Associate Manager - Business Development

Roles and Responsibilities:

Perform detailed feature requirements analysis along with a team of Senior Developers, 

define system functionality, work on system design and document the same

● Design/Develop/Improve Cogno AI’s backend infrastructure and stack and build fault￾tolerant, scalable and real-time distributed system

● Own the design, development and deployment of code to improve product and platform 

functionality

● Taking initiative and giving ideas for improving the processes in the technology team 

would lead to better performance of the team and result in robust solutions

● Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code

● Support team with timely analysis and debugging of operational issues

● Emphasis on automation and scripting

● Cross-functional communication to deliver projects

● Mentor junior team members technically and manage a team of software engineers

● Taking interviews and making tests for hiring people in the technology team

What do we look for?

The following are the important eligibility requirements for this Job:

● Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.

● 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, preferably in a product-based 

company.

● Experience working with major cloud solutions AWS (preferred), Azure, and GCP.

● Familiarity with 3-Tier, microservices architecture and distributed systems

● Experience with the design & development of RESTful services

● Experience with developing Linux-based applications, networking and scripting.

● Experience with different data stores, data modelling and scaling them

● Familiarity with data stores such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo-DB etc.

● 4+ years of experience with web frameworks (preferably Django, Flask etc.)

● Good understanding of data structures, multi-threading and concurrency concepts.

● Experience with DevOps tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Git is a plus.

● Familiarity with elastic search queries and visualization tools like grafana, kibana

● Strong networking fundamentals: Firewalls, Proxies, DNS, Load Balancing, etc.

● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

● Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

● Team player, flexible and able to work in a fast-paced environment.

● End-to-end ownership of the product. You own what you develop.

The JD is as below:

Onboarding customers, collecting all the required documents, executing agreements etc

Collecting repayments and educating customers on credit benefits and timely repayment benefits

Building and maintaining relationships with clients and sellers' ground team

Meeting and exceeding sales targets

Staying up-to-date on company policies and competitor activities

Collaborating with internal teams and anchor teams to ensure the successful product placement

Providing excellent customer service to customers/borrowers

Role Overview

Summary of Role

We are looking for a passionate and skilled Product Manager, we expect you to bring a fresh pair of eyes for both product planning and product marketing. This includes managing the product throughout the Product Lifecycle, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working to deliver winning products. 

Must Have Background for this Role:

• Min 5-12 years of strong experience in product management role
• Previous experience in Fintech domain 
• Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred)

Required Skills for this Role: 

• Define the product strategy and roadmap
• Build innovative financial products in a cross-functional team. Deeply understand the needs and problems of our users. 
• Develop product positioning strategies.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure developers understand the required functionality and are building the right functionality to meet the market need and are easy to implement and maintain.
• Recommend and drive implementation of improvements to the product development process
• Document and manage the user experience.
• Proven problem-solving capabilities.
• Deliver a monthly revenue forecast.

Also Nice to Have Skills and Background: 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 
• Excellent teamwork skills
• Demonstrated success defining and launching excellent products

• 7+ years of experience in IT
• Demonstrable expertise in Golang development services, including a deep understanding of its syntax, advanced features, and standard library
• Familiarity with Go routines and channel patterns, as well as experience in writing high-performance Go code
• Solid grasp of web development fundamentals, including HTTP/HTTPS protocols, RESTful API design, data structures, and WebSockets
• Experience with designing and implementing microservices in Go and an understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

We are an early stage start-up, building new fintech products for small businesses. Founders are IIT-IIM alumni, with prior experience across management consulting, venture capital and fintech startups. We are driven by the vision to empower small business owners with technology and dramatically improve their access to financial services. To start with, we are building a simple, yet powerful solution to address a deep pain point for these owners: cash flow management. Over time, we will also add digital banking and 1-click financing to our suite of offerings.

We have developed an MVP which is being tested in the market. We have closed our seed funding from marquee global investors and are now actively building a world class tech team. We are a young, passionate team with a strong grip on this space and are looking to on-board enthusiastic, entrepreneurial individuals to partner with us in this exciting journey. We offer a high degree of autonomy, a collaborative fast-paced work environment and most importantly, a chance to create unparalleled impact using technology.

Reach out if you want to get in on the ground floor of something which can turbocharge SME banking in India!

Technology stack at Velocity comprises a wide variety of cutting edge technologies like, NodeJS, Ruby on Rails, Reactive Programming,, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redux (Saga) Redis, Lambda etc. 

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for building data and analytical engineering pipelines with standard ELT patterns, implementing data compaction pipelines, data modelling and overseeing overall data quality

• Work with the Office of the CTO as an active member of our architecture guild

• Writing pipelines to consume the data from multiple sources

• Writing a data transformation layer using DBT to transform millions of data into data warehouses.

• Implement Data warehouse entities with common re-usable data model designs with automation and data quality capabilities

• Identify downstream implications of data loads/migration (e.g., data quality, regulatory)

What To Bring

• 5+ years of software development experience, a startup experience is a plus.

• Past experience of working with Airflow and DBT is preferred

• 5+ years of experience working in any backend programming language. 

• Strong first-hand experience with data pipelines and relational databases such as Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server or MySQL

• Experience with DevOps tools (GitHub, Travis CI, and JIRA) and methodologies (Lean, Agile, Scrum, Test Driven Development)

• Experienced with the formulation of ideas; building proof-of-concept (POC) and converting them to production-ready projects

• Experience building and deploying applications on on-premise and AWS or Google Cloud cloud-based infrastructure

• Basic understanding of Kubernetes & docker is a must.

• Experience in data processing (ETL, ELT) and/or cloud-based platforms

• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

• Experience in PHP & MySQLi, various open source frameworks,
• Strong knowledge in JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, SQL,
• Strong Knowledge in Frameworks like Laravel
• Strong skills of APIs Creation & integration
• Knowledge of Cloud Servers like AWS, Digital ocean
• Know how to Secure the PHP Scripts from attacks or injections,