Data Engineer and Data Bricks

Role Overview:

We’re looking for an exceptionally passionate, logical, and smart Backend Developer to join our core tech team. This role goes beyond writing code — you’ll help shape the architecture, lead entire backend team if needed, and be deeply involved in designing scalable systems almost from scratch.

This is a high-impact opportunity to work directly with the founders and play a pivotal role in building the core product. If you’re looking to grow alongside a fast-growing startup, take complete ownership, and influence the direction of the technology and product, this role is made for you.

Why Clink?

Clink is a fast-growing product startup building innovative solutions in the food-tech space. We’re on a mission to revolutionize how restaurants connect with customers and manage offers seamlessly. Our platform is a customer-facing app that needs to scale rapidly as we grow. We also aim to leverage Generative AI to enhance user experiences and drive personalization at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and completely own high-performance backend systems.
• Architect scalable, secure, and efficient system designs.
• Own database schema design and optimization for performance and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers.
• Guide and mentor junior team members .
• Explore and experiment with Generative AI capabilities for product innovation.
• Participate in code reviews and ensure high engineering standards.

Must-Have Skills:

• 2–5 years of experience in backend development at a product-based company.
• Strong expertise in database design and system architecture.
• Hands-on experience building multiple production-grade applications.
• Solid programming fundamentals and logical problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails (one is mandatory).
• Experience integrating third-party APIs and services.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Familiarity with Generative AI tools, APIs, or projects.
• Contributions to open-source projects or personal side projects.
• Exposure to frontend basics (React, Vue, or similar) is a plus.
• Exposure to containerization, cloud deployment, or CI/CD pipelines.

What We’re Looking For:

• Extremely high aptitude and ability to solve tough technical problems.
• Passion for building products from scratch and shipping fast.
• A hacker mindset — someone who builds cool stuff even in their spare time.
• Team player who can lead when required and work independently when needed.

Responsibilities include designing and developing high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical business systems/application services and modules. Delivering high availability and performance. We expect them to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including writing well-designed, testable, efficient code. Must be capable of working independently and collaboratively. Responsibilities: Developer responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Experience as a Sun Certified Java Developer with proven hands-on Software Development experience. We use Java 8

• 6-10 years Java development experience with JSE/JEE, Java-based Micro-services framework and implementation, Spring framework, Hibernate framework, SQL etc

• Hands on experience on Spring boot & SPARK Microservices and OSGi specifications

• Hands-on experience with ReactJS

• Strong knowledge of micro-service logging, monitoring, debugging and testing

• Implementations experience of micro-service integration, packaging, build automation and deployment

• At least two years of experience in SOA & Microservices based process applications using BPM (Activiti/JBPM/Camunda)

• Object Oriented analysis and design using common design patterns.

• Insight of Java and JEE internals (Class loading, Memory Management, Transaction management etc)

• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate)

• Experience in developing web applications using at least one popular web framework (JSF, Wicket, GWT, Spring MVC, Spring Boot)

• Hands-on experience with Relational and NoSQL databases (Mongo DB or Cassandra either one is a must)

• Hands-on experience in one of the cloud AWS, Google or Azure.

• Hands-on with Rest based web services

• Work experience either following CLOUD (AWS or Azure or GCP) will be an advantage.

• 6+ years of experience in Software Development and writing Unit tests for Mobile Apps
• Excellent designing, debugging and programming skills in an Object oriented programming language like C#, Java, javascript, Swift, Dart etc.
• Experience with Native Mobile development (Android or IOS) and Cross-Platform mobile development (preferably Flutter)
• Solid understanding of SOLID principles
• Strong knowledge of writing code for testability, modularity and extensibility
• Knowledge of test methodologies and corresponding unit test framework tools like JUnit etc.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
  
  

• Experience working with BloC Pattern and Dependency Injection
• Knowledge of Eventing based programming patterns. 
• Exposure to integrating Performance, Analytics, Attribution tools
• Experience of using Flavors in application development
• Knowledge of Multi-module development in Flutter (ex- via Melos)

• Work with the product team and drive design, development and delivery of new features.
• Investigate and fix issues referred to by the support team. Write code to automate tests to automate regressions.
• Work on improving stability, debuggability, testability of existing functionalities/modules/components
• Integrate REST and GraphQL APIs and consume in app.
• Serve as a technical lead for the team
• Mentor team members

Our IT Project Managers are responsible for assisting various tasks throughout the project lifecycle. Being a central liaison between all project stakeholders consisting Executive Board, Developers, and QA, they makes sure that we do not miss any deliverables from the schedule.

Curious about your work?

• Processing new projects that come in from the client.
• Attending calls/meetings with the client’s teams as needed.
• Determining work flow, steps and timelines for all projects.
• Assisting in the creation of documentation and reports such as project overviews and communicating the same to various internal stakeholders.
• Maintains ongoing daily communication with other departments and resources regarding project status.
• Ensuring each project flows within the timeline, receives checks, and is completely ready for delivery on time.
• Providing timely updates to the client side

Who will you work with?

Everyone, in a way! At SimplePlan, ours is an intentionally flat setup — you will be working directly with team leads, execution heads as well as team members across the length and breadth of the agency.

Who are you?

