Role – Technical Architect
Job Description
ZipLoan is looking out for a strong technology leader of Software Product Engineering, with a Technical Experience of about 12+ years, and hands-on experience in Software Product Development and ownership. You will head our Platform team which will be tasked with building ZipLoan's platform layer along with a set of engineers reporting to you.
Role:
- Understand the business end-to-end in order to drive a use-case driven architecture.
- Identify parts of the code-base which can be made reusable as modules or services.
- Propose architecture improvements to provide reliability and robustness at scale.
- Provide a roadmap for evolution of the technology ecosystem.
- Identify and erase technical debt.
- Provide consultancy to engineering teams on specific design challenges.
- Propose engineering best practices and help teams in adopting them.
Desired Profile:
- 12 years min experience in core software development.
- Hands-on experience building consumer Web/mobile apps at scale.
- Strong exposure to open-source technology – Python and other languages,
Linux, SQL and NoSQL databases, Web development frameworks
- Strong architecture skills.
- Ability to mentor engineering team members effectively.
- Preferably a strong full-stack engineer or at least strong backend skills with some front-end skill.

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