Technical Product Catalyst

Job Description We're looking for an experienced, hands-on Tech Lead to accelerate our product innovation. This isn't just a coding job; it's a chance to blend deep backend expertise with product strategy. You will be the engine driving rapid, data-driven product experiments, leveraging AI and Machine Learning to create smart, personalised financial solutions. You'll lead by example, mentoring a small, dedicated team and ensuring technical excellence and rapid deployment in the high-stakes financial domain. Responsibilities - Rapid Prototyping: Design and execute quick, iterative experiments to validate new features and market hypotheses, moving from concept to production in days, not months. - AI-Powered Features: Build scalable Python-based backend services that integrate AI/ML models to enhance customer profiling, portfolio recommendation, and risk analysis. - System Architecture: Own the performance, stability, and scalability of our core fintech platform, implementing best practices in modern backend development. - Agile Catalyst: Drive and optimize Agile sprints, ensuring clear technical milestones, efficient resource allocation, backlog grooming and maintaining a laser focus on preventing scope creep. - Mentorship and Management: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a team of developers, fostering a culture of high performance, code quality, and continuous learning. - Domain Alignment: Translate complex financial requirements and market insights into precise, actionable technical specifications and seamless user stories. - Problem Solver: Proactively identify and resolve technical and process bottlenecks, acting as the ultimate problem solver for the engineering and product teams. - High-Value Delivery: Apply deep knowledge of the mutual fund and broader fintech landscape to inform product decisions, ensuring our solutions are compliant, competitive, and truly valuable to our clients, and optimise. - Risk & Security: Proactively architect solutions with security and financial risk management baked in from the ground up, protecting client data and assets. Requirements - Mindset: A verifiable track record as a proactive First Principle Problem Solver with an intense passion to Ship, production-ready features frequently. - Customer Empathy: Keeps the customer's experience in mind at all times. - Team Leadership: Experience in leading, mentoring, or managing a small development team, driving technical excellence and project delivery. - Systems Thinker: Diagnoses and solves problems by viewing the organisation as an interconnected system to anticipate broad impacts and develop holistic, strategic solutions. - Backend Powerhouse: 2+ years of professional experience with a strong focus on backend development. - Python Guru: Expert proficiency in Python and related frameworks (e. g., Django, Flask) for building robust, scalable APIs and services. - AI/ML Integration: Proven ability to leverage and integrate AI/ML models into production-level applications. - Data Driven: Expert in SQL for complex data querying, analysis, and ETL processes. Ship production-ready. - Financial Domain Acumen: Strong, demonstrable knowledge of financial products, especially mutual funds, wealth management, and key fintech metrics. Nice-to-haves - Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). - Familiarity with Zoho Analytics, Zoho CRM and Zoho Deluge. - Familiarity with modern data analysis tools and visualisation platforms (e. g., Mixpanel, Tableau, or custom dashboard tools). - Understanding of Mutual Fund, AIF, and PMS operations. This job was posted by Sangeeta Bhagwat from Bakerstreet Digital.