Cognus Technology

Fractional Head of Engineering

Cognus Technology Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Information Technology & Services · 201-500 employees

13 h ago
engineering-manager Principal (10+ yrs) Contractor India
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About the role

Drive engineering execution across Gradding and MySIPOnline while leading the MySIPOnline platform rebuild. Establish disciplined engineering practices and progressively transition into a group technology leadership role.

What they look for

TypeScript Node.js NestJS React Next.js MySQL Postgres BullMQ Redis Sentry APM LLM Conversational Agents System Architecture Team Leadership Observability

Requirements

Requires 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a team leadership capacity. Candidates must possess deep expertise in TypeScript, database management, and production-grade LLM feature deployment.

Full description

ROLE -

Drive engineering execution across Gradding and MySIPOnline. In the first phase, lead the MySIPOnline rebuild with its tech lead, strengthen Gradding's platform with its existing team, establish disciplined engineering practices and progressively grow into group technology leadership.

  • 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading a team of roughly 5-15; still highly hands-on.
  • Strong TypeScript: Node.js/NestJS on the server and React/Next.js on the front end.
  • Deep MySQL/Postgres expertise: schema design, indexing, query planning and performance optimisation.
  • Practical experience with queues and caching using BullMQ/Redis or equivalent.
  • Built observability and on-call systems using Sentry or another APM, alerting and production support practices.
  • Has set up and maintained agent-driven software engineering workflows, not merely used coding assistants.
  • Has shipped an LLM feature or conversational agent to production, including evaluation, cost, latency and failure modes.
  • Strong plus: Experience building regulated, transaction-heavy or high-trust consumer platforms; fintech or wealthtech exposure is an advantage.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years leading a team of roughly 5-15; still highly hands-on.
  • Strong TypeScript: Node.js/NestJS on the server and React/Next.js on the front end.
  • Deep MySQL/Postgres expertise: schema design, indexing, query planning and performance optimisation.
  • Practical experience with queues and caching using BullMQ/Redis or equivalent.
  • Built observability and on-call systems using Sentry or another APM, alerting and production support practices.
  • Has set up and maintained agent-driven software engineering workflows, not merely used coding assistants.
  • Has shipped an LLM feature or conversational agent to production, including evaluation, cost, latency and failure modes.
  • Strong plus: Experience building regulated, transaction-heavy or high-trust consumer platforms; fintech or wealthtech exposure is an advantage.

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