Data Engineer

• BS in CS or EE or equivalent
• Experience working on large scale systems in rapid growth environments
• Experience with public cloud offerings (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Solid programming skills; preferred experience in Java, and/or Python
• Experience with modern web frameworks, advanced algorithms/data intelligence, public
• cloud platforms and streaming data pipelines
• Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, continuous integration, and delivery
• 5+ years’ experience preferred

About us

Skit (previously known as http://vernacular.ai/" target="_blank">Vernacular.ai) is an AI-first SaaS voice automation company. Its suite of speech and language solutions enable enterprises to automate their contact centre operations. With over 10 million hours of training data, its product - Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant (VIVA) can currently respond in 16+ languages, covering over 160+ dialects and replicating human-like conversations.

Skit currently serves a variety of enterprise clients across diverse sectors such as BFSI, F&B, Hospitality, Consumer Electronics and Travel & Tourism, including prominent clients like Axis Bank, Hathway, Porter and Barbeque Nation. It has been featured as one of the top-notch start-ups in the Cisco Launchpad’s Cohort 6 and is a part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community. It has also been listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia start-ups 2021 for its remarkable industry innovation.

We have an opening for a Software Engineer(Solution) role which you might be interested in.

Responsibilities of your role:

• You will be coordinating our enterprise account-specific teams called squads, consisting of members from engineering, machine-learning, and conversation-design teams.

There are five working groups in the organization, (i) Business (ii) Research (iii) Solutions (iv) Product, and (v) Operations, where you will be joining the Solutions working group.

• You will be collaborating with the sales team to design an appropriate solution to the customer's problems and help them showcase the value in the product.
• You will be collaborating with the operations team to ensure we are not compromising on our quality standards.
• You will also be co-working with the product working group to help them improve the overall platform and to prioritize the high-impact initiatives in the roadmap.

Work you will be doing:

• You will be building bespoke voicebots for enterprise clients using internal tools.
• You're expected to help build the Solutions stack whose goal it is to reduce the amount of effort put into building our voicebots. 
• You will be involved in analyzing client calls where you're expected to use either data pipelines or SQL to get insights into caller behavior.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Professional experience of at least 1 year.
• Has experience with integrating or building HTTP APIs
• Has hands-on experience of working with Python
• Good communicator

Optional Requirements:

• Has experience working in any of Django Rest Framework, Redis, Celery

Skit uses a microservices architecture where we employ both HTTP and GRPC to communicate between our services.

We don't expect you to have worked on all of it. We're looking for Python programmers who are ready to pick up the rest of the tech stack on the job.

Languages:

• Python
• Golang

Frameworks:

• Python:
  • Django Rest Framework
  • Celery
• Golang:
  • Gorm
  • GorillaMux

Tools/Orchestration/VCS:

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Argo Workflows
• Gitlab
• Github

• Excellent knowledge in one or more of Python/NodeJS REST Frameworks 
• Hands on experience in system architecture and data modelling. Experience with databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
• Devops capabilities - with good understanding of deployments and cloud infrastructure. In depth knowledge of container architecture using Docker is must. 
• Scaled systems using RabbitMQ/ Redis /Celery/ Kafka