• Accelerate Time-to-Market (TTM) • Audit the current software development lifecycle (SDLC) to identify and eliminate bottlenecks • Design and implement engineering and project frameworks to reduce delivery cycles • Ensure predictable and transparent feature delivery without compromising quality • Drive Business Value Delivery • Act as the primary technical partner for the product organization (CPO, PMs, Designers) • Take ownership of the business backlog from a technical execution standpoint • Align engineering efforts and resource allocation directly with business and product goals • Optimize Development & Delivery Frameworks • Set up, scale, and manage robust SDLC processes • Introduce and enforce effective IT project management frameworks (Agile, Scrum, etc.) tailored to the product's needs • Establish a single source of truth for delivery status, risks, and timelines • Manage Cross-Functional Execution • Synchronize efforts across engineering, product, and design teams • Resolve dependencies and blockers in the delivery pipeline • Build structured execution systems rather than relying on ad-hoc fixes • Ensure Constructive Stakeholder Management • Validate product requirements against technical feasibility and system constraints • Provide reasoned, data-driven pushback to the product team and stakeholders when expectations are unrealistic • Present technical strategies, progress, and risks clearly to C-level executives

Role Description We are hiring a Chief Technology Officer to lead and scale our technology organization during a pivotal phase of growth. You’ll be joining a company that has already surpassed $20M in annual revenue and is on a clear trajectory to exceed $50M in annual revenue over the next few years. This is an opportunity to join a business with real traction and significant growth momentum. You will own execution across our core technology platform, including payments infrastructure, data systems, and internal tools, with a focus on improving velocity, reliability, and scalability. We are looking for a product-minded technology leader who thinks beyond systems and infrastructure, and understands how technology decisions directly impact customer experience, revenue growth, and long-term market differentiation. We value a builder mentality and at this stage of the company, success will come from a leader who knows how to scale from 1 to 10 by operationalizing and maturing products for growth, reliability, and scale. You should bring new ideas and a forward-looking perspective, including the ability to evaluate and introduce AI and other emerging technologies where they drive real business value. You will help guide how the company evolves as technology advances, balancing innovation with practical execution. This is a hands-on role for a leader who can operate across architecture and delivery, drive execution in complex environments, and build structure and momentum across teams. This role reports directly to the CEO and operates in a remote work environment. Primary Responsibilities - Engineering Execution & Delivery: Own end-to-end delivery across internal tech teams and external development vendors, driving consistent sprint execution, predictable releases, and high-quality output. - Platform & Architecture: Lead the evolution of platform architecture to support scale, ensuring systems are modular, maintainable, and built for long-term growth. - Team Building & Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization with clear ownership, strong accountability, and a focus on outcomes. - Data, Integrations & Infrastructure: Oversee integrations, data pipelines, and infrastructure to ensure reliability, scalability, and seamless support of internal and external systems. - Security & Compliance: Ensure systems meet healthcare, financial, and enterprise security standards, including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and other relevant regulatory and audit requirements, while maintaining strong data integrity, privacy, and security practices. - AI Innovation, Transformation & Safety: Define and lead the AI roadmap, identifying high-impact opportunities and driving practical, scalable adoption that improves operational efficiency, customer experience, and business performance. - Technical Strategy & Thought Leadership: Act as a strategic partner to leadership, setting clear technology direction and pushing initiatives forward with urgency, ownership, and a bias for action. - Refactoring, Replatforming, Rebuilding: Lead the migration from legacy systems to modern, flexible, scalable, and resilient operating environments, including evaluation and replacement of existing vendors, data migration, system cutovers, and parallel run strategies, ensuring continuity across critical operations and minimizing risk to the business. Qualifications - 10+ years leading technology teams, including direct management of internal engineering teams and oversight of external development vendors or partners. - Proven track record building and scaling engineering teams, products, and platforms from 0 to 1 and 1 to 10 in high-growth entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial environments, turning early-stage products into secure, reliable, high-volume production systems. - Experience leading technology in health tech, fintech with a focus on payments, or other data-intensive environments where platform reliability, security, compliance, and data integrity are core to the business. - Deep familiarity with payment orchestration, ledgering systems, money movement infrastructure, and leading vendors within the payments ecosystem is highly preferred. Key Attributes for Success - Cultivates Innovation: Drive innovation by building scalable systems and embedding AI-driven capabilities into core business workflows to accelerate growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage. - Cross-Functional Team Collaboration: Drive alignment and collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Operations by translating complex technical work into business outcomes, while exercising strong judgment and building trust with stakeholders. - Build & Lead High-Performing Teams: Ability to build, lead, and manage high-performing internal and external development teams, attract top technical talent as the company scales, and make thoughtful decisions on performance, retention, and team composition while fostering ownership and growth. - Business-Minded Product Leadership: Demonstrates the ability to think beyond engineering execution and infrastructure, and deeply understands how technology, product decisions, and platform investments translate into better customer experiences, stronger revenue outcomes, and sustainable market differentiation. Other Important Details - Compensation: Base salary range: $230,000 - $265,000, depending on experience. - Equity: Offered. - Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA with company contribution, 401(k)/Roth with company match, unlimited PTO and more. - Hybrid Work: This is a remote position with travel as needed. - Equal Opportunity & Workplace Environment: We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees can thrive.

