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About the Role

Arcot Group is hiring a Senior Legal Counsel to lead the complete legal function for a fast-growing, multi-country technology group. This is the senior-most legal role in the organization and will report directly to the CEO.

The role will cover intellectual property, trademarks, patents, commercial contracts, corporate compliance, employment law, partnership structuring, dispute resolution, data protection, governance, and CEO advisory across entities in India, UAE, and the USA.

This is not a narrow specialist role. We are looking for a commercially minded legal leader who can work across multiple legal areas, make practical judgment calls, support fast business decisions, and build a legal function that enables growth while managing risk. The role will be supported by a Junior Legal Counsel / Paralegal, but legal strategy, final review, deal structuring, and senior advisory will sit with this position.

Key Responsibilities

Intellectual Property & Brand Protection

• Manage the Group’s IP portfolio across multiple brands, software products, and jurisdictions.
• Conduct trademark audits and manage trademark filings, renewals, registers, and enforcement across India, UAE, and the USA.
• Identify patentable software / AI innovations and work with engineering and product teams to document them in patent-ready format.
• File or manage patent applications through external patent counsel.
• Establish an invention disclosure process for technology teams.
• Monitor and act on IP infringement, brand misuse, and trademark conflicts.
• Clear new brand names before launch and support defensive domain registrations.
• Ensure employee and contractor agreements include strong IP assignment clauses.
• Advise teams on open-source license compliance.

Commercial Contracts

• Own the full contract lifecycle for client, vendor, partnership, employment, contractor, software, and inter-company agreements.
• Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, vendor agreements, software license agreements, partnership agreements, employment agreements, contractor agreements, and inter-company service agreements.
• Review all inbound contracts before signature.
• Create and maintain standardized contract templates and a clause library for common negotiation points.
• Maintain a contract register with renewal, expiry, auto-renewal, and termination notice tracking.
• Ensure inter-company transactions are documented on arm’s length terms for compliance and tax purposes.
• Support fast turnaround on standard and complex agreements while protecting business interests.

Multi-Jurisdiction Compliance

• Manage legal compliance across Group entities in India, UAE, and the USA.
• Support India compliance including Companies Act, ROC filings, board resolutions, GST/TDS legal coordination, Professional Tax, ESIC/PF, and Shops & Establishment requirements.
• Support UAE compliance including trade license renewals, visa quotas, establishment card, beneficial ownership, economic substance regulations, AML requirements, and free zone obligations.
• Support USA compliance including annual reports, franchise tax, registered agent coordination, and state-level requirements.
• Build and maintain a master compliance calendar across all entities.
• Advise leadership on entity structures, jurisdiction selection, and legal implications for new ventures.

Employment & Contractor Law

• Standardize employment and contractor agreements for India, UAE, and USA.
• Advise HR and leadership on contractor classification risk, restrictive covenants, confidentiality, non-compete / non-solicit clauses, and jurisdiction-specific enforceability.
• Support disciplinary matters, employee grievances, terminations, settlement agreements, and HR policy reviews.
• Review employee handbooks and internal policies for legal compliance.

Partnerships, Investments & Venture Structuring

• Draft and negotiate partnership agreements, shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements, operating agreements, and related documentation.
• Structure technology credit investments and document equity consideration with defensible valuations.
• Support due diligence for investments, acquisitions, partnerships, and new ventures.
• Advise on equity structures, vesting, anti-dilution, drag-along, tag-along, exits, and partner obligations.
• Support fundraising and investor documentation where required.

Dispute Resolution

• Act as the first legal responder for client claims, vendor disputes, employee grievances, partnership issues, unpaid invoices, and regulatory matters.
• Assess severity, legal exposure, financial impact, and likelihood of escalation.
• Manage pre-litigation resolution through negotiation, mediation, and settlement.
• Engage and manage external litigation counsel where court representation is required.
• Conduct post-dispute analysis to prevent recurrence.

Data Protection & Privacy

• Support compliance with India’s DPDP Act, UAE data protection laws, and relevant US state privacy laws.
• Draft and maintain privacy policies for websites, products, and applications.
• Draft and negotiate data processing agreements with clients and vendors.
• Create and maintain data breach response protocols.
• Provide privacy guidance for candidate data, student data, healthcare-adjacent data, entertainment talent data, and other business-specific data categories.

