Company Description

Waya is a SEBI-registered investment advisory platform that uses AI-driven predictive models to help Indian investors make better market decisions. Founded in 2023, we are bootstrapped, profitable and serve 1 lakh+ paying users, acquired and served fully digitally.

- Products:

Waya Equity (short-term and multibagger ideas), Waya FnO (index and stock options,

intraday, BTST), Waya MCX (gold, silver, crude and other commodities) and Waya PMS, a small -

cap portfolio management service for HNI’s.

- Registrations:

SEBI Research Analyst (INH000010876) and Portfolio Manager (INP000008987).
- Platforms:

Web at thewaya.com and the Waya mobile apps on Android and iOS.

Role Description The Head of Technology owns everything Waya builds and runs: the apps, the website, the backend, the data and the AI. You will set the technical direction, lead every engineering team, and stay hands-on enough to review architecture and code.Your mandate is to turn a profitable, fast-growing advisory business into a technology platform that scales to millions of investors. That means reliable systems during market hours, an AI-first engineering culture, and shipping WayaX into production.

Key responsibilities

Technology strategy and architecture

- Own the technology roadmap with the founder, tied to revenue, user growth and product launches.
- Define the target architecture across apps, web, backend services, data pipelines and AI systems.
- Make build-vs-buy calls on market data vendors, broker and exchange APIs, cloud and AI model providers.
- Own the technology budget, including cloud, data feeds and LLM spend.

App and frontend

- Lead the Flutter team building Waya's Android, iOS and web apps.
- Set standards for Clean Architecture/MVVM, state management (Bloc, Riverpod, Provider) and

Figma-based design systems.
- Drive a fast, smooth experience for live market updates, alerts and push notifications.
- Own App Store and Google Play releases, ratings and crash-free rates.

Backend and platform

- Lead the backend team working in PHP (Laravel, CodeIgniter)



and the services behind subscriptions, CMS, advisory delivery and analytics.
- Plan the move from today's stack to a scalable, service-oriented platform where it pays off.
- Own integrations with payment gateways (UPI, BillDesk), Firebase, messaging channels and third-party APIs.
- Keep systems up and fast during market hours, with clear SLAs, monitoring and on-call.

AI engineering and WayaX

- Lead the AI team building WayaX and the LLM features inside Waya's advisory products.
- Guide the design of multi-agent workflows, router agents, tool and function calling, MCP servers and RAG pipelines.
- Set up evaluations, guardrails and observability so AI answers stay accurate, compliant and consistent.
- Manage model choice, cost and latency across Claude, GPT and open-source LLMs.

Data mining and analytics

- Lead the data team that collects, cleans and stores market data: prices, F&O; chains,

fundamentals, filings, corporate actions and commodities.
- Build the pipelines and data warehouse that feed Waya's predictive models, research and

WayaX.• Work with research analysts to turn their models and rules into production-grade data products.
- Own product analytics: funnels, retention, conversion and user behaviour.

Security, compliance and reliability

- Protect client data, payments and credentials with strong security practices and regular audits.
- Make sure systems meet SEBI requirements for Research Analysts and PMS, including record keeping, disclosures, audit trails and cybersecurity norms.
- Run DevOps and CI/CD: Git-based pipelines, automated testing, cloud infrastructure, backups and disaster recovery.

AI-first engineering culture





- Make AI-assisted development the default: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor and GitHub

Copilot across every team.
- Set the rules for reviewing, testing and maintaining AI-generated code, so speed never costs quality or security.
- Coach engineers in workflow design with AI: breaking down problems, sequencing prompts, and knowing when to push back on output.

People leadership

- Hire, lead and grow a team of backend, frontend, AI and data engineers.
- Set goals, run reviews, and build a culture of ownership and fast, careful shipping.
- Run sprint planning and delivery with product, research, marketing and customer support teams.

What we are looking for

- Experience:

12+ years in software engineering, with 5+ years leading teams that span mobile,

backend and data or AI.

- Consumer scale:

You have built and run consumer products used by lakhs of users, ideally in fintech, broking, trading, wealth or payments.
- Architecture:

Deep grasp of distributed systems, APIs, databases (SQL and NoSQL), caching,

queues and real-time data delivery.

- Mobile and web:

Strong working knowledge of Flutter/Dart or comparable cross-platform stacks, and of modern web frontends.
- Backend:

Hands-on background in at least one of PHP (Laravel), Python, Node.js, Go or Java, and comfort leading teams in the others.
- AI and LLMs:

Practical experience shipping LLM features: agents, function calling, RAG, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant or similar), evaluations and guardrails.
- Data:

Experience building data pipelines and warehouses, ideally on market or transaction data.
- AI-assisted engineering:

You use Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Copilot yourself, and know how to steer, review and test what they produce.
- Cloud and DevOps:

AWS, GCP or Azure; CI/CD; monitoring; security best practices.
- Leadership:

A record of hiring robust engineers, raising delivery speed and keeping quality high.
- Education:

B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science, IT or a related field; a Master's degree is a plus.

📌 Head of Technology (Mumbai)
🏢 Waya Financial Technologies
📍 Mumbai