Head of Platform Engineering

Role Summary

We are building a next-gen B2B SaaS platform in the financial-services domain (mutual funds). Our product engineering team focuses on domain modeling operational compliance and feature development. We are now looking for an Engineering Leader who will own the non-functional pillars of the platform - security performance reliability automation observability and engineering culture.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role reporting to the CTO/Founder and responsible for making our platform robust compliant performant scalable and secure.

Key Responsibiities

• Own the non-functional architecture - security performance scalability availability resilience.
• Define and implement observability & monitoring frameworks (APM logging alerting SLOs).
• Drive performance engineering - profiling load testing capacity planning and optimization.
• Champion engineering culture - coding standards documentation norms design reviews and technical excellence rituals.
• Build and lead the QA & automation strategy including automated regression performance testing and CI/CD quality gates.
• Act as a technical ambassador with customers demonstrating platform scalability security reliability and participating in due-diligence or technical evaluation discussions.
• Partner with product engineering leads to ensure features meet rigorous non-functional requirements.
• Mentor engineers on best practices and elevate overall engineering maturity.

Requirements

• 10 years in software engineering with deep expertise in security SRE QA automation DevOps or platform engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud-native architecture microservices (in java golang ruby nodejs reactjs stacks) and distributed systems.
• Proven experience implementing security performance and reliability frameworks in a SaaS product.
• Experience in FinTech/RegTech/Financial Services is a strong plus.
• Hands-on ability to debug profile harden and optimize systems.
• Excellent leadership communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  
  

Why Join Us

• Build a high-impact platform in the financial services domain
• Opportunity to work with some of the best brains in fintech and a strong product engineering team
• Grow exponentially by working in small and transparent teams and influence tech culture
• Increase your geek quotient by attending meetups and conferences.

About the Company

Cybrilla is a financial infrastructure company aiming to disrupt the way mutual funds work. We work with some of the largest financial institutions as well as some of the fastest growing fintechs in the country. We are decentralizing distribution and changing the face of the industry. We are a SEBI registered RTA and are co-authoring the Mutual Fund protocol on ONDC. More details:

Our product Fintech Primitives (FP) is an API platform that provides solutions to the problem statements of the Indian Mutual Fund domain. The APIs abstract domain regulatory and technical complexities to enable customers to build different distribution use cases in a short time. More details: