Business Process Leader

About Deqode

At Deqode, we work on cutting-edge solutions that are redefining the digital frontier. Our team thrives on innovation, collaboration, and creating next-gen products that solve real-world problems. We are now looking for a skilled and passionate React.js Developer to join our growing frontend team.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Take complete ownership and delivery of front-end applications.
• Ensure optimized performance across mobile and desktop platforms.
• Write clean, tested, and well-documented code using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers, HTML coders, and backend developers to bring designs to life.
• Integrate RESTful APIs and work seamlessly with backend teams.
• Communicate and integrate with third-party web services.
• Build and manage infrastructure for serving frontend apps and assets.
• Maintain frontend application deployment and ensure build pipeline automation.
• Use JSDoc or similar tools for inline documentation of code.
• Write extensive unit tests following Test-Driven Development (TDD) best practices.
• Design and automate the frontend build process using tools like Webpack/Gulp/Grunt.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience developing production-level web applications.
• Strong command over React.js or Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.
• Deep understanding of DOM APIs, native JavaScript, and popular libraries.
• Proficiency in CSS preprocessors (SASS/LESS) and modular CSS (CSS Modules).
• Familiarity with build tools like Webpack, Gulp, or Grunt.
• Experience creating modular, self-contained, and reusable components.
• Strong understanding of cross-browser compatibility and performance optimizations.
• Clean, organized, and maintainable code practices.
• Bonus: Working knowledge of Node.js and backend concepts like APIs, databases, caching layers, and proxies.
• Comfort in implementing pixel-perfect designs, animations, and smooth transitions.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to work both independently and in a team.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Software analysis, design, development, and customizations of software applications on IBMi
• Develop Design and test cases
• Prepare project technical delivery documents such as Technical Design Documents, analysis, documents, Unit Test Reports, and others
• Actively participate in software quality Engineering process activities
• Stakeholder interactions daily
• Mentor junior resources and provide technical guidance as and when required
• Production Support and other maintenance activities on IBMi
• Participate in daily stand-up or equivalent calls
• Provide accurate timely status reports
• Work under agile frameworks including but not limited to Kanban and Scrum
• Any experience of support IBMi-based ERP packages would be added advantage
• Perform the production code promotional and other change management activities
• Providing technical leadership to project team members and responding to inquiries regarding errors or questions about programs

Job Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor’s Graduate in Engineering or equivalent
• 10+ years of total experience is required
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Essential skillset:

• Operating System: OS/400,WINDOWS
• Languages : RPGLE, COBOL, CL400,CLLE, STORED PROCEDURE
• Database : DB2/400
• ERP : MPICS, BPCS

As a Technical Architect, you need to be

• Technology Expert
• Creative and self-driven
• Customer centric
• Visionary
• Comfortable operating in fast paced environment

You will closely work with Head of Product Engineering responsible for for the platform development, Chief Technology Officer driving the technology innovation, Software Development Leaders, Program Manager, SCRUM Masters, UX Designers

You will be responsible for

• Driving and defining the technical architecture of the Core SaaS platform
• Develop high-level technical specifications and design of the platform
• Define technical product roadmap to continuously enhance the platform.
• Communicate successfully all concepts and technical guidelines to development team
• Promotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools
• Bring in best of the class architectural practices in the platform

Your Qualifications

• 8 – 15 years of software product development experience, with majority of them is hands on experience developing in enterprise software product
• Experience in developing and hosting PaaS or SaaS based products/platform with hands on experience in multiple cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and so on
• Experience developing enterprise- grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad enterprise ecosystem
• Can mentor train existing team members on aspects of architecture, design and explain, document and elaborate architecture and design changes
• Strong background in architectural principles, patterns and anti-patterns
• Must have contributed to technology tools evaluation and technical proof of concept applications
• Should have experience in multiple tech-stacks including Data Analytics tech-stacks as well.

- Coordinate with the team to identify staffing needs. Managing end to end recruitment of staff.

- Develop and cultivate relationships with various levels of management, candidates and external recruiting sources.

- Completing joining formalities for the new recruits including trainees.

- Closing positions within a defined turn around time and as per requirements. Maintaining good offer to joining ratio.

- Communication of policies and practices to the employees for positive environment & addressing their needs & grievances through meetings, open house, new joint meetings, etc.

- Lead employer branding initiatives.

- Forecast quarterly and annual hiring needs by department.

- Ground level sensing of employee concerns/ behaviour, red flag and report observations to the seniors. Conducting Exit interviews.

- Ensure timely closure of Employee life cycle HR processes (e.g. Recruitment, Transfer, Leave Request, Performance Management, Progressions, Salary revisions etc).

