Purpose of the role
We help security leaders replace spreadsheets and fragmented tools with a unified platform for risk, compliance, incidents, suppliers, metrics, culture, and AI-enabled workflows. We are building our first engineering team in Kochi, and we are looking for a Founding Lead Developer to establish it, lead it, and grow it.

You will be the first developer in our Kochi team and its technical lead from day one. Working closely with the Head of AI and Engineering, you will start hands-on: building deep knowledge across the entire codebase and deployment pipeline, shipping roadmap features, and owning client requests and production issues. As the Kochi team grows, you will help hire, onboard, and lead the developers who join you, and establish the engineering standards the team works to.

This is a genuine founding role. Your leadership scope will grow with the team, with a transparent path to Engineering Manager as the Kochi team scales.

As the company expands into the United States, the Kochi team will provide overnight turnaround for US clients,



with issues raised during the US business day addressed while those clients sleep. You will help shape how this support model operates.

Core hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM IST, overlapping with the Sydney afternoon, with a paid, rostered on-call arrangement for urgent US client issues

Major Accountabilities

Founding Team Leadership
• Act as technical lead for the Kochi team from day one, setting local engineering practices, tooling, and ways of working.
• Help hire and onboard future Kochi developers, including shaping roles, interviewing candidates, and conducting technical assessments.
• Lead and mentor developers as the team grows, reviewing their work and raising engineering standards.
• Build a strong working rhythm between Kochi and Sydney through clear written updates, demonstrations, and shared planning.

Platform Delivery & Ownership
• Build deep knowledge across the front end, back end, data, and deployme

📌 Lead Developer (Kochi)
🏢 Acquarius Capstorm
📍 Kochi