About Us
Zupee is India’s fastest growing innovator in real money gaming with a focus on predominant skill focused games. Started by 2 IIT-Kanpur alumni in 2018, we are backed by marquee global investors such as WestCap Group, Tomales Bay Capital, Matrix Partners, Falcon Edge, Orios Ventures and Smile Group.
Know more about our recent funding: https://bit.ly/3AHmSL3
Our focus has been on innovating in the board, strategy and casual games sub-genres. We innovate to ensure our games provide an intersection between skill and entertainment, enabling our users to earn while they play. We are at the cusp of scaling rapidly; we’ve only just begun!
Location: We are location agnostic & our teams work from anywhere.
Core Responsibilities:
-Will be responsible for architecting, scaling and optimizing the entire technology platform across website and mobile for Zupee's Gaming Studio in alignment with the business vision.
-Will work closely with the founders, technology, product, marketing data science, data analytics, design, research & innovation, user relations team to identify opportunities for innovation and technical hurdles to business success.
-Will lead the evaluation and identification of the right technology stack for delivering Zupee's product portfolio.
-Will be responsible for driving the technology stack or engineering function-related people or team, processes, capabilities, and tools.
-Will establish key engineering-related metrics to measure product-stack mix success and optimization as the situation changes.
What are we looking for?
-Must have experience working in the Startup domain.
-Should have at least 9+ years of overall experience in engineering and must have played a leadership role, out of her/his overall experience.
-Hands-on engineering leader who has been an architect of scaling platform and deciding tech roadmap.
-Must have worked on emerging Tech Stacks.
-Must have a proven track record of independently architecting, scaling, and optimizing technology products from the ground up or prototype stage; delivering within time, budget and quality in the B2C environment.
-Good to have experience in startup domains and exp. starting or developing products from scratch.
-Must have demonstrated the ability to independently evaluate and identify relevant technology stacks (backend, frontend for mobile & web, and database management) for the product. (Preferably into NodeJS/ReactJS/Microservices architecture).
-Must have experience in business partnering, team building, program delivery, and product relatability.
-Has the ability to be hands-on, think clearly, analyze quantitatively, make data-driven decisions, communicate coherently, organize effectively, prioritize and relate to the business.
-Is metric-driven, fast-paced, attentive to detail, data-driven, and self-motivated.
-Is analytical, curious, a problem solver, and can influence stakeholders.
-Has a bias for diagnosis and action Culture Cues.

About Zupee
About
Mission Zupee
We have made it our mission to improve people’s lives by improving their learning ability, skills and mental aptitude through scientifically designed Games. We have already helped over 10 million people improve their general knowledge, critical thinking and competitive skills. We are living in an age of competition and it is important to stay sharp and well informed. Zupee is committed to enhancing and enabling talent and skills for the workforce of the future by creating formats that educate, inform, entertain and reward the skills based behaviour of our users.
About us
Founded in 2018 by two IIT Kanpur graduates, We are backed by marquee investors and have raised USD 19Mn in series-A thus far. As India’s fastest growing skill-based Gaming company, we’re at the forefront of the industry and now holding a new vision to become the world’s leading gamification platform.
Our Growth Story
The online gaming industry is growing at an annual rate of 40% and is expected to become a 14 billion USD market in India by 2025. Zupee’s growth has galloped past the industry and become profitable at the EBT level in record time with more than 10Mn user base & consumer spend of 2Bn USD on our platform.
Follow links below to know more about our recent Forbes Asia 30under30 & fundraise coverages:
2. https://www.vccircle.com/matrix-partners-india-leads-series-a-funding-round-in-gaming-app-zupee
3. https://www.vccircle.com/exclusive-smile-group-backs-gaming-startup-zupee
4. https://www.forbes.com/profile/zupee/?list=30under30-asia-consumer-technology&sh=1c4e8e5a1cb0
Our Culture
Zupee thrives on a culture of entrepreneurship (ownership & hustle), customer obsession, bias for diagnosis & action and trust & respect for everyone. We keep our mission first in order to win customer’s trust above everything.
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