Director Engineering - Java and GoLang

Job Title : AI Architect

Location : Pune (On-site | 3 Days WFO)

Experience : 6+ Years

Shift : US or flexible shifts

Job Summary :

We are looking for an experienced AI Architect to design and deploy AI/ML solutions that align with business goals.

The role involves leading end-to-end architecture, model development, deployment, and integration using modern AI/ML tools and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Key Responsibilities :

• Define AI strategy and identify business use cases
• Design scalable AI/ML architectures
• Collaborate on data preparation, model development & deployment
• Ensure data quality, governance, and ethical AI practices
• Integrate AI into existing systems and monitor performance

Must-Have Skills :

• Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision
• Data Engineering, Model Deployment (CI/CD, MLOps)
• Python Programming, Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Distributed Systems, Data Governance
• Strong communication & stakeholder collaboration

Good to Have :

• AI certifications (Azure/GCP/AWS)
• Experience in big data and analytics

Responsibilities:

• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.

• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support

• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions

• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable

• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions

• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage

• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.

• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results

Requirements:

• Experience: 3+ years

• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science

• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms

• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications

• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus

• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms

• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python

• Language: GO or Python

• Strong expertise in DS and Algo

• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.

• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.

• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code

• Both HLD and LLD

Java Full Stack Developer

Experience required-4.5 to 7yrs

Mandatory Skills- Front end- HTML, CSS, Javascript, Angular/React

Back end- Java, Springboot/Node/Python, Any SQL/RDBMS, OS

Jenkins for Deployment

• Good hands-on experience in manual testing areas; systems, Integration, and end to end.
• Experience in test phases varying from requirement review, and test case creation through to specific execution, regression, user acceptance
• Experience in basic test reporting & strong defect management
• Experience in the use of a range of testing tools, e.g. Mantis, Jira, TestLink, etc.
• Hands-on experience in Automation Testing tool Selenium WebDriver
• Experience or Involved in using Automation Framework (Keyword, data-driven or hybrid, Cucumber)
• Strong in coding/scripting languages e.g. Java, VBScripts, or C#
• Strong Testing process concepts and overall testing lifecycle
• Able to assess/analyze Requirements and do automation feasibility study
• Preparing Test Environment to execute the test cases
• Analysing/Review the automated test scripts prepared by team members
• Executing automated test Cases in batch mode and reporting results to team/stakeholders

We are looking for a dynamic & independent Lead Generation Executive who can be Fresher or professional with experience in outbound calls. The ideal candidate should have at least 0-1 year of experience in outbound/inbound calls.

Skills Required

• Any graduate fresher or with a  minimum of 1 Year of previous experience in calling.
• Candidates with excellent communication skills
• Self-starter, team player, high energy, reliable, strong work ethical
• Exposure to international cold calling/ lead generation is a plus.
• Flexible to work in a shift-based environment.
• Should be a contributor to team effort by accomplishing achieving timely targets.
• Should have the ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, goal-oriented high growth sales environment.
• Sharp, articulate, and energetic with a CAN-DO attitude.
• Strong sense of ethics and professionalism.
• Ability to think outside the box.
• Analytical skills and the ability to recognize the demands on the side of the clients

Responsibilities

• Making outbound calls and following up on inquiries.
• Engage in intelligent conversation with customers and provide them with the products and services.
• Cultivate prospects till they become qualified to lead.
• Candidates will be required to deal with USA prospects.
• Generating leads via cold calling, emailing, and other lead generation techniques.
• Achieving weekly and monthly sales targets by identifying and accomplishing new customers.
• Should be able to work independently - end-to-end in sales/revenue targets.

Shift timings: US & UK Shift

Working days: Monday to Saturday 

Nature of Job: Full time

Perks and Benefits

- Food facility from the organization

- Attractive salary and benefits

- Lucrative incentives apart from salary

- Flexible working hours

- Cab facility (only in South Delhi)

- Accommodation with food for Female candidates

About Us 

upGrad is an online education platform building the careers of tomorrow by offering the most industry-relevant programs in an immersive learning experience. Our mission is to create a  new digital-first learning experience to deliver tangible career impact to individuals at scale.  upGrad currently offers programs in Data Science, Machine Learning, Product Management,  Digital Marketing, and Entrepreneurship, etc. upGrad is looking for people passionate about management and education to help design learning programs for working professionals to stay sharp and stay relevant and help build careers of tomorrow. 

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19 • upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most  sought-after startups in India 

• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany. 

• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech • upGrad is the official education partner for the Government of India - Startup India program 

• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of  Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning \

Role Summary 

This role will primarily be responsible for envisioning, defining, and owning the execution of upGrad's product design strategy. As the strategic design leader, team coach, and customer champion you'll galvanize people to solve complex problems, developing strategies, and ensuring product designers have the space to create products that deliver enduring value.  You will also lead change cross-functionally to drive better experiences and influence our company's product, operations, content, and data to unlock the unrealized wants of learners and coaches across new subjects and fields.

You’ll lead your team through the design process, help build a vision, and navigate ambiguity through partnering with research and enabling experimentation, all while mentoring, and growing a hardworking and capable design team.  

You’ll run design critiques, host collaboration & brainstorming sessions, drive design execution excellence, identify areas of process efficiency, and promote a high-output and fast-paced design practice.

