Director - Backend

Required Experience: 10–15 years (with at least 3–5 years in leadership roles)

● 10–15 years of overall experience in backend engineering, with strong exposure to

Python and/or Golang.

● 3–5 years of experience managing engineering teams.

● Proven experience delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production

environments.

● Strong understanding of microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps

practices.

● Hands-on background in backend engineering (able to guide teams technically, even

if not coding daily).

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and performance optimization.

● Experience in financial services or high-transaction domains is a plus.

● Experience leading teams that have utilized AI-driven development practices (e.g.,

agentic coding, LLM integration) to improve productivity and innovation is a

significant advantage.

Skills

● Excellent leadership and people management abilities.

● Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

● Ability to balance technical depth with business priorities.

● Problem-solving mindset with a focus on delivery and impact.

● Passion for building engineering culture and improving developer experience.

We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers who can hack around multiple technologies and build highly scalable, low-latency, distributed systems with RESTful services. You will be responsible for developing new software products (internal) and solving complex technical challenges for scale-ups and enterprise companies. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities—

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, and maintainable code.
• Solving complex technical problems.
• Performing an objective analysis of the problem statement and coming up with an unbiased technical solution before writing a single line of code.
• Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the project meets business objectives and compliance standards.
• Participating in and driving code reviews.
• Building robust, secure, and scalable microservices.
• Implementing RESTful services with a metric-driven API Gateway.
• Ensuring sub-second server response and will be responsible for implementing relational, document, key, object, or graph data stores, index stores and messaging stores as needed.
• Tracking defects and work with business owners and users to triage bugs and manage backlog
• Taking ownership to run and maintain Cloud infrastructure.
• Evaluating relevant technologies, influencing and driving architecture and design discussions.
• Architecting & designing the platform.
• Mentoring junior engineers helping them grow, performing code reviews, system monitoring & delegation.
• Writing documentation & create engineering processes.
• Working as an individual contributor.
• Helping drive KPIs with Product.
• Taking ownership of backend systems.
• Helping with unit tests & QA process.
• Scaling the engineering team.
• System scaling to hundreds of millions of users.
• Working with product managers and designs.

Requirements—

• Overall 5-10 years of experience in software development with a strong base in Golang/Java/Python and a degree in Computer Science(optional).
• Experience with Go, K8, Docker, AWS, and CI/CD.
• Experience with micro web frameworks – like Springboot, Gin/Mux.
• Experience in working with microservice architectures, Transactional systems, and Distributed environments.
• Exposure to building RESTful APIs with monitoring, fault tolerance, and metrics (with something like Hystrix).
• Experience with MySQL, and NoSQL (Cassandra, Redis, DynamoDB).
• Experience in server-side services using ElasticSearch and ESB - Camel, ActiveMQ.
• DevOps experience.
• Experience with AWS stack.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• To be a self-starter who can work well with minimal to no guidance in a fluid environment.
• To be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed systems.
• To be agile and able to adapt quickly to changing requirements scope and priorities.
• To be experienced in working on massively large-scale data systems in production environments.
• To have led or mentored an engineering team before(optional).
• To have contributed to open-source projects.
• To have a strong drive & desire for continued growth.
• Proficiency in English.
• Experience with Web3(optional).

Benefits—

• Best-in-class salary: We hire strong talent and compensate accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet and learn from designers, engineers, product leaders, and AI practitioners.
• Continuous learning: Work with a world-class team and stay close to the latest in AI, engineering, and product development.
• High-impact work: Build AI-first systems and products used at scale by global clients.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

Location: Pune/Bengaluru

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will tackle a highly challenging role within our Cyber Security Engineering integration development team. You will be responsible for the End-to-End (E2E) delivery of projects from gathering customer requirements to deploying high-performance data exchange solutions on-prem or in the cloud. We are looking for a Systems-Level Thinker who can seamlessly transition between building complex integrations and architecting high-throughput, low-latency backends. Because each integration may require a different technical approach, we value engineers who love reskilling, following agile best practices, and maintaining an evolving mindset.

Core Responsibilities

Technical Leadership and Architecture

● Systems Engineering: Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend systems and data-exchange layers.

● Architecture and Integration: Participate in planning, defining, and exploring solution alternatives. Architect and estimate deep technical custom solutions and integrations across diverse enterprise tech stacks. ● Stream Processing: Implement event-driven architectures, manage backpressure, and handle real-time state management across security platforms.

● Delivery Ownership: Own projects end-to-end, defining and implementing enablers to evolve solution intent directly alongside our Agile teams.