We're looking for someone who is passionate about scaling teams and working with groups of people towards a common objective — someone who:

• has 0-1 year of experience in Website Projects
• has a tech bachelors' degree
• is proactive as we care deeply about what we do & when we see opportunities/problems, we act
• is good on getting on and doing things
• is clear, concise and precise with a lot of documentation
• has an ability to communicate effectively and professionally with clients

You'll fit right in if:

• you really care about nurturing a delightful team environment
• you possess excellent active listening, presentation and communication skills
• you enjoy solving problems
• you have an innate sense of ownership when it comes to work
• you enjoy discourse on people and operations management
• you enjoy close collaboration with cross-functional teams and individuals from different backgrounds
• you are good with people and to people - whether it’s your fellow team leads, or those who help run SimplePlan behind the scenes

You won't fit right in if:

• you default to waiting for instructions rather than figuring things out yourself
• you are disinterested in being on top of everything
• you would rather keep quiet than speak up in a meeting

• The Recruitment Lead will be responsible for overall Annalect India recruitment strategy development, implementation and administration of recruitment programs. Execute Recruitment strategy to drive business results of each internal departments and appropriate stakeholders.
• The Recruitment Lead will possess and exercise exceptional skills in: problem solving, strategic thinking, and project/process management, coaching and fostering collaboration. To monitor and constantly reduces the costs of the recruitment process

Functions and Responsibilities:

40% Recruiting Strategy: Provide day to day support on the overall recruiting life cycle and building trusted relationships with hiring managers.

• Overall Recruiting Strategy for Annalect
  • Responsible towards the Annalect senior leadership in planning, developing, executing, and directing hiring strategies, processes, and programs for Annalect
  • Lead sourcing strategies through a variety of sourcing channels across all of Annalect’s recruiting needs.
    • Manage and maintain external search agency relationships, contracts, negotiations and effectiveness.
    • Develop and manage university and external program relationships to build additional sourcing pipelines.
    • Oversight over all Annalect open roles and health of the pipelines.
    • Identifying key industry related events and coordinating participation.
  • Responsible for partnering with Marketing and Design on all recruiting related activities including managing our social media brand related to hiring
  • Partnering effectively with the Annalect Global recruiting team, ensuring alignment on practices, and alignment on use of external agencies.
    • Hiring Manager Relationships
  • Responsible for building an understanding of our hiring needs, conducting a needs analysis and evaluation of job descriptions that best target our talent profiles.
  • Responsible for providing counsel to hiring managers on approaches to recruiting and interviewing practices
  • Act as a relationship manager between hiring managers and candidates, being responsible towards Annalect and balancing our needs and expectations with that of the candidate.
  • Partnering with the Annalect HR team on supporting Annalect Hiring manager needs.
  • Educating and enabling managers through the Annalect interview framework

30% Recruiting

• Manage open job postings and candidate pipeline
• Responsible for managing an active and passive pipeline search through a variety of recruiting channels.
• Responsible for ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout the life cycle of the recruitment process.
• Provide support on building out job descriptions
• Gathering candidate feedback in a timely manner
• Coordinating and scheduling candidates in a timely manner being respectful of the hiring managers’ schedules.
• Ensuring alignment of communications through job postings and candidate experience align with our overall Annalect culture and brand.

20% Recruiting Operations

• Reporting and Metrics:
  • Ensuring the recruiting report is updated on a weekly basis and providing any further metrics or reporting needs analysis.
  • Leadership level communication: Managing the Leadership and as appropriate Managers communications on the overall health of our recruitment.
• Financials:
  • Oversight of the budgets aligned against search agencies, external events, memberships
  • Oversight of referral program partnering with Finance, including processing of any referral payments
• Agency Relationships: Responsible for negotiating and managing any external agency relationships. Fiscally responsible for the costs and management of these relationships.  
• Responsible for the overall recruiting flow and offer approval flow:

• To ensure that the HR Policies & Procedures on recruitment are fully complied throughout the selection process. Strong ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written), at all levels within and outside the organization
• Solid understanding of on-going Technology trends. Past experience in managing and mentoring a team of at least 4-6 recruiters is a must.
• About 10 years of related experience of which a minimum of 6 years should be in a similar position / responsibility, preferably in a similar Industry. HR , Recruitment , Recruitment Manager/Preferably from Analytics or IT domain company
• Hands-on experience on MS Office skills

Ways of Working

• Think and act strategically to resolve issues, problem solve, add business value
• Approach work with a sense of urgency
• Strong organizational/planning, project management, and multi-tasking skills required to deliver on time and within budget
• Work independently with minimal supervision to set priorities and demonstrate excellent program /process and management skills
• Demonstrate a strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated experience in fostering a collaborative working environment between individuals and teams through coaching & personal example
• Exceptional time and priority management skills
• Use excellent communication skills to collaborate and provide transparency on all things
• Be a collaborative, high-energy, proactive self-starter

• Passionate about search & AI technologies. Open to collaborating with colleagues & external contributors.
• Good understanding of the mainstream deep learning models from multiple domains: computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, model optimization, etc.
• Hands-on experience on deep learning frameworks, e.g. Tensorflow, Pytorch, MXNet, BERT. Able to implement the latest DL model using existing API, open-source libraries in a short time.
• Hands-on experience with the Cloud-Native techniques. Good understanding of web services and modern software technologies.
• Maintained/contributed machine learning projects, familiar with the agile software development process, CICD workflow, ticket management, code-review, version control, etc.
• Skilled in the following programming languages: Python 3.
• Good English skills especially for writing and reading documentation