Intermezzo
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/intermezzo-ai
Seniority: Director
Industries: Software Development
Job details:
About Intermezzo
Intermezzo is building the global payroll platform the market has been missing. Global payroll
remains one of the last major enterprise workflows without a true platform.
Most providers stitch together aggregators, country-specific solutions, and manual operational
processes. We're taking a fundamentally different approach.
Our approach is to treat payroll as a systems problem: build the platform first, then countries
become specializations of a unified, explainable, API-first payroll engine. We combine deep
compliance expertise, deterministic payroll computation, and AI-native workflows to create
infrastructure that can power payroll globally.
The Role
We are looking for a Chief Architect to define the technical architecture and technology strategy.
This role will report to and work closely with the CTO to provide technical leadership across our
globally distributed engineering organization and help build the foundation of our global payroll
platform.
This is not just a technology role. This is a company-building role. The decisions you make will
shape both our technology platform and our ability to scale globally.The right person will impact
our global roadmap significantly. They will partner with our global team, make architectural
decisions, work directly on design and code, and move fast in a startup environment.
Experience designing systems that effectively incorporate AI technologies into products and
engineering workflows is a must
This is a hands-on leadership role. We expect the Chief Architect to spend significant time
designing systems and contributing directly to implementation.
What You’ll Do
- Define the long-term technical architecture of the Intermezzo platform.
- Lead the design of deterministic payroll and compliance engines across multiple
- jurisdictions.
- Establish engineering standards for APIs, distributed systems, security, and scalability.
- Partner with engineering & product leads through architecture reviews, design
- discussions, and hands-on implementation.
- Evaluate and adopt AI technologies that improve developer productivity and product
- capabilities.
- Mentor senior engineers and help build a high-performance engineering culture.
What We’re Looking For
Required
- Based in Bengaluru
- Strong experience shipping complex systems and working on leading edge technologies
- Deep hands-on engineering capability across coding, system design, and architecture
- Ability to operate both strategically and tactically
- Strong understanding of the AI landscape, and practical applications of AI in product and
- engineering workflows
- High ownership mindset with strong startup execution instincts
- Strong sense of ownership and urgency in a fast-moving startup environment
Preferred
- Experience in payroll, HR tech, tax, compliance, fintech, or similarly regulated domains
- Experience building API-first platforms or developer infrastructure products
- Startup or founder experience
- We are agnostic to your experience in tech stacks, but expect you to have worked with many of
- them in your career.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Meaningful company stock options / equity participation
- Opportunity to help shape the company at an early stage with real ownership and
- influence
- High-impact role reporting directly to the CTO
Why Join
This is an opportunity to help build category-defining infrastructure in one of the most complex
and important enterprise software markets. You won’t be joining a mature machine - you’ll be
helping build the machine.You’ll work directly with experienced founders who have built payroll and global employment systems at scale, and you’ll have meaningful ownership over both product and company outcomes.
If you want to solve hard problems, move fast, and build something foundational, we’d like to
talk.
Click on Apply to know more.