Head of Platform Engineering"> Head of Platform Engineering

Role Summary

Key Responsibiities

• Own the non-functional architecture - security, performance, scalability, availability, resilience.
• Define and implement observability monitoring frameworks (APM, logging, alerting, SLOs).
• Drive performance engineering - profiling, load testing, capacity planning, and optimization.
• Champion engineering culture - coding standards, documentation norms, design reviews, and technical excellence rituals.
• Build and lead the QA automation strategy, including automated regression, performance testing, and CI/CD quality gates.
• Act as a technical ambassador with customers, demonstrating platform scalability, security, reliability, and participating in due-diligence or technical evaluation discussions.
• Partner with product engineering leads to ensure features meet rigorous non-functional requirements.
• Mentor engineers on best practices and elevate overall engineering maturity.

Requirements

• 10+ years in software engineering, with deep expertise in security, SRE, QA automation, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices (in java, golang, ruby, nodejs, reactjs stacks), and distributed systems.
• Proven experience implementing security, performance, and reliability frameworks in a SaaS product.
• Experience in FinTech/RegTech/Financial Services is a strong plus.
• Hands-on ability to debug, profile, harden, and optimize systems.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  

• Build a high-impact platform in the financial services domain
• Opportunity to work with some of the best brains in fintech and a strong product engineering team
• Grow exponentially by working in small and transparent teams and influence tech culture
• Increase your geek quotient by attending meetups and conferences.