Job Description

Company Vision

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StockGro is an investment advisory and knowledge platform that connects users with SEBI-registered experts to explore advanced investment strategies. It empowers users to master trading and investing through insightful market analysis, expert recommendations, and AI-powered research tools. With 35M+ users in India and partnerships with 1,500+ top educational institutions globally, StockGro is shaping the future of financial advisory and wealth management

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About StockGro

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Founded in January 2020 by former venture capitalist Ajay Lakhotia, we’re well-funded and just closed a massive Pre-Series A fundraise. We are backed by some of the respected investors - Roots Ventures, Velo Partners, Creed Capital, and the likes of Kunal Shah, Vivekananda Hallekere, Rahul Garg as Angels.

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We have some brilliant minds with us, working on a mission to make 400 million Indian millennials investment-ready, with Senior Executives from Sequoia, Swiggy, Glance, Airtel, Uber, and institutions like ISB, NITs, and IIMs.

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Most engineers ask what to build. We want someone who starts with

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why. You'll work on a product used by real investors making real financial decisions. That context should matter to you - and shape how you build.

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Now let's talk what will you own :

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- Architecture & Systems Design - Design and own scalable, low-latency backend services from the ground up for various Financial Instruments. Make deliberate tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and speed of delivery.
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- Technical Leadership - Set engineering standards, conduct design reviews,



and raise the technical bar across the team - in code, architecture, and process.
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- Execution - Drive projects end-to-end with a bias for speed. Run fast experiments with product and design, then scale what works.
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- Engineering Culture - Mentor engineers, build a culture of ownership, and make the team around you better.
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- Cross-functional Alignment - Translate business and product requirements into sound technical decisions. Be the bridge between engineering and stakeholders.
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- Firm-wide Impact - Identify and fix systemic bottlenecks. Think beyond your team.
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Requirements:

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- 8+ years of strong programming expertise in Golang and databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
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- Experience in building scalable, user-focused fintech platforms focused on investments, trading, wealth management, or market analytics would be a plus.
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- Experience in building highly scalable REST APIs that align with StockGro's needs.
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- Strong knowledge of databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
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- Experience in building scalable customer-facing applications that are high-performance, highly available, highly transactional, low latency, and massively distributed.
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- Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
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- Experience in designing and developing service-oriented architecture.Experience with cache-store/message brokers like Redis, RabbitMQ,or Kafka.Understanding of GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker is beneficial.Interest in learning new languages/frameworks as needed.
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- Experience working in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.
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📌 Tech lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 StockGro
📍 Bengaluru