Big Data Engineer

Job Summary

Wissen Technology is hiring a highly skilled and experienced Lead React.js Developer to join our dynamic team in Pune (Baner). The ideal candidate will have a strong background in front-end development, a passion for building high-performance web applications, and the ability to lead and mentor a team of developers.

Experience:

7+ Years

Location:

Pune (Baner)

Mode of Work:

Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance web applications using React.js.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including designers, backend developers, and product managers.
• Translate business requirements and UI/UX designs into high-quality code.
• Optimize components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers.
• Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to junior developers.
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and scalability through best practices.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in front-end development.
• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and delivery tracking.

Qualifications and Required Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in front-end development with a strong focus on React.js.
• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, and modern front-end build pipelines and tools.
• Experience with state management libraries like Redux, Context API, or MobX.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools such as Git.
• Experience with testing frameworks like Jest, Enzyme, or React Testing Library.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Next.js or other SSR frameworks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to cloud platforms like AWS or Azure.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies.

Skills Required:

• Proven experience as a Sales Executive in the freight forwarding or Custom Clearance or Shipping or logistics industry
• In-depth knowledge of international logistics including but not limited to freight forwarding processes, Jargons, regulations, and industry standards
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills especially in English
• Demonstrated ability to convert new customers and meet sales target
• Should have experience in handling face-to-face sales meetings i.e meeting with clients and building relationships and understanding their needs.
• Strong negotiation & closing skills
• Customer- centric approach with a passion for building and maintaining client relationships
• Self motivated and results oriented

KRAs

• Identifying and Building new customers
• Answering inbound queries with technical know-how and expertise
• Prepare and present competitive proposals and contracts to clients
• Identify and target potential clients in various industries by analyzing data
• Doing and Maintaining strong follow-ups and meetings to ensure the client is well catered to and responded
• Fixing appointments and creating schedules and meetings for approaching the right set of targeted clients
• Develop and implement effective sales strategies to achieve revenue targets.
• Maintain and expand relationships with existing clients.
• Meet or exceed projected sales numbers by closing clients and negotiating contracts
• Stay updated on industry trends, competitors, and market conditions to adapt sales tactics accordingly

Job Purpose and Impact:

The Sr. Generative AI Engineer will architect, design and develop new and existing GenAI solutions for the organization. As a Generative AI Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and implementing products using cutting-edge generative AI and RAG to solve complex problems and drive innovation across our organization. You will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions that enhance our products and services in Cargill. You will bring order to ambiguous scenarios and apply in depth and broad knowledge of architectural, engineering and security practices to ensure your solutions are scalable, resilient and robust and will share knowledge on modern practices and technologies to the shared engineering community.

Key Accountabilities:

• Apply software and AI engineering patterns and principles to design, develop, test, integrate, maintain and troubleshoot complex and varied Generative AI software solutions and incorporate security practices in newly developed and maintained applications.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define AI project requirements and objectives, ensuring alignment with overall business goals.

• Conduct research to stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in generative AI, machine learning, and deep learning techniques and identify opportunities to integrate them into our products and services, optimizing existing generative AI models and RAG for improved performance, scalability, and efficiency, developing and maintaining pipelines and RAG solutions including data preprocessing, prompt engineering, benchmarking and fine-tuning.

• Develop clear and concise documentation, including technical specifications, user guides and presentations, to communicate complex AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Participate in the engineering community by maintaining and sharing relevant technical approaches and modern skills in AI.

• Contribute to the establishment of best practices and standards for generative AI development within the organization.

• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum of five years of related work experience

• You are proficient in Python and have experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks

• Have deep understanding of industry leading Foundation Model capabilities and its application.

• You are familiar with cloud-based Generative AI platforms and services

• Full stack software engineering experience to build products using Foundation Models

• Confirmed experience architecting applications, databases, services or integrations.

• Technical skills in C# .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC and Entity framework, LINQ and REST APIs
• Additional skills in MySQL and SQL server, Ajax, jQuery, ReactJS, HTML, Javascript, XML
• Have good analytical ability to breakdown problem statements into solutions
• Working knowledge of various development tools like IDE’s (VS2008 or above), source control systems like TFS, Subversion.
• Good at Troubleshooting, problem solving and has supported customers in production environment
• Experience in Test driven development is desirable.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to follow verbal/written instructions
• Ability to troubleshoot assigned technical issues and also the ability to meet tight project deadlines
• MUST have experience in major systems development and implementation
• Leading a team would be an added advantage.

