Business Acquisition Intern

Role Overview

As a Data Scientist, you will play a key role in improving and optimising the models that drive real-time speech AI. You’ll work on analysing, processing, and modelling data to make our systems smarter.

Specifically, you’ll:

• Develop and fine-tune Speech to Speech machine learning models
• Experiment with data-driven solutions to enhance AI performance.
• Work on feature engineering and dataset preparation to train robust models.
• Collaborate with the team to evaluate and deploy models into production.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong problem-solving skills, paired with a passion for learning.
• 1-3 years of experience in Data Science and related fields.
• Experience with speech processing or NLP.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with data science libraries.
• Understanding of machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Familiarity with working on datasets and data preprocessing techniques.

Responsibilities:

 Ensure product delivery is fast, low-cost and sustainable.

 Take responsibility from development to customer support.

 Research and implement things wherever needed, improve efficiency using

automation, and methods like test driven development.

 Setting up events for user, performance and error analytics.

 Participate in product and design ideation, collaborate with the team to

implement high-quality features.

Skills & Qualifications

 2 years of experience in software development preferably B2C experience.

 Experience in React native, Javascript.

 Experience with popular React workflows (such as Flux or Redux).

 Familiarity with newer specifications of ECMAScript (ES6 & ES5 ).

 Familiarity with RESTful APIs.

 Experience in working with the MERN stack or similar frameworks

**Role Description**

We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented Product Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing user-centric, visually appealing, and functional products. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape the user experience and interface while ensuring alignment with business objectives.

**Responsibilities**

1. **Design Conceptualization**

  - Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to communicate and test design concepts.

  - Collaborate with stakeholders to iterate on design solutions based on feedback and data.

2. **Copywriting**

  - Write clear, engaging, and user-focused copy that complements the design and guides users effectively.

  - Ensure consistency and alignment with the product’s tone and brand voice.

3. **Data-Driven Design**

  - Use analytics and user data to refine user flows and optimize the product experience.

  - Continuously evaluate product performance and make informed design adjustments.

4. **UX/UI Design**

  - Design intuitive and visually compelling user interfaces that align with business goals.

  - Map out seamless user flows that improve engagement and satisfaction.

5. **Collaboration**

  - Partner with product managers to align on requirements and goals.

  - Work closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation of designs and copy.

6. **Continuous Improvement**

  - Incorporate feedback from testing and data analysis to refine designs and user flows.

  - Stay informed on design trends and best practices to bring fresh ideas to the team.

**Requirements**

- Proven experience in UX/UI or product design.

- Proficiency in design tools like Figma.

- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles.

- Ability to create wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design specifications.

- Excellent communication and teamwork skills to work with cross-functional teams.

- Ability to present and justify design decisions to stakeholders.

- Analytical mindset with a focus on user needs and business goals.

- Creative problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

We are looking for a person who can adapt to the latest AI technologies, such as ChatGPT, and leverage them to enhance their productivity and efficiency.

This is a full-time on-site role for a Graphic Designer located in Hyderabad. The Graphic Designer will be responsible for creating graphics, graphic design, logo design, branding, and typography for various projects.

About Us:

We are a Napkin to a Product Market Fit Studio and work together with our customers in the journey of "an idea to the first product version". Most of our customers are Corporate Innovation Hubs and Early Stage Organizations.

Here are a couple of things about us that may interest you:

1. Fast growing: We were featured as one of Deloitte's Fastest 50 growing tech companies from India thrice (2016, 2018 and 2019). What this means for you is a great career growth opportunity

2. Successful track record: Our founders have had past successes - founded a decision management company acquired by SAP AG (now part of Hana Big data stack and NetWeaver BPM), an early engineering team of Zoho (a leading billion $ SaaS player) & some Private Equity experience. Some of our past colleagues from these companies went on to become CTOs (Redbus) and founded companies (one of them founded and then exited to Apple). We are profitable and what that means for you is long-term opportunities to generate wealth

3. Current success: Marquee customers (including the venture capital division of a large conglomerate) along with some exciting startups that are part of our clientele. We work on building MVP products. What this means for you is cutting-edge technology learning opportunities

4. Top Class peer group: We have a talented set of folks primarily focused on solving cool and exciting problems

5. Top-Class Learning & Development Programs: We run our entire L&D programs.

Must Haves:

• Minimum 4-9 years of design experience

• At least three years of experience working on digital products which include creating highly-detailed annotated wireframes, user flows, process flows and high-fidelity screens

• Worked on Information Architecture, Interaction Design and Product Design

• Strong knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to Web-based applications and mobile applications Can establish and run a good design process (exploratory and evaluative research, sprints, reviews etc.)

