About Rupeeflo
Rupeeflo is an NRI-focused financial services company solving a problem that sits at the intersection of two massive, underserved opportunities: a global NRI/OCI diaspora sitting on record wealth, and an Indian financial system that still makes it painfully hard for them to invest back home. We’ve built the infrastructure that banks and brokerages plug into for global investor onboarding across 50+ countries, dramatically cutting onboarding timelines from over a month to just hours. This isn’t a feature bolted onto someone else’s platform, it’s the compliance and identity layer an entire category is being built on. Founded by industry veterans with deep roots in Indian financial services, backed by Rainmatter (Zerodha) and Piper Serica, and live with leading institutional partners across markets covering ~60% of the world’s NRI population.
About the role
This is a technical leadership role for someone who operates at the intersection of deep engineering, team building, and strategic thinking. As a Staff Engineer at Rupeeflo, you won’t just contribute to the system, you’ll shape it. You’ll own architectural decisions across domains, manage and grow the engineering team, and be the person founders turn to when the hardest problems need solving. Critically, this is not a purely strategic role, you’ll remain hands-on, implementing features and getting into the code whenever the team needs it.
What you’ll do
Own the technical architecture across Rupeeflo’s core platform, onboarding infrastructure, auditable regulation-compliant systems, payment rails, and partner integrations.
Stay hands-on - actively implement features, contribute to critical codebases, and lead from the front when the team needs it most.
Manage and grow the engineering team, hiring, mentoring, performance, and building a culture of ownership, craft, and high standards.
Drive cross-functional technical decisions that span multiple teams and product areas, balancing speed with long-term maintainability.
Identify and resolve systemic risks before they become production problems, bottlenecks, reliability gaps, security vulnerabilities, and architectural debt.
Define and evolve engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organisation.
Work directly with founders and product leadership to shape the technical roadmap and make critical build-vs-buy decisions.
Lead evaluation and adoption of new technologies and tooling where they meaningfully improve the platform.
Must-have skills
Backend mastery: Proven track record building highly available, distributed systems at scale, language-agnostic, strong opinions on correctness and maintainability.
Hands-on leadership: You write code, review architecture, and aren’t just in meetings.
System design: Distributed systems, event-driven architectures, microservices, and API design at scale.
Data architecture: PostgreSQL and beyond, caching strategies, data pipelines, query optimisation.
People management: Proven experience hiring, mentoring, setting technical direction, and building high-performance teams.
High-stakes integrations: Banks, payment networks, brokerages, or regulatory systems.
Scaling experience: You’ve been through hypergrowth and know what breaks.
Communication: Write clearly, present trade-offs precisely, align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Good to have
Proficiency in Python, Golang, or Node.js.
Experience in fintech or compliance-heavy domains (KYC, AML, cross-border payments).
Prior exposure to financial infrastructure - core banking integrations, brokerage APIs, or payment network architecture.
Experience as a founding or early engineer at a high-growth startup.
Qualifications
8+ years of engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a Staff, Principal, or equivalent role that included people management.
Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent - strong fundamentals in algorithms, systems, and distributed computing.
A portfolio of architectural decisions and team-building work you can speak to in depth.
Why Rupeeflo?
Work on infrastructure that enables global Indians to access India’s financial ecosystem.
Direct line to founders, investors, and institutional partners. Your decisions will matter and be visible.
The category is still being defined. You’ll have genuine influence over how it’s built.
A small team that values depth, ownership, and craft - no layers of management, no politics.
