Head of Engineering

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→1 and scaling 1→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.