Data Engineer

• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in React.js development. Proficient in JavaScript, ES6/ES7, HTML5, and CSS3.
• Strong understanding of React.js and its core principles. Experience with state management libraries, particularly Redux.
• Knowledge of modern frontend build tools and package managers (e.g., Webpack, npm).
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and asynchronous request handling.
• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as Git. Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with TypeScript. Familiarity with GraphQL.
• Knowledge of front-end testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Enzyme).
• Previous contributions to open-source projects or an active GitHub profile.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines.

WHO ARE We?

WeMakeScholars is a Fintech startup funded and supported by the Ministry of IT, Government of India. We help students get education loans to fund their studies abroad or in India by closely working with 14+ lenders, including public/private banks & NBFC. We currently get around 0.5 million unique visitors a month.

We are the market leader in the education finance segment. Last academic year, we disbursed around 5,000Cr, and this year, we'd be doing more than that. Our team has more than doubled in one year, from 70 to 180 members. Overall, we have seen tremendous growth year-on-year, in every aspect since our inception 7 years ago.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We strongly believe that eventually, every company has to become a tech company. As our website is the face of our company, we must have a strong, organically top-rank website on google to survive & grow in the long term. Since SEO plays an integral part in this, we have decided to invest more time & resources into it. We are looking for an SEO Specialist to be a part of our growth story and we like your profile for it.

You'll be working as the SEO Team Lead, with the assistance of our 6 members tech team, 4 members' content team, and 1 junior SEO Analyst. You will be directly reporting to our Chief Growth Officer who's got more than 11yrs experience with SEO.

IDEAL CANDIDATE

- 3yrs+ experience in SEO (preferably in consumer tech, e-commerce, banking, financial services or education segments)

- expertise in Google Analytics/SEMrush/similar web analytics platform

- well-versed with Google Algorithm updates

- Very high attention to detail, obsessed with the details & spotting opportunities to optimize

- Excellent communication (written and verbal) & interpersonal skills and a very high sense of ownership and integrity

JOB PERKS

With us, you not only get a competitive compensation package but also excellent career progression, healthy work-life balance, flexible working hours, leaves, work from home policies. Most importantly, working under our Senior SEO leadership, you'll have a steep learning curve and a great learning experience.

Package: Up to 20 LPA

Responsibilities :

• Involve in planning, design, development and maintenance of large-scale data repositories, pipelines, analytical solutions and knowledge management strategy
• Build and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture to ensure scalability, connect operational systems data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems
• Build data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader
• Reporting and obtaining insights from large data chunks on import/export and communicating relevant pointers for helping in decision-making
• Preparation, analysis, and presentation of reports to the management for further developmental activities
• Anticipate, identify and solve issues concerning data management to improve data quality

Requirements :

• Ability to build and maintain ETL pipelines 
• Technical Business Analysis experience and hands-on experience developing functional spec
• Good understanding of Data Engineering principles including data modeling methodologies
• Sound understanding of PostgreSQL
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills as well as reporting capabilities

• We run functional teams based on the SCRUM methodology and are a fairly Agile environment, with 2-week sprints and teams with a minimum of 2 developers (preferably 3) plus a Platform Owner.
• Sprints cannot be interrupted and work is planned out well in advance to keep stress down to a minimum.

• Line by line code reviews for every pull request on Gitlab maintains code quality, and keep everyone in the loop & learning.
• At least 2 people working together on every project (collaborating not pairing)

• Swift is strongly preferred
• Experience with clean architecture, MVVM, and other design patterns
• Master Storyboards and auto layouts
• Familiar with RESTful web service
• Experience with Static Frameworks
• Great logic and problem-solving skills
• Practical understanding of Continuous Integration and Delivery

• A resume in pdf format. Include into your resume the links to software, mobile apps, your coding samples so we can see proof of your talents.

• Bachelor of Engineering or Masters Degree in Computer Science
• MEAN stack developer with
• Experience in software development, prototyping, functional analysis, integration, and testing.
• Experience with Javascript and RESTful technologies including building RESTful APIs
• In-depth understanding of the JavaScript programming languages especially Angular and node.js and the ability to peer review other engineer's code constructively
• Highly skilled at problem-solving, unit-testing, and debugging.
• Expert understanding of best practice engineering principles for building MEAN applications.
• In-depth knowledge of database systems and an understanding of data structures, data normalization, and query performance considerations. Particularly Non-Relational/NoSQL databases including MongoDB.
• Automated unit testing and CI experience
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts pictorially, orally or in writing.
• Docker experience desired
• Ability to learn business rules quickly by reading requirements, engaging in conversation, or reverse engineering.
• Expertise in source code control and versioning concepts.