Head of Architecture and Technology

Head of Architecture and Technology (Hands-On, High-Ownership)

Company: Elysium PTE. LTD.

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu — at office

Employment Type: Full-time, permanent

Compensation: ₹15 L fixed CTC + up to 5 % ESOP (performance-linked vesting, 4-year schedule with 1-year cliff)

Reports to: Founding Team

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About Elysium

Elysium is a founder-led studio headquartered in Singapore with its delivery hub in Chennai. We are currently building a global gaming-based mar-tech platform while running a premium digital-services practice (branding, immersive web, SaaS MVPs, AI-powered solutions). We thrive on speed, experimentation and shared ownership.

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The opportunity

We’re looking for a hungry technologist who can work in an early-stage start-up along with the founders to build ambitious global products & services. You’ll code hands-on every week, shape product architecture, and grow a lean engineering pod—owning both our flagship product and client deliveries.

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What you will achieve in your first 12 months

• Co-ordinate & develop the In-house products with internal & external teams.

• Build and mentor a six-to-eight-person engineering/design squad that hits ≥ 85 % on time delivery for IT-service clients.

• Cut mean time-to-deployment to under 30 minutes through automated CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.

• Implement GDPR-ready data flows and a zero-trust security baseline across all projects.

• Publish quarterly tech radars and internal playbooks that keep the team learning and shipping fast.

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Day-to-day responsibilities

• Resource management & planning using the internal & external teams with respect to our products & client deliveries.

• Pair-program and review pull requests to enforce clean, testable code.

• Translate product/user stories into domain models, sprint plans and staffing forecasts.

• Design cloud architecture (AWS / GCP) that balances cost and scale; own IaC, monitoring and on-call until an SRE is hired.

• Evaluate and manage specialist vendors for parts of the flagship app; hold them accountable on quality and deadlines.

• Scope and pitch technical solutions in client calls; draft SoWs and high-level estimates with founders.

• Coach developers and designers, set engineering KPIs, run retrospectives and post-mortems.

• Prepare technical artefacts for future fundraising and participate in VC diligence.

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Must-have Requirements

• 5 – 8 years modern full-stack development with at least one product shipped to >10 k MAU or comparable B2B scale.

• Expert knowledge of modern full-stack ecosystems: Node.js or Python or Go; React/Next.js; distributed data stores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, Kafka or similar).

• Deep familiarity with AWS, GCP or Azure, including cost-optimized design, autoscaling, serverless patterns, container orchestration and IaC tools such as Terraform or CDK.

• Demonstrated ownership of DevSecOps practices: CI/CD, automated testing matrices, vulnerability scanning, SRE dashboards and incident post-mortems.

• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex trade-offs to founders, designers, marketers and non-technical investors.

• Hunger to learn, ship fast, and own meaningful equity in lieu of a senior-corporate pay check.

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Nice-to-have extras

• Prior work in fintech, ad-tech or loyalty.

• Experience with WebGL/Three.js, real-time event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), LLM pipelines & Blockchain.

• Exposure to seed- or Series-A fundraising, investor tech diligence or small-team leadership.

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What we offer

• ESOP of up to 5 % on a 4-year vest (1-year cliff) with performance accelerators tied to product milestones.

• Direct influence on tech stack, culture and product direction—your code and decisions will shape the company’s valuation.

• A team that values curiosity, transparency and shipping beautiful work at start-up speed.

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