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