Optimist (Octolife Climate Solutions Private Limited)
Website:
optimistsolutions.com.my
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/octolife
Industries: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
Job details:
ABOUT OPTIMIST
Optimist builds next-generation consumer experiences, service tracking, and predictive maintenance products for the HVAC industry. We are a lean, high-ownership team at an early and exciting stage — the work you do here will be seen and felt by real users from week one.
THE ROLE
You will own the end-to-end technology capability at Optimist. That means architecture, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, security, privacy, and tech cost governance. You will manage the vendor relationship — reviewing their output, enforcing standards, and planning the gradual transition of ownership in-house, if required. You will also be a 30% individual contributor, writing code alongside the team. This is a player-coach role: you lead by doing, not by directing from a distance. The team you manage is small, which means your biggest leverage is in the systems, tooling, and defaults you establish, not in the hours you personally code.
WHAT YOU'LL DO –
-Own technical architecture across the IoT, mobile, backend, and cloud layers
– Set up and manage CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and deployment environments
– Own security posture - API security, data encryption, access management, vulnerability management
– Own privacy compliance — data handling practices aligned with GDPR/DPDP requirements
– Manage cloud costs: budget, usage governance, and optimisation
– Manage the IOTify vendor relationship: code reviews, delivery standards, SLAs, and transition planning
– Hire, onboard, and mentor the HW/SW Interface + App Developer
– Support PD team transition into Data Engineering
– Contribute as an IC developer (~30% of time) on backend, infrastructure, or integration work
– Partner with the Head of Business Operations on delivery planning and technical trade-offs
– Evaluate and choose tooling, cloud services, and third-party integrations
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
– Engineering depth: 6–8 years in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a technical lead or architect role
– Cloud: Hands-on with AWS, GCP, or Azure — infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or CDK), managed services, cost governance
– DevOps: CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar), containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes), observability and alerting
– Security & privacy: Practical knowledge of AppSec, API security, and data privacy regulations; secure-by-default mindset
– IoT: Familiarity with IoT protocols (MQTT, AMQP), device connectivity, and edge-to-cloud data flows
– Backend: Strong in Python or Node.js; REST and event-driven architectures; SQL and NoSQL databases
– Vendor management: Experience managing external development agencies — code reviews, quality standards, contract oversight
– Pragmatism: You configure well before you build from scratch. You choose managed services over maintenance overhead. You ship.
– Player-coach: Comfortable writing code and making architectural decisions in the same week
Location- Gurgaon or Bangalore
NICE TO HAVE
– Experience in IoT, connected devices, or consumer hardware products
– Familiarity with HVAC, predictive maintenance, or industrial IoT data
– Experience as a first or founding engineer at an early-stage company
– Exposure to React Native or Flutter
WHAT WE OFFER
– Direct impact from day one — no layers, no bureaucracy
– Work closely with senior leadership on decisions that shape the product and company
– Competitive compensation with performance-linked growth
– A team that takes quality seriously but ships with urgency
– The rare opportunity to build something from scratch in a domain ripe for disruption
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