Chief Architect

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!

Roles and responsibilities:

• Should be the single point of contact for all project related queries and concerns.
• Should ensure project delivery and quality at desired level.
• Adherence to the Process.
• Oversee daily activities of the team and provide direction and guidance as needed.
• Manage resources as per workload.
• Address delivery issues in a timely fashion.
• Ensure operational excellence by making team technically competent enough.
• Evaluate the performance of team members and determine training needs.

Desired candidate profile:

• Overall experience of 15 Yrs. to 20 Yrs.
• 5+ yrs. of experience on project management and project delivery.
• Should have proven experience on coding and managing teams using Java, J2ee, iOS, Android, AWS, Node JS, and Python.
• Adoption to the new technologies is desired.
• Understanding of firmware and protocols related to IOT, Bluetooth will be added advantage
• Required to be technical and hands on coding if needed.
• Candidates should be Process oriented and execute projects in Scrum/Agile methodologies.

CTO + CoFounder wanted for our Tech startup where we're trying to build Connected Mobility in parallel to a "short videos app" meant for dashcam videos getting recorded straight from the user's smartphone. So you can say we're a TikTok of dashcam videos at the front.

Expecting the individual is capable & willing to work on these below languages-

Our backend codes are in CakePHP,
Admin Panel in Laravel,
Android is in Java.
No iOS app yet but we plan to roll it out soon.

Hence, we're expecting the CTO to be having fair idea/expertise about these languages. Also, we don't have an iOS app at this point, but it would be benefecial if there's a fair knowledge about iOS apps as well. Also, since the server being used is AWS we are hoping the person knows how to efficiently utilize various features of the same while linking the things.

Proposed Salary may be available only after angel investor, VCs come on board.

• Product development-oriented: leading the architecture and design of a multi-tenant, cloud-native platform that hosts the IoT and Analytics apps architecting integration engine with connectors to handle and consume structured and unstructured data from different sources (customers ERP systems, external meta-data, etc) designing frameworks to support Big Data Analytics and real-time actionability based on predictive ML models driving the development of company's IoT platform dashboard and mobile applications with support from UX consultant.
• Internal team-oriented: building and a mentoring team of software developers planning and managing project timelines towards meeting roadmap goals and customer deliverables driving the team towards a test-driven and documented codebase.
• Customer-facing: work with customer's technical team to understand requirements architect and draft solution proposals integrate with customers' existing systems.

Requirements:

• Customer experience-related software development projects.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of time-series (relational or NoSQL-based) databases.
• Experience in integrating multiple Big Data solutions and legacy database systems.
• Experience in designing high volume data chains, i.e. messaging queues, streaming, processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data for IoT eco-system.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise application frameworks like spring/apache software integration web services (SOAP/RESTful), ESB SDLC tools (Git, Automated Testing Frameworks) cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in building Big Data, AI, Machine Learning analytics pipelines.
• Familiarity with security requirements in IoT space & wireless sensor networks is a plus.