Tech Owner – Platform & AI Evolution

• Location: Bangalore (On-site, HSR Layout)
• Experience: 4–7 years (strong production experience required)
• Reports to: Founder
• Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity

Context

• FrontPage is a financial markets community platform with ~1.5L DAU / 6L MAU, profitable with real subscription + ad revenue.
• It includes: Community systems, Real-time market data ingestion, Trading simulation, Mobile + web clients, Cloud infrastructure handling live user and market load. The system is stable, revenue-backed, and battle-tested under live market load.
• We are now entering an AI-first phase - using modern AI tooling to modernize, simplify, and expand the platform’s technical surface area.
• This role is about owning that transition.

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Scope of Ownership

Stage 1: Platform Ownership

You fully own the technical health of FrontPage.

• Understand the architecture end-to-end
• Own reliability, performance, and correctness
• Handle incidents decisively (detect → fix → prevent recurrence)
• Maintain observability (metrics, logs, traces that actually help)
• Reduce hidden fragility and bus factor
• Authority to simplify, refactor, or redesign systems where necessary

Ownership here is about clarity and control - not maintenance.

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Stage 2: AI-Driven Platform Expansion

We believe engineering leverage has changed. You will:

• Use modern AI development tools aggressively to refactor, simplify, and improve the existing platform
• Improve cost–latency–correctness trade-offs across services
• Ship high-leverage experiments (retention, monetization, community quality)

Not about bolting more features onto the product using AI. More about growing and evolving into next era of product and engineering.

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Stage 3: Building What Comes Next

Alongside FrontPage, we are incubating a new venture - an AI-first product in the personal finance domain. After demonstrating platform ownership and technical judgment, you will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute architecturally to this new product
• Design core systems from first principles
• Influence foundational technical decisions in a 0→1 environment
• Shape how AI-native systems are built from the ground up

Equity participation reflects this expanded scope and long-term contribution.

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What You’ll Actually Work With

• Real-time data ingestion systems
• Backend services (Node / Python or equivalent)
• PostgreSQL (performance, correctness, schema design)
• Redis / caching / pub-sub patterns
• Cloud infrastructure (Azure / GCP / AWS)
• CI/CD and deployment pipelines
• Mobile and web API support

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Who This Role Is For

• Owned production systems before. Care about clean architecture and long-term simplicity
• Think in systems: data flow, latency, failure modes
• Actively use modern AI dev tools and follow AI engineering developments

This role suits someone who wants to own an entire live platform, not contribute isolated features.

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Who This Role Is NOT For

• Avoids production ownership
• Prefers tightly scoped tickets over system-level thinking
• Wants a pure greenfield build with no existing constraints

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Why This Is Interesting

• You inherit a live, profitable, revenue-generating system with real scale.
• You define how it evolves in an AI-first era
• You operate close to real users and real markets
• You work directly with the founder with high autonomy

If you want full-stack ownership in a high-accountability environment, and believe AI changes how serious systems are built, this role is designed for you.

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