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R&D Lead

2 months, 3 weeks ago
India
Full-time
Lead
Research Scientist
Software Development
AWS Azure C C++ CI/CD DevSecOps Docker Encryption GCP Go Java JavaScript Kubernetes Microservices Node.js TypeScript
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1Kosmos

1Kosmos

1Kosmos provides a blockchain-powered identity and authentication solution that enables strong authentication and a passwordless experience. Their digital identity platform offers secure online services, liveness detection, and true depth camera functi...

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2018
$15M raised
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Description

  • Lead technology research and discovery initiatives across backend systems, APIs, web, mobile, cloud, and emerging domains.
  • Identify, evaluate, and prototype emerging technologies, tools, frameworks, and architectural patterns.
  • Drive proof-of-concept work, spike solutions, and experimental platforms to validate feasibility, scalability, security, and performance.
  • Establish a structured research-to-validation-to-handoff model for transitioning innovations to Product Engineering teams.
  • Influence long-term architecture decisions, platform evolution, and build-versus-buy evaluations as a technical thought leader.
  • Partner with Product Management, Product Engineering, Security, and QA to align research outcomes with business and compliance needs.
  • Ensure research outputs meet security, quality, regulatory, and compliance standards from the start.
  • Track industry trends, academic research, open-source ecosystems, and startup innovations to maintain a competitive edge.
  • Define success metrics for R&D initiatives and communicate outcomes to executive stakeholders.
  • Review, guide, and influence production-level code and implementation approaches without owning day-to-day feature delivery.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in R&D, applied research, platform engineering, or innovation leadership.
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional technical research teams and exploratory initiatives.
  • Strong background in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and modern application stacks.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate research and experimentation into production-adoptable solutions.
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent research tracks with varying levels of maturity.
  • Deep understanding of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Ability to review, guide, and influence production-level code without being the primary implementer.
  • Strong architectural judgment with a security-first mindset.
  • Experience establishing R&D best practices, including experimentation frameworks and technical evaluation criteria.
  • Familiarity with DevSecOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and secure software supply chains.
  • Hands-on expertise in one or more of: Java, Node.js, Go (Golang), C / C++, or JavaScript / TypeScript.
  • Experience with containers and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Exposure to identity, security, cryptography, or authentication technologies is a strong plus.

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