About the role

1. Engineering Lead

Location: Gurugram
Experience: 6–10+ years

About Opniscience

Opniscience is building a cloud-native, AI-enabled enterprise platform for regulated, high-trust workflows used by institutional teams and their external counterparts. Our focus is to modernize onboarding, document-heavy processes, client servicing, and reporting through governed automation and responsible AI. This is the founding team’s second startup venture. We’re looking for bold builders, smart & accountable risk-takers, and serious problem solvers.

Why This Role Exists : We’re hiring an Engineering Lead to build and own the core platform layer —the foundational services every module depends on. You will design and ship primitives like identity & permissions, workflow patterns, audit trails, document lifecycle, notifications, and integration interfaces . Your work will become the backbone of the product and directly impact reliability, security, and customer experience.

What You’ll Build and Own (Examples)

You will help shape and implement core capabilities such as:

Workflow core: tasks, state machines, approvals, SLAs, escalation, assignment rules
Collaboration core: internal/external threads tied to business entities, with permissions and auditability
Canonical data model: consistent, extensible domain model enabling smart search, tagging, and intuitive navigation
Governance core: entitlements (RBAC/ABAC), audit logs, publish controls, evidence/trace bundles
Document lifecycle: ingestion → metadata extraction → classification → versioning → retention → secure sharing/delivery
Notification & messaging layer: rules-driven alerts (email/in-app), digests, subscription preferences
Integration layer: connectors to enterprise systems (CRM/ERP/portfolio/accounting/ops tools); event-driven patterns
AI experience hooks: OCR, source-linked summaries/Q&A, and human review/approval workflows

Responsibilities

Architect and implement end-to-end features across backend and frontend
Make pragmatic design decisions balancing speed with scalability and maintainability
Build secure, reliable APIs and services with strong observability (logs/metrics/traces)
Define engineering standards: testing strategy, code quality, CI/CD, and release discipline
Partner with product/design to clarify requirements and ship in tight iterations
Mentor engineers as the team grows; raise the bar through code reviews and technical leadership
Own production outcomes: monitoring, incident response, performance and reliability improvements
Build with quality-first habits to minimize QA effort (automation, testability, predictable releases)

Requirements

Strong hands-on full-stack experience shipping production systems
Backend excellence in Java/Spring Boot (or equivalent) and distributed systems fundamentals
Experience building scalable, secure, maintainable systems using modern stacks (e.g., Angular, TypeScript, cloud platforms like AWS/Azure )
Comfort integrating with legacy/enterprise environments (e.g., .NET, Java, C++ ecosystems)
Deep understanding of security, permissions (RBAC/ABAC), multi-tenant architecture, and auditability
Experience with cloud deployment, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling
Ability to simplify complexity and build reusable platform primitives
Strong debugging/troubleshooting skills with performance and reliability mindset
Very strong communication skills (clear thinking, clear writing)

Bonus: Experience with workflow engines/state machines, document management systems, regulated/fintech/ops-heavy platforms, or enterprise integrations.

Why Join Us

Build a category-defining platform used in high-trust, high-impact environments
High ownership, real autonomy, and close partnership with founders
Your architecture choices will shape the product for years
Competitive compensation + meaningful growth runway
Work with a founder who has built and successfully exited a FinTech SaaS company