Co-Founder Technology

Responsibilities:

* Collaborate with cross-functional teams on project requirements and deliverables.

* Design, develop, test & maintain software using MERN stack, React.js, React Native & Node.js.

Job Title: SRE Lead Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, India

Company: Client of Options Executive Search, AI Saas Product Development Company

We are seeking a DevOps / SRE Lead Engineer to architect and scale our client's multi-tenant SaaS platform with AI/ML at the core..

Our client, a fast-growing AI-powered SaaS company in the FinTech space, is looking for a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead Engineer to join their dynamic team. This is an opportunity to design and operate large-scale SaaS systems that integrate cutting-edge AI/ML capabilities.

About the Role

As the SRE Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining infrastructure that powers a multi-tenant SaaS platform. You’ll drive reliability, scalability, and security, while supporting AI/ML pipelines in production. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership, requiring both technical depth and leadership in site reliability practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deploy end-to-end infrastructure for large-scale, microservices-based SaaS platforms.
• Ensure system reliability, scalability, and security for AI/ML model integrations and data pipelines.
• Automate environment provisioning and management using Terraform in AWS (EKS-focused).
• Implement full-stack observability across applications, networks, and operating systems.
• Lead incident management and participate in 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Optimize SaaS reliability while enabling REST APIs, SSO integrations (Okta/Auth0), and cloud data services (RDS/MySQL, Elasticsearch).
• Define and maintain backup and disaster recovery for critical workloads.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8+ years in SRE/DevOps roles, managing enterprise SaaS applications in production.
• Minimum 1 year experience with AI/ML infrastructure or model-serving environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud, particularly EKS, container orchestration, and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Docker, and scripting (Python, Bash).
• Solid Linux OS and networking fundamentals.
• Experience in monitoring and observability with ELK, CloudWatch, or similar tools.
• Strong track record with microservices, REST APIs, SSO, and cloud databases.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with MLOps and AI/ML pipeline observability.
• Cost optimization and security hardening in multi-tenant SaaS.
• Prior exposure to FinTech or enterprise finance solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (strongly preferred).
• Experience in early-stage or high-growth startups is an advantage.

Why Join?

• Be at the forefront of AI/ML-powered SaaS innovation in FinTech.
• Work with a high-energy, entrepreneurial team building next-gen infrastructure.
• Take ownership of mission-critical reliability challenges.
• Grow your career in an environment that values impact, adaptability, and innovation.

If you’re passionate about building secure, scalable, and intelligent platforms, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to be part of our client’s journey in redefining enterprise finance operations.

• Design, develop, and maintain both front-end and back-end web applications.
• Work with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and popular frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js).
• Build and maintain robust, scalable APIs using server-side languages like Node.js, Python, Ruby, or Java.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and solutions.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while following best practices.
• Implement responsive and user-friendly web designs that provide an excellent user experience.
• Work with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and optimize queries for performance.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility, accessibility standards, and mobile responsiveness.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing applications.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and ensure the quality of the software delivered.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to continuously improve our development practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience (X+ years) in full-stack development.
• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Angular/Vue.js).
• Experience with back-end technologies (Node.js, Python, Ruby, Java, etc.).
• Familiarity with RESTful API design and development.
• Experience working with databases (MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.).
• Familiarity with version control systems, preferably Git.
• Understanding of agile software development methodologies.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

• 4 to 7 years of experience (or equivalent understanding of software engineering)
• Strong in Javascript & Typescript + frameworks like React, Next.js, Angular, etc.
• Strong experience in architecting complex, distributed systems in public or private cloud
• Willingness and interest in learning new tech/processes (Python, Airflow, Postgres, etc.)
• Willingness to travel to offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Hyderabad

Responsibilities:

• Writing and reviewing great quality code.
• Understanding functional requirements thoroughly and analysing the client's needs in the context of the project.
• Envisioning the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements, and being able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks to realize it.
• Determining and implementing design methodologies and tool sets.
• Enabling application development by coordinating requirements, schedules, and activities.
• Being able to lead/support UAT and production roll outs.
• Creating, understanding and validating WBS and estimated effort for given module/task, and being able to justify it.
• Addressing issues promptly, responding positively to setbacks and challenges with a mindset of continuous improvement.
• Giving constructive feedback to the team members and setting clear expectations.
• Helping the team in troubleshooting and resolving of complex bugs.
• Coming up with solutions to any issue that is raised during code/design review and being able to justify the decision taken.
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements.
• Passionate about building great solutions.
• Mentoring the team members to meet the client's needs and holding them accountable for high standards of delivery.
• Being able to understand and relate technology integration scenarios and be able to apply these learnings in complex troubleshooting scenarios.

