Company Vision
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
About StockGro
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.
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.
Most engineers ask what to build. We want someone who starts with
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.
Now let's talk what will you own :
- 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.
- Technical Leadership - Set engineering standards, conduct design reviews, and raise the technical bar across the team - in code, architecture, and process.
- Execution - Drive projects end-to-end with a bias for speed. Run fast experiments with product and design, then scale what works.
- Engineering Culture - Mentor engineers, build a culture of ownership, and make the team around you better.
- Cross-functional Alignment - Translate business and product requirements into sound technical decisions. Be the bridge between engineering and stakeholders.
- Firm-wide Impact - Identify and fix systemic bottlenecks. Think beyond your team.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of strong programming expertise in Golang and databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB.
- Experience in building scalable, user-focused fintech platforms focused on investments, trading, wealth management, or market analytics would be a plus.
- Experience in building highly scalable REST APIs that align with StockGro's needs.
- Strong knowledge of databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
- Experience in building scalable customer-facing applications that are high-performance, highly available, highly transactional, low latency, and massively distributed.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability, and availability.
- 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.
- Experience working in a startup environment with high levels of ownership and commitment.