Head of Engineering

Mai Labs; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

STOEX India seeks a Head of Engineering to own the technology function end-to-end: architecture, delivery, production reliability, and security. This builder-leader charter sets engineering direction, reviews and writes code on critical paths, and is accountable for predictable delivery against business milestones.

You will lead architecture across investor apps, order management, settlement, and custody tech; drive platform scalability, risk controls, and compliance; and hire and scale a

Qualifications

• 12-16 years in software engineering.
• 4+ years leading engineering teams of 20+ engineers.
• Experience in fintech production systems (stockbroking/exchanges/payments/lending/wealth).
• Strong in distributed systems and backend engineering; event-driven architecture.
• Cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/GCP, containers, CI/CD).
• Knowledge of order management, settlement, and reconciliation; exposure to blockchain is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture across investor apps, order management, settlement, and custody tech.
• Lead hands-on engineering; review PRs, prototype hard problems, and resolve incidents.
• Run engineering as an operating function with sprint/release cadence and delivery tracking.
• Oversee trading, settlement, and custody tech; ensure ledger accuracy and compliance.
• Manage integrations with banks, KYC/AML providers, and blockchain networks.
• Ensure security, reliability, and audit readiness under SEBI/RBI norms.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Cloud-native infrastructure

Fintech domain knowledge

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science or related field

M.Tech in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Go

Node.js

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

The Head of Engineering owns the STOEX India technology function end-to-end: architecture, delivery, production reliability, and security. This is a builder-leader charter with the role setting engineering direction, reviewing and writing code on critical paths, and being accountable for predictable delivery against business milestones. It combines technical leadership of a regulated trading and settlement platform, and operational leadership of its engineering organisation.

Responsibilities

• Architecture and Platform: Own the end-to-end architecture across investor apps (web/mobile), order management, matching/RFQ, settlement, ledger, and on-chain layers; set standards for scalability, fault tolerance, and data integrity; own re-architecture, refactoring, and performance optimisation.
• Hands-on Engineering: Stay in the code: lead design reviews, review pull requests on critical services, prototype hard problems, and step into incident resolution.
• Engineering Operations and Delivery: Run engineering as an operating function — sprint and release cadence, estimation discipline, delivery tracking, and clear ownership per module; product roadmap into committed milestones and hold the team to them; own the engineering budget, track delivery and reliability KPIs
• Trading, Settlement and Custody Tech: Build and harden order flows, DvP settlement, reconciliation, and wallet/custody integrations (including MPC-based custody); ensure fiat and token ledger reconciliation.
• Integrations and Rails: Own integrations with banks, payment rails, KYC/AML providers, vault and custodian partners, and blockchain networks; manage third-party SLAs and fallbacks.
• Security, Reliability and Compliance Tech: Own production uptime, observability, incident management, DR/BCP, and secure SDLC; implement technology controls required under applicable SEBI/RBI and CERT-In norms in partnership with Risk and Compliance; be audit-ready.
• Team Build and Leadership: Hire, structure, and scale the engineering team across backend, frontend/mobile, blockchain, QA, and DevOps; manage vendor/partner engineering where used.

Requirements

• 12-16 years in software engineering, with 4+ years leading engineering teams of 20+ engineers.
• Has built and run production systems in fintech - stockbroking, exchanges, payments, lending, wealth, or digital assets - where money movement and ledger accuracy are non-negotiable.
• Preferable experience in shipping 0 to 1 and scaling 1 to N in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Strong in distributed systems and backend engineering (e. g., Java/Go/Node.js ), event-driven architecture, SQL and NoSQL data stores, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/GCP, containers, CI/CD).
• Working knowledge of order management, matching or RFQ systems, settlement and reconciliation; exposure to blockchain, smart contracts, tokenisation, or custody is a strong advantage.
• B. E. /B. Tech Tech or M. Tech in Computer Science or a related field from a reputed institution.