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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!
Role Description
Location - Bangalore / Remote/WFH
This is an equity-only role.
We are looking for a young but mature mindset with highly skilled Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to provide sound technical leadership in all aspects of the business. This person will be added as a Co-founder in the Team.
CTO should be able to take technical decision and having a Strategic thinking mindset with strong business acumen. We expect you to be well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts.
You will work directly with the CEO and will act as both a technology and business expert, making decisions that will impact the current and future operations of the company. If you are self-motivated, emotionally strong, enjoy challenges and have a never give-up approach, we’d like to meet you.
CTO / Co- Founder Responsibilities
Lead the technology division with new-age technologies and processes
Build on the vision for the organization by technology
Identify new opportunities and develop products and processes in line with cutting edge technologies
Deploy, develop and implement solutions in a cost-efficient manner
Experience in building scalable products, platforms, and modern technologies
Experienced on the internet/ e-commerce industry, B2B platforms, start-up setups is a plus
Hands-on experience in digital initiatives, big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics, and business intelligence solutions
Ability to convert data into usable modern technology-driven solutions
Experience or knowledge on AWS server side is required
Requirements
B.E / B.tech / Masters Degree in computer science or related field.
6+ years of working in a technological role is preferable but not mandatory
Experience working in an early-stage tech start-up will be a plus
A strong product sense and can build engaging tech for customers
Ability to conduct technological analyses and research
Deep knowledge of full-stack modern development practices (node.js, angular, java javascript, AWS, DS, react, etc.) Can work / learn and work on AI/ML
Have a proven understanding of best engineering practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code review, source control, build, test, deploy, and operations
Experience in project management to ensure timely deliverables
Strong communication skills with the ability to present the technology vision confidently in a way that motivates others both internally and externally
Our young and rapidly growing team at Zycus is looking to fill out vacant positions for Principal Architects. We are a well established SAAS based company, with 20+ years of AI legacy and experience in the industry. Once you join us, you will get to innovate and experience the latest technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and AWS Cloud. We are looking for candidates well versed with Java/J2EE, Spring boot, Microservices, Hibernate, JMS/ Kafka/ Rabbit and most importantly an expert in design patterns. Exposure to Cloud platform, Full stack environment and Agile methodology, would be a plus.
We are looking for curious, collaborative candidates who are willing to learn and ready to take up new exciting endeavors. You are going to work together with the team on complex innovative projects in the industry. We are basically looking for an enthusiastic candidate with a coding experience of about 10-15 years, with a hands-on experience in Software Product Development and ownership.
You could be a perfect fit if you,
- understand use cases and product requirements, can design, develop, review (code/design), unit test, module test, integration test, documentation for PDLC.
- are an expert in maintaining, enhancing, bug fixing and following standard documentation process laid down for the project.
- follow the defined PDLC process and participate in improving the process, work with cross functional team to achieve project delivery goal.
- ensure all the work meets or exceeds predefined quality standards through exhaustive testing, peer reviews SQA process standards.
- are able to build solution which is easily scalable, high speed/ real-time performance, configurable, deploy-able and secure in SaaS environment using any open source tech stack.
- are able to identify, track and mitigate risks to the product
- are responsible for planning product iterations and releasing iterations on schedule.
Requirements
- Atleast 10-15 years’ experience in Java, J2EE and associated technologies (Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, Micro Services, Spring boot)
- Technical Skills: Core Java, Advanced Java, J2EE, Exception handling, Collections, Oops, UML, Oracle, Jenkins, Maven & Linux
- Should be able to build solutions which is easily configurable, deploy able and secure in SaaS environment.
- Must have worked spring boot Extensively.
- Strong hands on development experience in Java, J2EE.
- Product development experience in agile environment will be a big plus though not mandatory.
- Highly Tech Savvy and hands-on.
- Strong evidence of a solution/product created ground up.
Product Development:
- Has in-depth knowledge on technology and end to end development processes.
- Has the ability to recommend new processes/alternatives to meet Product development requirements and rolling them out the team.
Benefits
Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus
- Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.
- A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.
- Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization
- Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.
- Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.
About Us
Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.
Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.
Start your #CognitiveProcurement journey with us, as you are #MeantforMore
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- 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.
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.









