Lead- Data Platform Engineer

About the Team:

The Data Platform Team at Kreditbee is instrumental in enabling data-driven decision-making across the

organization. We build and manage the core infrastructure and tools required to collect, store, process,

and analyze data at scale.

Our systems ensure every data point is refreshed in under 5 minutes for batch and available within

milliseconds for streaming use cases to surface insights. We enable teams across Lending, Insurance,

Investments, and Payments to self-serve analytics and machine learning workflows with high confidence

in data quality, timeliness, and availability.

About the Role:

As a Lead in the Data Platform team, you'll play a critical role in building large-scale backend services

and distributed data systems that power KreditBee's business operations and intelligence. You'll work

on high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure that processes billions of events and transactions with

high reliability. You'll collaborate closely with senior engineers to deliver well-architected components

and services that are observable, resilient, and scale efficiently under real-world workloads.

What We Expect From You:

 Architect and drive large-scale distributed systems, data platforms, and backend services that are

highly available, cost-efficient, secure, and extensible

 Establish platform vision and evolve foundational frameworks with multi-tenant, self-serve, and

platform-first thinking

 Design for scale and resilience – enforce principles of clean architecture, observability, fault-tolerance,

extensibility, and performance

 Lead end-to-end initiatives from problem definition to production rollout, balancing business impact

with long-term technical sustainability

 Mentor and grow engineers (including Senior Engineers), setting technical direction, raising the

quality bar, and fostering a strong engineering culture

 Make deep technical trade-offs explicit – connect system internals, architectural decisions, and

platform costs with clarity

 Champion best practices in code quality, instrumentation, design patterns, and cloud-native

development

 Influence cross-team architecture by partnering with product, infra, and data science to align long-

term technical strategy with company goals

 Drive innovation by identifying gaps, proposing bold solutions, and creating reusable building blocks

that accelerate multiple teams

 Demonstrate thought leadership by anticipating scale challenges, ensuring security/compliance, and

contributing to future-readiness of the platform

 Typically requires 8+ years of strong software engineering experience, including proven architectural

leadership in large-scale systems

Must Haves:

 Deep expertise in modern data lake/warehouse and distributed data architectures, with

hands-on proficiency in Trino, Iceberg, Spark, Kakfa, Trino, Presto, Iceberg/Delta Lake,

and large-scale storage/compute separation. Coding proficiency in golang or python.

 Proven track record of building and scaling multi-tenant data platforms, with awareness of cost

efficiency, security, compliance, and operational excellence

 Architectural intuition at scale – capable of evaluating trade-offs between performance, latency, fault-

tolerance, extensibility, and cost, and making decisions that stand the test of time

 Strong system internals knowledge (compilers, query engines, storage formats, distributed

consensus, networking, JVM internals, or equivalent) and ability to explain them with clarity

 Hands-on leadership – ability to mentor senior engineers, drive adoption of engineering best practices,

and raise the bar for architectural and operational excellence

KreditBee is India's largest fintech lending platform with a current

monthly disbursement of over ₹2200 Crores. It has 70 Million+ downloads on Google Play Store and

over 85 Lakh unique loan customers. It offers various financial services digitally including but not

limited to Personal Loans, Business Loans, Loan Against property(LAP),DigiGold investment,UPI,

Insurance, Credit Score Report, and Expense Tracker. The group entity has an in-house RBI registered

NBFC, and is currently Series-D funded with marquee investors like Premji Invest, Advent

• International, Motilal Oswal Private Equity, MUFG and TPG-backed NewQuest, among others.