Job Title:
Chief Technology Officer
Company: Aadrila Technologies
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Created: 2026-04-23
Job Type: Full Time
Job Description:
ABOUT AADRILA TECHNOLOGIESAadrila Technologies Private Limited is a fast-growing AI-first SaaS company building a unified intelligence platform that powers GenAI specialised products for enterprise automation. Serving banks, fintechs, insurance companies, lending institutions, and healthcare providers, our platform transforms unstructured documents and data into instant, decision-ready insights with high accuracy and full compliance readiness.ET MSME Award 2023 — India's Top-Performing MSME of the YearSmall Category · Economic TimesPFRDA Innovate4NPS Hackathon 2026 — WinnerIIT Kanpur · Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority#18 AI Company in India — F6S Rankings, February 2026Ranked among top 20 AI companies globally on F6S platform◈DPIIT Recognised StartupDepartment for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Govt. of India◉IIM Lucknow Enterprise Incubation Centre — IncubateeL-Incubator, IIM Lucknow · Seed FundedOur flagship solutions include:Doxtract — Intelligent document processing and structured data extractionRiskParse — Financial behaviour intelligence for underwriting and credit riskUnassisted Video KYC — Real-time, compliant identity verification at scaleVoice Automation, Sanctions Screening, and emerging GenAI capabilitiesWe are SOC 2 Type 1 compliant, hosted on AWS Mumbai, and are currently modernising our platform from PHP to a production-grade Node.js/TypeScript stack. This is an inflection point — and we are looking for a technical leader to shape what comes next.ROLE OVERVIEWAs CTO, you will own the technical vision, architecture strategy, AI platform excellence, and team scale-up. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives in a fully on-site, fast-paced environment and can bring rigour, best practices, and a high-impact team to accelerate growth. You will report directly to the founders and have full latitude over the engineering function.KEY RESPONSIBILITIESArchitecture & Platform Roadmap: Define the long-term technical vision. Drive completion of the PHP-to-Node.js migration and design the platform for 10x+ growth in document volume, accuracy, and throughput.Team Building: Personally attract and hire 4–7 senior engineers (backend, full-stack, MLOps, AI/ML) in the first 6–9 months, growing the overall engineering organisation to 12–18 people over 12–18 months.Engineering Standards: Implement robust CI/CD, automated testing (including AI accuracy benchmarks), observability, documentation, and on-call processes — without bureaucratic overhead.AI Platform Excellence: Improve reliability, inference speed, and SLA compliance across Doxtract, RiskParse, Unassisted Video KYC, voice automation, and future GenAI features.Enterprise Readiness: Strengthen security posture, maintain SOC 2 compliance, advance DPDP Act readiness, and enforce audit trails, encryption, and performance guarantees for BFSI and insurance clients.Tech Debt Reduction: Drive systematic modernisation while maintaining high delivery velocity — no big-bang rewrites; pragmatic, continuous improvement.Culture: Foster a high-ownership, collaborative, and results-driven engineering culture in our fully on-site Vile Parle West office.REQUIREMENTS13–18+ years in software engineering, with 6–8+ years in senior leadership (Director/VP or equivalent) in AI/ML-powered SaaS, regtech, fintech, or document intelligence companies.Proven success scaling high-accuracy AI platforms — document AI, identity verification, NLP/computer vision, or underwriting/risk systems — for enterprise clients.Track record of personally building or onboarding small core teams (4–7 senior engineers/ML specialists) in a previous leadership role.Deep technical expertise across:Microservices, event-driven systems, real-time processing, and scalable multi-tenant architecturesNode.js/TypeScript, PostgreSQL/Prisma, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda), Docker, CI/CD, and observability toolingProductionising AI/ML workloads — MLOps, model monitoring, vector databases, reducing errors in IDP and GenAI pipelinesSecurity and compliance — SOC 2, DPDP Act, encryption, audit-ready systemsHands-on technical mindset with strong problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.Excited to work 100% on-site in Vile Parle West, Mumbai for close, daily collaboration with the founding team.