Technical Architect/CTO

Company: Kredit Venture

About the company:

KreditVenture is seeking a Technical Product Manager to lead the development, strategy, and

execution of our SaaS applications built on top of Loan Origination Systems and Lending Platforms.

This role requires a strong technical background, a product ownership mindset, and the ability to

drive execution through both in-house teams and outsourced vendors. The ideal candidate will play

a key role in aligning business goals with technical implementation, ensuring a scalable, secure,

and user-centric platform.

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Manager / AVP / DVP – Technical Product Manager

Location: Mumbai (Ghatkopar West)

Compensation: Upto 25 LPA

Experience: 7-8 years (Designation will be based on experience)

Qualification: 

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- An MBA is a plus.

 Roles and Responsibilities

Technology Leadership:

• Lead SaaS Platform Development – Strong expertise in full-stack development (Java, Python, MERN stack) and cloud-based architectures.
• API & Workflow Design – Drive microservices-based REST API development and implement business process automation.
• Third-Party Integrations – Enable seamless API integrations with external service providers.
• Code Quality & Best Practices – Ensure code quality, security, and performance optimization through structured audits.

Vendor & Delivery Management:

• Outsourced Vendor Oversight – Manage and collaborate with external development partners, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery.
• Delivery Governance – Define SLAs, monitor vendor performance, and proactively escalate risks.
• Quality Assurance – Ensure vendor deliverables align with product standards and integrate smoothly with internal development.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Customer Insights & Feedback – Conduct user research and feedback sessions to enhance platform capabilities.
• Product Demos & GTM Support – Showcase platform features to potential clients and support sales & business development initiatives.

Platform Development & Compliance:

• Component Libraries & Workflow Automation – Develop reusable UI components and enable no-code/low-code business workflows.
• Security & Compliance – Ensure adherence to data protection, authentication, and regulatory standards (e.g., GDPR, PCI-DSS).
• Performance Monitoring & Analytics – Define KPIs and drive continuous performance optimization.

We are looking for a driven, curious and sincere full-stack software engineer having 0-2 years of professional experience. They will be assigned to a 0 to 1 project which presents a great opportunity to learn and grow.

Roles & Resposibilities:

• You will be involved in full-stack development
• Working on relational as well as non-relational databases.
• Writing and maintaining high-quality code.
• Learning the code base and improving your coding skills.

Desired skills and qualities:

• Bachelor degree in computer engineering or related field.
• Atleast 6 months of full-time or internship experience in Javascript.
• Data structures and algorithms.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly(verbal/written).
• HTML and CSS.

Senior Software Engineer, Java/Python (Bangalore, Remote option available)

4+ years of experience 

Zepto 

Why should you look at this role?

Salary 40-55 lakh per annum

Paid leave

Sick leave

Provident Fund

What Else?

• High growth startup in quick commerce space (10 min delivery)
• Given our very high hiring bar, we offer a very competitive salary and substantial equity to create everlasting wealth for our early believers as the company grows.
• Work on real world logistics problems & benefit from the rocket ship Zepto is!

Tech Team: 40-50 (200+ in few months)

About the Employer

Zepto is a fast-growing startup that delivers products in 10 minutes through an optimised network of dark stores that we're building across the country!

Just 6 months after launching, we've raised $160 million from marquee

investors in Silicon Valley and India. Our investors include Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, and many more! We’ve built out one of the best startup teams in India, with Senior Executives from Uber, Flipkart, Dream11, PhonePe, Goldman Sachs, Pepperfry, and institutions like Stanford, INSEAD, IITs, and IIMs.

The magic of Zepto is our ability to consistently deliver 2,500+ products in 10 minutes flat. It's the core of what we do, and the reason why we’ve been able to grow so fast with phenomenal customer love. Our mission is simple: to make 10-minute delivery the new normal.

Funding:

Funding Zepto has raised a total of $160M in funding over 3 rounds.

Their latest funding was raised on Dec 20, 2021 from a Series C round.

Employer Reviews:

“High Ownership, Lots of Learning, Broad Roles, Accessible Leaders”

"Alot of benefits like ZeptoJoy coupon, internet bill reimbursement and cab reimbursement is also taken care of. Overtime is paid."

Reporting structure:

Software Engineer -> Sr Software Engineer -> Lead -> EM -> AD / Director / VP -> Head of Engineering -> CTO

This role would be by and large a Individual Contributor role.

Interview Process:

• Round 1. Problem Solving + CS Fundamentals (60 mins)
  • DS/Algo Problems (30 mins) - You can expect 1-2 Leetcode easy/medium questions
  • CS Fundamentals (30 mins)
• Round 2. Low Level Design (60 mins)
  • You would be given a trivial problem and expected to work through the low level design viz class structure, interfaces, db data models etc.
• Round 3. High Level Design (60 mins)
  • You will be given a trivial problem, where we would work with you to design the system for the problem statement. We expect the detailed flow of the Functionality
    • Extract APIs, if any
    • Database choices
    • Schema design and Scale the system, if time permits

What You will do Everyday?

• Work very closely with the Tech Leadership and lead end-to-end development.
• Closely collaborate with product, design and business teams to understand product ideas and business needs and help deliver these as a series of ultra fast experiments.
• Architect and implement backend services with high reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to system architecture and database design.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Write quality documentation and handle conflicts well to build consensus.
• Learn about new technologies and incorporate them.
• Mentor young minds and foster team spirit

Your Superpowers

• 4+ years of experience with Java frameworks like Spring / Dropwizard/Play or Python frameworks like Django/Flask/FastApi and databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB
• Experience in building highly scalable customer-facing applications that involve implementing complex business flows and dealing with an ever-increasing scale
• Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces.
• Experience in service-oriented architecture design.
• Experience building at least one application from scratch.
• Experience with cache store/message broker like Redis / RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Interest in learning new languages/framework as needed.
• Worked in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
• A growth mindset and passionate about building things from the ground up and most importantly, you should be fun to work with.

• Lead the engineering effort across projects 
• Interface with key stakeholders and apply your technical proficiency across different stages including Application Architecture, Design and Development
• Understand client's business requirements and be able to map them to technology solutions and make them work
• Design and build modern solutions informed by a deep understanding of cloud architecture and how distributed systems operate at scale
• Provide regular support and guidance to teams on complex coding, issue resolution and execution 
• Establish and enforce best development and engineering practices including QA and DevOps
• Lead and manage your own team, but also get down to coding, testing, and designing solutions as and when needed
• Communicate effectively with teams, clients and business leaders within the company

• Minimum 6+ years of experience designing and building full stack applications using UI frameworks like Angular, React or Vue.JS and backend frameworks like Node.JS/ExpressJS or Python/Django/Flask or Laravel/Yii2/Symphony
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience as a Technical Lead mentoring team of 3 to 5 developers
• Strong knowlegde of cloud and distributed systems (AWS, GCP, Azure). Cloud certifications would be an added advantage.
• Deep knowledge of relational databases, SQL and NoSQL databases. Experience with Graph databases like Neo4j is desirable.
• Proficient in Git and CI-CD frameworks
• Strong communicator with visual, verbal, and writing skills to clearly articulate complex design problems and solutions
• Ability to work in an agile environment