Head - Engineering - FinTech

Scrabble has been mandated with hiring a Head of Engineering for a growing Fintech platform. The company's objective is to establish India's largest insurtech platform, which will help offer access to required insurance products to individuals who are underserved by existing alternatives.

Location : Bangalore

Responsibilities :

- Design and execute the long term strategy for technological development

- Drive the product roadmap for new product development, and ensure execution

- Manage the company's core technology infrastructure and ensure stability while scaling

- Build a high quality, technical platform for the organisation.

- Drive improvements across the end to end technology strategy.

- Create overall technology standards and practices and ensure adherence.

- Work closely with other departments to define and deliver new products for platform/process improvement.

- Ensure timely delivery of key Tech projects in the company.

- Ownership of system and data safely for the organisation.

Motivate and manage the current team of inhouse software engineers, product team and external engineering vendors

Qualifications:

- 8-12 years of experience in technology roles, with 4+ years of experience leading a team

- Prior experience working on a SaaS platform or in a fintech space would be advantageous

- Someone who can act as a strategic partner to the Founder, but also as a hands-on executor.

- Education in Computer Science/ Engineering is required.

- Coding experience in MERN stack, experience in AWS and Flutter will be beneficial.

- Entrepreneur mindset is critical