Software Architect/CTO

Designation: Chief Architect

Responsibilities

• Build high quality systems and applications that solve key challenges for the customer
• Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to elicit and understand their requirements, challenges and develop potential solutions
• Proactively identify areas of improvements, come up with innovative solutions, and drive adoption
• Push boundaries on infrastructure and cost optimisation, reusability, simplicity and scalability • Own significant engineering projects end-to-end
• Sign-off on all significant architectures and technical designs regardless of front-end or back-end.
• Translate business requirements to tangible engineering deliverables
• Setup and streamline processes and introduce best practices to improve the overall efficiency and throughput of the engineering team
• Be an effective mentor and help in building capacity in the larger team, strategize and work towards helping junior engineers grow
• Stay current with latest tools, technologies, methodologies and ideas; spread the knowledge and conduct effective POCs to demonstrate applicability and benefits

Requirements

• 15+ years of strong experience in developing highly scalable backend and middle tier enterprise applications.
• Strong experience with large volume batch and real-time data processing applications
• Experience building enterprise SaaS applications. Strong knowledge of AWS.
• Programming Languages: Java (must have), Python (good to have)
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from premier institutes
• Strong in problem solving, data structures and algorithm design.
• Clear Object Oriented Design and Design Pattern concepts
• Significant experience working with non-functional requirements such as performance, security, compliance, automation etc.
• Experience developing AI-based solutions is a big plus.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail

Role Description

Location - Bangalore / Remote/WFH

 

This is an equity-only role.

 

We are looking for a young but mature mindset with highly skilled Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to provide sound technical leadership in all aspects of the business. This person will be added as a Co-founder in the Team.

CTO should be able to take technical decision and having a Strategic thinking mindset with strong business acumen. We expect you to be well-versed in current technological trends and familiar with a variety of business concepts.

You will work directly with the CEO and will act as both a technology and business expert, making decisions that will impact the current and future operations of the company. If you are self-motivated, emotionally strong, enjoy challenges and have a never give-up approach, we’d like to meet you.

 

CTO / Co- Founder Responsibilities

 

Lead the technology division with new-age technologies and processes

Build on the vision for the organization by technology

Identify new opportunities and develop products and processes in line with cutting edge technologies

Deploy, develop and implement solutions in a cost-efficient manner

Experience in building scalable products, platforms, and modern technologies

Experienced on the internet/ e-commerce industry, B2B platforms, start-up setups is a plus

Hands-on experience in digital initiatives, big data, mobile apps, AI & ML, analytics, and business intelligence solutions

Ability to convert data into usable modern technology-driven solutions

Experience or knowledge on AWS server side is required

 

 

Requirements

 

B.E / B.tech / Masters Degree in computer science or related field.

6+ years of working in a technological role is preferable but not mandatory

Experience working in an early-stage tech start-up will be a plus

A strong product sense and can build engaging tech for customers

Ability to conduct technological analyses and research

Deep knowledge of full-stack modern development practices (node.js, angular, java javascript, AWS, DS, react, etc.) Can work / learn and work on AI/ML

Have a proven understanding of best engineering practices for the full software development life cycle (SDLC), including coding standards, code review, source control, build, test, deploy, and operations

Experience in project management to ensure timely deliverables

Strong communication skills with the ability to present the technology vision confidently in a way that motivates others both internally and externally

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

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Job Overview The Solution Architect will be responsible for o Design solutions for the project that enable customer to meet their process/business goals o Leading the requirement session with client. o Development of solution architecture and design across a set of applications or application/product family within an enterprise. Duties and Responsibilities o Development of solution architecture and design across a set of applications or application/product family within an enterprise. o Enable customer to fulfil the stated project objectives o Lead solution of the product implementation o Support execution of project from solution perspective and technology perspective o Prepare and Review estimations o Support pre-sales o Support QC Skills / Attributes Required: Essential: o Strong P&C Insurance domain knowledge in North American. o Experience in UML based analysis and design using tools e.g. Rational Rose & Together J o Experience in setting up business rules and workflow engines o Design & Development experience with object oriented programming in JAVA technology stack o Experience in both high level as well as low level design o Should have conducted requirements sessions understanding customer’s business processes o Understand and use frameworks to design and review solutions for functional and non-functional requirements o Leading a team of software specialists / engineers for the creation / implementation of solution architecture for a product/application o Experience in any database with clear understanding of RDBMS concepts Desirable: o Experience in performance tuning of product/application o Exposure to design frameworks o Exposure to automation tools Functional Skills: o Understand the principles of accounting or commerce or finance Other skills: o Managing a team of 10-12 resources o Good communication as there would be a need to work closely with the customers o Ready to travel onsite for 2-3 months duration o Experience in Estimation methodologies

FreightCrate Technologies:

FreightCrate Technologies is a Logistics Technology company that- aims to transform international shipping through innovative and cost-effective tech solutions that can mutually benefit exporters, importers and logistics service providers.