About us:
Equal parts creative agency, engineering firm, and consultancy, Grappus has a reputation of doing things differently. We work with brands big and small, far and wide, helping them understand, prototype and deploy a broad range of custom tech. We value design and we cringe at bad UX. Each project is a clean slate, we don’t have frameworks, or any pre-made formulas. We’re not here to just grow big, make money and win awards. We’re here to crack the process of building truly innovative products from scratch. Products that make people say ‘damn’.

People at Grappus usually experience a highly accelerated career growth well beyond the narrow constraints of their ‘job description’. Here, the growth ladder is tailored to you. It operates exactly as fast as you can manage to grow. We think it's a waste when smart people are unable to make an impact. Our aim is to unleash your potential by giving you massive challenges and the freedom to solve them.

We’re in a fluid world, where we don’t know what technologies we’ll use next, or the projects we’ll work on. We’re actively searching for ways to shine a light on our blind spots, whether it is in the products we want to build, the problems we like to solve, or the company culture we try to create. That’s what makes life at Grappus so exciting. Grappus is an ongoing experiment and you are a part of it. We'll be a different company a few years from now because you are going to change it for the better. We can’t wait to see where you take us.

About the role:
We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who has a knack for coming up with creative solutions to unique problems, planning development cycles and writing technical documentation while leading a team of developers. You should have experience with different design pattern implementation and be quick in making architectural decisions. You can get in where needed to write clean, reusable, and performant code, with creative sensibilities to push projects towards perfection. You should have good time management skills and be able to work both autonomously and collaboratively with a cross-discipline team of product managers, strategists, UX designers, art directors, and developers.

What we’d like to see:
● Ability to write elegant and readable code
● Excellent problem solving skills and love technical challenges
● Comfortable working in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
● Strong understanding of Agile and Lean software development processes and practices
● Stays plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and applies them proactively
● Taking leads on projects as needed
● Knowledge of software best practices, like test driven development and continuous integration
● Directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications

Must have:
● BE/ BTech in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent practical experience
● 4+ years of professional backend development experience
● Experience coaching and mentoring junior developers
● Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem solving skills and client handling      skills
● Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques
● Experience working with Python/Django or NodeJS
● Knowledge of DRF, Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
● Implemented CI/CD in any of the projects done
● Strong understanding of the full web technology stack (i.e. HTTP, caching, headers, cookies, etc)
● Proficiency in working with API’s and third party integrations
● Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies
● Experience with multi-tenant architectures (SaaS)
● Experience with Test Driven Development
● Excellent project and time management skills

Nice to have:
● Familiarity and experience using a variety of architectural Design Patterns
● Knowledge of Kubernetes/Docker and Devops
● Personal projects or contributions to the open source community
● Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines
● Team player (those great personality types that people love to work with)
● Great communication skills

Why you’ll love it here:
(Besides working with our team with infinite charm)

● We have no fixed work timings or leave policy, you can take unlimited leaves and start your day whenever you want. (Just make sure others in your team don’t suffer)
● We don’t track these hours you put in or ask you to fill time sheets. We don’t believe in
micromanaging, if you’re struggling, ask for help. If someone else is, offer some support.
● We never mind if people make mistakes or screw up in any way, and offer full encouragement to help people learn fast by failing fast.
● We always encourage people to be completely candid, raise alarms, or log complaints
anonymously in our feedback tool, no matter how harsh.
● We are a ‘Work from Anywhere’ company, since passionate, driven people can work from
anywhere they want; their homes, or cafes, or mountains, or beaches, anywhere.
● We have a 15-day notice period. We want to build a place where people work willingly and passionately.

Think you know your way around the Indian+ Global Culture, entertainment world, films, pop culture, memes and OTT? 

If Content and Content Strategy is your thing, this one’s for you.

We are looking for someone who can understand the consumers' pulse, represent our expert brand voice, and develop brilliant content to help build our Brand across various platforms.

We need someone who can give all our long-form content, scripts and videos a distinct voice & language of their own, which seamlessly weaves in with our brand story & helps flesh out a brand personality our consumers can clearly recognize.  

Responsibilities:

• Help carve out and build our Youtube channels (for two brands) with fun content in the health and wellness space using unique and creative ways.
• Find out-of-the-box topics based on competitor analysis, trending topics in the digital space ( youtube/ instagram)

Requirements:

• Speaks Memes, gifs and Pop Culture 
• Is familiar with writing creative content
• Is familiar with online brands and Youtube Channels
• Excellent writing and editing skills in English, Hinglish
• Has an innate ability to think laterally and literally
• Motivation and the desire to execute every job to the highest standards
• Adept with basic formatting, eye for detail, thorough research and analysis
• Proactive, responsible, hard-working, and diligent
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Portfolio of work- published articles will be preferred

The opportunity

The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

You are great at

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.

Required Candidate Profile

• 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
• 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
• Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
• Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
• Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
• Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
• Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly