Thence

Thence is searching for a highly skilled and motivated Lead - Technical Consultant who is enterprising and eager to make a significant impact in the service space by enabling exceptional products. The ideal candidate should have a robust technical background, outstanding leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing complex technical projects. Moreover, this role includes consideration for a Partner role after completing one year with Thence, accompanied by sizeable equity.

Reporting directly to the COO, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the company's growth by delivering digital products to clients across various verticals like healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.

If you are a motivated individual with a passion for driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team at Thence.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Generate business opportunities from existing clients and collaborate with the business team to convert new business.
• Work towards achieving annual and quarterly revenue targets.
• Developing digital products, applications and minimum viable product (MVP), including defining the overall architecture and system design to meet business requirements.
• Enabling our client to select the appropriate technology stack, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
• Designing and configuring the infrastructure to support the software application.
• Choosing the development toolkit, frameworks and libraries best suited based on business and project's needs.
• Crafting and executing database designs, ensuring data integrity, performance and scalability.
• Enhancing and optimising application architecture to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Ensuring application scalability to handle increased user loads and data volumes effectively.
• Upholding quality assurance standards through code reviews, testing and continuous integration practices.
• Ensuring IP security by implementing robust authentication, authorisation and encryption mechanisms.
• Exploring and integrating new technologies to enhance the software's capabilities and keep it up-to-date with industry trends.
• Developing the startup's strategic resource allocation plan, including budgeting for technology investments and staffing needs.
• Ensuring efficient utilisation of technologies by optimising resource allocation and minimising waste.
• Assessing and integrating new systems and infrastructure to support the evolving needs of the organization.
• Deliver digital products to clients across various verticals, including healthcare, Fintech, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.
• Building, attracting and mentoring talented developers to foster a culture of learning, innovation and collaboration within the team.
• Collaborating closely with the sales team to ensure effective communication and strategic positioning of technology solutions, while continuously refining sales pitch strategies based on feedback and market trends to maximize success rates and drive revenue growth.
• Defining, managing and evaluating team members based on goals and performance metrics, providing status updates to the leadership team on a bi-weekly basis.
• Identifying process gaps and development inefficiencies within the organisation and defining and driving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to address these gaps effectively.

Skills Required

• Strong business acumen, with the ability to make strategic decisions and take ownership of account growth, revenue and outcomes.
• Strong technical background with experience in managing complex technical projects encompassing diverse realms such as Web, Mobile, Applications (Apps), Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML).
• Extensive experience in establishing and refining processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) aimed at measuring and enhancing the quality and efficiency of development capabilities. This includes implementing frameworks to assess performance metrics, optimise workflows and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
• Excellent leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
• Proven track record of driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships.
• Enterprising and adept at handling clients effectively.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an inspiring and confident team player with:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and/or significant relevant work experience
• Minimum of 4+ years of proven agency experience in software development projects.
• Experience in leading a team of highly skilled developers, engineers, and testers
•  working on multiple client projects
• Experience managing products and projects, and delivering large scale technical solutions on time and on budget
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a track record of managing stakeholder expectations effectively.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and infrastructure, microservices, and serverless architecture

Additional Opportunities:

After completing one year with Thence, high-performing individuals will be considered for a Partner role, with the potential for substantial equity ownership in the company.

About Thence

Thence is a Product Success Company, bringing together practices spanning strategy, research, design, engineering, and data to achieve product goals and deliver business impact for organizations across the globe.

Over the last decade, we have delivered product success in meaningful ways for Asian Paints, Angel One, Northern Arc Capital, Visa, PokerBaazi, MPL, Amazon, OnePlus, IBM, ChargeBee, and more.

We have bootstrapped to double in growth every year over the last few to become a profitable multi-million enterprise. And with our global expansion, we aim to achieve 10X growth in the next two.

In this endeavor, we are building a diverse and inclusive team of experts who can power our 1-10 journey. 

