Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Information Technology
Full-Time
EduFund
Overview
About The Role
We are seeking a Staff Engineer / Technical Lead to drive the technical vision and hands-on delivery of EduFunds core product platform.
You Will Be Accountable For
Architecture & Technical Strategy :
We are seeking a Staff Engineer / 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 10- 12 years of experience in software engineering, with 3- 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.
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