CreditMantri - Tech Lead/Technical Architect

CreditMantri is a Series-C funded, Chennai headquartered Fintech start-up, founded and run by a team with extensive experience in world-class financial services organizations. With over 1.2 Cr users and working with 60+ lenders, our aspiration is to help the Credit Invisibles get access to credit. Data and technology are core drivers to make this possible.

The engineering, UI design, and testing teams have been created and are in place and has close to 40 persons. CreditMantri is looking for a leader for this function. Our technology platform caters to 2 stakeholders - consumers on one side and lenders on the other. Internally, the stakeholders would be the Business Units, Product, Data Science, Marketing, Operations & Service teams.

Our Current tech stack is Java, Springboot, PHP - Laravel and Lumen frameworks, Python, NodeJS/ExpressJS, JQuery, AWS, NGINX, MySQL, MongoDB, IBM Websphere, Oracle, MicroservicesArchitecture, Google APIs , PostgreSQL.

The ideal candidate should be a product of the digital era, with extensive experience on digital, mobile and big data applications. He / she should be deeply immersed about technology and be able to solve complex software engineering challenges. The person needs to be able to work with institutional enterprise platforms, while building a modern technology stack. Familiarity with fintech platforms, but with the mindset and the attitude that a startup needs, is the ideal profile. Strong motivator, demonstrating excellent leadership skills and capacity to lead and build the platform and influence the course of the organization.

Are you Someone:

- Is passionate about building well engineered products.

- Has prior experience in architecting and delivering solutions on cloud using latest web technologies.

- Is keen on working on cutting edge product and platform which leverages data analytics (we have our own proprietary scoring and profiling data models).

- Has strong conception skills to engineer and architect for large scale while keeping in mind reality of day-to-day deliverables.

- Has a strong orientation towards product delivery and end result.

- Is a product thinker having familiarity with various product design processes like Design

Thinking, Human Centered Design.

- The Job is based In Chennai and Working from Office is Mandatory.

Work Experience:

- Hands on 12+ years' experience in Architecting and delivering engineering solutions.

- Prior experience in cloud delivered platforms with experience in web, mobile tech.

- Building scalable backend architecture for supporting a customer-facing exploding fronted tier

- Prior experience building data-driven applications (e.g., able to use insights in guiding dynamic display of relevant content to users).

- Working with and mentoring technically strong junior engineers.

- Ability to gather and understand business requirements, map to high level design and then produce and own the low-level design and implementation.

- Chart out the engineering roadmap for product integration amongst our various offerings enabling the business to service end customers and lenders in a more effective manner.

- Bias to action, leadership and ownership are essential for success.

Key Competencies:

- Agile development with a strong bias towards clean code, core engineering processes.

- Web technologies - full stack.

- Architecting solutions on web and mobile frontends.

- Familiar with data marts and modelling methodologies.

- Result oriented.

- Ability to work in "unstructured environment" and bring method to madness.

- Taking ownership of deliverables.

- Building a "proud" engineering team.

- Continual focus on emerging technologies, constant skill upgradation, a passion for coding even today, design and architecture patterns, algorithms.

- We would like someone with strong start-up mindset / thinking, agile working models, frequent releases, and open-source stack leanings.

- To that extent, startup experience with deep understanding of enterprise applications is preferable.

- Ability to identify, onboard technology partners, get the maximum value out of the partnership.

Responsibilities:

- Bringing in current generation technologies to enable the platform to operate at web scale.

- Conceptualize the platform architecture, make the right technology choices, guide the engineering team, manage the DevOps and DevSecOps processes, focus on the security posture of the platform, sustain and improve upon the existing engineering processes.

- Play a pivotal role in working with the leadership team to drive the organization to greatness.

- Work closely with the management team to ensure organization and technology alignment.

- Position will be part of the Leadership Team at CreditMantri, responsible for influencing the growth of the organization.

- Solve complex technology challenges, drive engineering recruitment, team building and motivation, platform evangelization, technology solutioning, and generally be the technology custodian of the organization.