Head of Engineering

About IDfy IDfy is an Integrated Identity Platform offering products and solutions for KYC, KYB, Background Verifications, Risk Assessment, and Digital Onboarding. We establish trust while delivering a frictionless experience for you, your employees, customers and partners. Only IDfy combines enterprise-grade technology with business understanding and has the widest breadth of offerings in the industry. With more than 12+ years of experience and 2 million verifications per day, we are pioneers in this industry. Our clients include HDFC Bank, Induslnd Bank, Zomato, Amazon, PhonePe, Paytm, HUL and many others. We have successfully raised $27M from Elev8 Venture Partners, KB Investments & Tenacity Ventures! We work fully onsite on all days of the week from our office in Andheri, Mumbai We are the perfect match if you- are a Leader with a 10-15 years of experience & worked with Product Company with high traffic cloud based, customer facing applications. Technical Skills:

• Strong System Design and Architecture Skills, Functional or OO Programming skills, Clean Coding (min. good understanding of basic SOLID principles)Expertise in common design patterns
• Backend: Two or more of Elixir, Python, Golang, Node.js, Ruby and ready to work on any of the stacks listed here after upskilling
• Database: PostgreSQL , MySQL, MariaDB or any RDBMS. Must have strong SQL and performance tuning skills. Should know database design
• Experience in Cloud, DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes
• Product Development Methodologies such as Agile
• Strong design skills in defining API Data Contracts / OOAD / Microservices / Data Models and Concurrency concepts
• User Interface development using modern Web Frameworks such as React

• A solution oriented, problem solving mindset
• Leadership Skills & Some experience with client interactions
• Excellent Communication Skills, Opinions and the confidence to express yourself

• Leading a team with a hands-on approach. Be a hands-on Engineering Leader, well-versed in all the technologies in the stack & be willing and able to write code, design or troubleshoot issues.
• Do Design and Code Reviews
• Creating design artifacts for implementation
• Building cloud-native applications that run on GCP/ AWS
• Developing ‘zero-defect software’ and test cases alongside implementation
• Developing UI components, APIs, business components, microservices, etc. to simplify the user journey
• Conducting root cause analysis of support tickets raised by clients and proposing solutions to fix them
• Frequently interact with customers to understand their challenges and bring in customer insights to the team.
• Work Closely with the Product team, other Business Teams and Enabler pods to determine business priorities
• Work Closely with clients to guide on technical direction.
• Set up processes that ensure high quality and excellence and align with IDfy development principles
• Bring a culture of ownership and innovation to the POD. Staying ahead of the game by predicting future fraud techniques and building solutions to prevent them