About The/Nudge
The/Nudge is an action institute building resilient livelihoods to alleviate poverty. We work with women, farmers, tribals and youth on rural development, agriculture, skilling and economic inclusion, along with 15+ central and state government partners. Our economic inclusion journey for 25 million Indians, has reached 10 states with $250M of government funding to cover 1.25M people. Our incubator, accelerator and grand challenges have supported 200+ social entrepreneurs, including 17 Forbes 30U30, 3 EarthShot Prize winners, 1 Time Magazine cover and more.
Set up with support from 90+ eminent philanthropists , 40+ corporates and 15+ foundations including Gates, Mackenzie Scott, Vinod Khosla, Nandan Nilekani, Tata Trusts, Skoll, Meta, LinkedIn, HDFC, Mphasis, KPMG and L'Oreal, we are contributing towards a "poverty-free India, within our lifetime". What are we solving for?
We are solving for households in poverty who are also financially and socially vulnerable through a targeted, multi-faceted, and sequenced model called the graduation approach, which has demonstrated that we can durably pull households out of poverty.
At The/Nudge Institute, we have been piloting this program for the past 3 years and are now scaling it across multiple states. Our purpose is to enable the most excluded individuals to become contributing members of the economy.
We will :
- Enable the government to adopt by providing research, design, and implementation support
- Continue to iterate on the program design to create impact at scale through our own implementations
- Support more NGOs in adopting the graduation approach by offering technical expertise and capacity building
- Build evidence on the graduation approach to nudge governments to adopt at-scale
- Develop technology solutions that enable NGOs and governments to adopt and implement the program at scale & with quality
What will you do?
Position Overview:
- Own technical architecture and delivery of EIP product, ensuring compliance with government data centre, security, and data governance standards.
- Act as the technical authority, making and approving key architecture, integration, and data design decisions.
- Lead technical engagement with the external vendor, validating designs, reviewing code and ensuring delivery quality.
- Bridge product, program and engineering, translating requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
- Ensure platform reliability and risk management, proactively addressing performance, security and data integrity risks.
Who are we looking for in this role?
- 10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior technical architect / principal engineer role.
- Proven experience designing and governing large-scale, distributed systems used in mission-critical environments.
- Demonstrated experience partnering with and overseeing external engineering vendors, including architecture reviews, code reviews and technical decision validation.
- Hands-on background in application architecture, data architecture, and integrations, even if not currently coding day to day.
- Experience designing for scale, reliability, security, and long-term maintainability in multi-state or multi-tenant platforms.
What’s in it for you?
- Own your growth: An impact-led learning environment encourages Nudgesters to invest in their learning and capacity building needs through initiatives and policies, including L&D wallet, individual development plan and internal role change opportunities.
- Find your tribe: Our hiring philosophy emphasises intent, attitude, smarts and skills, in that order, to build a cohesive environment for Nudgesters. The organisation is committed to curating people-centric policies, enhancing how employees experience life at The/Nudge.
- Take big bets: Organisational initiatives are intended to facilitate Nudgesters with a view to the big picture, illustrated by our impact across 50000+ households, 15+ governments, 200+ social enterprises and Charcha: India’s largest social sector convening forum.
- Make it happen: A product-based approach in an action-biased environment empowers Nudgesters to implement audacious plans. Driven to fail fast, we endeavour to optimise resources in favour of programs that align with our scale ambition.
You can learn more about what we do and how we do it through this deck. We aspire to be an inclusive and diverse organization and encourage qualified individuals, irrespective of their religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or any other dimension of identity, to apply.