Our web-platform, FreightCrate offers online tech-enabled quote and shipment management solutions for export and import businesses to and from more than 50,000 global locations.

We have had more than 50 media coverages including Entrepreneur, LoadStar UK, Maritime Gateway, Cargotalk, BW Disrupt, INC42, Silicon India, Tech Observer and several other newspapers and online magazines.

Our vision is to utilize cutting edge technology, engineering, deep learning and artificial intelligence to create an intelligent freight management system that can automate and optimize international trade operations for global businesses.

FOUNDERS:

Samir Lambay is the Co-Founder and CEO with an MSc in Shipping, Trade and Finance from Cass Business School, London, UK with Distinction.

Samir has worked in the shipping and logistics industry across both family businesses and multinational companies. His most recent job was at- DB Schenker Logistics- (Part of Deutsche Bahn Group - Fortune 200) where he was the youngest Vertical Manager globally and won two awards including Vertical Manager of the year and a Global Award.

Ruchi Dogra is a Co-Founder & Director and is in charge of sales and marketing. She has worked for over 15 years across the top 3 logistics/supply chain companies globally. She set-up the hotel, wines and beverages vertical at- Kuehne & Nagel- and- DB Schenker. Her latest assignment was at- DHL Global Forwarding- where she worked as a Vertical Manager for Engineering and Manufacturing; handling top Indian and multinational accounts including several Fortune 100 companies. She brings with her an extensive knowledge in strategy, sales, operations and customer service.




Title:

CTO

Description

The CTO role is to ensure the successful execution of the company’s business services via the web application. This requires envisioning the company’s service offerings as a web-based business, leading implementation of web applications, and planning for risk and growth.
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Compensation:
As this is a new business the compensation is negotiable and we will make an offer depending on the experience of the candidate which will include a salary and ESOP package.

Responsibilities:

In partnership with the company’s founders, identify opportunities and risks for delivering the company’s services as a web-based business, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation, and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the business success. As our Product is already developed we expect the CTO to work with product development to implement new product features, apply new technologies and set up the engineering and development team to maintain, update and improve the web-application. Some specific responsibilities are listed below:

Strategy, planning, and design:
• Take end-to-end ownership of the product, identify technology requirements, define the future product vision, create preliminary design concepts for add-on modules and shape overall technology and product roadmap by collaborating with the founders, business development, and marketing team.
• Ensure user oriented design is the primary approach to product development across multiple screens, based on user behaviour data and direct customer feedback.

Implementation and deployment:
• Manage Product Release, QA cycles, feature implementation and on time delivery through in-house team and vendors.
• Collaborate with team and customers to define use cases.
• Creation of wireframes/prototypes, site maps and user-flows for web and mobile platforms.

Operational management :
• Support marketing by implementing technical requirements for SEO/product analytics.
• Establish and supervise a quality assurance process, including integration & system testing.
• Rigorously monitor key performance metrics and coordinate with various teams to take corrective actions if needed.
• Establish and forecast ROI of features and succinctly articulate competitive advantage.
• Set-up data collection and analysis system in collaboration with CEO to track key performance.
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Skill Sets:

• PHP/Python
• AWS & Cloud-computing
• Mysql/MongoDB/CouchDB
• Memcache/Redis
• Frontend technologies HTML, CSS, JS, Angular, ReactJS
• Frameworks like CodeIgnitor/CakePHP/Symphony, Flask/Django
• DevOps
• ELK
• Tools like Datadog, NewRelic, etc
• Shell-scripting
• Setting & managing dev/beta/prod environments
• tools like Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.
• Experience with MEAN stack will be an advantage
• Knowledge of Solr/Elastic search will be an advantage

Strong fundamentals in computer science/engineering and algorithm design.
Practical knowledge of computer software algorithms in machine/deep learning, NLP, Computer Vision etc.

Personal Requirements:
• Min of 7+ years of Hands on experience in Web app development, payment gateways implementation, architecture design, product management, databases and UI/UX in consumer facing applications.
• Experience on projects involving engineering and algorithmic functions, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is very advantageous.
• Creative self-starter who is comfortable with both taking initiative and working in teams.
• Previous experience working on logistics technology products is advantageous but not mandatory.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn and utilize emerging technologies.
• Sincere passion to use disruptive technologies that can be globally significant.

