Director- technology

• As the Head of technology, the individual will lead technology and product development efforts and will help build a massively scalable and robust banking platform.
• Candidate will be responsible for driving constant innovation and improvements to the platform, leveraging the latest developments in relevant technology.
• Candidate will collaborate with   the Product Head to translate the product vision into a highly innovative product that will help deliver immense value to customers (merchants) as well as end users
• Candidate will lead platform selection and technical design in order to design architecture for the platform to maximize agility and scalability at optimum costs
• Will be in charge of building a strong technology team of Technical Leads” who will in turn lead the technical direction for numerous projects.
• Build backend tools to automate business processes for marketing, customer service, production, management, etc., and lead timely response to feature requests from internal users and development features.
• This is an excellent opportunity to work across diverse roles and portfolios: from start-up systems architect to code monkey to development manager to operations manager then finally to CTO as the business scales over time.
• The individual should have excellent written and verbal communication skills including ability to articulate ideas with both technical and non-technical audiences. He/she should be self-motivated, a team player with superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.

• Candidate should be able to work in high-performance and dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to envision web and mobile-based services that meet consumer needs or solve business problems.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Any Graduate / BE with 15-18 years of experience in the IT industry, preferably in banking domain
• Candidate should have expertise in OO design, database design and network programming fundamentals. Practical experience with Apache/PHP, Java, MySQL (WAMP/LAMP architecture) and AWS. Design and coding skills in front end web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Jquery, Ajax etc.
• Understanding of 3rd party API development (must), Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile app development. Good understanding of agile methodologies, iterative development, scrum etc.
• Familiarity and experience in using technologies such as Lucene, red5, Solr, Elastic Search, Redis, highly scalable non-SQL databases preferred (MongoDB, hBase etc.).
• Familiarity with GPS tracking devices and technology and mapping algorithms preferred.
• Familiarity with technical requirements of Internet marketing and search engine optimization will be an added advantage