Team Leadership and Quality

● Mentorship: Actively lead, coach, and mentor junior developers, providing technical guidance to foster professional development.

● Engineering Excellence: Oversee code reviews, build robust CI/CD pipelines, enforce strict quality checks, and ensure rigorous adherence to coding standards.

● Agile Execution: Actively participate in Agile development, including writing, breaking down, and estimating User Stories.

Customer and Stakeholder Collaboration

● Customer Delight: Maintain a strong customer-first attitude while designing, building, and deploying products.

● Technical Communication: Articulate complex technical trade-offs clearly to both business stakeholders and engineering teams.

● Pipeline Management: Manage customer relationships effectively to ensure a continuous flow of project scope, maintaining clear team backlogs.

Job Requirements

● Experience: 5+ years of proven software engineering experience, with a track record of leading small engineering teams or mentoring junior devs.

● High-Throughput Backend Focus: 5+ years of experience engineering robust, real-time backends specifically using Go (Golang) or Java.

● Polyglot and Integration Capability: Deep expertise in at least one or two additional languages/frameworks from our ecosystem: Python, TypeScript, Node.js, React.js, Angular, C#, or C++.

● Computer Science Fundamentals: Excellent knowledge of complex Data Structures, algorithms, and their correct situational usage.

● Adaptability: A passionate programmer who is genuinely open and excited to learn new software development skills as required by changing project demands.

Bonus / Added Advantages

● AI & Intelligent Automation: Hands-on knowledge of AI concepts, Large Language Models (LLMs), and experience building or integrating AI agents to automate complex workflows or security processes.

● Cybersecurity Domain: Experience in the cybersecurity space (SIEM, SOAR, or platform security).

● Modern Web Tech: Strong experience in developing software using modern web technologies.

● E2E Lifecycle: Proven background handling a project completely from discovery to cloud/on-prem deployment.

● Open Source: Active contributions to the Open Source community. (Please share your GitHub/GitLab links in your application!)

About the company

Metron Security provides automation and integration services to leading Cyber Security companies. Our engineering team works on leading security platforms including - Splunk, IBM’s QRadar, ServiceNow, Crowdstrike, Cybereason, and other SIEM and SOAR platforms. 

Software Engineer is a challenging role within Cyber Security Engineering integration development. The role involves developing a product/service that achieves high-performance data exchange between two or more Cyber Security platforms. A Software Engineer is at the core of the evolution process and is responsible for the End-to-End delivery of the project, right from getting the requirements from customers to deploying the project for them on-prem or on the cloud, depending on the nature of the project. We follow the best practices of engineering and keep evolving. We are agile. 

Each integration needs reskilling yourself with the required technology for that project. If you are passionate about programming and believe in the best practices of software engineering, the following are the skills we are looking for: 

● Developer-centric culture - No bureaucracy or red tape. 

● Chance to work on 200+ security platforms. 

● Opportunity to engage with end-users (customers) and just a cog in the wheel.

About the role

We are looking for passionate developers with 4-7 years of experience in software development to join the Metron Security team as Software Engineers. 

Mandatory Skills 

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of leading engineering teams and mentoring junior developers. 
• Expertise in at least one or two Object-Oriented Programming language (Python, typescript, Java,Node.js,Angular, react.js C#, C++) . 
• Good knowledge of Data Structure and its correct usage. 
• Oversee code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices and maintaining high code quality standards. 
• Imbibe and maintain a strong customer delight attitude while designing and building products/services.

Other Requirements 

• Open to learn any new software development skill if needed for the project.
• Alignment and utilisation of the core enterprise technology stacks and integration capabilities throughout the transition states. 
• Participate in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and exploration of solution alternatives. 
• Define, explore, and support the implementation of enablers to evolve solution intent, working directly with Agile teams to implement them. 
• Good knowledge of the implications of Cyber Security on production.
• Experience in architecting & estimating deep technical custom solutions & integrations. 
• Manage the customer to ensure we have a continuous flow of work from them so that the team has enough work for at least a month. 
• Mentor and coach team members, providing technical guidance and fostering professional development. 

Added advantage: 

• Experience in the Cyber Security domain.
• Experience in developing software using web technologies. 
• Experience in handling a project from start to end. 
• Hands-on experience in an Agile Development project and in writing and estimating User Stories. 
• Contribution to open source - Please share your link in the application/resume if any.

