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 leading that transition. The best engineers in the next decade will not write the most code, they will shape systems using AI leverage.

Scope of Ownership

Stage 1: Platform Ownership

You are the single-threaded owner of FrontPage’s technical platform.

• Own reliability, performance, and correctness of production systems
• Debug and resolve incidents end-to-end (detect → mitigate → root cause → prevention)
• Build and maintain meaningful observability (metrics, logs, traces tied to real failure modes)
• Reduce system fragility and single points of failure (bus factor, hidden coupling)
• Make independent calls to simplify, refactor, or redesign systems when needed
• Develop deep understanding of system behavior under real-time and bursty workloads

Ownership here is about clarity and control - not maintenance.

Stage 2: AI-Driven Platform Expansion

We believe engineering leverage has changed. You will:

• Ship high-leverage experiments (retention, monetization, community quality)
• Improve cost–latency–correctness trade-offs across services
• Aggressively use modern AI development tools (Claude, GPT, Cursor, etc.) to refactor, simplify, and improve the platform.

Develop the instincts for building and evolving systems in the AI-first era on a real production system.

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

Few engineers get to both operate a real system at scale and design a new one from scratch. This role offers both.

What You’ll Actually Work With

Core Backend & APIs

• Node.js (Express) services powering live user-facing APIs
• Python (FastAPI) services for data pipelines and AI workflows

Real-Time & Data Systems

• Event-driven pipelines ingesting market data, news, and user activity
• Redis (caching, pub/sub, real-time state synchronization)
• PostgreSQL (high-concurrency workloads, indexing, query optimization)

AI & Retrieval Layer

• Embeddings pipelines and retrieval systems (pgvector / vector DBs)
• Trade-offs between latency, recall, and cost in production AI systems

Infrastructure & Scaling

• Kubernetes-based deployments (services, jobs, autoscaling, failure handling)
• Systems handling concurrent real-time users + async AI workloads

Cloud & DevOps

• Cloud infra (Azure / GCP / AWS) with production traffic
• CI/CD pipelines (build, deploy, rollback, environment management)

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
• Curious about how AI will reshape software engineering workflows over the next decade.

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

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

TL;DR

• Own a live platform with ~6L MAU and real revenue.
• Use modern AI dev tools to reshape a production system.
• Work directly with the founder on platform + 0→1 AI product.
• This role is for engineers who believe AI will change how serious systems are built and want to be early.

Happy to chat if this sounds interesting. On +91 99000 59697 / avijit[at]front[dot]page