Governance, Policy & CEO Advisory

• Manage board meetings, minutes, resolutions, signing authority documentation, and corporate governance records.
• Draft and maintain policies including anti-corruption, whistleblower, conflict of interest, related party transaction, and document retention policies.
• Prepare legal updates for the CEO covering IP status, contracts, compliance, employment matters, disputes, risk register updates, and emerging legal concerns.
• Maintain a legal risk register with severity ratings and mitigation plans.
• Build legal FAQs, process guides, and a knowledge base for internal teams.
• Establish and manage external counsel relationships in India, UAE, and USA.

Team Management

• Manage and develop a Junior Legal Counsel / Paralegal.
• Delegate research, drafting, filing, and administrative tasks.
• Review junior work before it is shared with stakeholders or filed.
• Set priorities, manage workload, and develop the junior team member’s legal judgment and drafting skills.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• LLB or equivalent law degree from a recognized Indian university.
• Enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of India.
• 8–15 years of post-qualification experience across corporate, commercial, and intellectual property law.
• Strong experience in contracts, corporate compliance, IP protection, employment law, and deal structuring.
• Trademark registration and prosecution experience in India.
• Working knowledge of patent processes, either through direct filing or managing external patent counsel.
• Strong understanding of Indian corporate law, Indian IP laws, and Indian employment law.
• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions or multi-entity corporate structures.
• Ability to provide practical, commercially focused legal advice.
• Excellent English drafting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage a junior legal resource effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• LLM in Corporate Law, IP Law, Commercial Law, or related field.
• In-house experience at a technology company or multi-product business.
• Registration as a Patent Agent with the Indian Patent Office.
• Technical background in computer science, engineering, software, or related discipline.
• Exposure to UAE and/or US legal systems.
• Familiarity with UAE free zone regulations.
• Experience with software patents, AI / ML-related IP, data protection, M&A, investments, fundraising, or open-source compliance.

Ideal Candidate

The right candidate will be someone who can operate independently across the full legal spectrum, work directly with the CEO and leadership team, and balance legal risk with commercial urgency. They should be proactive, fast, practical, detail-oriented, and comfortable being the senior-most legal person in the organization.

This person should be able to move from trademark filings to contract negotiations, employment issues, partnership structures, privacy questions, and governance matters without needing constant direction. They should know when to push back, when to find a safe path forward, and how to communicate legal advice in a clear, business-friendly manner.

What We Offer

• Senior-most legal role in a high-growth, multi-country technology group.
• Direct reporting to the CEO.
• Ownership of the complete legal function across IP, contracts, compliance, employment, partnerships, disputes, privacy, and governance.
• International exposure across India, UAE, and USA.
• Opportunity to work on software, AI, and technology-led business models.
• Exposure to multiple portfolio companies, brands, and ventures.
• Support from a Junior Legal Counsel / Paralegal.
• Competitive compensation aligned with Mumbai market benchmarks.

The Impact you will create on the Job

Understand and handle deploying, troubleshooting issues with Compute, Networking, Storage, Database services on AWS & Azure.
IT experience in a team handling the cloud, infrastructure and Linux, Windows operating systems.
Working on  different services in AWS & Azure Cloud Platform
In depth knowledge of a wide range of AWS & Azure services in Compute, Storage, Networking, Infrastructure as a code, Serverless computing, IAM, CI/CD pipelines
Possess a thorough understanding of Internet based technologies (DNS, Security, IP Routing, SSH, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS etc.)

• At least 4 to 7 years of relevant experience as Big Data Engineer
• Hands-on experience in Scala or Python
• Hands-on experience on major components in Hadoop Ecosystem like HDFS, Map Reduce, Hive, Impala.
• Strong programming experience in building applications/platform using Scala or Python.
• Experienced in implementing Spark RDD Transformations, actions to implement business analysis

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In this role, you will be entrusted with developing JavaScript applications using Node.js.

Apply now for the role of a Node.js Developer at CodeBuddy that is opening doors for skilled, energetic developers looking for Mern Stack Developer Jobs.