Requirements :

- Must have experience in leadership hiring preferably for startups.
- Graduate or postgraduate (preferably in HR) with 6+ years experience in Talent Acquisition Manager or a Similar role

- Good knowledge and appreciation of HR processes, policies, and sub-systems

- Familiarity with social media, resume databases and professional networks.

- Hands-on experience with full-cycle recruiting using various interview techniques and evaluation methods.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- A keen understanding of the differences between various roles within organizations.

- Looking for an immediate joiner

A Technical Delivery Manager/Project Manager is required to join the team that will be delivering a large-scale business initiative.

The role is accountable for the technical delivery of a large-scale technical transformation project focusing on upgrading the network fabric of our key data centres. Delivery teams are located in various locations around the globe. 

Specific Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Technology delivery – lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
• Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Workstream Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall workstream plans and roadmaps
• Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Risk and Issue Management – Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Leadership – Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QA and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• Team performance - Work closely with the Scrum Masters and Vendor management (where required) and QA to ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughput and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making – sound judgment at a senior management level using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner
• Governance – Manage any workstream technology team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery
• Reporting – Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI’s and OKR’s for your teams
• Communication - Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency
• Financial Management and Project Accounting – Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals

Essential Skills/Experience Required:

• Experience in running scaled agile teams
• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Top Tier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation
• Experience of setting up and working on a Greenfield Programme of work
• Proven experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity
• A software delivery background would be highly beneficial due to the technical nature of the deliverables
• Extensive stakeholder management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a complex, high-paced environment with a global team
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Key Stakeholders

• Workstream Lead
• PMO
• Scrum Masters/Scrum of Scrums
• Other Delivery Managers for dependencies
• Development leads
• QA Lead
• Product Owners
• Business Sponsors
• Lead BA
• Lead Solutions architects
• Service (Release to BAU)

About us:

Strata is a commercial real estate investment platform that offers investors the opportunity to invest in pre-leased commercial assets such as offices, warehouses, and retail spaces across India.

We are one of the fastest-growing PropTech platforms in India and are backed by Elevation Capital, Mayfield, Kotak Investment Advisors, Gruhas (a venture by Nikhil Kamath of Zerodha) and DLF Family Office.

Our headquarter is in Bangalore, India.

We are a small yet close-knit team of 35+ people.

About you:

You have a knack for product and strongly equipped with engineering skills to make it a reality. You don’t jump into implementation unless you have clearly understood the problem/requirements and have a written design. You don’t hesitate asking questions and giving critical reviews while respecting others’ opinions. You are a fearless engineer, and not afraid to fail, not on production though ;) You have a strong sense of ownership. You have a startup experience. You don’t feel annoyed if required to work on off days in case of production incidents (no development).

Your responsibilities:

You will primarily work on the backend maintaining the existing platform and writing new enhancements and features. Apart from your own features, as a senior member of the team you will be expected to be actively involved in overall design discussions and peer code reviews. You will factor in extensibility, maintainability, scalability and security in designs and code. You will ensure that best engineering practices are followed. You will support your team members when they are facing challenges, and mentor them when appropriate. You will strive for overall engineering excellence.

Must-have Skills:

• 4-8 years of total experience
• 2+ years of experience in Django and DRF. You must be pro at it. The team will be looking up to you for making most out of DRF.
• Designing and building  scalable web applications
• Good understanding of REST principles
• SQL database design and queries
• Working knowledge of AWS

Good-To-Have Skills:

• Angular or any other JavaScript frontend framework
• Designing microservices
• DevOps experience

FAQ's.

1. Your technology ingredients?

Programming languages:
Our backend is written in Python using Django framework. And the frontend is in AngularJS. Currently there is no mobile app.

Infrastructure:
We are an AWS shop and use their services for most needs, Docker for containerization and ECS as orchestrator, RDS as database, S3 for storage and SQS as messaging backend.

Other tools:
BitBucket for Git and CI/CD pipeline, Trello for project management; and Google Meets and Slack for communication.

2. Your hiring plan?

Currently the engineering team comprises of 3 engineers, and we plan to grow it to 8 by the end of 2021.

3. Your Interview process?

We will try to finish the process within two weeks. In case we can’t go ahead with  your candidature, we will clearly and immediately let you know. But in case of competing applications, we may request you to wait for a week or two.

1. 15 minutes introductory call to discuss requirements and expectations
2. 30 minutes online coding assignment on a screen sharing session
3. 1 hour technical interview covering problem solving, code review and aptitude
4. 15 minutes call with co-founder for final discussion

In case of inability to come to a conclusion from either side, we may go for an additional round.

4. Your WFH and WFO policy?

Due to Covid-19 the team is working from home and will continue till March-2022. After that we will work from the Bangalore or Pune office (yet to be finalised). You should be open to relocate to any of the cities.

5. Your funding status?

In March 2020, Strata raised $1.5 million in seed funding; and $6 million in Series-A in July 2021.