Branch Overview
Branch is a leading AI-powered lending fintech with 50M+ downloads across India and Africa. We use alternative data and machine learning to expand financial access for millions of people traditionally excluded from the formal financial system. Founded by the former CEO of Kiva.org and backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Visa, and the IFC, Branch combines mission-driven impact with world-class technology and scale.
In India, Branch operates as a regulated digital lending institution and Middle Layer NBFC, building trusted and accessible financial products for millions of customers across the country. Our 250+ member India team is growing rapidly and works across technology, data science, risk, product, and operations to solve high-impact problems at scale.
Certified as a Outstanding Place to Work in 2025, Branch offers the opportunity to build meaningful careers while shaping the future of inclusive fintech in one of the world’s fastest-growing digital economies.

About Role:
At Branch, quality has always been the responsibility of the engineers,



product managers, and business owners who build and ship the product. We deliberately do not have a traditional QA team gating releases — we believe the accountability for what goes to production must sit with the people building it, not with a separate function checking their work.
As the Quality Platform Lead, you will build and lead a small, high-leverage team that audits production against our stated expectations — functional, behavioral, regulatory, and experiential — and reports honestly on what they find. You will not own release gates. You will not sign off on builds. Engineers and Product retain full ownership of what they ship and when. Your team's mandate is to be the independent, automation-first lens on whether what's running in production actually matches what we said we were building, and to make any drift visible to the people who can fix it.
You will architect and champion a

📌 Quality Platform Lead (India)
🏢 Branch International
📍 India