Associate Director - Technology

• *Role:** We need a senior engineering leader to shoulder day\-to\-day engineering execution, team management, and product delivery so the founding team can focus on scaling the business. The VP Tech will work closely with our technical co\-founder to translate the established technology vision and architecture into shipped product. This is a high\-autonomy delivery role you will manage the engineering infra, integrate AI capabilities, and ensure our dMRV platforms keep pace with Prithu's growth ambitions. The ideal candidate is a hands\-on, AI\-first engineering leader who is as comfortable writing production code as managing engineers and communicating with founders.

• *Key Responsibilities**

• Own end\-to\-end engineering delivery across Prithu's product suite dMRV platform, farmer app, and internal operations tooling.
• Translate product and technology direction (set collaboratively with the founding team) into detailed engineering plans and shipped features.
• Drive release management, sprint velocity, and cross\-functional delivery coordination.
• Maintain engineering quality code reviews, testing standards, observability, and documentation. Hands\-on Engineering Leadership
• Actively write and review production code across frontend, backend, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Build MVPs quickly and evolve them into scalable, maintainable systems.
• Identify and resolve technical bottlenecks before they slow the team down.
• Drive engineering quality, release management, and delivery execution AI Integration Automation
• Drive delivery of AI\-first features in collaboration with the CTO: LLMs, agents, RAG pipelines, and workflow automation.
• Build and ship AI\-powered features: farmer onboarding copilots, document intelligence for MRV audit support, anomaly detection in carbon data, and buyer\-facing analytics.
• Help in implementation of RAG systems over Prithu's proprietary agronomic and satellite datasets for internal decision support.

• *Qualifications**
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• 6 \- 10\+ years of engineering experience with significant time in startup or high\-growth environments.
• Demonstrably hands\-on coder you can point to production systems you personally built and scaled.
• AI\-first mindset: you reach for LLMs and agents as natural tools, not experimental curiosities.
• Full\-stack breadth: comfortable owning frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data decisions simultaneously.
• Collaborative by nature you thrive working closely with technical and non\-technical founders.
• Climate, agritech, sustainability, or impact\-sector experience is a genuine plus.

• *Additional Information**
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• *Must\-Have Technical Skills**

Full\-Stack Engineering

• **Frontend:** React / Next.js / TypeScript : production\-grade, responsive, performant applications.
• **Backend:** Node.js and/or Python : REST APIs, microservices, async/event\-driven systems.
• **Database:** SQL / PostGIS, time\-series DBs
• **Cloud DevOps**: AWS or GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability.
• **Mobile:** React Native or Flutter a strong plus given farmer\-facing app requirements.
• **AI Emerging Tech** (hands\-on experience required): LLM APIs (OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini), RAG architectures and vector databases (Pinecone, pgvector, Weaviate); agent and multi\-step workflow design (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent); prompt orchestration; AI product implementation end\-to\-end.

• *What We Offer**

• Senior leadership ESOP at a well\-capitalised early\-stage VC backed company.
• High level of engineering execution with direct access to and learning opportunity from the co\-
• founders.
• Work on a problem that matters: measurable climate impact at scale across India.
• A technically ambitious founding team that values deep engineering and moves fast.
• Competitive compensation benchmarked to senior startup leadership norms.