If you can help us design and create multiple layers of applications while working cross-functionally across different infrastructures. You would fit perfectly if you love problem-solving, design, and creating quality offerings.

Technical Competency :

• Professional experience in Javascript Stack / Framework
• Development experience in Node.js
• Experience with backend using REST API.
• Proficiency in React.js concepts is a plus but not mandatory
• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming
• Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to document their code.
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance.
• To translate storyboards and various use cases to create high-performing apps
• Write, execute, and maintain clean, reusable, and scalable code
• Integrate our various data storage solutions
• Ensure the responsiveness and boost the performance of our apps
• Find and address the various bottlenecks and bug-fixes
• Help in code automatization
• Proficient use of GIT.

Interpersonal skills :

• Must be comfortable working in a team and independently when required.
• Must be disciplined, proactive, and self-motivated
• Needs to have problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good to have previous experience of direct client interaction for project briefs and updates.

What You Need To Apply:

• Previous work experience as a Node.js developer for 1 year at least.
• Strong experience with Javascript
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently or jointly in a self-directed way.
• Demonstrated successful development of web or mobile-based applications
• Proven analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Keen attention to detail
• Strong work ethic and desire to build industry-leading products
• Proactive instead of reactive
• Looking for ways to improve self and projects.

If you have it all in you, we are happy to have you with us!!!

Perks and Benefits:

We at Codebuddy believe our team is our biggest strength and we believe in paying our team members fair remuneration because we respect everyone’s effort.

• Review in every 9-12 months
• Opportunity to learn new technologies at the company's expense
• On-time salary (7th of every month)
• Fair pay policy
• Easy leave structure
• Performance awards
• Festival gifts
• Annual picnic
• Monthly dinner parties

We will be even happier if you have:

• Proficiency in Nest.js or Express.js,
• Being an open-source contributor,
• Ability to discover functional and non-functional requirements of an app, based on various levels of inputs from clients,
• Ability to transform customer ideas to business model and scope understandable by technical experts,
• Having excellent stakeholder management and client-facing skills.

Joining Codebuddy Means:

• Working in a comfortable and stimulating environment that boosts creativity,
• Being involved in challenging projects,
• Taking part and initiating knowledge-sharing initiatives,
• Working with clients from around the world, 
• Having the opportunity to bounce your ideas off our experienced team,
• Enjoying flextime and flexplace: adjust your daily schedule to your individual needs!
• We decide together and value equality: there is no strong hierarchy in our teams, and every opinion is more than welcome,
• Processes based on Scrum and Agile methodologies,
• Dev-friendly processes such as Code Review,
• The constant development of your hard and soft skills 
• Having a smooth start: your leader and a buddy will support you and mentor you.

What will happen next?

• Fill out the form
• Give us some time to review your application
• Meet us for an interview
• Complete a recruitment task to see how we work
• Join our team!

    1. B-Tech/M-Tech or a relevant degree in Computer Science or IT.

    2. 3D math skills.

    3. Knowledge of Unity3D including Unity GUI, asset bundles, materials/shaders, and iPhone/Android deployment.

    4. Knowledge of "version controller" like git.

    5. Good knowledge of vehicle physics, game physics and particle systems.

    6. Game designing skills are a definite plus!

    7. Experience in coordination with UI development team

    8. Working knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.

    9. Should be able to work in a growing company environment that is very dynamic and challenging.

    10. Self-starter, quick learner and problem solver.

1. Responsibilities Design and develop games on the Unity platform, as per design document and given specifications (character or vehicle control, AI, game GUI, scoring and other game elements.
2. Comprehensive research and development required for developing the game or certain features.
3. Troubleshoot and testing the game and debugging.
4. Experience with third-party libraries and APIs
5. Collaborate and harmoniously work with other team members.

• Must have good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Good Knowledge of OOPS, PHP, MVC frameworks.
• Write error free code and follow coding standards. Able to perform Code Review job.
• Work closely with QA person to assist in the testing process. 
• Perform R&D tasks if assigned and communicate with the Designer and UI team.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Able to work closely with the team and meet the tight deadlines where necessary.
• Strong Communication Skills.