Job Responsibilities:
- Preferable experience on Codeigniter and Laravel
- Hands-on/ Implementation OR exposure to Front end tools and frameworks like
Angular.js/React.js
- Strong experience handling large data (batch and real-time), workflows and scheduling,
building pluggable frameworks and systems, strong abstraction, and design skills
- Knowledge of Linux with advanced knowledge of command-line interface
- Knowledge of AWS required for cloud set up and configuration and system security
- Advance MySQL knowledge required with hand-on experience with query building and query optimization

What’s it like in Equal Experts: Currently, we are working to create a platform on mobile for a giant enterprise to help them roll out their new offering. The company is now amongst the world’s biggest startups and fastest growing IT companies that are creating groundbreaking innovations. This platform will help them build capabilities to scale up to 1 million installations a week. In addition, it will let them on-board and empower over a million people in the workforce. The platform will then scale to create disruptions in the retail and e-commerce space, solving real-world problems. Scalability, extensibility, and reusability are key attributes of this platform. As a Platform Architect, you'll be involved in: Defining the technology strategy for the platform, including ensuring operability, performance, and security. Providing technical leadership and consulting on all aspects of the program. Coordinating and facilitating technical decisions across the multiple deliver streams on the platform. Providing technical and delivery mentoring to client technology department.

We are a growing fintech startup looking to hire one of our first engineers. You will lead efforts and have complete ownership of building our web platform. Being an early hire, you will work directly with the founding team and have a chance to significantly influence the direction the company takes. The Company:- Moneyjar (Ajax Ventures Private Limited) is building an online platform that aims to make investing your savings easy and rewarding. It turns your thoughts and life goals into actionable advice, which can be seamlessly executed on MoneyJar's secure online transaction platform. Our vision is to enable universal access to sincere and well researched financial advice backed by user friendly transactional platforms and we work relentlessly to achieve that. It is our core belief that the company can only achieve that vision based on the collective efforts of our team. Primary Responsibilities: - Be responsible for the entire backend of the product - Advocating best practices in software design and it's implementation - Being actively involved in the improvements of the existing product. (Performance, scalability, etc.) - Since we are a small team, you will also be responsible for handling the staging and production environment of the product which includes releasing features through continuous integration & deployment to production. - Architecting new feature sets for the product, maintenance of the existing backend codebase. Knowledge/Skills required: - Good Experience with Laravel 5 - A web application development background - An advanced understanding of PHP - OOP principles - Design patterns - SOLID principles - Unit Testing fundamentals, Experience of TDD (functional & unit test writing) - Continuous Integration - Performance tuning - Experience with Relational Databases like MySQL - Advanced problem solving skills - Strong communication skills - Agile principles - Deployment and basic DevOps Skills - Experience integrating Third Party APIs - Experience with AWS You are: - A self-starter with great organisational skills - A person who takes responsibility - Someone who will thrive in an Agile environment - Open, collaborative, selfless, curious, courageous, accountable - Have evidence of a commitment to continual learning and development Why Should You Apply- - Competitive salary and benefits (including equity in certain cases). - Opportunity to work with flexible hours. We`re more interested in high quality code and consistency than a regimented 9 to 5. - Small, Nimble Team with no bureaucracy: Direct involvement and the ability to influence the project`s future direction. We are a team; everyone`s opinion is important. - Free Financial Advice! - Being a financial advisory company, be rest assured, you will receive unlimited top-notch one-on-one investment advice for you and your loved ones!

We're looking for a CTO who can take complete ownership of Tech Team and hustle and get shit done while building and scaling our product at inFeedo. Our ask is a burning desire for scale, relentless passion and a Jordon Belfort (from Wolf of Wall Street) like fearless confident attitude that leaves a lasting impression. MUST HAVES: 1) 7+ years of experience in Managing a Tech Team for a Saas product 2) Extremely strong communication skills 3) Has outstanding technical aptitude and a proven past record for team to draw inspiration 4) Has experience handling security and performance issues in small business 5) Has previous experience in MEAN stack, AWS and have worked on integrations 6) Capable of getting problem statement solved given only time and budget. (Take calls on getting new team members, firing existing ones etc) 7) Great with people management skills ^ Those without these skill sets will not be accepted. Brownie Points: Experience in scaling a small startup to a profitable mid size SAAS business 5 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 1)Set/adapt the vision for Tech, work with Product & Business team to understand their perspective 2) Align and mentor developers into right approach towards solving the problem 3) Proactively pre-empt technical issues wrt architecture, performance, security and Tech debt 4) Hire the right team, fire the wrong team 5) Be the SPOC for technical department, come on consensus with Product and Business team to bring best of Sales, Product and Tech

ToRoots is an early stage angel funded startup. We are a team of people who believe in experiential learning. If you are looking for something where you can implement your learning and learn while experimenting, ToRoots is a place to be. You will be among the people who will set a company culture, and we intend to (and will) be listed among the best places to work in the world. We are a young company looking to change how people book travel experiences. We have outsourced technology part to a tech partner company and now we are looking for somebody who can lead the technology part completely with them. In travel industry, technology has been used for almost a decade now, but unlike hotels/buses/flights booking travelers don't yet book travel experiences without manual intervention. While playing in a niche of unique travel experiences, we intend to make it convenient for travelers to book them without manual intervention. We started as a marketplace and our evolution path would be a community-driven platform and an intelligent platform eventually. We are looking for somebody who has deep understanding of open source development and have a knack for solving problems pertaining to human behaviour with technology. Somebody who can understand the evolution path and make it happen.