A team of strong engineers is the easy part. Building a team that ships fast, argues well, and holds its own bar without being asked to—that's the job. Engineering here isn't executing a roadmap someone else wrote. It's deciding what gets built, what gets killed, and where AI actually changes the game for a platform handling sensitive financial data at real scale.
Dezerv is a house of investing solutions for India's high-net-worth and affluent families, co-founded by Sandeep Jethwani, Vaibhav Porwal, and Sahil Contractor, who between them have run over USD 7 billion in assets across JP Morgan, UBS, and BNP Paribas. We're backed by Premji Invest, Accel, Elevation, and Matrix, and our clients have trusted us with over ₹15,000 crore of their wealth. We're building the platform that fixes investing stress—deep investment expertise, paired with technology, minus the cost and anxiety of a traditional advisory relationship. We've grown fast because we're genuinely good at this, transparent on fees, and modern in how we build.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and coach a team of backend, frontend, and full-stack engineers
- Own career growth for your team: structured feedback, development plans, and technical guidance that actually changes how people work
- Grow senior engineers into tech leads and future managers, and give your strongest people problems worth staying for
- Hire senior engineers independently and hold the bar, even when the pressure is to fill the seat
- Instill a culture of high ownership, technical rigor, and intellectual honesty about tradeoffs — where the team takes calculated risks without fearing failure
- Set and drive the technical roadmap for your area in partnership with Product and Design
- Make architectural decisions that balance speed with long-term scalability — and be explicit about what you're trading away when you choose
- Dive deep into code when it matters: debugging, reviewing critical paths, unblocking engineers on hard problems
- Maintain high standards for system design, performance, observability, and reliability across a fintech-grade platform handling sensitive financial data
- Bring AI into how the team builds: code generation, review, testing — with a clear view of where it adds velocity and where it quietly adds risk
- Deliver high-quality features on time across multiple parallel workstreams
- Establish engineering processes that hold under pressure: code reviews, incident postmortems, testing culture, release pipelines
- Partner closely with product managers to shape problem statements, not just execute solutions
- Build the tracking and accountability mechanisms that make your team's execution predictable
- Ensure engineering output translates directly into business outcomes and a better client experience
Requirements
- 8–10 years of total experience in software engineering
- 2–3+ years managing teams of 8+ engineers, with proven success leading senior talent
- Strong technical depth in one or more of: distributed systems, backend architectures, API design
- Experience shipping products at scale in fast-paced product/tech organisations
- Ability to influence architecture and drive high-quality systems end to end
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows — you've used them and you know their limits
- Strong communication skills and the ability to align cross-functional stakeholders
- A builder's mindset: pragmatic, data-driven, and comfortable navigating ambiguity
Benefits
- Shape the technology behind an industry-defining investing platform, at a stage where your decisions compound
- Real ownership of a team and the systems it builds — with the autonomy to decide how
- Work alongside an ambitious, high-calibre engineering, product, and design team, close to founders who've built and scaled before
- A fast-paced, learning-driven culture that rewards initiative, technical excellence, and genuine curiosity about what's next
Additional details
- We are passionate about helping Indians invest better. We manage investments with active oversight to help both sophisticated and new investors build long-term wealth across various market conditions.
- Our roadmap ahead is ambitious: scaling core platform capabilities, deepening our data infrastructure, and embedding AI into how we build and how our product works. You'll own a meaningful slice of that, and the team that delivers it.
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