Zoomcar - Chief Technology Officer - IIT/NIT/BITS

About Zoomcar:

Zoomcar is India's first and largest self-drive car rental service. We're intensely focused on redefining urban mobility through our dynamic car sharing marketplace platform that creates a world class experience for both owners and renters. We're currently present across 20+ cities with a fleet of over 3,500 cars.

Job Description :

Position : Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Experience in years : 10-12 years

Location : Bangalore

Reporting to: CEO

About the Role:

At Zoomcar, you will be guiding a team of nearly 50 engineers to provide deep technological solutions to some of the most challenging problem statements in engineering today.

In addition to further building out our robust microservice platform for inventory, payments, and pricing, you will also steer the development of our in-house IoT capabilities focused on driver and vehicle monitoring. This system will provide real-time insights to help reduce accidents and prevent vehicle breakdown (Level 1 autonomous cars). Related to this problem set, the CTO will oversee development of first-in-class algorithms to leverage vehicle and driver data to improve profitability and create a world leading customer experience. Zoomcar also expects the CTO to drive the technological development of a robust personalization/recommendation module with the help of our data science team. This will ensure an extremely high level of customer retention as we continue to scale in India and then later across international markets.

As the CTO, you will :

- Oversee and provide technical vision across all engineering teams: backend, UI, mobile, QA, devops, IoT

- Work closely with other CXOs to ensure company's technology requirements are always fulfilled; particularly strong collaboration with product team required

- Drive the medium and long-term technology vision of the company by ensuring all key engineering stakeholders are bought into major architectural decisions

- Lead design discussions and help identify fatal flaws/blindspots on major engineering projects

- Ensure that company's core technology infrastructure (e.g. AWS) scales in line with business requirements; intense focus on cost savings and performance uptime/efficiency

- Liaise with relevant outside stakeholders and evangelize company's core technology efforts to promote Zoomcar's tech brand in broader startup community (IoT focus)

- Create a vibrant engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, assertiveness, collaboration, and curiosity; Never Stop Learning is our core mantra!

Basic Qualifications :

- Computer science degree from premier institute; 2004-2007 Btech pass out ideal

- Ability to clearly and quickly convert business problems into technology driven solutions

- Full stack engineering understanding across backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and devops

- Strong knowledge of Java and RoR are major plus; multiple language/framework understanding is a must (should be in touch with newest developments)

- Experience in various monitoring tools to ensure stellar system performance

- Strong understanding of upcoming technologies that can add value across the stack

- Comfort working in pod structure that fuses engineers and product managers on a common team

- 10-12 years of engineering experience; should be majority in hands on, IC oriented roles

- Hands on leader who's comfortable coding, providing code reviews, and leading complex architectural design discussions in team setting

- Experience handling gigabyte and terabyte size datasets to help Zoomcar scale vehicle and user level data