EduFund - Director - Technology

5 days ago


Pune, India EduFund Full time

Director - Technology the jobAbout 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 & 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 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 (ref:iimjobs.com)



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