Chief Technological Officer

Web5 Solution is a premier AI, Blockchain, and Tech Development firm dedicated to venture building. We partner with and empower early-stage startups to architect, build, and scale robust digital products from the ground up. We operate at the cutting edge of technology, exploring everything from decentralized networks to AI integration and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).

Our Product Milestone: We are rapidly scaling our SaaS product, MyZia, which has successfully onboarded 100+ paid clients in just its first two months. We are looking for the right leader to take this momentum to the next level.

The Role

We are searching for a highly experienced and driven Technical Team Lead to take complete end-to-end ownership of our technology stack. You will be the driving force behind the technical strategy and execution for MyZia and other core ventures. We need a challenge taker, a goal achiever, and a true partner who deeply aligns with our vision of building scalable, high-performance tech products.

Key Responsibilities

- End-to-End Technical Leadership: Take complete ownership of the tech aspects of MyZia and emerging Web5 products, from high-level architecture to ground-level deployment.

- System Optimization & Scalability: Architect and maintain scalable systems capable of handling high transaction volumes, rigorous concurrent API hits, and massive data processing without performance bottlenecks.

- Full-Stack Excellence: Lead by example with hands-on full-stack development, conducting thorough code reviews, and maintaining the highest standards of code quality and security.

- Team Mentorship: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing engineering team. Foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and accountability.

- Strategic Alignment: Work closely with the founders to align technical execution with business goals. Translate the overarching vision into an actionable technical roadmap.

Requirements

- Proven Experience: Extensive background in full-stack development with a strong track record of serving as a Team Lead, Senior Architect, or Lead Developer in a SaaS or product-based environment.

- Technical Mastery: Deep expertise in modern tech stacks, cloud infrastructure, and database optimization. Proven ability to handle scalable systems with extreme transactional rates and API dependencies.

- Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of AI and Blockchain ecosystems. Familiarity with AI-driven development paradigms (like vibe coding) and implementing it right is highly advantageous.

- Problem Solving: Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex performance issues in real-time.

- Mindset: A relentless "challenge taker and goal achiever" mentality. You thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and treat the product as your own.

What We Offer

- The opportunity to be a pivotal leader in a fast-growing tech venture building firm.

- Direct impact on a rapidly scaling SaaS product (MyZia) with proven market traction.

- A dynamic, innovative environment based in Gurugram, working alongside passionate founders.

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.

1. Key Accountabilities

1. Skills Required for the role

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19,
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• Work with Product Managers and Business to understand business/product requirements and vision.
• Provide a clear architectural vision in line with business and product vision.
• Lead a team of architects, developers, and data engineers to provide platform services to other engineering teams.
• Provide architectural oversight to engineering teams across the organization.
• Hands on design and development of platform services and features owned by self - this is a hands-on coding role.
• Define guidelines for best practices covering design, unit testing, secure coding etc.
• Ensure quality by reviewing design, code, test plans, load test plans etc. as appropriate.
• Work closely with the QA and Support teams to track quality and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with DevOps and IT to ensure highly secure and cost optimized operations in the cloud.
• Grow technical skills in the team - identify skill gaps with plans to address them, participate in hiring, mentor other architects and engineers.
• Support other engineers in resolving complex technical issues as a go-to person.

• 12+ years of experience in design and development of ecommerce scale systems and highly scalable SaaS or enterprise products.
• Extensive experience in developing extensible and scalable web applications with
  • Java, Spring Boot, Go
  • Web Services - REST, OAuth, OData
  • Database/Caching - MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Memcached/Redis
  • Queue/Broker services - RabbitMQ/Kafka
  • Microservices architecture via Docker on AWS or Azure.
  • Experience with web front end technologies - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery, AngularJS, React, Vue.js, Bootstrap etc.

• Extensive experience with cloud based architectures and how to optimize design for cost.
• Expert level understanding of secure application design practices and a working understanding of cloud infrastructure security.
• Experience with CI/CD processes and design for testability.
• Experience working with big data technologies such as Spark/Storm/Hadoop/Data Lake Architectures is a big plus.
• Action and result-oriented problem-solver who works well both independently and as part of a team; able to foster and develop others' ideas as well as his/her own.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and schedule a high workload and multiple parallel projects efficiently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with stakeholders in a matrixed environment.
• Long term experience with at least one product from inception to completion and evolution of the product over multiple years.

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.