• Are comfortable with and interested in actively designing the product by himself/herself

• Familiarity and experience with standard design, prototyping, and user research tools, such as Figma, Miro, and Sketch.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Are deeply empathetic to customers and users and understand how the business works

• Design systems experience is an added advantage

Responsibilities:

• Clear understanding of the critical characteristics of the intended user population

• Understanding of the users' current jobs and tasks, underlying goals, and mental models of their work process and products

• Understanding of platform-specific nomenclature

• The ability to sketch and generate big-picture ideas for early-stage UX work

• Experience developing rapid prototypes

• Design test case scenarios

• Collate feedback from users for further improvement

Mactores is a trusted leader among businesses in providing modern data platform solutions. Since 2008, Mactores have been enabling businesses to accelerate their value through automation by providing End-to-End Data Solutions that are automated, agile, and secure. We collaborate with customers to strategize, navigate, and accelerate an ideal path forward with a digital transformation via assessments, migration, or modernization.

We are looking for a DataOps Engineer with expertise while operating a data lake. Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, and Apache Airflow for workflow management are used to build the data lake.

You have experience of building and running data lake platforms on AWS. You have exposure to operating PySpark-based ETL Jobs in Apache Airflow and Amazon EMR. Expertise in monitoring services like Amazon CloudWatch.

If you love solving problems using yo, professional services background, usual and fun office environment that actively steers clear of rigid "corporate" culture, focuses on productivity and creativity, and allows you to be part of a world-class team while still being yourself.

What you will do?

• Operate the current data lake deployed on AWS with Amazon S3, Amazon EMR, and Apache Airflow
• Debug and fix production issues in PySpark.
• Determine the RCA (Root cause analysis) for production issues.
• Collaborate with product teams for L3/L4 production issues in PySpark.
• Contribute to enhancing the ETL efficiency
• Build CloudWatch dashboards for optimizing the operational efficiencies
• Handle escalation tickets from L1 Monitoring engineers
• Assign the tickets to L1 engineers based on their expertise

What are we looking for?

• AWS data Ops engineer.
• Overall 5+ years of exp in the software industry Exp in developing architecture data applications using python or scala, Airflow, and Kafka on AWS Data platform Experience and expertise.
• Must have set up or led the project to enable Data Ops on AWS or any other cloud data platform.
• Strong data engineering experience on Cloud platform, preferably AWS.
• Experience with data pipelines designed for reuse and use parameterization.
• Experience of pipelines was designed to solve common ETL problems.
• Understanding or experience on various AWS services can be codified for enabling DataOps like Amazon EMR, Apache Airflow.
• Experience in building data pipelines using CI/CD infrastructure.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as code for DataOps ennoblement.
• Ability to work with ambiguity and create quick PoCs.

You will be preferred if

• Expertise in Amazon EMR, Apache Airflow, Terraform, CloudWatch
• Exposure to MLOps using Amazon Sagemaker is a plus.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Associate Level Certificate
• AWS DevOps Professional Certificate

Life at Mactores

We care about creating a culture that makes a real difference in the lives of every Mactorian. Our 10 Core Leadership Principles that honor Decision-making, Leadership, Collaboration, and Curiosity drive how we work.

1. Be one step ahead

2. Deliver the best

3. Be bold

4. Pay attention to the detail

5. Enjoy the challenge

6. Be curious and take action

7. Take leadership

8. Own it

9. Deliver value

10. Be collaborative

We would like you to read more details about the work culture on https://mactores.com/careers 

The Path to Joining the Mactores Team

At Mactores, our recruitment process is structured around three distinct stages:

Pre-Employment Assessment: 

You will be invited to participate in a series of pre-employment evaluations to assess your technical proficiency and suitability for the role.

Managerial Interview: The hiring manager will engage with you in multiple discussions, lasting anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, to assess your technical skills, hands-on experience, leadership potential, and communication abilities.

HR Discussion: During this 30-minute session, you'll have the opportunity to discuss the offer and next steps with a member of the HR team.

