Business Development Manager

Integration with OpenAI GPT-4, Anthropic Claude, and open-source models

* Strong prompt engineering and tone-specific output design

* Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or similar orchestration frameworks

* Experience with fine-tuning and LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) techniques

* Model quantization for local deployment using tools such as GGML, GPTQ, or bits and bytes

* Deployment of local LLMs using frameworks like Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, or llama.cpp

* Knowledge of tokenizers library for efficient text preprocessing

* Ability to optimize model performance for low-latency inference

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to guide our micro-service platform and mentor a fully remote backend team. You’ll blend hands-on technical ownership with people leadership—shaping architecture, driving cloud best practices, and coaching engineers in their careers and craft.

Key Responsibilities:

Area

What You’ll Own

Architecture & Delivery

• Define and evolve backend architecture built on Java 17+, Spring Boot 3, AWS (Containers, Lambdas, SQS, S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Databricks, Redis etc...

• Lead design and code reviews; enforce best practices for testing, CI/CD, observability, security, and cost-efficient cloud operations.

• Drive technical roadmaps, ensuring scalability (billions of events, 99.9 %+ uptime) and rapid feature delivery.

Team Leadership & Growth

• Manage and inspire a distributed team of 6-10 backend engineers across multiple time zones.

• Set clear growth objectives, run 1-on-1s, deliver feedback, and foster an inclusive, high-trust culture.

• Coach the team on AI-assisted development workflows (e.g., GitHub Copilot, LLM-based code review) to boost productivity and code quality.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as technical liaison to Product, Frontend, SRE, and Data teams, translating business goals into resilient backend solutions.

• Communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences; influence cross-functional decisions.

Technical Vision & Governance

• Own coding standards, architectural principles, and technology selection.

• Evaluate emerging tools and frameworks (especially around GenAI and cloud-native patterns) and create adoption strategies.

• Balance technical debt and new feature delivery through data-driven prioritization.

Required Qualifications:

● 8+ years designing, building, and operating distributed backend systems with Java & Spring Boot

● Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers; direct people-management a plus

● Expert knowledge of AWS services and cloud-native design patterns

● Hands-on mastery of Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/MySQL, and Redis for high-volume, low-latency workloads

● Demonstrated success scaling systems to millions of users or billions of events Strong grasp of DevOps practices: containerization (Docker), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), observability stacks

● Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills in a remote-fi rst environment

Nice-to-Have:

● Hands-on experience with Datadog (APM, Logs, RUM) and a data-driven approach to debugging/performance tuning

● Startup experience—comfortable wearing multiple hats and juggling several projects simultaneously

● Prior title of Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, or Engineering Manager in a high-growth SaaS company

● Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, CodeWhisperer, Cursor) and a track record of introducing them safely

Job Title: Engineering Manager (Java / Spring Boot, AWS) – Remote

Leadership Role

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented finance professional to support end-to-end financial operations — from accounting and compliance to MIS reporting and international payments. The role involves ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance in all financial processes, while enabling business teams with data-driven insights and efficient execution.

Key Responsibilities

1. Accounting & Bookkeeping

• Manage daily accounting operations including journal entries, expense tracking, vendor payments, and reconciliations.
• Ensure accurate books of accounts in Tally/Zoho Books or similar systems.

2. Financial Reporting & MIS

• Prepare monthly and quarterly MIS reports, cash flow statements, P&L summaries, and management dashboards.
• Assist leadership with budget tracking, variance analysis, and cost control insights.

3. Vendor, Client & Overseas Payments Management

• Handle invoicing, receivables tracking, and payment follow-ups with domestic and international clients.
• Process vendor payments, reimbursements, and manage overseas transfers in line with FEMA and RBI norms.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation for all foreign remittance and forex-related transactions.

4. Compliance: Taxation, GST, PF & Statutory

• Ensure accurate calculation, filing, and reconciliation for GST, TDS, and Income Tax.
• Handle PF, ESIC, and other statutory compliances for payroll.
• Coordinate with CA partners and consultants for timely returns and assessments.

5. Audit, Documentation & Record Management

• Prepare audit schedules, support statutory and internal audits, and ensure proper documentation.
• Maintain digital and physical records for all financial and compliance documents.

6. Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Planning Support

• Assist in annual budgeting and rolling forecasts.
• Monitor actuals vs. planned spend, highlight deviations, and support cost optimization initiatives.

7. Process, Systems & Governance

• Drive improvements in financial workflows, approvals, and reporting systems.
• Support automation tools for expense management, invoicing, and financial control.

Qualifications & Skills

• B.Com / M.Com / MBA (Finance) or equivalent qualification.
• 3–6 years of experience in finance, accounting, and compliance management.
• Strong understanding of GST, TDS, PF, and statutory tax frameworks.
• Experience handling international payments and foreign remittances.
• Proficiency in Zoho Books and Excel.
• High attention to detail, ownership mindset, and ability to work under tight timelines.
• Prior experience in a startup, SaaS, or B2B tech environment is a strong plus.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work closely with founders and leadership on strategic finance planning.
• Exposure to international operations, automation, and cross-functional projects.
• A fast-paced, learning-driven environment with room for career growth.

Description:

We are looking for a Business Development Executive / Manager to join our team. If you are creative, hard-working, motivated and sales savvy, looking to pursue a career in Digital Sales and Business Development with significant growth opportunity, we want to hear from you. We are looking for an executive to assist in the planning, execution and optimization of our online business development efforts. The sale of services through digital channel is a complex procedure with great potential which becomes increasingly useful for companies such as ours. The ideal candidate will have a passion for all things Sales, Business Development and Technology. The role is to assist the organisations sales and growth efforts by contributing to new customer acquisition. He/she should be able to provide ideas to attract new clients and keep the senior management updated about marketplace

and competitor activity.

Responsibilities

● Generate new leads through different mediums like: Freelancing Portals, LinkedIn, Social Media Platforms, Direct contacts etc…

● Find new modes of Business lead generation and actively work to establish companies profile

● Build contacts with potential clients to create new business opportunities

● Keep prospective client database updated

● Make cold calls for new business leads

● Writing new business proposals

● Maintain knowledge of all product and service offerings of the company

● Arrange meetings for senior management with prospective clients

● Follow company guidelines and procedures for acquisition of customers, submission of proposals etc…

● Skills and experience in creative content writing

● Analytical mindset and critical thinking

Must have:

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

● Strong content writing skills

● As our customers are based out of India and we work on outsourced

projects only, candidate should be willing to work in odd hours to generate leads

● Prospecting for new business (cold calls and warm calls through our lead generation programs)

● Approach and develop new leads daily

● Plan and prepare sales presentations for prospects and clients

● Develop winning proposals

● Identify and develop a strong understanding of client's core objectives and challenges

● Good knowledge of Digital Sales & Marketing/ Social Media /Web Technologies/E-commerce

● Handling Client Leads and taking it to a logical conclusion

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building the next generation performing arts platform. Our mission is to transform how India learns, performs & watchers performing arts. We are currently in stealth mode with a target public launch date in April. Our launch services consist of technology enabled dance classes in our proprietary studios, production facilities and social media broadcasting & competitions.

Founder & Team

The founder is Shariq Plasticwala. He is a graduate of IIT Bombay & Stanford GSB. He was part of the founding team of Amazon India where he played a key role for over 8 years. Among his roles at Amazon, he was the CEO of Amazon’s first joint venture in India and a Board Member of Amazon’s payments business. The other members of the founding team consist of senior executives from Shiamak Davar & Byju’s.

Role

We are looking for an experienced Frontend engineer with ReactJS development experience to join our team.
Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Implement responsive and performant UIs with user centered approach with frontend technologies including ReactJS, Javascript(ES 6), Typescript, SCSS, etc
• Write meaningful test cases for frontend &amp
• Develop Infrastructure for delivering services using a performance driven approach, build databases, schedule automated jobs, etc

Ideal Background / Experience

• At least 12 months of diverse experience in web development for product or services oriented environment with exposure to working production deployments
• Expertise in programming using Python/ReactJS or similar scripting languages
• In-depth exposure to technologies used in web-based SaaS products, including REST APIs
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

Nice to have exposure to any of

• AWS
• Azure
• ELK
• Object Relational Models (SQLAlchemy, etc)
• Google APIs
• Microservices Architecture Pattern
• NodeJS / ExpressJS

Desired Candidate Profile