Software Development Engineer III (SDE3)

Location: Mumbai / Bangalore | Experience: 4+ Years 

About SolarSquare:

At SolarSquare we are building the Home-Energy brand of future India. We help homes switch to rooftop solar and move away from traditional coal electricity. We are a full-stack D2C residential solar brand - designing, installing, maintaining (after-sales) and financing solar systems for home-owners across India. 

In 3 years we have scaled to become the leading residential solar brand in India. We are obsessed with quality, customer service and innovating to make it simple for homes to switch to solar. We are looking for leaders to join us in this mission. 

Know us a bit better through these links: 

• How SolarSquare is Simplifying Residential Solar in India I Ft. Shreya Mishra and Neeraj Jain
• Featured by TIME Magazine- as World’s Top Greentech Companies of 2025 
• Solarsquare Raises $40 million in Series B Funding Round
• How SolarSquare has a chance to become a home energy brand in India
• Techcrunch SolarSquare article
• Elevation - Podcast with SolarSquare Founders
• Startup by IIT Grads Helps Indian Homes Run on Zero Electricity, Earns Rs 200 Crore in Revenues
• The Climate Conversations ft Solar Square
• Elevation Capital - SolarSquare

What this role is

You are an engineer who leads projects at the scope of a service or major subsystem.

That means: when a problem lands on your desk, it's usually ambiguous. Your job is to turn it into a clear problem statement, design a system to solve it, ship it through to production, and own how it behaves once it's there. You'll work with one or two engineers on most projects, and you'll be the technical person product, ops, and other engineering teams talk to about that domain.

You're not a senior individual contributor who only writes code for assigned tickets. You're not a tech lead who's stopped writing code. You're the person between those two — still hands-on, but increasingly the one shaping what gets built.

What you'll do

• Solve 2–4 complex problems a year end-to-end: shape the problem, design the system, ship it, monitor it.
• Design single-service systems independently. Define API contracts, data models, scale and reliability requirements. Document and review your design with peers before building.
• Turn ambiguity into clarity. Take half-formed product tasks and partner with PMs to define what's actually being built. Push back when the ask doesn't make sense.
• Stay hands-on. Write code that goes into production. Drive code reviews. Debug across service boundaries. Refactor when the codebase needs it.
• Mentor 1–2 junior engineers. Be someone's first reviewer. Pair when it helps. Take their growth as your responsibility, not a side activity.
• Be in hiring. Interview candidates regularly. Help shape the interview bar for your function.
• Own outcomes, not output. Track the business or operational metric your work moves. If it doesn't move, that's a problem you own — not a problem you delivered to.

What we're looking for

• Over 4 years of professional experience in software development, specifically focused on solving large-scale technical challenges.
• Expert-level proficiency in at least one major programming language (such as Java, GO, Rust, NodeJS etc) with a focus on writing scalable, maintainable, and unit-tested code.
• Strong command of object-oriented design, design patterns, and the creation of intuitive class-level interfaces.
• Hands-on experience with multi-threading, concurrency, and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Deep understanding of relational databases (Postgres) and various NoSQL technologies like HBase, Elasticsearch, or Aerospike, Cassandra
• Comprehensive knowledge of the full software development life cycle on Linux platforms.
• Proven ability to build highly scalable applications that manage complex business logic and massive datasets.
• A proactive, "go-getter" mindset characterized by high energy and dedication to task ownership.
• Experience thriving in fast-paced startup environments with a strong sense of commitment and accountability.
• A passionate drive to tackle complex, real-world problems through innovative engineering.
• You've made and defended technical decisions, picked up problems no one assigned, or built things people use that no one asked for.
• Strong fundamentals in your primary stack — concurrency, data modeling, debugging across systems, performance work. We're stack-agnostic for the right person.
• Experience designing systems with explicit attention to scale, reliability, and cost — not just functional correctness.
• Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders to monitor project outcomes and iteratively refine features based on real-world impact.

About the role

You'll work on cloud software that helps technical teams collaborate and move faster: an established, in-production product that real customers rely on every day. You'll work directly with leadership who built products at Meta and Apple, on a team where you own meaningful work and your decisions have direct impact.

