VP Engineering (Potential Unicorn) at SimpliFin · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 6 - 14 years · ₹20L - ₹50L / yr (ESOP available) · Raised funding · Posted 17 Aug 2023
We are looking for a passionate technologist with experience in building SaaS tech experience and products for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead Engineering for an AI powered Financial Operations platform to seamlessly monitor, optimize, reconcile and forecast cashflow with ease.
Background
An incredible rare opportunity for a VP Engineering to join a top tier incubated VC SaaS startup and outstanding management team. Product is currently in the build stage with a solid design partners pipeline of ~$250K and soon raising a pre-seed/seed round with marquee investors.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the company's technical strategy and roadmap, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business objectives and is scalable, reliable, and secure.
- Manage and optimize the company's technical resources, including staffing, software, hardware, and infrastructure, to ensure that they are being used effectively and efficiently.
- Work with the founding team and other executives to identify opportunities for innovation and new technology solutions, and evaluate the feasibility and impact of these solutions on the business.
- Lead the engineering function in developing and deploying high-quality software products and solutions, ensuring that they meet or exceed customer requirements and industry standards.
- Analyze and evaluate technical data and metrics, identifying areas for improvement and implementing changes to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
- Ensure that the company is in compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements, including data privacy and security regulations.
Eligibility criteria:
- 6+ years of experience in developing scalable SaaS products.
- Strong technical background with 6+ years of experience with a strong focus on SaaS, AI, and finance software.
- Prior experience in leadership roles.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, with a strong desire to innovate and grow a startup from the ground up.
Perks:
- Vested Equity.
- Ownership in the company.
- Build alongside passionate and smart individuals.
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Job Description – Technical Head
Industry: Fintech / Financial Services
Experience: 15–20+ years (20 years preferred)
Location: Noida
Reporting To: CEO / Managing Director
Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced Technical Head to lead and manage the company's IT team, technology infrastructure, software development, and fintech platforms. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring technology reliability, security, scalability, and alignment with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the IT team, including developers, infrastructure, and technical support professionals.
- Oversee software development, application maintenance, system integration, and technology implementation.
- Manage fintech platforms, payment systems, banking APIs, and third-party integrations, as applicable.
- Ensure IT infrastructure, cloud systems, databases, and applications operate securely and efficiently.
- Implement cybersecurity measures, data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity processes.
- Manage technology projects, vendors, budgets, and delivery timelines.
- Coordinate with senior management to develop and execute technology strategy.
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, security, and IT governance requirements.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
- 15–20+ years of experience in IT, with 20 years preferred.
- Proven experience in technology leadership and IT team management.
- Strong knowledge of software architecture, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and DevOps.
- Experience in fintech, banking, payments, or financial services preferred.
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, project management, and communication skills.
Work Location: In person
About the role
You will be a pivotal member of the leadership team, responsible for driving the company's product and platform strategy while overseeing engineering excellence across AI, data, platform, DevOps and infrastructure. This is a mission-critical role for an engineering leader who is both strategic and hands-on, and who can build scalable technologies for global enterprise clients in a fast-paced innovation ecosystem.
Reports to: CEO · Location: Bengaluru, India — hybrid, 3 days a week in office
What you will do
Technology & product leadership
- Define and drive the technology vision, architecture and long-term platform roadmap.
- Oversee the architecture, design and delivery of highly scalable enterprise systems.
- Ensure engineering excellence, velocity and reliability across the product lifecycle.
Engineering & platform management
- Lead platform engineering, product technology, DevOps, infrastructure and Quality Engineering.
- Build robust cloud-native systems using the Azure, AWS and GCP ecosystems.
- Oversee operational effectiveness, including uptime, production reliability and cost optimisation.
Innovation & AI strategy
- Spearhead Mission AI by developing scalable, production-grade AI/ML and GenAI capabilities.
- Own the GenAI/LLM solutions architecture.
- Core specialisation in AI agents and autonomous workflows, data extraction and intelligent automation.
- Direct hands-on architectural oversight of large language models, applied AI and multi-layered deep learning products.
- Extensive expertise in building intelligent document automation systems — similar in complexity to patent parsing, legal workflow automation and structured decision intelligence tools.
Technical leadership
- A proven track record overseeing product architecture, tech strategy and cross-functional engineering execution across core full-stack and AI platforms.
- Collaborate with executive leadership on business strategy, client requirements and product delivery.
- Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering teams with a growth mindset.
- Establish a strong technology culture grounded in ownership, innovation and continuous learning.
What success looks like
- Mission AI: build a world-class AI system leveraging GenAI, ML and enterprise-grade data engineering.
- Hyper-scaling: architect and scale the platform to match global industry leaders in the IP space.
- Culture building: develop a strong engineering organisation with high ownership, performance and innovation DNA.
Qualifications & experience
- Preferably under 15 years of enterprise software engineering experience across B2B SaaS or technology-first companies; fewer is fine for an exceptional engineer.
- A proven track record of taking early-stage AI/ML prototypes and scaling them into robust enterprise SaaS platforms featuring multi-agent orchestration, complex workflows and decision intelligence.
- Experienced in building and mentoring agile, lean startup teams of full-stack and machine learning engineers from the ground up.
- Proven leadership in defining and executing technology strategy and platform roadmaps.
- Extensive cloud-native engineering experience with Azure, AWS and GCP.
Technical expertise
- Strong full-stack engineering background (Java, Python, JavaScript frameworks).
- Expertise with JS frameworks such as React, Angular and Node.js.
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems and microservices.
- Strong knowledge of databases (SQL, NoSQL), data modelling and unstructured data management.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian, Git, CI/CD pipelines).
Behavioural & leadership competencies
- Product and delivery management expertise, end to end, including delivery and customer support.
- Excellent communication, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
- High technical proficiency combined with strong business acumen.
- Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
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