Head of Engineering ( Fintech background preferred)

About the Organisaton Mai Labs is a global technology company specialising in blockchain infrastructure, Web3 automation, and real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation. Founded in India and operating across multiple international hubs, we design and deploy platforms that connect industries, simplify blockchain adoption, and open new frontiers for enterprises, developers, and communities worldwide. We are building a technology-driven marketplace for tokenised real-world assets (RWAs). India's next-generation wealth accumulation & ownership platform for the retail investor - trusted, transparent, and accessible, distributed at scale. Phase 1 starts with digital gold and thereafter extending to metals, commodities, and private-market products eventually on blockchain-based ownership, settlement, and record rails, within regulatory frameworks.THE OpportunityThe Head of Engineering owns the STOEX India technology function end to end: architecture, delivery, production reliability, and security. This is a builder-leader charter with the role setting engineering direction, reviews and writes code on critical paths, and is accountable for predictable delivery against business milestones. It combines technical leadership of a regulated trading and settlement platform, and operational leadership of its engineering organisation.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architecture & Platform: Own the end-to-end architecture across investor apps (web/mobile), order management, matching/RFQ, settlement, ledger, and on-chain layers; set standards for scalability, fault tolerance, and data integrity; own re-architecture, refactoring, and performance optimisation.
• Hands-on Engineering: Stay in the code: lead design reviews, review pull requests on critical services, prototype hard problems, and step into incident resolution.
• Engineering Operations & Delivery: Run engineering as an operating function — sprint and release cadence, estimation discipline, delivery tracking, and clear ownership per module; product roadmap into committed, milestones and hold the team to them; own the engineering budget, track delivery and reliability KPIs
• Trading, Settlement & Custody Tech: Build and harden order flows, DvP settlement, reconciliation, and wallet/custody integrations (including MPC-based custody); ensure fiat and token ledgers reconciliation.
• Integrations & Rails: Own integrations with banks, payment rails, KYC/AML providers, vault and custodian partners, and blockchain networks; manage third-party SLAs and fallbacks.
• Security, Reliability & Compliance Tech: Own production uptime, observability, incident management, DR/BCP, and secure SDLC; implement technology controls required under applicable SEBI/RBI and CERT-In norms in partnership with Risk and Compliance; be audit-ready.
• Team Build & Leadership: Hire, structure, and scale the engineering team across backend, frontend/mobile, blockchain, QA, and DevOps; manage vendor/partner engineering where used.CANDIDATE PROFILEExperience & Education
• 12–16 years in software engineering, with 4+ years leading engineering teams of 20+ engineers.
• Has built and run production systems in fintech — stockbroking, exchanges, payments, lending, wealth, or digital assets — where money movement and ledger accuracy are non-negotiable.
• Preferable experience in shipping 0→1 and scaling 1→N in a startup or high-growth environment.
• Strong in distributed systems and backend engineering (e.g. Java/Go/Node.js), event-driven architecture, SQL and NoSQL data stores, and cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/GCP, containers, CI/CD).
• Working knowledge of order management, matching or RFQ systems, settlement and reconciliation; exposure to blockchain, smart contracts, tokenisation, or custody is a strong advantage.
• B.E./B.Tech or M.Tech in Computer Science or related field from a reputed institution.