Data Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Media and PR Specialist who can help us elevate our brand presence and manage our media relations. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record in the B2B events industry and possess a deep understanding of media strategy and public relations.

Responsibilities & Scope of Work:

1. Media Strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive media strategy to enhance our brand visibility and reputation within the industry.

2. Press Releases: Draft compelling press releases and news articles to announce company milestones, event launches, and other newsworthy developments.

3. Media Relations: Build and maintain strong relationships with key media outlets, journalists, and industry influencers.

4. Content Creation: Create engaging and informative content for various media channels, including social media, newsletters, and the company blog.

5. Event Promotion: Collaborate with the marketing team to promote our events through media channels, securing coverage and partnerships.

6. Analytics: Monitor and report on media coverage and PR efforts, providing insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in media relations and PR, preferably in the B2B events industry.
• Proven success in securing media coverage and building media relationships.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational and project management abilities.
• Proficiency in PR software and analytics tools.
• Creative thinking and the ability to generate innovative PR ideas.

Job Type:

1. Full time & On-site

2. 5 day work week

Location: Bangalore/Mangalore

We are looking for a Frontend UI Developer to translate UI/UX designs and/or wireframes into User Interfaces using HTML, CSS, Javascript and jquery. He/ she will be responsible for a pixel-perfect conversion of the defined layout. They need to be competent with responsive coding/adaptation to ensure the correct rendering of the design when viewed on various formats including web, mobile, etc. The Front-end coding resource also needs to be familiar with design conventions and best practices and needs to follow the same to write easily scalable code

Purpose of Job:
Responsible to lead a team of analysts to build and deploy predictive models to infuse core
business functions with deep analytical insights. The Senior Data Scientist will also work
closely with the Kinara management team to investigate strategically important business questions.

Job Responsibilities:

Lead a team through the entire analytical and machine learning model life cycle:
 Define the problem statement
 Build and clean datasets
 Exploratory data analysis
 Feature engineering
 Apply ML algorithms and assess the performance
 Code for deployment
 Code testing and troubleshooting
 Communicate Analysis to Stakeholders
 Manage Data Analysts and Data Scientists

Qualifications:
 Education: MS/MTech/Btech graduates or equivalent with a focus on data science and
quantitative fields (CS, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics)

 Work Experience: 5+ years in a professional role with 3+ years in ML/AI
Other Requirements: ⮚ Domain knowledge in Financial Services is a big plus

Skills & Competencies
Technical Skills
⮚ Aptitude in Math and Stats
⮚ Proven experience in the use of Python, SQL, DevOps
⮚ Excellent in programming (Python), stats tools, and SQL
⮚ Working knowledge of tools and utilities - AWS, Git, Selenium, Postman,Prefect, Airflow, PySpark

Soft Skills
⮚ Deep Curiosity and Humility
⮚ Strong communications verbal and written

• 2- 4 years’ experience in solution integration/delivering, and interfacing with customers.
  
• Hands-on experience in SQL and PL/SQL.
• Experience of working in agile teams in implementing large scale digital solutions.
• Good in programming & analytical skills
• Experience in dynamic programming language Python with Django
• Good understanding on enterprise integration, API development, and scalability
• Experience in Software Tools like: Git, Visual Studio code, Jenkins
• Solid experience in System Integration cycles, e.g., code review, source control, code
• quality
• automation scanning, bug scrub, feature testing and product release.
• Able to handle oncall support for bugs caused from delivery
• We are looking for people to co-work with us at our base location (Chennai)
• Ability to co-work with internal teams to optimise and fine tune the integration process
• and move towards a low-code integration framework

What will we be building together?

1K Kirana Bazaar (1K) is building Bharat's first hyperlocal offline-online distribution platform. Our aim is to provide the benefits of technology and scale to the underserved first time internet users of Bharat. We use the efficiencies of the existing kirana store network and empower them with a full technology stack to fulfill all needs of our consumers.

Over the next 2 years our goal is to transform the lives of millions of new age consumers of Bharat and at the same time make the lives of thousands of retailers more fulfilling! With our end to end integrated supply chain and technology stack, we are already disrupting the traditional supply chain and bringing in innovation and gamification to the traditional shopping and consumption process. The growth process will demand exploration of technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, IPFS, Distributed Computing, and IOT to name a few to fuel the idealistic model design for the making of an evolved #bharat. We visualise seamless access to every consumer or a mom & pop store in the deepest rooted corners of India.

What will you be driving with the team?

To build full-stack solutions for retail & supply chain from managing purchases to selling products to end consumers. You will work on solving some of the complex problems of the retail industry.

Your core responsibilities:

• Solve complex problems and follow good coding practices and complying with existing quality standards.
• Evaluate existing engineering processes and recommend improvements.
• Setup high-quality standards in production running code by performing diligent code reviews and rigorous unit test coverage.
• Brainstorm (sometimes, even prototype) features with the rest of the team based on your knowledge of the codebase.
• And of course, there's always bugs to fix, based on your personal experience or feedback from the team and the 1K community.

What will help you thrive in this role? 

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.
• 6 month+ experience in software development.
• Knowledge of programming languages.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, data structures, and software design.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and distributed systems is a plus.
• Highly developed attention to detail.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Whom you will be sharing your workday with?

We are a language-agnostic engineering team of independent thinkers who understand the priorities of a rapidly growing startup and excel at choosing high impact projects. Our core beliefs are: 

• We are at the forefront of disrupting the traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of the open-source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data-driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office every day.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.