Technical Lead

About Velocity

Velocity is building the future of financial services for new-age businesses in India. Our vision is to build products that empower new age businesses by solving multiple growth problems for them.

We are a series-A funded start-up, building new fintech products for small businesses. Founders are IIT-IIM alumni, with prior experience across management consulting, venture capital and fintech startups. We are driven by the mission to empower small business owners with technology and dramatically improve their access to financial services. We have raised a total of $30M across 2 rounds of funding and are backed by some of the most marquee global investors including Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a very high bar for the quality of the code. Make sure the right technical architecture and design patterns are used for building a feature. Be an active code-reviewer for your team. 
• Plan and execute the release, rollback and migration meticulously.
• Follow the agile rituals including Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning and Retrospective religiously. Work backwards from the sprint timelines and ensures that there are no spills from the sprint
• Own the product metrics along with the product manager. Brainstorm and align the product solutions with PMs during product discovery.
• Ensures that production bugs are kept at minimum (Sentry Issues + L2 Issues). Also, make sure that the production bugs are resolved with detailed RCA with highest priority
• Track key engineering metrics like API Latency, Error throughput, code complexity
• Lead the sprint planning meeting by breaking down the user stories and tasks into smaller tasks and assigning appropriate story points. 
• Lead the daily standup to get daily updates from team and unblock team members wherever required. Ensure high work discipline and intensity in every team members.
• Give appropriate and timely feedback to team members to ensure high efficiency, speed and quality of the work. 
• Maintain prioritized tech backlog including tech debts and pick up in the sprints as and when required. 
• Maintain a healthy conflict with PMs and business teams to ensure high business impact of the engineering teams work.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of engineering experience, a startup experience is a plus.
• Strong people management skills including hiring, growing and mentoring managers, leaders, and engineers.
• Communication skills that demonstrate emotional intelligence and compassion to build trust, resolve conflicts, and provide feedback to your team
• Experience in Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform tools
• Strong first-hand experience with data pipelines and relational databases such as Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server or MySQL
• Experience with DevOps tools (GitHub, Travis CI, and Jenkins) 
• Experience working in Agile and Scrum development process
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes & docker is a must

Velocity culture

It doesn't matter what your last name is or what you scored in English in class 5, but if you are creative, crave difficult problems, can work in teams, are obsessed with customer feedback , we would love to talk to you. What we can assure you is a workplace that’s fun, cares about your growth, challenges you and bestows great responsibilities to those with great powers.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical insurance for your family 
• Cult-fit Membership
• Employee friendly ESOP Policy
• Free Lunch and Snacks
• Relocation allowances