Tech lead

StockGro; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

StockGro is seeking seasoned tech talent in Bengaluru to drive engineering excellence in the fintech space. As a technical leader, you will design scalable backend systems for financial instruments, ensuring performance and reliability while mentoring a team on best practices.

With a focus on performance and scalability, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver customer-centric applications. This role requires over 8 years of programming experience, particularly in Golang and various databases.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of programming expertise in Golang and databases.
• Experience in building scalable, user-focused fintech platforms.
• Strong knowledge of databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.

Responsibilities

• Design and own scalable backend services for various Financial Instruments.
• Mentor engineers and ensure a strong engineering culture.
• Drive projects end-to-end with a bias for speed.

Skills

Golang

Database Management

REST APIs

Fintech Platforms

Data Structures

Algorithms

Service-oriented Architecture

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

MongoDB

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kafka

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

StockGro is an investment advisory and knowledge platform that connects users with SEBI-registered experts to explore advanced investment strategies. It empowers users to master trading and investing through insightful market analysis, expert recommendations, and AI-powered research tools. With 35M+ users in India and partnerships with 1,500+ top educational institutions globally, StockGro is shaping the future of financial advisory and wealth management

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Systems Design - Design and own scalable, low-latency backend services from the ground up for various Financial Instruments. Make deliberate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and speed of delivery.
• Technical Leadership - Set engineering standards, conduct design reviews, and raise the technical bar across the team - in code, architecture, and process.
• Execution - Drive projects end-to-end with a bias for speed. Run fast experiments with product and design, then scale what works.
• Engineering Culture - Mentor engineers, build a culture of ownership, and make the team around you better.
• Cross-functional Alignment - Translate business and product requirements into sound technical decisions. Be the bridge between engineering and stakeholders.
• Firm-wide Impact - Identify and fix systemic bottlenecks. Think beyond your team.

Requirements

• 8+ years of strong programming expertise in Golang and databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Experience in building scalable, user-focused fintech platforms focused on investments, trading, wealth management, or market analytics would be a plus.
• Experience in building highly scalable REST APIs that align with StockGro's needs.
• Strong knowledge of databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
• Experience in building scalable customer-facing applications that are high-performance, highly available, highly transactional, low latency, and massively distributed.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
• Experience in designing and developing service-oriented architecture. Experience with cache-store/message brokers like Redis, RabbitMQ, or Kafka. Understanding of GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker is beneficial. Interest in learning new languages/frameworks as needed.
• Experience working in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.