Know more about us at https://thence.co

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical Manager to lead our technical teams and oversee the successful delivery of projects. The ideal candidate should possess a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing complex technical projects. You will be reporting to the COO and assume “end-to-end” ownership of developing and delivering digital products to the clients across various verticals like healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee the execution of multiple technical/Engineering projects concurrently(4-5), ensuring timely delivery and adherence to quality standards
• Understands different programming languages and ability to solve problems in coding, testing and deployment
• Assist the sales team in the generation of technical proposals and cost estimates
• Add and maintain development sprints, dev backlogs, N+3 planning, and dev sprint milestones in ClickUp. Keeps project manager well informed of the status of development efforts through live dashboards and updated sprint plans and the projects are completed efficiently, correctly, and on schedule
• Define, manage and evaluate team members on goals and performance metrics. Give status updates to the leadership team at a bi-weekly level 
• Identifying process gaps, and dev inefficiencies in the organisation. Defining and driving SOPs to bridge the same

Skills Required

• Experience with full-stack architecture and development (Flutter/Reactjs/Node.js)
• Expertise in AWS/Azure/Google Cloud 
• Prior experience in at least one Relational/Non-relational database technology (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.) 
• Experience with unit test frameworks and peer code review 
• Proficient in current development tools (Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, Git, Bitbucket, JIRA) 
• Familiarity with performance monitoring and bug or crash monitoring tools. 
• Excellent communication with strong project management, team building stakeholder management, code review and management skills.
• Strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with software development methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall.
• Familiarity with industry standards and regulations.
• Strong business acumen, ability to make decisions, and to take responsibility for outcomes
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Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an inspiring and confident team player with:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and/or significant relevant work experience
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years of experience in a technical management role
• Experience in leading a team of highly skilled developers working on multiple client projects 
•  Should have worked with startups before and understand the fast-paced, dynamic nature of work 
• Experience managing products and projects, and delivering large scale technical solutions on time and on budget
• Experience leading a team of developers, engineers, and testers
• Proven ability to manage stakeholder expectations, including cross-functional teams, clients, and senior leadership
• Strong understanding of software design principles, architecture patterns, and performance optimisation techniques
• Ability to work independently and highly organised
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and infrastructure, microservices, and serverless architecture

About Thence

Thence is a Product Success Company, bringing together practices spanning strategy, research, design, engineering, and data to achieve product goals and deliver business impact for organisations across the globe.

Over the last decade, we have delivered product success in meaningful ways for Asian Paints, Angel One, Northern Arc Capital, Visa, PokerBaazi, MPL, Amazon, OnePlus, IBM, ChargeBee, and more.

We have bootstrapped to double in growth every year over the last few to become a profitable multi-million enterprise. And with our global expansion, we aim to achieve 10X growth in the next two.

In this endeavour, we are building a diverse and inclusive team of experts who can power our 1-10 journey.

Know more about us at https://thence.co

Responsibilities:

 Work with development and product team to ideate software solutions

 Design client-side and server-side architecture

 Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design

 Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

 Write effective APIs, Ability to quickly pick up new areas in the product and write optimal

code taking into consideration the security and performance aspects of the product.

 Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

 Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

 Create security and data protection settings

 Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design

 Write technical documentation

Skills:

 Proven experience of around 4-7yrs as a Full Stack Developer.

 Should be a full stack developer who can code on cutting-edge technology stacks including

Laravel, Nodejs, Express js, Python, React, Angular, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Elastic Search,

Docker, AWS etc. for our clients.

 Experience developing desktop and mobile applications

 Familiarity with common stacks

 Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML,

jQuery)

 Strong Knowledge of multiple back-end languages and on frameworks or platforms (Phython

/ Express JS / Django etc), API / Serverless services, DB Schema Definition.

 Good to have stakeholder management, team leading, team mentoring, code management

under critical problem

 Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) and UI/UX

design

 Excellent communication and teamwork skills

 Great attention to detail and analytical skills.

 Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field

• Understands business strategy and goals by studying the business function, collaborating with the client and gather business requirements.
• Documentation of formal requirements, use cases, user stories, User Journey which ensure that the UX solutions proposed are fit for purpose, meet business needs and are operationally sustainable.
• Ability to evaluate the data collected through task analysis, business process, surveys and workshops and derive meaningful insights
• Communicating effectively with UX team, external clients and internal teams to deliver product’s functional requirement.
• Manages the progress of projects by tracking activity, resolving issues, and recommending actions.
• Provides senior management and client stakeholders with regular updates on deliverable timeline and project status.
• Have complete ownership for project quality, delivery and timelines.
• Ability to manage team and multiple projects.
• Understanding of the business requirements, capture and track the details required to produce the end product, and document same in the form of user stories/use cases and process flow maps, content matrix
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a self-starter. 
• Ability to take initiative and proactively offer suggestions and resolutions. 
• Proactive problem solver who, handle multiple complex projects and tasks.
• Great communication skills; the ability to clearly explain design decisions and processes to anyone in the company.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and self-starter who actively seeks ways to improve the customer experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.