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JD - Vice President Engineering Company Details Who we are Finvasia is a global fintech company offering technology-driven financial services across trading, investing, and wealth management. What we do With a strong presence in multiple countries, Finvasia focuses on innovation, zero-cost trading solutions, and empowering users through advanced platforms and tools. Know more about us: - Website Finvasia - https://finvasia.com - https://shoonya.com - https://jumpp.finance - Follow us on LinkedIn Page - https://linkedin.com/company/finvasia - https://linkedin.com/company/shoonyadotcom - https://linkedin.com/company/jumpp-finance Vice President Engineering Job Summary We are seeking a seasoned Vice President Engineering to lead our technology organization and drive the delivery of high-performance trading systems, scalable consumer platforms, and AI-driven financial products within a fast-evolving fintech ecosystem. This role requires strong engineering leadership, deep architectural expertise, and a proven track record of building and scaling large engineering teams in high throughput, regulated, and real-time environments. The VP Engineering will play a critical role in shaping the technology vision across trading infrastructure and AI-led financial platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, and innovation at scale. Key Responsibilities: - Define and execute the engineering strategy aligned with business, product, and ecosystem goals (trading + AI platforms) - Own the overall system architecture, ensuring low latency, scalability, security, and high availability (99.99% uptime) - Lead end-to-end product engineering lifecycle across trading systems, consumer apps, and AI platforms. - Drive engineering excellence through structured delivery governance, release management, and quality frameworks. - Manage and reduce technical debt while continuously improving system performance, latency, and reliability. - Establish and track engineering KPIs such as latency, uptime, throughput, deployment frequency, and defect rates. - Champion DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and SRE practices to ensure resilient and scalable systems. - Ensure compliance with BFSI regulatory, security, and risk standards, especially for trading and financial data systems. - Lead the architecture and execution of AI/ML-driven systems, including personalization, recommendation engines, and conversational AI. - Build, lead, and scale high-performing, multi-disciplinary engineering teams across backend, frontend, mobile, data, and AI. - Collaborate closely with Product, Business, Data Science, Risk, and Compliance teams for aligned execution. - Drive org design, hiring, leadership development, and succession planning across engineering functions. - Manage engineering budgets, vendor ecosystem, and technology investments. - Define long-term technology roadmap, including adoption of AI-first, event-driven, and cloud-native architectures Experience & Qualifications - 18+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years in senior leadership roles (VP/Director/Head of Engineering) - Strong experience in Fintech / Trading platforms / High-scale consumer tech ecosystems. - Experience in product-based organizations or high-growth startups. - Proven experience in designing and scaling high-volume, low-latency, transaction-driven systems. - Hands-on experience with: - Backend technologies: Java (preferred), microservices, distributed systems architecture. - Frontend technologies: Contemporary JS frameworks (React/Angular/Vue) - Mobile development: Android/iOS platforms - DevOps & SRE: CI/CD, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), monitoring & observability. - Streaming systems: Kafka / real-time event processing (preferred) - Demonstrated experience in building and managing large cross-functional engineering teams including backend, frontend, mobile, data, and QA teams. - Experience working in regulated, security-driven environments (BFSI/trading systems). - Strong understanding of engineering metrics, release governance, system reliability, and performance optimization. .
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
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