Chief Technology Officer - FinTech

- India's leading fintech platform connecting 107 million users with more than 2 million direct merchants. It enables users to discover retailers (brick-and-mortar stores, e-com websites, m-com apps, billers, telcos) and make payment at such retailers in 1-tap. In addition to being one of the largest sources of digital payments in India, this fintech startup aspires to back the financial needs of the Indians by making personal loans and insurance covers easily accessible to all. 

- It is the first company in the industry to offer an instant personal loan of Rs 1 lakh on a mobile wallet and offer Insurance covers at pocket-sized premiums of Rs 20. It has also established itself as one of India's leading new age wealth management platforms, enabling users to invest in Mutual funds or digital gold. International recharges is another rare service that it has recently enabled. All the services can be availed in all application which is available on Android, Windows, and IOS. This is the only firm in the Digital payments and E-commerce industry to become operationally profitable. It turning profitable and envisions building affordable and accessible services and aims to empower the users financially and digitally.

Responsibilities:

- Ensuring that the product vision is realized through excellence in execution

- Developing technical strategy and for developing and maintaining a technical roadmap that will continue to innovate from a technical standpoint.

- Work closely with founders and management team to lead engineering planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives, timetables, implementation, and deployment of a product

- Maintain and build a high-performance engineering culture

- Own the development methodology. Align with the executive team to improve the development process, prioritize projects and manage multiple workstreams-

- Lead a team of Software Developers, Server Engineers and QA Engineers, establishing development practices and standards

- Build and retain world-class engineers through strong recruitment, mentoring, and career management

- Grow our engineering team and maintaining the right tech culture throughout.

- Be accountable for the delivery of projects within schedules and timelines

- Responsible for the product engineering road map, quality assurance and stability of the products.

- Manage team budgets and reporting metrics. You love to be lean and crafty with limited resources

- Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our fast-paced environment. Adsorb uncertainty and provide certainty.

Qualification :

- 12+ years of experience. Have worked in high scale products. Start-up experience strongly preferred

- Stronghold on tech, architecture, design pattern to lead long term scalable, stable and flexible tech solutions for business, marketing and product long term initiatives.

- Extensive software engineering development and design experience with complex and highly scalable products using multiple technologies and languages

- Strong program management expertise and engineering execution skillset

- Strong business and product acumen to be able to solve business and product problems enabling through tech solutions.

- Experience in organization-wide initiatives and change management.

- Ability to make quick decisions in high-pressure environments with limited information.