Location: On-site, Financial District, Hyderabad

What you'll do

• Lead the engineering team day to day, owning delivery and technical direction
• Architect projects end to end and make the high-leverage technical decisions across the stack, in ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• Set up the engineering processes, standards, and rituals that let the team ship fast without breaking things
• Mentor and grow engineers, raising the bar across the team
• Break complex, ambiguous problems into clear plans and drive them to done
• Make deliberate tradeoffs between creating tech debt and delivering business requirements

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of full stack engineering experience (strong senior engineers ready to step into a lead role are welcome)
• Deep, hands-on command of ReactJS, NodeJS, and AWS
• A track record of technical leadership: architecting systems, mentoring engineers, and setting up engineering processes
• Strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms
• Excellent communication and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Bonus if you know: TypeScript, SQL, ExpressJS

Who you are

• You have serious work ethic. You get a high from checking things off and seeing results.
• You're curious, resourceful, and self-learning.
• You take ownership and bring the hustle.
• You lead by example and bring momentum to everything and everyone you work with.

📌Important: To complete your application for this role, please fill out this short screening form: [https://app.botfriday.ai/#/open/external-job-application/792cccfa-c046-4092-b20d-814705d5314f].

Only candidates who complete this step will be considered for further rounds."

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to drive the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable B2B products from our Bangalore office. This role requires a strong hands-on technologist who can lead a team of engineers, make sound architectural decisions, and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, DevOps, and Customer Success teams.

As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of our platform, ensuring high-quality engineering practices, and delivering enterprise-grade solutions to our customers. This job can quickly grow into a Technical Lead position.

**Key Responsibilities**

🔹 Technical Leadership

Own end-to-end technical architecture and system design for core product modules.

Drive scalable, secure, and high-performance backend and frontend solutions.

Conduct design reviews, code reviews, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices.

Evaluate and introduce new technologies where appropriate.

🔹 Team Management

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5–6 engineers.

Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.

Support hiring, onboarding, and mentoring.

🔹 Product Delivery

Collaborate closely with mangement to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Drive sprint planning, estimations, and delivery timelines.

Ensure predictable, high-quality releases aligned with business goals.

🔹 Quality & DevOps

Champion CI/CD practices, automated testing, and DevOps processes.

Ensure system reliability, uptime, security, and performance monitoring.

Participate in incident management and root cause analysis.

🔹 Stakeholder Collaboration

Work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, and Support teams for enterprise deployments.

Communicate technical decisions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

**Required Qualifications**

4+ years of software development experience in product-based companies.

Strong experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., Java, Node.js, Python, or similar technologies).

Experience with frontend frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).

Solid understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL).

Experience building scalable B2B SaaS products.

**Preferred Qualifications**

Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture.

Familiarity with enterprise integrations (SSO, APIs, third-party systems).

Experience handling high-scale systems with large enterprise clients.

Exposure to security and compliance standards (ISO, SOC2, GDPR).

**Key Competencies**

Strong problem-solving and system design skills.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to balance hands-on coding with leadership responsibilities.

Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.

**What We Offer**

Competitive compensation and performance bonuses.

Opportunity to work on cutting-edge B2B products.

Collaborative and growth-oriented culture.

Health insurance and wellness benefits.

If you are passionate about building scalable B2B platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would love to hear from you.

Engineering Manager – Backend 

Location: Flexible / Hybrid (Mon–Fri)

Website: https://www.solarsquare.in

About the Role

SolarSquare is building the infrastructure for India's clean energy transition. We're looking for an Engineering Manager who doesn't just run a team — someone who builds one from the ground up, makes consequential technical bets, and treats engineering outcomes as business outcomes.

You'll own the technical strategy and delivery for our full-stack platform, lead a growing team of SDE1–SDE3 engineers, and work directly with product, design, and business to shape what we build and how fast we build it. This is a role for someone who has operated in resource-constrained environments, shipped systems that held up under pressure, and left every team they've led measurably better than they found it.

If you've only ever executed someone else's roadmap, this isn't the right fit. If you've ever built something from scratch and felt personally responsible for whether it worked.

What You'll Own

Team & Culture

• Build, hire, and develop a high-performing full-stack engineering team  including setting the bar for what "high-performing" means at SolarSquare
• Create genuine career growth paths for engineers.
• Maintain team health, retention, and motivation through periods of rapid change and ambiguity

Technical Strategy

• Define and drive the architectural roadmap
• Make and own technical bets: when to invest in platform, when to ship fast, when to pay down debt
• Establish observability, reliability, and security standards before they become production fires

Delivery

• Translate business goals into engineering priorities  and push back when the translation is wrong
• Set clear goals, metrics, and delivery expectations; hold yourself and the team accountable to them
• Manage trade-offs between short-term product velocity and long-term engineering health

Cross-Functional Influence

• Partner with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders  and influence decisions upstream.
• Communicate technical risk, cost, and complexity clearly to non-technical leadership
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What We're Looking For

