J2EE Architect

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!

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About First Principles

We are a Tech Holding Company and our portfolio companies generate millions in revenue. What is unique about FirstPrinciples is that most of our companies remain controlled and majority owned by First Principles and its team members rather than by external investors. We are proud that our product engineering team builds world class products from India. https://firstprinciples.io/">https://firstprinciples.io/

About this Role

As we scale and build our organisation, we would like to add an individual to our core Technical Leadership who can scale our key products and projects and help us build and foster relationships with Enterprise clients.

We are looking for an experienced Technology Leader to join our fast growing organisation to help us with driving Technical Strategy, Approach and oversee the Implementation for internal and external products. You should be someone who loves Engineering, have amazing debugging skills and slay problems with technology. 

In this role, you will undertake Technical / Solution Architecture and should also be able to help team with Engineering and coding wherever required. That includes, working along with the team, writing code, doing R&D or POCs, ensuring we follow modern industry standards and building beautiful high performing Software and Applications and thus delivering a better solution and product. You will also help FP build strong relationships with clients and technical leadership on the client side.

You would be required to have a minimum of 10+ years of experience with a mix of Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Cyber - Network Security, Enterprise Application Maintenance, Database Management along with Project, Client and People Management skills which are necessary to lead the team and be their voice. You should be a leader and not just a manager who loves delegating things to the off-shore team, but rather someone who would not hesitate to take over Git-Pull and start writing code and show ‘here is how it’s done’ and amaze everyone with your expertise! :-) 

Because this is a Senior role, you would also be involved working with the Product/Project Manager and will be responsible for the delivery and output.

Tech Stack [High-Level]: We are JavaScript focused i.e. we work in ReactJS, NodeJS, AngularJS, TypeForm, TypeScript, Redis. On the server side, we work with AWS/GCP/DO. Database: MySQL, PostgreS and MongoDb. API: REST and GraphQL API. We also have a strong DevOps stack - including Kubernetes(K8), Dockers and CI/CD automation. 

Interview Process: 

• 60 min Discovery Call
• 15 mins introduction and what you bring to the table (We love people who say, “We build the damn table”) 
• 15 min understanding your experience and background
• 15 min on why you want to join our team and your expectations, future plans
• 15 min Q&A
  
  
• 60-90 min Technical Interview  (May be more than 1)
• Technical Call
  
  
• 45-60 min Final Call
• 15 min discussion on results 
• 15 min CTC expectations / negotiations 
• 15 min closure
• 15 min buffer

• Develop and execute engineering strategy (including technology architecture, development stack, scalability, security etc.) of all our SaaS solutions while keeping in mind needs of business as usual and evolving product feature requirements
• Lead the engineering team and ensure good delivery management to deliver the product roadmap with high speed and quality
• Innovation – explore available technologies that may be useful to our context and run experiments and POCs to evaluate before adoption
• Bring automation and best practices to code management, testing and build & deployment processes
• Solve the most complex issues/initiatives through hands-on development
• Help the team members in resolving difficult technical issues
• Be a champion of engineering excellence: establish team metrics for measurement of engineering and operational excellence. Implement a consistent, regular process for assessment and improvement
• Provide thought-leadership to fellow team members by working as a guide and mentor to the rest of the team members

• Best in Industry Remuneration
• Attractive ESOP opportunity with huge potential upside
• Cutting edge technologies with always something new happening
• Start-up culture with full ownership and freedom
• Fully flexible hours and work from anywhere
• Super-fun work environment and colleague

• Microservices, Spring Boot, Core Java, Struts 2.0, JPA & Hibernate
• Hands-On experience in relational databases (MySQL Preferred)
• Experience in Data warehousing & Analytics
• Hands-on exposure in mobile application developmen

Qualifications

• B.E. / B.Tech from Tier 1 Institute

• Experience in defining new architectures, design all layers of the solution, create architectural blueprints that can be used for final code development.
• Interface with client business/technical teams to understand complex requirements.
• Anticipate on technological evolutions(example use MySQL Lite not MS SQL, use C# not ASP, don't use JSF use Angular).
• Resolve technical issues.
• Bridge between Developers, Project Managers/Leads, and Client, ensuring smooth communication channel.
• Ensure quality of project implementation deployed.
• Provide technical guidance to projects/programs for complex components of a multiple technology suites.
• Ensuring documentation of the complete project architecture.
• Lead actions to determine root cause of problems and drive resolution.
• Participate in cross-functional work groups to assess business needs, develop a systems architecture strategy, and implementation plans.
• Leads work groups that are responsible for software development.
• Ensure that all components of the technical architecture are properly integrated and implemented by the development team.
• Coach the technical team in the development of the technical architecture and help them solve challenging technical problems
• Provide technical support and technical quality control throughout all stages of the project.
• Spearheads the development, implementation and communications of architecture roadmap strategies to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, secure, supportable, and achieve.
• Identify existing architecture weaknesses and find opportunities for process reengineering and perform cost benefit analysis

• Time Management- Organizes own workload to achieve maximum productivity and completes work in a timely and professional manner. Handles multiple short and long term modules by proper planning while anticipating potential problems and planning for contingencies.
• Identify high-potential team members for next level positions and creating learning and development plans for them.
• Enable strong process in place and reducing dependencies on individual.

Technical Skills and Qualification

• Excellent knowledge of Web technologies, Java, Javascript, Contact center environment.
• Experience of current technologies including Open Source, J2EE (JSP, Servlet, JSP, etc.), web application development, web services (REST/SOAP/XML), Rich Internet Applications, messaging infrastructures and databases.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new tools and applications.
• Should be comfortable for 40%-60% coding.
• Able to convert requirements into executable code
• 9 to 12 yrs experience
• Qualification: BE/B-Tech /MCA or any equivalent degree

Desirables

• Excellent written and verbal communication skill
• Ability to lead discussions with all levels of the organization and provide balanced information of an idea or communication of an issue regardless of written or verbal
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across project teams.
• Having Analytical and problem-solving
• Ability to translate complex requirements into functional and Technical architecture
• Experience managing the technology aspect of multiple complex projects
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions and Assist team members in complex task
• Willing to take ownership and being accountable.
• Openness, communicates honestly, openly, and consistently.
• Positive Attitude encourages a positive rather than negative viewpoint.
• Integrity maintains the highest standard of personal conduct in performing all duties.
• Should be a good listener.
• Dependable, can be relied upon to get the job done.
• Able to avoid mistakes that could/should be anticipated.
• Should be able sense and grab the opportunities to innovate and improvise.
• Very high competence in presentation skills.
• Negotiator: Excellent negotiation skills which comes handy in hard selling new ideas/ new technical implementations etc.
• Risk Management: Should be able to take calculated risks in trying out new technical implementation avenues
• Able to communicate the org level vision to the team effectively

• 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.