Engineering Manager

Job description

🚀 Founding Product Engineer

Preferred Location: Chennai. 50% In Office, 50% Remote.

Very important:You must be able to work from the office (Chennai / Bangalore) multiple times a week.

Type: Full-time.

Compensation: Competitive with meaningful equity/token upside

🧬 Who We Are

We’re building two interconnected products:

• Airavat – a next-gen, AI-powered crypto exchange.
• Tatv.ai – an automated, retail-facing algorithmic trading platform.

Our mission: to democratize access to crypto and powerful trading tools, whether you're a long-term investor or a high-frequency scalper. We're combining real trading infrastructure with cutting-edge AI to give every user an edge.

🎯 The Opportunity

Join us as a founding product engineer — not just a developer, but a builder who thinks in terms of product, UX, and outcomes. You’ll work across systems and interfaces, but you’ll also influence what gets built, why, and how fast it ships.

This isn’t a job for someone who only wants Jira tickets. It’s a role for someone who:

• Wants to help define the product, not just implement it.
• Has a sixth sense for what’s “good enough to ship” vs “must be rock solid.”
• Wants the challenge of owning a live trading system that real people use and trust.

🧰 What You Bring (Required Skills)

• 4+ years in hands-on, full-time software engineering roles.
• Strong full-stack skills, especially across the MERN stack.
• Proven experience designing and building backend APIs, scalable services, and polished UIs.
• Real-world experience with Blockchain/Crypto systems — ideally working with node APIs, smart contracts, or exchange flows.
• Solid grasp of systems architecture: You can model tradeoffs, cache intelligently, and reason about data consistency, failure states, and latency.
• You ship with craftsmanship and care: logging, tests, devops awareness, and proper config are part of your definition of done.
• You're already AI-augmented: You fluently use tools like GPT, Claude, Cursor, Agents, or Replit to accelerate coding, testing, and problem-solving.

🌟 Bonus Points (Nice-to-Haves)

• Experience with NestJS or structured back-end frameworks.
• Built or managed Telegram bots using frameworks like GrammyJS.
• Have shipped at least one consumer-facing product to a large or real audience.
• Can point to apps, bots, tools, or open-source work you’ve led or contributed to.
• Familiarity with AI agent frameworks or building your own task orchestration logic.
• Prior experience managing / mentoring junior engineers.

🧠 Mindset We’re Looking For

You might be a great fit if you:

• Are a product-minded engineer: You think deeply about what users want, and you often suggest product improvements before anyone asks.
• Take a long-term view: You’re looking to grow with a team and vision — not bounce from gig to gig.
• Have a bias for ownership: You don't need tight specs. You’re capable of scoping, architecting, and executing features independently.
• Are multipurpose: Infra, bots, prompt flows, smart contract interaction — you’re ready to wear multiple hats.
• Move with urgency: You want to outpace the market, not just keep up.
• Care about purpose and outcomes, not just completing tasks.
• Are genuinely interested in Crypto, DeFi, trading, or AI systems — or better, all of them.
• Use AI not as a gimmick, but as an integral part of your day-to-day engineering process.
• Understand what it means to balance shipping with quality: not gold-plating, not cutting corners — just doing things smart and fast.

💰 What You Get

• Founding engineer status with direct impact on both product and company.
• The opportunity to grow with the organization. No role is off limits.
• Competitive market salary.
• Early equity/token upside with long-term comp potential.
• A career-defining opportunity to build something from scratch — without red tape.
• Autonomy and influence across product, technical architecture, and user experience.
• A highly aligned founder and mission-first environment, where speed and craftsmanship are equally respected.

Roles and Responsibilities :

Responsibilities

- To analysis business requirements, prepare design and implementation recommendations and estimate development effort

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features

- Lead or participate in design reviews, code reviews and architecture evolution discussions

- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability

- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance

- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Required Skills

- Experienced with front-end programming language with React JS.

- Strong proficiency in JavaScript, including DOM manipulation and the JavaScript object model.

- Thorough understanding of React.js and its core principles.

- Experience with popular React.JS workflows (such as Flux or Redux)

-Experience on .Net Core

-Experience in database MS SQL

About the Role:

This role provides you the opportunity to truly accelerate your engineering career by giving you a front-line seat on a Rocketship product. Our fintech product has grown by 10x over the last year and we are expecting that growth to continue for the foreseeable future. The leadership team is committed to making massive investments in its technology and people. Given the growth of the product, individuals will have opportunities to move into leadership roles.

Roles & Responsibilities:

● Perform full stack development activities using MERN Stack & GraphQL which is a MUST.

● Ability to translate UX Designs into functional web apps using React JS

● Technical architecture design along with system architect and product manager

● Writing effective business logic (using Rest API or GraphQL API)

● Algorithm design for system modules● Database design for scalable and secure systems using NoSQL (MongoDB) or RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL)

● Experience in other JS frameworks like Next.JS, and React Native/Expo would be a plus.

● POC development with other engineers.

● Experience and Exposure to working with different projects and business models will be an advantage.

● Efforts estimations with the Product Manager and Engineering Head

● Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

● Writing Unit testing for robust systems.

● Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, SQS, SES, Lambda).

● Hands-on experience in developing Rest/GraphQL API using Node.js with Typescript.

● Hands-on experience in MERN stack (MySQL or PostgreSQL would be a plus)

● Strong Knowledge of algorithms and data structures

● Experience working with US Clients is a Must

● Fundamentals of Docker/Containerized application development would be a plus.

● Experience in SaaS product development would be a plus

● Technical documentation

Desired Skills

● Technical Skills: MERN Stack, NoSQL (MongoDB) or RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL),

JS frameworks, AWS services (EC2, SQS, SES, Lambda), Typescript, Rest API/GraphQL.

● Soft Skills: Excellent Communication, Problem-solving, Critical Thinking, Teamwork & Individual Contributor, Proactive

• Develop, record and maintain cutting edge web-based Laravel E-commerce and Marketplace websites and maintaining the back-end of mobile applications
• Familiarity using Bagisto, Open Cart or any other PHP e-commerce packages.
• Build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the App Development team
• Ensure HTML, CSS, and shared JavaScript is valid and consistent across applications
• Prepare and maintain all applications utilizing standard development tools
• Utilize back-end data services and contribute to increase existing data services API
• Lead the entire web application development life cycle right from concept stage to delivery and post launch support
• Convey effectively with all task progress, evaluations, suggestions, schedules along with technical and process issues
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components
• Coordinate with co-developers and keeps project manager well informed of the status of development effort and serves as liaison between development staff and project manager
• Keep abreast of new trends and best practices in web development Laravel developer requirements and qualifications
• Previous working experience as a Laravel developer for minimum 2 years
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or similar relevant field
• In depth knowledge of object-oriented PHP and latest version Laravel PHP Framework
• Hands on experience with SQL schema design, SOLID principles, REST API design
• Software testing (PHPUnit, PHPSpec, Behat)
• MySQL profiling and query optimization
• Creative and efficient problem solver
• Check for all web related security including XSS, DDos attacks, cookie hijacking, SQL injection