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Posted 2 weeks agoTechnical Lead
at Novo
Bangalore, IndiaRemote
Responsibilities
- - Design and build scalable, secure, and reliable frontend and backend systems with minimal dependencies on other teams.
- - Lead development independently while collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders.
- - Drive performance, scalability, reliability, and security improvements as the product and user base grow.
- - Own production readiness, monitoring, incident response, and post-mortems for the systems you build.
Requirements
- We started Novo to challenge the status quo—we’re on a mission to increase the GDP of the modern entrepreneur by creating the go-to banking platform for small businesses (SMBs).
- experience with strong full-stack expertise - Proven ability to independently own and deliver large technical initiatives in startup or high-growth environments - Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript - Strong
- experience with React.js or similar modern frontend frameworks - Strong backend
- experience with Node.js and Golang - Deep
- experience with SQL, NoSQL, and in-memory databases, including schema design and performance tuning -
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, and microservices or modular monolith architectures - Hands-on
- experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) - Strong
- experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and DevOps practices - Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes (or willingness to own production infrastructure directly) -
- Experience with event-driven systems and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) - Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and trade-offs in early-stage products - Excellent problem-solving skills and comfort working with ambiguity and minimal direction - Clear and effective communication skills, especially when translating business needs into technical execution -
- Experience leading system migrations, refactors, or platform evolution in fast-paced environments.
Experience
- REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE: - 8+ years of software engineering
Benefits
- We are an equal opportunity employer, indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, role-specific, or any other protected characteristic.
Additional details
- ABOUT US Small businesses are the backbone of the US economy, comprising almost half of the GDP and the private workforce.
- Yet, big banks don’t provide the access, assistance and modern tools that owners need to successfully grow their business.
- Novo is flipping the script of the banking world, and we’re excited to lead the small business banking revolution.
- At Novo, we’re here to help entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and SMBs achieve their financial goals by empowering them with an operating system that makes business banking as easy as iOS.
- We developed modern bank accounts and tools to help to save time and increase cash flow.
- Our unique product integrations enable easy access to tracking payments, transferring money internationally, managing business transactions and more.
- We’ve made a big impact in a short amount of time, helping thousands of organizations access powerfully simple business banking.
- Why Novo? - Novo is a rapidly growing series B fintech startup with a mission-driven team that’s passionate about helping every small business in America - Positive, inclusive, supportive culture cheering you on your journey - We work with very new technologies and architecture patterns - We provide learning and development budgets to help you grow and bond with your team - Offices in NYC and India.
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives in startup environments, is comfortable working with high autonomy, and can take an idea from a vague business problem all the way to a scalable, production-grade system.
- You will act as the technical owner for key initiatives—setting direction, making architecture decisions, writing critical code, and ensuring successful delivery without requiring heavy oversight.