Technical co-founder/CTO

Quidcash is seeking a highly skilled and passionate Engineering Manager to lead, mentor, and grow a talented team of software engineers. You will be instrumental in shaping our technical direction, driving the development of our core products, and championing engineering excellence. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll contribute to architectural decisions, foster a culture of innovation, and ensure your team is equipped to build scalable, robust, and intelligent systems.

If you're a leader who thrives on technical challenges, loves building high-performing teams, and is excited by the potential of AI/ML in fintech, we want to hear from you!

What You'll Do:

· Lead & Mentor: Manage, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, data scientists fostering an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance culture. Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and support career growth.

· Technical Leadership: Provide strong technical guidance on architecture, design, and implementation of complex systems, particularly in microservices, OOPS principles, and cloud-native applications.

· AI/ML Integration: Drive the strategy and execution for integrating AI/ML models and techniques into our products and platforms, working closely with data scientists and engineers.

· Engineering Best Practices: Establish, evangelize, and enforce best practices for software development, including code quality, testing (unit, integration, E2E), CI/CD, security, and documentation.

· DevOps Culture: Champion and implement DevOps principles to improve deployment frequency, system reliability, and operational efficiency. Oversee CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.

· Roadmap & Execution: Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and other stakeholders to define the technical roadmap, translate product requirements into actionable engineering tasks, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.

· Architectural Vision: Contribute to and influence the long-term architectural vision for Quidcash platforms, ensuring scalability, resilience, and maintainability.

· Problem Solving: Dive deep into complex technical challenges, lead troubleshooting efforts, and make critical technical decisions.

· Recruitment & Team Building: Actively participate in recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding new engineering talent.

What You'll Bring (Must-Haves):

· Experience:

o Proven experience (6+ years) in software engineering, with a strong foundation in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP/S) using languages like Java, Python, C#, Go, or similar.

o Demonstrable experience (2+ years) in an engineering leadership or management role, directly managing a team of engineers.

· Technical Acumen:

o Deep understanding and practical experience with microservice architecture, including design patterns, deployment strategies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and inter-service communication.

o Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

o Familiarity and practical experience with AI/ML concepts, tools, and their application in real-world products (e.g., machine learning pipelines, model deployment, MLOps).

o Proficiency in establishing and driving DevOps practices (CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, infrastructure automation).

· Leadership & Management:

o Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills with a proven ability to mentor and grow engineering talent.

o Experience in setting up and enforcing engineering best practices (code reviews, testing methodologies, agile processes).

o Strong project management skills, with experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies.

· Mindset:

o A proactive, problem-solving attitude with a passion for continuous improvement.

o Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.

o Strong business acumen and ability to align technical strategy with company goals.

Nice-to-Haves:

· Experience in the FinTech or financial services, lending industry.

· Hands-on experience with specific AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).

· Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ).

· Contributions to open-source projects or a strong public technical presence.

· Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Why Join Quidcash?

· Impact: Play a pivotal role in shaping a product that directly impacts Indian SMEs business growth.

· Innovation: Work with cutting-edge technologies, including AI/ML, in a forward-thinking environment.

· Growth: Opportunities for professional development and career advancement in a growing company.

· Culture: Be part of a collaborative, supportive, and brilliant team that values every contribution.

· Benefits: Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, be a part of the next fin-tech evolution.

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Role Overview:

We are looking for an Engineering Lead to take end-to-end ownership of technical delivery, design, architecture, and quality for our multi-customer SaaS product. You will lead and mentor the engineering team, drive scalable design and high-quality delivery, manage releases across customer environments, and ensure the stability and performance of the product in production.

Key Responsibilities:

·        Delivery & Release Management: Plan and deliver product features and customer-specific releases on time with high quality, ensuring operational readiness and stability across environments.

·        Technical Design & Architecture: Lead technical design and high-scale architecture for new and existing modules, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.

·        Team Management: Mentor and guide engineers, ensure clarity in priorities, unblock challenges, and foster a culture of ownership and quality within the team.

·        Requirement to Delivery: Work with product and customer teams to understand requirements, translate them into designs and implementation plans, and track them through to delivery.

·        Product Quality: Establish and maintain engineering best practices, code reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high product quality and reliability.

·        Troubleshooting & Support: Lead the team in debugging complex issues in development and production, ensuring minimal downtime and strong customer satisfaction.

·        Hands-on Contribution: Actively contribute technically where needed, providing architectural guidance and coding support aligned with the team’s stack.

