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21/08 Aditi Panjwani
Partner at Infinite HR

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Chief Technical Officer - Broking Firm (10-12 yrs)

Mumbai Job Code: 842358

One of India's top broking houses (part of India's leading BFSI group) is embarking on a new digital first business in the broking space operating with startup DNA and hustle mindset and looking to hire a Co-founder / CTO to manage the technical aspects of the business.

- We are looking for hands-on technology leader who has been there, done that and want to change the way how broking works in India using leading edge technology products and solutions.

- Day to day job will be involved in architecting and in some cases building very challenging scalable applications to handle a lot of data and many I/O events. Build or set up a new tool for automating, monitoring, optimizing the infrastructure.

- As a CTO, you will be leading the technology role in defining the Technology Strategy, Technology architecture / stack, Technology design choices and help the team of engineers, tech leads in designing the best-in-class broking experience for our customers.

- We are looking to set up many technologies like Message queues, InMemory database, Unit testing, load testing, etc. We also do a lot of interesting work in diverse areas, such as automated deployment, infrastructure, scaling, optimization, data mining, graph databases, Machine Learning, and we are always experimenting with new technologies.

- We are not expecting the ideal candidate to know everything but be able to stretch, accept the challenge, roll up the sleeve, self-learn apply oneself and implement/execute.

- More importantly, as a CTO you will lead by example, set the bar very high, provide Digital first thinking, and inculcate the right startup culture of hustle, scrappiness and the values for the team.

Roles and Responsibilities

- 10-12 Years of Experience in the IT Software / ProductIndustry with having prior experience of being a CTO for software product

- Preferably in the Fintech areas but can come from any other consumer internet industry as well

- Define the Technology strategy, Technology Roadmap, defining the right tech stack for the business

- Leading the team to bring the right engineering culture and innovation in setting up right tools and framework for Design, development, DevOps etc

- Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Heads and other vendors and external stakeholders in getting the right Tech for the business

- Leading the team in defining the right engineering culture and standards by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.

- Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

- Provides information by collecting, analyzing,and summarizing development and service issues.

- Supports and develops software engineers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities

Key Skills:

- Deep and demonstrated understanding of the latest technology stack and architecture

- Must have built complex technology architecture and design systems in a product startup or entrepreneurial environment

- Hands-on coding and design/architecture skills

- Must have working experience on ReactNative, NodeJS and different packages. Great to have diversity with experience of working on any two other programming anguages like Python or GoLang orC#

- Can demonstrate strong front-end skills on any two frameworks React, Angular or Vue etc

- Must have integrated third-party services.

- Working experience with RDBMS, Mongo, ElasticSearch &Cassandra.

- Should have worked on Kubernetes and Docker, dockerize any NodeJ Sapp and understands CI CD pipelines.

- Strong knowledge on Progressive Web Apps,AMP and related framework

- Experience writing Microservices is amust-Highly important

- Understanding of Boto3 orGoogleAP Iis extremely important

- Experience in building and supporting high-performance applications


- Should have working experience with any in-memory caching like Redis

- Analyzing Information,software design, Software Documentation, SoftwareTesting, Teamwork, General Programming Skills, Software Development Fundamentals, Software Development Process, Software Requirements, Software Architecture, Coaching

- Most importantly has a lot of fun building products,solving problems and being a part of a team leading from the front

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Maternity and Paternity Benefits

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