expertise! :-)
Because this is a Senior role, you would also be involved working with the Product/Project Manager and will be responsible for the delivery and output.
Tech Stack [High-Level]: We are JavaScript focused i.e. we work in ReactJS, NodeJS, AngularJS, TypeForm, TypeScript, Redis. On the server side, we work with AWS/GCP/DO. Database: MySQL, PostgreS and MongoDb. API: REST and GraphQL API. We also have a strong DevOps stack - including Kubernetes(K8), Dockers and CI/CD automation.
Interview Process:
- 60 min Discovery Call
- 15 mins introduction and what you bring to the table (We love people who say, “We build the damn table”)
- 15 min understanding your experience and background
- 15 min on why you want to join our team and your expectations, future plans
- 15 min Q&A
- 60-90 min Technical Interview (May be more than 1)
- Technical Call
- 45-60 min Final Call
- 15 min discussion on results
- 15 min CTC expectations / negotiations
- 15 min closure
- 15 min buffer
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Previous experience leading outsourced engineering teams required
Previous experience working with US leadership team, US customers and US-based vendors and service providers
Understanding of full-stack .NET is a must
Experience with Angular front-end frameworks and tools
Experience with database systems and data modeling (RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL)
Experience with designing and building integrations using REST and SOAP web services.
Experience with test-driven development.
Nice to have :
Experience with micro-service architecture, Docker, and Azure preferred
Experience with Machine Learning modeling, training and algorithm development preferred
Experience with data labeling to be used for machine learning purposes
SOC 1/2/3 and other attestation engagements
Cybersecurity Risk and Gap Assessments
Knowledge of vulnerability assessment and penetration testing technologies, as well as incident response, host and network forensic technologies
Experience :
12+ years of industry experience
7+ years in Software Development
Experience with Vendor Management, Stakeholder management
Experience managing distributed team (Off-shore/on-shore model)
Excellent Delivery management skills
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
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An early-stage HR-Tech (SaaS) company. We aspire to be the leading self-driven career platform with intelligence. We are putting together a strong founding team of Chief Technical Officer. The founders have about a decade of experience in Sales, Marketing, HR & mobile application development.
Who is?
A Co-Creator/Co-Founder/Chief Technology Officer will be our first technology go-to expert who can own product development, technology for the scratch and scale it along the journey. You are a tech hack who can [Alt+f9] layers of complex computing problems. You have built amazing products and enterprise systems in the past and looking for the next big challenge?
Do you have it?
- 6-12 years of experience in building a product from the ground up to scale
- You are hands-on with codes, active portfolio, and contribution
- You have built enterprise-level products
- You have explored and played around building great team culture
- You have the ability to attract and retain talent
We Look for?
- In it for a long term
- Thinking outside the box
- Not afraid to challenge the conventional wisdom
- Moving decisively towards business goals
- Flexible managing work-life balance
Are you the right fit?
- If you are a get my hands dirty kind of leader with deep experience in building and scaling large enterprise-grade product
- The latest tech stacks are just walk in the park
- You have Identified, compared, selected, and implemented technology solutions to meet current and future needs
- You have built end to the end cloud platform on AWS and are aware of best practices followed
- You are a flawless executor with an entrepreneurial spirit
- You have a keen eye for maintaining exceptional coding practices
- You have assembled and lead a team of highly motivated engineers
- Prior experience in data science and deep learning is a plus but not mandatory
We offer
Chief technology officer is a complex role that lies at the intersection of business and technology with true upside potential. Initially, the compensation will primarily be in the form of equity with increasing salary as we hit our business milestones and bring in institutional funding.Look forward to talk.
Adarsh.HM
Co-Founder
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