Experience: 9.00 + years
Salary: Confidential (based on experience)
Expected Notice Period: 30 Days
Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)
Opportunity Type: Office ()
Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: A fintech platform that enables businesses)
(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - A fintech platform that enables businesses)
What do you need for this opportunity
Must have skills required:
Java, Node.js, Python, Golang, Go, Kotlin, Distributed Systems, Microservices, backend architecture, System Architecture, Software Architecture, Architecture Design, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Fintech, Payments, Digital wallet, Wallet, Banking, BFSI, Crypto, Blockchain, Solana, Ethereum, EVM, CTO, Chief technology officer, VP Engineering, Head of engineering, Principal engineer, Director Engineering, Staff engineer, Director, neobanking, Baas, CaaS, Transaction Platforms, Startup Mindset, Founder-facing, build-vs-buy
A fintech platform that enables businesses is Looking for:
Principal Software Engineer / CTO
Fintech Wallet | Fiat + Crypto | Early-Stage Startup
Location: Bengaluru - WFO
Reporting to: Founder / CEO
Team Size: 15 people
Employment: Full-time | Leadership
Experience: 8+ year
Role Type: Hands-on technical leadership
Own the complete technology function for a Fiat + Crypto Wallet platform.
Principal Software Engineer / CTO — Role Summary
- Experience: 8+ years in software engineering with senior technical leadership experience.
- Domain: Strong background in Fintech, Payments, Banking, Wallets or Financial Infrastructure.
- Core Requirement: Hands-on ownership of technology strategy, architecture, engineering, security and infrastructure.
- Technical Must-Have: Strong backend, distributed systems, cloud architecture and financial transaction systems experience.
- Financial Systems: Experience with ledger, payments, settlement, reconciliation, transaction processing and auditability.
- Leadership: Proven ability to hire, mentor and lead engineering teams in a startup/scale-up environment.
- Cloud & Infra: AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, Redis and Kafka.
- Security: Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, encryption, KMS/HSM, secrets management and transaction security.
- Crypto — Good to Have: Crypto wallets, blockchain, stablecoins, custody, MPC/HSM, on/off-ramp and blockchain integrations.
- Preferred Languages: Java, Go, Kotlin; Python and Node.js are also relevant.
- Ideal Profile: A hands-on CTO/Principal Engineer who can architect systems, write/review code, troubleshoot production issues and build the engineering team.
Team Structure
Initially, the CTO may directly manage a small engineering organization consisting of:
- Backend Engineers
- Frontend Engineers
- Mobile Engineers
- DevOps/SRE
- QA
- Security/Infrastructure
As the company grows, establish teams around:
PE/ CTO:
│
├── Core Wallet / Ledger
│
├── Payments
│
├── Crypto
│
├── Consumer App
│
├── Merchant Platform
│
└── Platform / Infrastructure
The exact structure should evolve with product and transaction volume.
Vendor & Technology Management
Own technical evaluation of vendors.
Responsibilities include:
- Vendor selection
- Architecture reviews
- Security assessments
- SLA evaluation
- Technical negotiations
- Integration planning
- Vendor performance monitoring
- Vendor exit strategy
Avoid excessive vendor lock-in for critical financial infrastructure.
Budget & Technology Costs
Own the technology budget covering:
- Cloud infrastructure
- Engineering tools
- Security tools
- Monitoring
- Third-party APIs
- Blockchain infrastructure
- KYC/KYB
- Development tools
- Software licenses
- Infrastructure vendors
Continuously optimize infrastructure and vendor costs.
Key Metrics
The CTO should establish a technology scorecard.
Platform
- Uptime: 99.99%+
- API latency
- Transaction success rate
- Crash rate
- Error rate
Engineering
- Deployment frequency
- Lead time for changes
- Change failure rate
- MTTR
- Sprint/release predictability
Security
- Critical vulnerabilities
- Security incidents
- Failed authentication attempts
- Fraud-related incidents
- Mean time to remediate
Financial Infrastructure
- Ledger reconciliation accuracy
- Settlement accuracy
- Failed transactions
- Unresolved gate/suspense balances
First 90 Days Plan:
First 30 Days — Understand
- Review existing architecture
- Review codebase
- Review infrastructure
- Review security
- Review vendors
- Review product roadmap
- Review engineering team
- Identify technical debt
- Identify critical risks
Days 31–60 — Stabilize
- Fix critical architecture issues
- Establish engineering standards
- Improve CI/CD
- Improve observability
- Establish security baseline
- Establish production readiness checklist
- Define technology roadmap
Days 61–90 — Scale
- Execute architecture roadmap
- Improve system scalability
- Automate operational processes
- Strengthen ledger/reconciliation architecture
- Establish disaster recovery
- Build hiring plan
- Define 12-month technology strategy
Ideal Profile
The ideal candidate is
not simply a great engineering manager.
We are looking for someone who can simultaneously be:
Architect + Engineer + Leader + Product Partner + Security Champion + Hiring Leader + Technology Strategist
At the current stage of the company, the candidate should be comfortable spending time across the entire technology stack—from
designing the ledger architecture in the morning to debugging a production issue or interviewing an engineer in the afternoon.
The long-term objective is to build a technology organization capable of supporting a
secure, highly available, globally scalable fiat + crypto financial platform.
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