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As the Head of Engineering at indiagold, you will play a crucial role in leading the engineering function, setting the technology vision, and building a high-performing team to drive innovation and scalability in a regulated fintech environment. Your responsibilities will include: - **Technical Leadership**: - Drive architectural and infrastructure decisions across all platforms (mobile, web, backend, devops). - Ensure platform stability, availability, and scalability in the regulated fintech environment. - **Team Management**: - Hire, mentor, and grow a strong engineering team. - Foster a culture of quality, ownership, and velocity. - Implement best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and operations. - **Execution & Delivery**: - Work closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to deliver features at speed and scale. - Own delivery timelines and engineering quality across squads. - **System Scalability & Security**: - Lead the design of secure, high-performance systems capable of handling large-scale financial data and transactions. - Prepare the tech stack to meet future NBFC regulatory and compliance needs. - **Tech Strategy & Roadmap**: - Own and evolve the long-term technology roadmap in alignment with business goals. - Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that offer competitive advantage. - **Cross-functional Collaboration**: - Partner with founders and leadership teams across Product, Business, and Operations. - Align technical initiatives with business priorities and regulatory developments. - Handle all audits and certification related to fintech (PSI-DSS, CISA). - Collaboration with third party vendors and set up cadence with them around billing and TAT. **Requirements**: - 10+ years of overall experience in software engineering. - 3+ years in senior leadership roles (Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, etc.). - Proven experience building and scaling backend-heavy, data-driven systems. - Deep expertise in system design, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and modern software architecture. - Strong command over tech stacks such as Node.js, Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, React, MySQL. - Track record of building and managing high-performance engineering teams. - Experience working in fast-paced startup environments. - Strong sense of ownership, bias for action, and outcome-oriented leadership. **Good To Have**: - Prior experience in fintech or lending. - Familiarity with gold-backed or asset-backed lending products. - Understanding of compliance, data privacy, and security in financial systems. - Experience building systems in regulated industries (e.g. NBFCs, banks). You'll be part of a rapidly growing team at indiagold that is passionate about solving massive challenges around financial well-being. Feel free to reach out if you believe this opportunity aligns with your skills and aspirations. As the Head of Engineering at indiagold, you will play a crucial role in leading the engineering function, setting the technology vision, and building a high-performing team to drive innovation and scalability in a regulated fintech environment. Your responsibilities will include: - **Technical Leadership**: - Drive architectural and infrastructure decisions across all platforms (mobile, web, backend, devops). - Ensure platform stability, availability, and scalability in the regulated fintech environment. - **Team Management**: - Hire, mentor, and grow a strong engineering team. - Foster a culture of quality, ownership, and velocity. - Implement best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and operations. - **Execution & Delivery**: - Work closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to deliver features at speed and scale. - Own delivery timelines and engineering quality across squads. - **System Scalability & Security**: - Lead the design of secure, high-performance systems capable of handling large-scale financial data and transactions. - Prepare the tech stack to meet future NBFC regulatory and compliance needs. - **Tech Strategy & Roadmap**: - Own and evolve the long-term technology roadmap in alignment with business goals. - Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that offer competitive advantage. - **Cross-functional Collaboration**: - Partner with founders and leadership teams across Product, Business, and Operations. - Align technical initiatives with business priorities and regulatory developments. - Handle all audits and certification related to fintech (PSI-DSS, CISA). - Collaboration with third party vendors and set up cadence with them around billing and TAT. **Requirements**: - 10+ years of overall experience in software engineering. - 3+ years in senior leadership roles (Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, etc.). - Proven experience building and scaling backend-heavy, data-driven systems. - Deep expertise in system design, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and modern software architecture. - Strong command over tec