• Advise enterprise customers on how to adopt and operationalise AI in ways that create measurable business impact • Lead executive workshops and discovery engagements focused on AI strategy, intelligent automation, developer productivity, modernisation and digital transformation • Help organisations identify high-value AI opportunities across customer experience, operations, software delivery and internal platforms • Shape transformation roadmaps that combine AI, cloud, data and modern engineering practices into practical execution strategies • Guide customers through the organisational, operational and technology changes required to become AI-enabled businesses • Build trusted advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CDOs and senior business stakeholders • Facilitate strategic conversations around innovation, modernisation, operating models and emerging technology adoption • Translate complex business and technology challenges into actionable transformation programmes and investment priorities • Help clients define measurable business outcomes, success metrics and value frameworks for strategic initiatives • Shape complex solution strategies spanning AI-enabled products, intelligent platforms, cloud modernisation and digital experiences • Collaborate with engineering, product, design and delivery teams to define differentiated, scalable and commercially viable solutions • Drive experience-led modernisation approaches that improve agility, resilience, speed to market and customer outcomes • Ensure solution strategies align to modern engineering principles, platform thinking and scalable delivery models • Support the growth of strategic customer accounts through trusted advisory and value-led engagement • Shape strategic pursuits, proposals and large-scale opportunities across AI, modernisation and digital transformation • Develop compelling business cases and outcome narratives that clearly articulate ROI, operational impact and strategic value • Partner with Client Principals and delivery leaders to identify expansion opportunities and long-term growth strategies • Stay close to developments across AI, cloud, developer tooling, platform engineering and enterprise technology trends • Contribute to Nearform’s market propositions, strategic partnerships and thought leadership across AI and modern engineering • Help shape new offerings and go-to-market strategies based on evolving enterprise customer needs • Represent Nearform externally through workshops, events, industry conversations and strategic customer engagements

Role Description We are looking for a CTO / Tech Team Lead to anchor the engineering and AI vision of AI Learning Labs. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will set the technical north star, architect the AI/ML and full-stack systems that power our learning platforms, and build a mission-driven engineering culture from the ground up. You will lead a team of AI/ML engineers and full-stack developers, partner closely with product, design and pedagogy teams, and own the technology roadmap end to end from compact, client-side LLMs that work on low-end devices, to the platforms that bring those models to millions of learners. Qualifications - 8+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML or full-stack systems and leading or growing engineering teams. - Expert-level programming skills in Python and strong command of AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, RAG pipelines and vector search. - Strong full-stack engineering depth — modern frontends (React / Next.js / Vue), backends (Node.js / Express or Python / FastAPI / Django / Flask), databases, and cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure). - Experience designing for low-resource, on-device or offline-first environments (a strong plus, given our learner context). - Believes technology can and should be a force for social equity, and is excited to apply their craft to education for underserved communities. Requirements - Lead architecture while still being close to the code, comfortable reviewing PRs, debugging production issues, and prototyping new ideas. - Has shipped LLM-based or ML-based products to real users at scale, including fine-tuning, evaluation and deployment. - Enjoys mentoring engineers and building a strong technical culture not just shipping features, but raising the bar for the people around them. Benefits - Real-world impact: Build AI that directly changes the lives of 1 crore underserved learners. - Leadership & ownership: Shape the AI strategy, the tech stack, and the next generation of engineers at NavGurukul. - A place to belong: A community that cares for your mind, body and soul with paid Vipassana breaks and 26 paid learning Saturdays a year. - Autonomy & space to build: Trust, ownership and the room to experiment, fail and ship. - Remote: Work from anywhere in India, with ~30% travel to spend time at our beautiful Igatpuri HQ and on our campuses with learners and the team.