At Mactores, we are committed to providing equal opportunities in all of our employment practices, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local laws. This policy extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, compensation, promotions, transfers, disciplinary action, layoff, training, and social and recreational programs. All employment decisions will be made in compliance with these principles.

Responsibilities and qualifications

• 5+ years of Android development experience
• Will own several parts of our tech stack, but primarily our Android app
• Build new functionality to the Android app and regularly re-architect it to keep up with latest technologies (e.g., Kotlin)
• Work on new tech that we are already a leading user of (e.g., Google Firebase)
• Work closely with the backend team to construct creative solutions
• Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
• MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
• MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
• Should be passionate about building a strong engineering culture

Bonus Points for experience building high-scale applications, SDKs and other web technologies (like JavaScript).

Who we are

• Fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding)
• Led by strong engineers with significant experience at top tier firms like McKinsey, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and authors of multiple Java Standards
• Building an awesome product already used by Swigg etc.
• Raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
• Mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL, Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.

Other background information

• Looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
• We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
• The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
• Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
• This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
• You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!

Job Perks

• Daily breakfast
• Friday team lunches
• Macbook 
• Office near beach (for when people return after COVID)
• Potential for stock options (in lakhs)
• Stipend to attend conferences
• Potential travel to Singapore and other client locations

Creates, modifies, and maintains software applications individually or as part of a team.  Provides technical leadership on a team, including training and mentoring of other team members.  Provides technology and architecture direction for the team, department, and organization.

• Develops software applications and supporting infrastructure using established coding standards and methodologies
• Sets example for software quality through multiple levels of automated tests, including but not limited to unit, API, End to End, and load.
• Self-starter and self-organized - able to work without supervision
• Develops tooling, test harnesses and innovative solutions to understand and monitor the quality of the product 
• Develops infrastructure as code to reliably deploy applications on demand or through automation
• Understands cloud managed services and builds scalable and secure applications using them
• Creates proof of concepts for new ideas that answer key questions of feasibility, desirability, and viability
• Work with other technical leaders to establish coding standards, development best practices and technology direction
• Performs thorough code reviews that promote better understanding throughout the team
• Work with architects, designers, business analysts and others to design and implement high quality software solutions
• Builds intuitive user interfaces with the end user persona in mind using front end frameworks and styling
• Assist product owners in backlog grooming, story breakdown and story estimation
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders throughout the organization
• Document software changes for use by other engineers, quality assurance and documentation specialists
• Master the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team and project assigned
• Train others in the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team
• Trouble shoot, instrument and debug existing software resolving root causes of defective behavior
• Guide the team in setting up the infrastructure in the cloud.
• Setup the security protocols for the cloud infrastructure
• Works with the team in setting up the data hub in the cloud
• Create dashboards for the visibility of the various interactions between the cloud services
• Other duties as assigned

• BA/BS in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent work experience

• Mastered advanced programming concepts, including object oriented programming
• Mastered technologies and tools utilized by team and project assigned
• Able to train others on general programming concepts and specific technologies
• Minimum 8 years’ experience developing software applications

• Must be expert in advanced programming skills and database technology
• Must be expert in at least one technology and/or language and proficient in multiple technologies and languages:
• (Specific languages needed will vary based on development department or project)
• .Net Core, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Typescript, Python
• Additional desired skills:
  • Single-Page Applications, Angular (v9), Ivy, RXJS, NGRX, HTML5, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Atomic Design
  • Test First approach, Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated testing (Protractor, Jasmine), Newman Postman, artillery.io
  • Microservices, Terraform, Jenkins, Jupyter Notebook, Docker, NPM, Yarn, Nuget, NodeJS, Git/Gerrit, LaunchDarkly
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), Lambda, S3, Cognito, Step Functions, SQS, IAM, Cloudwatch, Elasticache
  • Database Design, Optimization, Replication, Partitioning/Sharding, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, PySpark, Kafka
  • Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevSecOps
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Ability to track software issues to successful resolution
• Ability to work in a collaborative fast paced environment
• Setting up complex AWS data storage hub
• Well versed in setting up infrastructure security in the interactions between the planned components
• Experienced in setting up dashboards for analyzing the various operations in the AWS infra setup.
• Ability to learn new development language quickly and apply that knowledge effectively