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Want to build core backend-powered experiences such as Checkout and Credit for the 5th largest E-com portal in the country? Then read on..

About The company

Founded by serial Entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Snapmint is challenging the way banking is done by building the banking experience ground up. Our first product provides purchase financing at 0% interest rates to 300 Million consumers in India who do not have credit cards using instant credit scoring and advanced underwriting systems. We look at hundreds of variables, much beyond traditional credit models. With real time credit approval, seamless digital loan servicing and repayments technology we are revolutionizing the way banking is done for todays smartphone-wielding Indian.

Website: https://snapmint.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/snapmintfinserv/

Title: Senior Engineering Manager, Backend

Experience: 8-12 Years

Work Location: Gurgaon (Unitech Cyber Park, Sector 39)

Working Arrangement: 5 days (WFO)

Job Overview:

As Engineering Manager Backend, you will lead a team of backend engineers, driving the development of scalable, reliable, and performant systems. You will work closely with product management, front-end engineers, and other cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions while ensuring alignment with the companys technical and business goals. You will play a key role in coaching and mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and helping to grow the backend engineering capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and build highly scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant backend services handling high-volume financial transactions.
• Work hands-on with the team on core backend development, architecture, and production issues.
• Lead, mentor, and manage a team of backend engineers, ensuring high-quality delivery and fostering a collaborative work environment.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define technical solutions and design scalable backend architectures.
• Own the development and maintenance of backend systems, APIs, and services.
• Drive technical initiatives, including infrastructure improvements, performance optimizations, and platform scalability.
• Guide the team in implementing industry best practices for code quality, security, and performance.
• Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback and maintaining high coding standards.
• Promote agile methodologies and ensure the team adheres to sprint timelines and goals.
• Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure team productivity and system reliability.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and improvement within the backend engineering team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in backend development with a proven track record of leading engineering teams.
• Strong experience with backend language ie. Node.js/Golang
• Experience working with databases (SQL, NoSQL), caching systems, and RESTful APIs.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid understanding of software development principles, version control, and CI/CD practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to architect complex systems.
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively.

The ideal candidate will lead initiatives to generate and engage with business partners to build new business for the company. This candidate should have strong communication skills. They should be able to think critically when making plans and should be energetic to execute a particular strategy.

· Deal with direct buyers and investors to sell Indian Real estate projects · Identify partnership opportunities with Corporates.

· Develop new relationships with developers to grow business and help company expand.

· Coordinating with developer’s Relationship Managers

· Aggressively doing client meetings.

· Maintain existing business prospects.

· Think critically when planning to assure project’s success.

· Responsible to generate the revenue by selling Indian properties to NRI & Indian customers

· Must have knowledge of direct and B2C sales.

· Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

· Proven knowledge and execution of successful development strategies.

· Focused and goal-oriented.

· MUST HAVE SALES ACUMEN  

Technical Requirement :

- Strong knowledge of Android SDK, different versions of Android, and how to deal with different screen sizes

- Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services

- Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, patterns, and best practices

- Experience with offline storage, threading, and performance tuning

- Strong knowledge in SQLite Database

- Experience in designing and developing custom controls for Android.

- Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and object orientation design.

- Capabilities to write and execute unit test cases.

- Independent researching, solution finding, analysis and problem solving skills and capabilities.

- Should have a strong knowledge of OOPS and intermediate knowledge of front-end GUI design and development.

- Should have knowledge of Kotlin

- Should have experience in MVC / MVVM Architecture.

- Good in Analytics and Communication

Job Summary

As a Data Science Lead, you will manage multiple consulting projects of varying complexity and ensure on-time and on-budget delivery for clients. You will lead a team of data scientists and collaborate across cross-functional groups, while contributing to new business development, supporting strategic business decisions and maintaining & strengthening client base

1. Work with team to define business requirements, come up with analytical solution and deliver the solution with specific focus on Big Picture to drive robustness of the solution
2. Work with teams of smart collaborators. Be responsible for their appraisals and career development.
3. Participate and lead executive presentations with client leadership stakeholders.
4. Be part of an inclusive and open environment. A culture where making mistakes and learning from them is part of life
5. See how your work contributes to building an organization and be able to drive Org level initiatives that will challenge and grow your capabilities.

​​​​​​Role & Responsibilities

1. Serve as expert in Data Science, build framework to develop Production level DS/AI models.
2. Apply AI research and ML models to accelerate business innovation and solve impactful business problems for our clients.
3. Lead multiple teams across clients ensuring quality and timely outcomes on all projects.
4. Lead and manage the onsite-offshore relation, at the same time adding value to the client.
5. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate challenging business problems into state-of-the-art data science solutions.
6. Build a winning team focused on client success. Help team members build lasting career in data science and create a constant learning/development environment.
7. Present results, insights, and recommendations to senior management with an emphasis on the business impact.
8. Build engaging rapport with client leadership through relevant conversations and genuine business recommendations that impact the growth and profitability of the organization.
9. Lead or contribute to org level initiatives to build the Tredence of tomorrow.

Qualification & Experience

1. Bachelor's /Master's /PhD degree in a quantitative field (CS, Machine learning, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science) or equivalent experience.
2. 6-10+ years of experience in data science, building hands-on ML models
3. Expertise in ML – Regression, Classification, Clustering, Time Series Modeling, Graph Network, Recommender System, Bayesian modeling, Deep learning, Computer Vision, NLP/NLU, Reinforcement learning, Federated Learning, Meta Learning.
4. Proficient in some or all of the following techniques: Linear & Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machines ANOVA , Principal Component Analysis, Gradient Boosted Trees, ANN, CNN, RNN, Transformers.
5. Knowledge of programming languages SQL, Python/ R, Spark.
6. Expertise in ML frameworks and libraries (TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch).
7. Experience with cloud computing services (AWS, GCP or Azure)
8. Expert in Statistical Modelling & Algorithms E.g. Hypothesis testing, Sample size estimation, A/B testing
9. Knowledge in Mathematical programming – Linear Programming, Mixed Integer Programming etc , Stochastic Modelling – Markov chains, Monte Carlo, Stochastic Simulation, Queuing Models.
10. Experience with Optimization Solvers (Gurobi, Cplex) and Algebraic programming Languages(PulP)
11. Knowledge in GPU code optimization, Spark MLlib Optimization.
12. Familiarity to deploy and monitor ML models in production, delivering data products to end-users.
13. Experience with ML CI/CD pipelines.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Working with designers, product managers to collaboratively own the front-end layer at FalconBrick and deliver stellar end user experiences
• Building responsive and elegant mobile and desktop web UIs
• Test, debug and maintain the application software throughout the product lifecycle
• Architect, develop and maintain front-end libraries

Desired Candidate Profile

• You love working with JavaScript and are very familiar with JavaScript design patterns and can build fairly complex UI
• Have at least 2 years experience in development of responsive web/mobile applications using advanced JS and web technologies
• And with at least 1 year of experience building frontend UI with a framework like ReactJS
• Youre very comfortable in writing HTML and CSS and love designing beautiful webpages
• Have good communication skills, strong work ethics And are comfortable with agile, iterative development practices and code reviews

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