Roles & Responsibilities

•  Work closely with your team and other designers in defining, designing, and iterating  on product features across web and mobile platforms 
• Get out of the Office and work with research to observe the impact of your work in the real world, and take that input back to your work as a designer to be constantly improving our products.
• Invest in design standards, documentation, and processes alongside your team members to further our design practice 
•  Shape product strategy and vision together with product managers and have a significant impact across all the product teams
• Bring consistency to all the platforms and products
• Drive and support cross-team initiatives that make the Design practice better at upGrad such as improving our hiring processes, expanding our community presence,  interviewing potential new team members
• Work in the way that works for you and what you're designing, whether that's spending time sketching or jumping straight into pixels and code.
•  Work with other members of the Design team to help them deliver great work and develop their own skills. This could be as a mentor, a coach, or a collaborator. 

Skills Required::

•  7 years of Product Design experience with at least 2 years of experience leading  product design teams
• Consistent track record of leading highly collaborative cross-functional teams thought ambiguity and deliver the best products possible to our customers are an experienced mentor and coachable to give and receive honest, thoughtful,  and direct feedback that removes roadblocks encourages growth, and accelerates delivery
• Are intent on crafting psychologically optimistic spaces where your direct reports and your collaborators are confident in sharing their ideas, opinions, and reservations in order to get to the best customer-focused solution
• Experienced recruiting, hiring, and retaining multi-disciplinary design teams
• Ability to understand complex feature sets and their dependencies while being able  to deliver a design strategy that accounts for capabilities and limitations of the product 
•  Methodology rich, including standard approaches for design deliverables including  user journeys, research plans, mocks, prototypes, documentation, and quality checks 
•  Have the ability to communicate research findings and design decisions openly and  confidently, regardless of the audience  
• Have partnered with research teams or led research experiments to validate and  inform product thinking 
• Have a proven history of partnering with engineering in a continuous delivery environment

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of the backend systems for our first product
• Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
• Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
• Mentor and provide feedback to teammates

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Deep and wide knowledge of Java ecosystem
• Can write code that is readable, maintainable, secure and performant
• Know the importance of tests and how to approach writing different types of tests
• Good intuition for REST API design
• Deep understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
• Comfortable writing highly concurrent systems
• Experienced in using profilers, tuning garbage collection, optimizing SQL queries

Desired Skills and Experience

• Golang , Java , Python , Ruby

(Senior Product Engineer - ROR)

Experience - 3 to 6 years

Location  - Pune

We are looking for an enthusiastic developer with a strong understanding of core Ruby and Rails framework along with PostgreSQL database. Someone who is passionate about coding and loves to work in an ongoing challenging environment. You will be part of a talented software team. You have to consistently deliver in a fast paced environment and should be more than willing to build software that people love to use.

Key Responsibilities

The individual role that you’ll play in our team:

• Developing large multi-tenant applications in Rails.
• Understanding Rails best practices and religiously introducing those to our codebase.
• Knowledge on how to do effective Refactoring.
• Ability to write unit tests and following those practices religiously.
• Working closely with the Product managers and UX team.
• Helping QAs to write automated integration tests.
• Staying up-to-date with current and future Backend technologies and architectures.

Read the ‘Skills and Experience’ section, it is not the usual yada yada, you’ll be asked specific questions on these.

Skills and Experience

• Ruby on Rails architecture best practices
• Knowledge on the latest versions on ROR
• Strong OOP knowledge in Ruby.
• Asynchronous Networking in Ruby 
• Designing RESTFul HTTP APIs using JSON-Schema or JSON API (http://jsonapi.org/">jsonapi.org).
• Ability to architect and develop API only backend
• Experience in using ActiveRecordSerializer
• Understanding O-Auth2 or JWT (Json Web Token) authentication mechanisms.
• How to use RSpec
• Rails Security Best Practices
• PostgreSQL and Rails.
• SQL concepts like Joins, Relationships etc.
• Understanding DB Partition strategies.
• Knowledge about refactoring ActiveRecord Models (read this - “7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models”).
• Understanding scaling strategies for a high-traffic Rails applications (2 million+ requests a day).
• Background Job processing using Redis and Sidekiq
• Experience in using Amazon Web Services (AWS) tools.
• Writing automated Deployment Scripts using Capistrano, Ansible etc.
• Sending emails in Rails
• Knowledge in Linux and Git is mandatory

Optional Skills

• Knowledge in using Chef or Puppet
• Ability to do basic DevOps like setting up a Linux server.
• Websocket communication in Rails 5.
• Node.js
• JRuby

Scalefusion (formerly known as Mobilock Pro): (Our Flagship Product)  

Scalefusion MDM allows organizations to secure & manage endpoints including smartphones, tablets, laptops, rugged devices, mPOS, and digital signages, along with apps and content. It supports the management of Android, iOS, macOS and Windows 10 devices and ensures streamlined device management operations with InterOps. Fusion of Endpoints at Scale. 

Promobi Technologies:   

ProMobi Technologies provides a leading Mobile Device Management Solution under the brand Scalefusion. The solution allows organizations to manage Android and iOS devices from the cloud. It offers modern mobile device management (MDM), application management (MAM) and content management (MCM) experience for corporate-owned devices. Renowned organizations from startups to Fortune 500 trust Scalefusion for their Device Management.  

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