Velocity.in - Technical Lead

Description :

Velocity is building the future of financial services for new-age businesses in India. Our vision is to build products that empower new age businesses by solving multiple growth problems for them.

Through revenue based financing, we provide the easiest and fastest way out there to raise growth capital to fulfill marketing and inventory spends of online businesses

Through Velocity Pay, we aim to simplify your business payments with our all-in-one solution. Easily manage invoices, make payments through multiple methods, and seamlessly reconcile transactions.

Through Velocity Insights, we unleash the power of your data to drive better business decisions

We are a series-A funded start-up, building new fintech products for small businesses. Founders are IIT-IIM alumni, with prior experience across management consulting, venture capital and fintech startups. We are driven by the mission to empower small business owners with technology and dramatically improve their access to financial services. We have raised a total of $30M across 2 rounds of funding and are backed by some of the most marquee global investors including Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.

Responsibilities :

• Maintain a very high bar for the quality of the code. Make sure the right technical architecture and design patterns are used for building a feature. Be an active code-reviewer for your team.
• Plan and execute the release, rollback and migration meticulously.
• Follow the agile rituals including Sprint Grooming, Sprint Planning and Retrospective religiously. Work backwards from the sprint timelines and ensures that there are no spills from the sprint
• Own the product metrics along with the product manager. Brainstorm and align the product solutions with PMs during product discovery.
• Ensures that production bugs are kept at minimum (Sentry Issues + L2 Issues). Also, make sure that the production bugs are resolved with detailed RCA with highest priority
• Track key engineering metrics like API Latency, Error throughput, code complexity
• Lead the sprint planning meeting by breaking down the user stories and tasks into smaller tasks and assigning appropriate story points.
• Lead the daily standup to get daily updates from team and unblock team members wherever required. Ensure high work discipline and intensity in every team members.
• Give appropriate and timely feedback to team members to ensure high efficiency, speed and quality of the work.
• Maintain prioritized tech backlog including tech debts and pick up in the sprints as and when required.
• Maintain a healthy conflict with PMs and business teams to ensure high business impact of the engineering teams work.

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