
CTO for a Fintech Startup by a large retail group
at FinTech Startup by a Large Retail Group
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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
· Oversee the workflow and the workforce involved in the entire software development process · Responsibilities include creating strategies for optimal performance, coordinating with different teams and departments to identify strengths and weaknesses, implementing training and workshop programs, and liaising with external agencies, including key clients |
- Key Accountabilities
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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- Skills Required for the role
Strong leadership capabilities |
Excellent client/customer service mindset
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Excellent written, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills |
Project Management and Delivery skills
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IT Product development knowledge |
Analytical and inquisitive, with excellent attention to detail
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Strong stakeholders’ management skills |
Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment
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• Help departments use technology profitably
• Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
• Build quality assurance and data protection processes
- 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.

We are SOCIAL.HR
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






