Software Architect/CTO

Chief Technology & Product Officer (CTPO)

Company: Miror Therapeutics Private Limited (miror.in)

Location: Bangalore

Type: Full-time

About Miror

Miror is building India's largest 360° care network for women - supporting them through menstruation, perimenopause, menopause, and beyond. We bring together a thriving community of 75,000+ women, 100+ doctors across gynaecology, oncology, urology and sexual health, nutrition and mental health, India's first dedicated HRT Centre of Excellence, a personalized care app, expertly formulated supplements, and a women's wellness rewards program.

We're bootstrapped and revenue-generating, with real users and real impact. We're now looking for a technology and product leader to deepen our digital platform and scale the experience to millions more women.

The role

As Chief Technology & Product Officer, you'll own both the engineering and product functions at Miror. This is a combined role by design: we need one leader who holds the technical architecture and the product vision together, keeps them tightly aligned, and ships. You'll set technical direction, own the product roadmap across our app and digital platform, and build the team that delivers - all while honoring the trust women place in us with sensitive, deeply personal health journeys.

Because we're bootstrapped, this is a role for someone who values capital efficiency, durable margins, and building things that last.

What you'll own

Product

• Define and own the product vision and roadmap in partnership with the CEO
• Translate deep understanding of women's health - menstruation through menopause - into product that earns daily trust
• Own the full product lifecycle across the app, community, teleconsultation/appointments, HRT programs, commerce (shop and supplements), and rewards
• Establish how the team prioritizes, measures, and learns from users

Technology

• Own the technical architecture of the Miror app and digital platform
• Lead engineering execution: quality, velocity, reliability, and security
• Make pragmatic build-vs-buy and platform decisions that keep us lean and fast
• Own data architecture with privacy and protection of sensitive health data as a first principle

Leadership

• Build, lead, and mentor the combined product and engineering team
• Set the engineering and product culture for the company
• Be a credible internal and external voice for the platform

Must-haves

• Demonstrated experience in femtech or digital health - you understand women's health, the sensitivity of the data involved, and what it takes to earn and keep user trust in this space
• Track record of owning both product and engineering at a senior level (VP+ or prior CTO/CPO/CTPO)
• Strong software and app development background; comfortable being hands-on architecturally
• Experience handling sensitive health data and the regulatory/privacy landscape around it (India's DPDP Act, plus relevant global standards like HIPAA/GDPR; awareness of telemedicine and digital-health regulatory considerations)
• Ability to lead a lean team and make capital-efficient decisions in a bootstrapped environment
• Proven ability to hire, grow, and retain product and engineering talent

Nice-to-haves

• Experience scaling a consumer health or community-driven product post-PMF without external funding
• Experience with teleconsultation, e-commerce/D2C, or marketplace-style products
• Comfort with our stack: [e.g. Python backend, Flutter app] - or strong reasons to evolve it

Why join

• Real revenue, real users, and a community of 75,000+ women who already trust us
• A genuine seat at the table: you'll shape the company, not just execute someone else's plan
• A mission that matters: transforming how India cares for women's midlife and lifelong health

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About First Principles

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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

• Advanced knowledge of software and solution architecture
• High-level project management skills
• Ability to solve complex software system issues
• Well experienced with software design and web development
• Proficiency with JAVA, and strong front-end knowledge of HTML5, JSF, Angular, React
• Familiar or working experience with Apache Kafka working, Containers, Docker, Kubernetes
• Professional, precise communication skills
• Deep understanding of 'under the hood' knowledge of frameworks worked on
• Work experience in implementing Unit Tests
• Work experience in applying the best practices of Design, Architecture and Application
• development
• Extensive experience with HTML5, CSS3, XML and JSON
• Thorough understanding of Reactive Programming, RxJS framework, Databases, API,
• Implementing of Caching and RESTful services
• Troubleshooting design and performance flaws and system bottlenecks
• Conducting system performance tests
• Working experience in an Agile team, especially with SCRUM
• Good understanding of DevOps, CI/CD principles and practices to improve Software
  
  Quality & Efficiency
• Following Skills will be an added advantage
• Work experience with Cloud Services like AWS and Azure
• Familiar with common microservices patterns
• Service / API test – to test endpoints as thoroughly as possible
• End to End integration test systemFeb.2021 - Technical Manager Requirement

Behavioral Skill

• Should be a quick learner with a problem-solving mindset
• Attention to detail and follow-through to achieve good quality
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skill

• 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