Lead/Senior Automation Engineer

Good understanding of financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting concepts

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (mandatory)

Ability to work with large datasets and generate insights

About EquityList

EquityList is a full-stack equity management platform for global businesses. We work with 550+ customers such as Bajaj Auto (NSE), Tata Consumer Products (NSE), Blackbuck (NSE), Tabby.ai, Livspace, Shiprocket, Tacobell India, Slice, Rapido, Zerodha Fund House, and many more to manage equity for 40,000+ stakeholders and manage $4Bn+ of equity grant value. Backed by AngelList India, Hustle Fund, Republic, Unpopular Ventures, and others, we're building the definitive infrastructure of equity compensation. We are a lean, sharp, high-context team that ships fast and executes deeply. Join us and help shape the next decade of private market infrastructure.

About the Role

As a Principal Engineer at EquityList, you’ll own and drive the engineering direction of the company. You’ll work with an existing team of 4 strong full-stack engineers, writing production code while setting the technical bar across architecture, scalability, and reliability.

This is a hands-on role with real ownership. You’ll partner closely with the CEO and product leadership to turn business priorities into well-designed systems, guide major technical decisions, and ensure we move fast without breaking fundamentals.

If you enjoy building critical systems, mentoring capable engineers, and taking responsibility for how an organization engineers at scale — this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

1. Hands-On Coding (50%): Own full-stack epics/features end-to-end (React/Node/Postgres stack) from ideation to production.
2. Technical Leadership (20%): Guide architecture decisions, system design, DevOps (CI/CD, GCP, Kubernetes), and infosec (auth, encryption, SOC2 basics).
3. Mentoring & Code Quality (15%): Conduct code reviews for 80%+ of PRs, pair-program with juniors/mids, run tech syncs to the upskill team.
4. Hiring & Team Building (5%): Screen candidates, lead technical interviews, contribute to scaling the team.
5. Product Strategy (10%): Collaborate with CEO/Product Manager on roadmap prioritization, effort estimation, and refinement.

What We Want

• 8-12 years full-stack experience; prior Series A/B startup exposure essential.
• Expertise: Modern JS stack (React/Next.js, Node/Express), databases (Postgres), cloud infra, DevOps tools.
• Proven mentoring: Helped juniors grow; comfortable with mixed-skill teams.
• Soft skills: Startup hustle, CEO collaboration, clear communication.
• Indian startup ecosystem knowledge is a plus.
• Bonus: ESOP/compliance domain familiarity, Principal/Staff Engineer background.

Why Work With Us ?

At EquityList, you don't just join a team; you help build the infrastructure of innovation.

We move fast. We solve hard problems. We build with obsession — for our customers and each other. Here, autonomy is real and equity isn’t just a benefit — it’s belief in your leverage.

Build with obsession. Own with conviction. Grow with velocity.

Perks and Benefits at EL :



• Skin-in-the game – Own a real piece of what you help build with equity grant
• Consolidated Health Insurance – For you and your dependents
• Company-Provided MacBook Pro.
• Cursor Pro and other AI tools
• Relocation Assistance – Support to help you settle smoothly in your new city
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If you're an A-player who ships fast, thinks sharp, and scopes for more — let’s chat.

Come for the mission. Stay for the impact. Grow with the company you helped build.

Designation: Sr. Admission counselor

Skills Required:

• Good Communication skills (English mandatory)
• Passion for work
• Leadership / Team player

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Administer school admissions procedures and advise parents and members of the public on admission criteria, collate applications for admission, and monitor criteria being applied consistently.
• Develop marketing strategies with the Principal to support the achievement of the overall admissions
• Manage student enrolment through telephone inquiries, emails, and visitors to the school for enrolment into the school.
• Work in coordination with various external & internal departments.
• Develop institutional goals and objectives consistent with the vision, mission, and values of the School
• Set up and maintain efficient office systems within the school's admin area, including manual and computerized information retrieval systems.