• 7–10 years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years leading teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems design: idempotency, retries, DLQs, circuit breakers, eventual consistency, you've had to debug these in production.
• Proven experience with event-driven architecture and Kafka including schema design, consumer group management, and failure recovery patterns.
• Comfort with relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, ) databases  including query optimisation and schema design decisions at scale.
• You've designed or operated systems handling meaningful traffic  ideally 10K+ RPS. significant daily transaction volumes, or consumer-scale user bases (1M+ users)
• You understand what 99.99% uptime actually costs to maintain and you've made the infrastructure and on-call decisions to back it.
• You've written or enforced SLOs, SLAs, and incident management processes.
• You've done a postmortem that changed something real about how the team operates.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure beyond just deploying services, cost optimisation, right-sizing, architecture decisions that meaningfully reduced spend
• Working knowledge of containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) enough to unblock your team.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership  you've built or significantly improved a pipeline.
• Experience with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or equivalent  and more importantly, a philosophy about what to instrument and why
• You've made the call between monolith and microservices  and you can defend it with context.
• You've managed technical debt consciously: triaged it, prioritised it, and made the case to stakeholders for when to pay it down
• You've navigated a hard conversation with a product or business stakeholder  and changed the outcome
• Your engineers grow under you. You can point to people you've promoted, coached, or unblocked
• You know how to build alignment across functions where incentives don't naturally align
• You have clear examples of decisions you made under ambiguity  and you can articulate the trade-offs you weighed
• You've identified a systemic problem and fixed it without being asked
• You've built or rebuilt something that wasn't working  a team, a process, a system

Work Arrangement

Flexible work setup, including hybrid options. Monday to Friday. Learn more about us at https://www.solarsquare.in.

Why This Role Matters

Our backend is what keeps checkout, RTO, and payments fast and reliable at ~$2B GMV across 15,000+ merchants. As an SDE 2 you own services end to end, make the architecture calls that keep them performant, and set the technical bar for the engineers around you. The trade-offs you pick show up directly in merchant conversions and platform reliability - this is a builder's seat with real ownership.

What You'll Own

• Design and build backend services primarily in Node.js/NestJS, with Go for select services, backed by Postgres, Mongo, and Redis.
• Own event-driven flows on Kafka - throughput, ordering, and failure handling.
• Make and document the architecture and trade-off decisions for systems you lead.
• Ship features end to end, dropping into the frontend (React/Svelte) when it's the fastest path.
• Strengthen CI/CD, observability, and deployments on AWS.
• Review code, mentor SDE 1s and AEs, and raise the quality bar on the team.
• Take ambiguous problems and drive them to delivery with minimal hand-holding.

Who You Are

• Strong backend engineer in JavaScript/TypeScript on Node.js/NestJS (our primary stack); working knowledge of Go, or ready to pick it up.
• Solid at data modelling across Postgres and Mongo, and knows when Redis earns its place.
• Has built and scaled event-driven systems (Kafka or equivalent).
• At home on the backend but happy to work across the stack in React/Svelte.
• Thinks in systems - scalability, reliability, maintainability - not just features.
• Has mentored engineers and owns code quality and delivery, not just their own tickets.
• Communicates clearly and does well with ambiguity in a fast-moving team.

Strong Engineering Manager / Lead Profiles

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Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have minimum 8+ years of overall Software Engineering / Development experience with a strong IC foundation.

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Mandatory (Experience 2) – Must have 2+ years of formal Engineering Manager experience with direct people-management responsibility (informal Senior Engineer / Tech Lead experience managing a team does not count)

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Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have directly managed 4–6+ engineers, including 1:1s, performance management, growth plans, promotions, mentoring, and team development.

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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must own technical direction and delivery for an engineering team/pod, including architecture, system design, code/PR reviews, execution planning, and engineering quality.

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Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have strong backend/software engineering experience with hands-on technical depth in building APIs, services, integrations, and scalable systems; specific language/framework can vary.

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Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have experience owning production operations, including on-call, incident management, debugging, and postmortems for their area.

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Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have experience driving cross-functional alignment with Product and Design and translating ambiguous business/product requirements into scalable technical solutions.

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Mandatory (Company) – Must be from a Product Company / Startup, particularly B2B SaaS, Fintech, Payments, or similar technology product environments. (Refer Target Company List)

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Mandatory (Role Fit) – Role is 80% people/team management and 20% technical/IC involvement;

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Preferred (Education) - Tier 1 engineering college