Requirements:

·        Experience: 8–12 years in software engineering with at least 3+ years in a lead role.

·        Proven experience in designing scalable, high-performance architectures and technical solutions.

·        Experience delivering multi-customer SaaS product releases, including phased and customer-specific configurations.

·        Strong track record of ensuring product quality and stability through structured processes, testing, and monitoring.

·        Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and guide teams towards resolution.

·        Experience in mentoring and managing engineering teams to drive aligned delivery and high performance.

·        Hands-on experience with your relevant tech stack (e.g., Python, Django, Angular, AWS, Docker, Redis, RabbitMQ).

·        Excellent communication and collaboration skills with Product, QA, and Customer Support teams.

·        Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or related field.

This role will be responsible for building, reviewing, deploying and maintaining the software solutions.

Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.

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Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.

Identifying web-based user interactions.

Developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using react concepts.

Proven work experience as a Ruby on Rails developer

Developing and implementing front-end architecture to support user interface concepts.

Monitoring and improving front-end performance.

Documenting application changes and developing updates.

Experience with user interface design.

Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.

Demonstrable knowledge of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, HTML, CSS and jQuery

Role

We are looking for a  Senior Software Engineer - Python, React to join our engineering team and help us develop and maintain various software products.

You should be comfortable around front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

Ultimately, you’ll build highly responsive web applications that align with our business needs.

Responsibilities

• Write effective, scalable code
• Develop front-end and back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Integrate user-facing elements into applications
• Test and debug programs
• Improve functionality of existing systems
• Implement security and data protection solutions
• Assess and prioritize feature requests
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand user requirements and provide technical solutions

Qualifications

• BSc/BE/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• Must have 4+ years of work experience as a Python/Django (Back-end) and React (Front-end) developer
• Expertise in Django Framework. Other frameworks like Flask Pyramid knowledge are good to have
• Strong experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration, and AWS.
• Proficient in Terraform which allows migration to Kubernetes 
• Experience with DevOps toolchains such as Docker, Travis CI, Jenkins, Git.,
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Able to implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (Git) 
• React experience is good to have
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills

• Can write reliable, scalable, testable and maintainable code.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and clean code.
• Design and/or contribute to client-side and server-side architecture.
• Well versed with fundamentals of REST.
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Knowledge of one or more front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML / CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, Typescript) JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Redux, Vue.js)
• Knowledge of one or more back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java, Python, Go, Node.js and frameworks like SpringBoot, .NET Core) 
• Well versed with fundamentals of database design.
• Familiarity with databases - RDBMS like MySQL, Postgres & NoSQL like MongoDB, DynamoDB.
• Well versed with one or more cloud platforms like - AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Familiar with Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation & Terraform & deployment tools like Docker, Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions.
• Unit testing tools like Junit, Mockito, Chai, Mocha, Jest

• Key Result Areas

1. End to end ownership in the consumer facing B2C tech team and deliver solutions to solve business problems.

1. Advanced Javascript, CSS, HTML 5, D/XHTML, XML, JSON, DOM Concepts

1. Must have worked on a SPA framework: ReactJS, Node JS, AngularJS or InfernoJS

1. Own the development methodology. Align with the executive team to improve the development process, prioritize projects and manage multiple work streams

1. Extensive Work with open-source technologies and built services architecture as this will prove to be an invaluable asset in building solutions.

1. Lead a team of Software Developers, Server Engineers and QA Engineers, establishing development practices and standards

1. Extensive skill on React JS, Node JS

1. Experience on various PHP frameworks like Cakephp, Laravel, CI etc would be plus

1. Work with scrum teams and product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
2. Jumping on a call with clients to understand the requirement and profile them the right solution, helping formulate an effective solution and turning it into a working application
3. Conducting website performance and unit tests
4. Heavy involvement in the requirements gathering, development and operational stages of new projects
5. Troubleshoot and debug related application defects with existing and new applications
6. Work collaboratively with the frontend team and other team members, train other members and get trained if required

Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for
critical systems and delivering high-availability and performance
• Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Writing well designed, testable, efficient code
• Test cases should be upto the mark
• Performance tuning knowledge is a must. Experience is an added advantage.
• In Backend – fundamentals of all languages is a must• Good hands-on software development experience with proven working experience
in Python development
• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such
as Django, Flask)
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process
architecture
• Strong unit test and debugging skills
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and
CSS3
• Understanding of memory model/GC from performance point of view.