• Relevant expertise in C#, . Net framework/. Net core, Web Services/WCF/Web API, ASP. Net/MVC. JavaScript, OO JavaScript (ES6 onwards), HTML5/CSS, Angular/React/VueJS, OOA and OOD Concepts, Serverside JS: NodeJS/Express.
• Experience in Relational Database: SQL Server/MySQL/Oracle, Cloud Platform: Amazon/Azure/Google Cloud.
• Experience in Testing Frameworks (Web): MSTest/NUnit/Jasmine/Karma/Mocha, Repositories: Git/SVN/TFS, CI/CD Tools: Jenkins/Grunt/Gitlab/Azure DevOps, Container Ecosystem: Docker/Kubernetes/Anthos.
• NoSQL DB: MongoDB/Cassandra/CouchDB/HBase/MarkLogic, Cloud Database: CosmosDB/ IBM DB2/SAP HANA/Amazon Aurora/DynamoDB.
• Knowledge of high-quality professional software engineering practices for agile software development cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and deployment.
• Fundamental knowledge of design patterns.
• Experience in communicating effectively with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• Languages: C#, JavaScript, OO JavaScript (ES6 onwards).
• App Framework: . Net Framework/. Net Core.
• Web Framework: ASP. Net/MVC.
• Markups: HTML5/CSS.
• CSS Framework: Bootstrap/Foundation/Bulma.
• Frontend Framework: Angular 6 ( ) /React/VueJS.
• API Framework: WebServices/WCF/WebAPI.
• Relational Database: SQL Server/MySQL/Oracle.
• Cloud Platform: Amazon/Azure/Google Cloud.
• Testing Frameworks (Web): MSTest/NUnit/Jasmine/Karma/Mocha.
• Repositories: Git/SVN/TFS.

Do you thrive on working with cutting edge technology, with innovators in the early stages of ideas, products, or platforms? Do you have the passion to be a core member of a fast-growing start-up? Are you an expert or aspiring to become one who can work on the Full Stack of an application? Do you have a genuine interest in all software technologies? If the answer is yes, do reach out to us - Crediwatch is the place for you!

You will be exposed to work on every level of the stack in a highly agile, fast growing, start-up FinTech environment, while ensuring Breakthrough Simplicity in innovation and Diving Deep to arrive at a solution-based approach to problem solving and idea creation.

The environment at Crediwatch is vibrant and innovative! You will learn and regularly interact with peers who are the best at what they do and will motivate you to be the best version of yourself, technically and professionally.

The Role Expectation

• You will play a key role in the development of the core product, working directly with the Business team on realizing their needs and translating it into the product.
• You will be involved in the overall design, architecture and development of the application, maintaining quality and ensuring performance and compliance to software standards and guidelines
• You will adhere to the best practises of the Agile & TDD
• You will collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design, prioritise and launch new features.
• You will take ownership for organising code and maintain its integrity at all points in time.
• You will be responsible for understanding and implementing security and data protection best practices.
• You will bring in a passion for technology and hunger to learn

You Have

• A sound knowledge of Python, hands-on experience in using Django/Flask etc., design patterns and application design
• Experience with database architectures like NoSQL, RDBMS. Eg: MongoDB/ Cassandra / Couchbase / MySQL
• A good understanding of message queues mechanisms like Redis/RabitMQ (or similar)
• Knowledge of python web crawling frameworks like Scrapy & Frontera
• Hands on experience with CI/CD
• Experience in using Git for source code management & Jira

Good to Have

• Strong Linux skills, knowledge of building large scale, multi-threaded applications and experience in designing and building RESTful web services,
• Building API services with GraphQL
• Skills in configuring and implementing Hadoop/HDFS, Elasticsearch and HBase or knowledge of any graph databases
• Prior experience in architecting large scale distributed systems and experience with cloud deployments on AWS/Azure
• Prior experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Domain knowledge in the financial/data space; any external, relevant certifications.

Your Background

• At least 6+ years of hands-on development experience
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related field

You Believe-in & will align with our Business Objectives

• Customer Obsession - Consistently listen to customers; test, enhance and improve the customer experience.
• Breakthrough Simplicity - An innovative approach to make everything simpler
• Diving Deep -Technique used to arrive at a solution-based approach to problem solving and idea creation
• Drive for Results - Focus on end result of any task
• Encourage and Improve - Encouraging and promoting team work and focus on continuous self-development at every stage.
• Be Ethical and Respectful - Willingness to do the right thing – even if it is hard; courteousness and being focused on the best in others.

Who We Are

We build innovative technology everyday!

Crediwatch is a ‘Data Insights-as-a-service’ company that provides lenders, businesses with actionable credit intelligence on private entities they need to improve trust and increase their lending and trading activity. Crediwatch does this with no human intervention by deploying the latest practical AI and technology tools that provide the most reliable comprehensive real time inputs.

Each day at Crediwatch is about striving for transparent insights, analysis and accurate results. If this aligns with your interests and aspirations, we have interesting positions for you.

You Will Enjoy

Our start-up environment - fun, casual, informal, family & pet-friendly! Ours is a highly energized playground where brilliant minds come together to make bold, impactful decisions every day! Needless to say, we have excellent filter coffee, health drinks round the clock, lunch buffets, PS4 and Foosball breaks and a stocked kitchen.

We play to win and have fun doing it! We work to engage your brain by organizing brilliant TechTalks by industry leaders and frequent high-on-energy hackathons and engage your crazy fun-side at our well-planned retreats. We are a highly eco-conscious team and we encourage and support our team’s physical & mental wellbeing.

All these and a great set of people to work with - We Are Crediwatch!