• Develop product vision and key-value props for owned areas (strategy & roadmap). Drive alignment and excitement, aligning priorities and executing plans. Lead product development by collaborating with cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, business development managers, marketers, and other product leads.
• Manage all aspects of the product lifecycle, including problem definition, product strategy/roadmap, roadmap execution, customer needs, designs, product requirement documents
• Ensure accountability with Engineering (Internal/Vendor) on strict adherence to timelines & processes.
• Lead connection of technical and business worlds by breaking down complex problems into a roadmap and steps that drive product development.
• Understand markets, competition, and products in-depth to create clarity and drive the right set of requirements and specifications.
• Anticipate customers’ needs and market opportunities to drive improvements. Show empathy for customers, be sensitive to their needs and drive the feature team to deliver a great customer experience. Research and user test prototypes to maximise user satisfaction and performance
• Develop, cultivate and share thought leadership in emerging and trending technology areas.
• Define success criteria and performance metrics and drive telemetry requirements to measure results. Define, monitor, and analyse metrics for launched products and feed feedback into the product development process.
• An obsession with technology - pro-activeness in exploring and understanding the potential of technology and how to convert it to solve innate consumer needs
• Good in data-driven analytical skills and able to operate with partial information and ambiguity.
• Design thinking (UIUX), user empathy and deep understanding of Indian customers

• 4 to 8 years experience, including product experience, preferably in a fast-paced B2C internet/e-commerce/Edtech company
• B- Tech and MBA or equivalent experience (or equivalent industry experience)

• Track record of exhibiting technical depth and quick ramp-up on new products and technologies
• Ability to assume end-to-end ownership of large features and initiatives
• Proficiency in end-to-end innovation, planning, organizing, and executing.
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Self-motivated, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity
• Experience collaborating and communicating with cross-functional teams
• Experience in identifying, analysing and interpreting data to make data-led product decisions
• Understanding of capturing user insights to create exceptional user experiences
• Excellent focus on attention to detail, with quantitative skills
• Experience in building & leading high-performance teams
• UI/UX skills with an ability to get the best out of designers and recognize great design

Responsibilities

• Help define Technical Roadmap and own the entire product delivery end to end
• Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple business plans and technologies
• Improve, optimize and identify opportunities for efficient software development processes
• Hire, Develop and Retain a strong team of engineers
• Keep abreast of the changes in the industry and champion new technologies and development processes within the team
• Thinking backwards from a customer POV and relentlessly pursuing customer's cause in tech and product decisions

Apply If You have:

• Graduation/Post Graduation degree in Computer Science (IITs, IIITs and NITs preferred)
• 6-10 years of strong experience in JAVA(Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), JavaScript, NodeJS with good exposure to MySQL
• Experience with AWS, Microservices, Caching, Performance Optimization, Nginx, Solr, Redis, Redshift
• Experience working with agile teams and making rapid decisions in dynamic and disruptive environment
• 2+ years of leading and managing a team consisting of backend, frontend and QA.
• Hands on writing and reviewing code
• Exceptional design and architectural skills
• Strong communication skills
• High motivation to work in a fast paced, dynamic, collaborative team environment

• Architect new and optimize existing software codebases and systems used to crawl, launch, run, and monitor the Anakin family of app crawlers
• Deeply own the lifecycle of software, including rolling out to operations, managing configurations, maintaining and upgrading, and supporting end-users
• Configure and optimize the automated testing and deployment systems used to maintain over 1000+ crawlers across the company
• Analyze data and bugs that require in-depth investigations
• Interface directly with external customers including managing relationships and steering requirements

• Extremely effective, self-driven builder
• 2+ years of experience as a backend software engineer
• 2+ years of experience with Python
• 2+ years of experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Should have managed a team of software engineers
• Deep experience with network debugging across all OSI layers (Wireshark)
• Knowledge of networks or/and cybersecurity

• Broad understanding of the landscape of software engineering design patterns and principles
• Ability to work quickly and accurately in a highly stressful environment during removing bugs in run-time within minutes
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal

• Must be available to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
• Must have an aversion to politics and BS. Should let his/her work speak for him/her.
• Must be comfortable with uncertainty. In almost all the cases, your job will be to figure it out.
• Must not be bounded to comfort zone. Often, you will need to challenge yourself to go above and beyond.