Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) – Teertham

About Teertham:

Teertham is a full-stack puja services and faith-tech platform serving families across Delhi-NCR. We standardise home-based pujas with certified acharyas, premium samagri, transparent pricing, and seamless booking across app, web, WhatsApp, and phone.

Current stack:

Role Summary

We’re hiring a hands-on CTO to own Teertham’s technology end-to-end – architecture, execution, data, security, and team building. This is a builder role, not a passive advisory position.

Key Responsibilities

 1. Architecture & Platform

 • Own the architecture of a multi-channel platform (web, apps, WhatsApp, internal tools).

  • Evolve our stack pragmatically – improve what exists, and introduce better tools where needed (e.g. React/Next.js, Node/Nest, Python/FastAPI/Django, Go, modern relational + NoSQL DBs, microservices, event-driven systems).

  • Ensure reliability, performance, observability, and cost discipline on AWS (or future cloud choices).

 2. Product & Delivery

• Translate business goals into a clear product/tech roadmap with realistic milestones.

 • Run engineering execution: sprints, reviews, testing, staging → production releases.

• Balance speed vs debt; keep the codebase clean enough to move fast without breaking everything.

 3. Data, Analytics & AI

  • Define data models and event tracking across all user touchpoints.

  • Set up dashboards for conversion, repeat usage, LTV, ops SLAs, and NPS.

  • Use data and AI (rules + models) for puja recommendations, acharya–devotee matching, offers, and nudges.

4. Multi-Channel Experience & Internal Tools

• Own the end-to-end user journey: discovery → booking → fulfilment → feedback across app/web/WhatsApp.

 • Build internal tools for ops, logistics, acharya management, support and QC.

  • Design for non-technical users: simple, fast, and robust.

 5. Security, Compliance & Governance

  • Implement strong security practices: auth, access control, data protection, logging, alerts, backups, DR.

• Ensure compliance with relevant Indian data/payment norms as we scale.

 • Set engineering standards, documentation, and code review culture.

 6. Team & Vendor Leadership

• Hire, grow, and retain a small, sharp engineering team (in-house + external).

• Manage agencies/freelancers and hold them to technical and delivery standards.

• Act as the technical counterpart to the founding team in all major decisions.

What We’re Looking For

  • 8–15 years building and scaling consumer internet / marketplace / on-demand products.

  • Prior experience as CTO / Head of Engineering / Principal Architect in an early or growth-stage startup.

• Strong hands-on background across modern full-stack technologies, ideally including:

- Web: React/Next.js or similar modern frontend frameworks

 - Mobile: Flutter / React Native / native apps

 - Backend: Node.js/TypeScript plus exposure to other stacks (Python, Go, Java, etc.)

 - Databases: relational (Postgres/MySQL) and at least one NoSQL/queue/event system

 - Cloud & DevOps: AWS (or equivalent), CI/CD, monitoring, basic infra-as-code concepts.

 • Comfortable with data and experimentation: funnels, cohorts, A/B tests, not just gut feel.

 • Track record of taking products from MVP → scale with real business impact, not just nice demos.

• Education from IIT/BITS/IIIT/NIT/IIM/ISB is a plus; a strong portfolio of shipped products and teams led matters more.

• Orientation towards real metrics: uptime, booking success, cancellations, repeat, NPS.

Why Join Teertham?

 • Own the entire tech charter for a category being built from scratch.

• Direct, daily impact on how families experience faith and rituals in a digital, high-trust way.

• High autonomy, fast decisions, and zero corporate theatre.

• Room to design the stack, the team, and the operating model the way you think it should be done.