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Product Engineer

Key Responsibilities: Strategic Partnerships & Business Development. - Develop and execute a comprehensive B2B partnership strategy spanning education financing (loans/Insurances and ancillary services)) and savings (mutual funds/FD/DigiGold). - Build and nurture relationships with schools, universities, coaching institutes, financial planners, banks/NBFCs, AMCs, wealth advisors, and fintech platforms. - Drive strategic alliances with key stakeholders to create a strong distribution ecosystem for both loans and investments. - Identify cross-selling opportunities between education loan borrowers and investment (MF) customers to maximize value. Growth & Revenue Optimization - Lead partner acquisition, engagement, and retention efforts to drive loan applications and mutual fund investments. - Optimize loan distribution channels by collaborating with lenders, universities, and student advisory bodies. - Expand the mutual fund business by onboarding IFAs, wealth managers, and digital distribution networks. - Track and enhance conversion rates across both verticals, ensuring strong unit economics. Stakeholder & Relationship Management - Build and maintain C-level relationships with key financial and education sector partners. - Collaborate with banks, NBFCs, and fintech players to streamline the education loan process and reduce drop-offs. - Establish co-branded partnerships with AMCs and investment platforms for mutual fund distribution. Cross-functional Collaboration & Execution - Work closely with Marketing, Product, Sales, and Compliance teams to align partnerships with business objectives. -Enable seamless partner integration, ensuring operational efficiency in both loan disbursals and investment onboarding. - Conduct training sessions for sales and advisory teams to enhance product knowledge and sales effectiveness. Key Requirements - Experience & Industry Knowledge. - 3+ years in B2B partnerships, strategic alliances, or business development within financial services, ed-fintech, or investment management. - Deep understanding of education loans (NBFCs, Banks, Universities) and mutual funds distribution (AMCs, IFAs, digital wealth platforms). - Strong network within banks, NBFCs, mutual fund distributors, schools, and universities. Skills & Capabilities - Proven experience in structuring high-value partnerships, negotiating contracts, and executing deals. - Strong analytical mindset with an ability to track partner performance and drive data-backed decisions. - Leadership skills to drive cross-functional collaboration and influence senior stakeholders. - Understanding of regulatory requirements (RBI, SEBI, AMFI guidelines) affecting loans and mutual funds. About The Company: - EduFund is an early-stage platform that helps Indian parents plan for their child's higher education in advance. - Our product allows families to invest for education, take education loans, and receive competitive scholarships! Founded in 2020 by Eela Dubey (NYU 13') and Arindam Sengupta (Princeton 12'), EduFund is backed by $5M+ funding from investors like MassMutual Ventures, Kunal Shah, and DSP Investment Managers. - Our team, headquartered in Ahmedabad with branches in Mumbai and Pune, includes professionals from Reliance, Goldman Sachs, CRISIL, and others. - We're passionate, fun-loving, and love a good cup of chai while solving challenging problems!.

Navi Mumbai

Others

EduFund -  Manager - Partnerships - B2B 

Director - Technology Description: About the job About the Role: We are seeking a Technical Lead to drive the technical vision and hands-on delivery of EduFunds core product platform. You will be accountable for: - Defining and implementing architectural guardrails for scalability, reliability, and security. - Leading the engineering team to deliver features and platform improvements at speed. - Mentoring and upskilling engineers, while staying close enough to the code to guide design choices. - Ensuring that short-term delivery aligns with long-term system health and product evolution. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Technical Strategy - Define and evolve the overall system architecture for a scalable, secure, and modular fintech platform. - Establish platform boundaries, API contracts, and data migration roadmaps for new and existing modules. - Design for high availability, fault tolerance, and observability to support business-critical operations. - Drive cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS/EKS, container orchestration, cost optimization). - Champion adoption of modern development practices (CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, monitoring). - Embed AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality. Technical Execution & Delivery - Translate product roadmaps into milestone-based engineering plans (30-60-day deliverables). - Ensure timely and reliable releases of new features and platform enhancements. - Lead efforts to stabilize and refactor legacy components, reducing tech debt and improving performance. - Set up SLIs, SLOs, and incident management processes to maintain system reliability. People Leadership & Mentorship - Lead a growing team of 6-10+ engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps. - Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship, raising the overall technical bar. - Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning. - Support career growth through coaching, feedback, and development plans. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with founders, product managers, and business leaders to prioritize trade-offs and align technology decisions with business outcomes. - Communicate engineering trade-offs and architectural decisions in plain language to non-technical stakeholders. - Actively contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and scaling of the engineering team. Qualifications - 10 to 12 years of experience in software engineering, with 3 to 5 years in tech lead roles. - Proven expertise in end-to-end architecture and scalable system design, ideally in product-based fintech or high-traffic B2C/B2B platforms. - Hands-on experience with: - MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js); Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines); Monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch); Strong track record of shipping products under tight deadlines and improving system performance/reliability. - Experience leading team transformations: stabilizing legacy code, implementing engineering best practices. - Familiarity with embedding AI tools into the developer lifecycle (test automation, code reviews, productivity metrics). - Ability to thrive in early-stage, high-ambiguity startup environments, balancing speed with long-term architectural needs. - Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills

Pune

EduFund - Director - Technology 

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