Head of Engineering

indiagold

indiagold

Software Engineering
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Posted on May 30, 2025

About Us

indiagold has built a product & technology platform that enables regulated entities to launch or grow their asset backed products across geographies; without investing in operations, technology, people or taking any valuation, storage or transit risks.
Our use of deep-tech is changing how asset backed loans have been done traditionally. Some examples of our innovation are – lending against digital gold, 100% paperless/digital loan onboarding process, computer vision to test gold purity as opposed to manual testing, auto- scheduling of feet-on-street, customer self-onboarding, gold locker model to expand TAM & launch zero-touch gold loans, zero network business app & many more.
We are rapidly growing team passionate about solving massive challenges around financial well-being.
We are a rapidly growing organisation with empowered opportunities across Sales, Business Development, Partnerships, Sales Operations, Credit, Pricing, Customer Service, Business Product, Design, Product, Engineering, People & Finance across several cities. We value the right aptitude & attitude than past experience in a related role, so feel free to reach out if you believe we can be good for each other.

Job Description

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced and high-caliber Head of Engineering to take over leadership of our engineering function. This foundational leadership role is responsible for setting the technology vision, building and scaling systems, and leading a high-performing team. You’ll drive innovation, reliability, and execution across our entire product stack at a time of significant business growth and strategic transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

  • Drive architectural and infrastructure decisions across all platforms (mobile, web, backend, devops).

  • Ensure platform stability, availability, and scalability in a regulated fintech environment.

Team Management

  • Hire, mentor, and grow a strong engineering team.

  • Foster a culture of quality, ownership, and velocity.

  • Implement best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and operations.

Execution & Delivery

  • Work closely with Product, Design, and Data teams to deliver features at speed and scale.

  • Own delivery timelines and engineering quality across squads.

System Scalability & Security

  • Lead the design of secure, high-performance systems capable of handling large-scale financial data and transactions.

  • Prepare the tech stack to meet future NBFC regulatory and compliance needs.

Tech Strategy & Roadmap

  • Own and evolve the long-term technology roadmap in alignment with business goals.

  • Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that offer competitive advantage.

Cross-functional Collaboration

  • Partner with founders and leadership teams across Product, Business, and Operations.

  • Align technical initiatives with business priorities and regulatory developments.

  • Handle all audits and certification related to fintech (PSI-DSS, CISA)

  • Collaboration with third party vendors and set up cadence with them around billing and TAT.


Requirements

  • 10+ years of overall experience in software engineering.
  • 3+ years in senior leadership roles (Head of Engineering, VP Engineering, etc.).
  • Proven experience building and scaling backend-heavy, data-driven systems.
  • Deep expertise in system design, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), and modern software architecture.
  • Strong command over tech stacks such as Node.js, Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, React, MySQL.
  • Track record of building and managing high-performance engineering teams.
  • Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.
    Strong sense of ownership, bias for action, and outcome-oriented leadership.

Good To Have

  • Prior experience in fintech or lending.
  • Familiarity with gold-backed or asset-backed lending products.
  • Understanding of compliance, data privacy, and security in financial systems.
  • Experience building systems in regulated industries (e.g. NBFCs, banks).