AI Architect

About Us:

We are an innovative tech company focusing on cutting-edge AI projects. Our mission is to create impactful AI solutions that transform industries and enhance user experiences. We are looking for a skilled Python Developer to join our dynamic team and contribute to the development of AI-powered applications.

Responsibilities:

Develop, test, and deploy scalable AI and machine learning models using Python.

Collaborate with data scientists and AI engineers to integrate models into production systems.

Write efficient, reusable, and scalable code for AI applications and pipelines.

Optimize existing Python codebases for performance and scalability.

Design and implement APIs and microservices to support AI-driven features.

Debug and resolve issues in AI systems and pipelines.

Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI and Python development trends.

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Samagra X - Tech Architect

As Samagra expands into Digital Public Goods (DPGs), we’re looking for a Tech Architect to help us shape how open-source products and platforms can transform governments' worldwide function. As Samagra, we pride ourselves on being thoughtful and intentional about the impact that can be created through well-built products and platforms.

In this role, you’ll work with a mission-driven team on some of the world’s most complex governance problems, where technology will play a pivotal role. You’ll design the architecture of platforms, answering

questions like-

• How to deliver quality advisory services to 100mn farmers nationwide?
• How can standardised assessment/practice tools be enabled to ensure FLN1 in children?
• How to build the capacity of paramedical staff in the country?
• How can govt administrators in any domain monitor the progress of flagship programs?
• How to build an open commerce network to connect farmers to the best service providers?

Working at Samagra, you’ll be challenged and rewarded with impact at scale. We value excellence, collaboration, empathy, and high ownership mindset. The most successful candidates will exhibit work that reflects these values. We want you to enable every team member to do their best work. We expect you to have a solid technical background, excellent communication skills, a flare for open-source products/platforms and a commitment to making everyone feel included.

Your Impact

In this role, you’ll have tremendous opportunities to learn, collaborate and impact millions of citizens in India and abroad by transforming how governments function. As a Tech Architect, you will:

• Take Ownership of technical vision for a given DPG - Define standards, drive technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap with the DPG working groups
• Collaborate with the DPG development partner to translate technical vision into a deliverable roadmap and product design. Pitch in with code, code reviews, architectural reviews and technical mentoring
• Work closely with the DPG development partner at various milestones of the product delivery to ensure a high-quality product is delivered and the product meets all the requirements, including debuggability,
• supportability, availability, scalability, cost-efficiency and performance.
• Continuously develop and improve the interface between technology and the DPG community. Ensure
• that overall technical practices are scalable, constantly evaluating tech stacks to cater to evolving business needs.
• Participate in building ecosystems around DPG with the community - build platforms, plugins & apps.
• Ensure all internal processes & external services comply with security, privacy policies and regulations.
• Stay on top of digital trends, principles and paradigms and be able to relate how these trends will affect the DPG community.
• Engage with internal and external collaborators, and maintain relationships/partnerships with internal team members and adopters to develop strategies, goals and objectives consistent with the DPG
• strategy.

Skills required

• Solid technical skills - Strong experience in having architected, built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems; Worked on defining problem statements at all levels - RFCs to good first issues. Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices; Experience with enterprise software development built and delivered on both on-premise and Cloud is preferred; Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate tasks; Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Leadership - Mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and tactful stakeholder engagement, which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company/community. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful
• Collaboration and communication - with the geo-distributed teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Also, able to communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed.
• Planning & execution - Able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines; keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks

Qualifications

• B. tech/BE(CS/IT) & from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutes of India/Abroad or equivalent; M. tech/Ph.D. preferred
• 8+ years of software development experience with 4+ years contributing to software architecture
• Experience in architecting, designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience in contributing and actively participating in multiple open source projects.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in working with a developer ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Automate the development and test automation processes through CI/CD pipeline (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker containers).
• Experience in one of the following programming languages: Python/Javascript/Typescript/Java.
• Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MariaDB) and any other large scale distributed database systems.
• Have expertise in one or more areas like building and scaling web apps, Machine Learning, UI Engineering, Information Visualization, etc.

About Samagra

Samagra is a mission-driven governance consulting firm. We co-work with the bureaucratic leadership across states and the Centre on long-term systemic transformation programmes cutting across domains. Since 2012, when Samagra was founded, we have worked with the Government of India and 7 state governments on 15+ large-scale systemic transformation projects in sectors like education, agriculture, skills, employment, and public service delivery. Over the last 5 years, we have also built strong GovTech and DataGov capabilities, now housed under the SamagraX umbrella. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of citizens through better governance. And this mission is

what fuels every goal we chase. Want to know more about Samagra?

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcPdI2SHwU&;t=4s&ab_channel=Samagra-TransformingGovernance" target="_blank">this masterclass by our Founder and CEO, Gaurav Goel

Our Tech Leadership

Rahul Kulkarni - Chief Technologist

Nitin Kashyap - Senior Vice President - Product

Utkarsh Vijay - Vice President

Sukhpreet Sekhon - Vice President

Suresh Unnikrishnan - Vice President - Engineering

Product Examples

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-03-31-leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-deliver-advisory-to-farmers/" target="_blank">Ama KrushAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CEo_R8XIhI" target="_blank">Nipun Lakshya App 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8m4VS8kqA" target="_blank">e-SAMWAD

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Krushak Odisha database - DataScience

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Sunbird cQube

https://saral.sunbird.org/" target="_blank">Sunbird SARAL

SiteRecon is looking for an Engineering Leader who can visualize the nuts and bolts of the product architecture and bring it to life. You will be responsible for leading the engineering team and contributing to product conception from an engineering standpoint. You will also be the thought leader for engineering in the team. 

You will lead the development of new smart web applications and you will be mainly involved in the development of our platform (SiteRecon). You will be working in an exciting environment alongside people with tremendous ambition. You will have the freedom to implement your own designs & solutions. You will be working together with the core team of SiteRecon - all graduates from IITs working at the cutting edge for the past few years, CEO, CPO, and CDS. 

Role and Responsibilities:

• Ensure high-quality customer experience through our products. 
• Hiring and retaining engineering teammates. 
• Inculcate a culture where high-quality engineers can thrive and grow. 
• Contribute to product conception from an engineering perspective.
• Take complete, end to end ownership of development and production pipelines of internal tools and consumer-facing products.
• Ensure high performance, reliability, and availability of hosted deep learning and geoprocessing services.
• Translate high-level tasks and product requirement documents into technical design documents and scalable, maintainable and readable codebases.
• Develop and implement high and low-level system design for engineering projects.
• Develop scripts and set up the infrastructure for monitoring and logging for all deployed software.
• Coordinate with internal teams to understand data processing pipelines and provide technical solutions.
• Effectively lead teams of junior developers and ensure high code quality through code reviews, automated linting, etc.
• Represent engineering team before stakeholders outside SiteRecon (users, investors, job candidates)

Does This Sound Like You?

Must Haves:  

• 3+ years of experience in the backend (preferably Django), frontend and software design and architecture.
• Experience with DevOps technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins or CI/CD.
• Knowledge of messaging services like Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ.
• Understanding of cloud services like AWS and GCP.
• Experience working at a startup that scaled while you were there.
• Experience managing a team, converting product requirements into engineering sow.

Good To Haves:  

• Experience with PostGIS or any other geo-database.
• Understanding of Geographic Information Systems and related terminologies.
• Experience in developing production versions of deep learning applications.

Candidate attribute (Culture Fit):

• Comfortable operating in a constantly changing and fast-paced environment.
• A passionate, driven individual who can achieve results through both, independently and teamwork and collaborative approaches.
• Have a strong work ethic and natural ownership ability.