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EduFund - Staff Software Engineer - MERN Stack

EduFund - Staff Software Engineer - MERN Stack

EduFundMumbai
16 days ago
Job description

About the Role :

We are seeking a Staff Engineer / Technical Lead to drive the technical vision and hands-on delivery of EduFunds core product platform.

You will be accountable for :

  • Defining and implementing architectural guardrails for scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Leading the engineering team to deliver features and platform improvements at speed.
  • Mentoring and upskilling engineers, while staying close enough to the code to guide design choices.
  • Ensuring that short-term delivery aligns with long-term system health and product evolution.

Key Responsibilities :

Architecture & Technical Strategy :

  • Define and evolve the overall system architecture for a scalable, secure, and modular fintech platform.
  • Establish platform boundaries, API contracts, and data migration roadmaps for new and existing modules.
  • Design for high availability, fault tolerance, and observability to support business-critical operations.
  • Drive cloud infrastructure strategy (AWS / EKS, container orchestration, cost optimization).
  • Champion adoption of modern development practices (CI / CD, IaC, automated testing, monitoring).
  • Embed AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.

    • Technical Execution & Delivery :

  • Translate product roadmaps into milestone-based engineering plans (30-60-day deliverables).
  • Ensure timely and reliable releases of new features and platform enhancements.
  • Lead efforts to stabilize and refactor legacy components, reducing tech debt and improving performance.
  • Set up SLIs, SLOs, and incident management processes to maintain system reliability.

    • People Leadership & Mentorship :

  • Lead a growing team of 6-10+ engineers across backend, frontend, DevOps.
  • Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and mentorship, raising the overall technical bar.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
  • Support career growth through coaching, feedback, and development plans.

    • Cross-Functional Collaboration :

  • Work closely with founders, product managers, and business leaders to prioritize trade-offs and align technology decisions with business outcomes.
  • Communicate engineering trade-offs and architectural decisions in plain language to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Actively contribute to recruitment, onboarding, and scaling of the engineering team.

    • Qualifications :

  • 10- 12 years of experience in software engineering, with 3- 5 years in tech lead roles.
  • Proven expertise in end-to-end architecture and scalable system design, ideally in product-based fintech or high-traffic B2C / B2B platforms.
  • Hands-on experience with MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js); Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes / EKS, Terraform, CI / CD pipelines); Monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch); Strong track record of shipping products under tight deadlines and improving system performance / reliability.
  • Experience leading team transformations : stabilizing legacy code, implementing engineering best practices.
  • Familiarity with embedding AI tools into the developer lifecycle (test automation, code reviews, productivity metrics).
  • Ability to thrive in early-stage, high-ambiguity startup environments, balancing speed with long-term architectural needs.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.

    • (ref : hirist.tech)

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