Engineering Manager

Machine Learning/ NLP Engineers

Mumbai, India

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence-powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

● Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

●Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.

●I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

Responsibilities:  

• Drive the research and innovation in a result-oriented direction. 
• Stay up to date with the latest research trends, have a high level of curiosity and keep exploring advancements in NLU and their applications in conversational AI. 
• Mentor other team members during the experimentation phase and help them narrow down the inconclusive direction. 
• Come up with ideas to improve NLU capabilities using transfer learning from historical conversational data. 
• Benchmark the prototype on Data to gain the required precision. 
• Perform in-depth analysis of failure points of the algorithm on different environments. 
• Foresee data requirements for future research projects and come up with innovative approaches for data generation. 
• Scale models for multiple domains with the help of DevOps, backend and frontend teams. 
• Publish and present successful research in relevant journals and conferences. 

Requirements: 

• Experience with training and fine-tuning machine learning models on large text datasets. 
• Strong computer science fundamentals and 3+ years of software development experience. 
• Track record of thinking big and finding simple solutions while dealing with ambiguity. 
• Proven experience as a Natural Language Processing Engineer or other similar roles. 
• Good understanding of Natural Language Processing tricks and techniques for semantic extraction, data structure, and modelling. 
• Understanding of text representation techniques, algorithms, and statistics Familiarity with R language, Python, and Java. 
• Good knowledge of Machine Learning frameworks such as eras, PyTorch, etc. 
• Ability to code and design software architectures. 
• Problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and analytical mind.
• Proven and successful experience on at least one of the projects amongst information retrieval, machine comprehension, entity recognition, text classification, semantic frame parsing or machine translation. 
• Relevant publications, patents or talks delivered at reputed conferences are a bonus. ∙

Work Ex: 4+ years

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

·         Performance Linked variable compensation.

·         Medical insurance

·         Tax-saving benefits

·         Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays

·         Parental Leave: 6 months paid maternity,

2 weeks paid paternity Leave

A note on location. While we have team centres in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore, this role is based out of Mumbai.  

TIFIN is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Experience Required: 7+ years

Hiring Process: 1 Technical Rounds, 1 Managerial Round

Mode of work : Hybrid

Location: Bangalore

Responsibilities Include:

• Leading application design, development, and release process for all new and existing assigned projects.
• Working closely with development teams, management, and designers to build world-class software applications.
• Coordinating the collection, description, analysis, and prioritization of requests for new project functionality and existing applications.
• Documenting and reporting problems, recommending solutions or improvements to project managers.
• Translating design specifications into web or client applications that work well across multiple devices.
• Contributing to design and architecture to meet business requirements.
• Keeping up-to-date on the latest web tools, client-side technologies, standards, and practices.
• Working closely with the Quality Assurance team to ensure the delivery of high-quality software.
• Assisting other developers, and showcasing the ability and desire to estimate tasks, meet deadlines, and work effectively with minimal supervision in a team environment.

Candidate Qualifications:

• 7+ years of IT experience primarily using .Net Tech Stack.
• Strong experience in MVC, Web Services, Web API, C#, MSSQL, relational databases, and web development.
• Familiarity with JavaScript, Angular JS and jQuery.
• Experience with .Net Core (.Net 5.0/6.0) and Azure Cloud.
• Experience in responsive web design techniques.
• Hands-on experience in leading the development of .NET solutions.
• Expertise in OOPs, Design Patterns, and Best Practices.
• End-to-end .NET development experience, and proficiency in implementing enterprise applications based on .Net stacks.
• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Experience in SaaS platforms is preferred.

Who we are:

Acqueon's conversational engagement software lets customer-centric brands orchestrate campaigns and proactively engage with consumers using voice, messaging, and email channels. Acqueon leverages a rich data platform, statistical and predictive models, and intelligent workflows to let enterprises maximize the potential of every customer conversation. Acqueon is trusted by 200 clients across industries to increase sales, drive proactive service, improve collections, and develop loyalty.

At our core, Acqueon is a customer-centric company with a burning desire (backed by a suite of awesome, AI-powered technology) to help businesses provide friction-free, delightful, and referral-worthy customer experiences.

We are looking for

We are looking for an innovative and mission-driven Director, Engineering to play a pivotal role in building the most critical engineering solutions for our business growth. This new role will be supporting the enterprise and Technology organization of business line.

The Director, Engineering works with the Product Owner to understand the business strategy and work together to define the roadmap of product feature development over the next couple of years. Along with that the key aspect is to ensure that the team is aligned to deliver these strategic initiatives which would encompass building data streams, data analytics and feature development across multiple projects in close partnership with our Product teams.

As a Director Engineering in Acqueon you will….

Responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap. He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.

• Lead a team of strong developers, working on large-scale, complex and cutting-edge systems and ensure that the team optimizes codes, while contributing to business goals and product strategies
• Chalk-out and implement the vision, technology roadmap and business goals
• Operate with scale and speed, amidst flux in the fast-paced environment and evaluate performances regularly and share and seek feedback
• Managing the development and delivery of complex features from design to production according to product requirements
• Work closely with Engineering Leaders, Managers; Product Management, Business Development and Operation teams, and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace, estimate and plan projects in an agile environment
• Ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely while driving all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards
• Building a strong development team that can work independently and at the same time will collaborate with other international R&D teams
• Responsible to review Architecture and design technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions and deep understanding of technologies and architecture in a highly scalable and available set-up
• Expertise in highly transactional, large relational and complex systems
• Strong object oriented design skills, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive modules and class-level interfaces
• Superior management skills to manage multi-engineer projects and experience in delivering high quality projects on time
• Strong technical competence with a track record of individual technical accomplishments

As a Director in Acqueon you will need….

• An Engineering Degree - B.E/B.Tech/MS in any stream – Computer Science/IT preferred
• With 15+ years of experience in building and managing highly skilled development teams, and the ability to lead, coach and influence them
• Deep understanding in Java, Golang, SQL/NoSQL database, Elastic search, K8S and Docker
• Experience in developing scalable, concurrent, low-latency, fault tolerant systems
• Strong track record of leading and managing the delivery of software development projects, meeting key milestones and overcoming challenges
• Previous experience in working with other international R&D, product management and support teams
• Proven knowledge in both architecture and implementation-level software design of high-scale distributed systems
• Drive the success of the implementation by applying technical skills, to design and build enhanced processes and technical solutions in support of strategic initiatives.
• Work closely with the Architects and cross functional teams and follow established practices for the delivery of solutions meeting QCD (Quality, Cost & Delivery). Within the established architectural guidelines.
• Ability to manage, track and identify risks, bottlenecks and challenges ahead of time, and oversee technical coordination to resolve them
• Willingness to work in a fast paced, and driven team in a context-switching environment
• Should have experience with CDP platforms, NoSql platforms, java/python, AWS platform, ELT (connectors to fetch data, transform) additionally experience with Sagemaker, AI Modelling and Data Science would be a plus

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Eligibility

Company Introduction

• 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 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.

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver scalable and flexible systems.
• Deliver end to end applications from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Build a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Build a culture of agile development, continuous improvement, and a strong sense of product ownership.
• Drive a culture of high quality at all stages by leveraging CI/CD and automation.
• Identify architectural issues and plans to resolve them.
• Proactively identify risks and define mitigations plans.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 25%+ of bandwidth going into coding activities owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in product or online teams.
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo. Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
• Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.

Qualification

B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)

                                                       JD – Engineering Manager Role

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and deployed cloud-native applications (we use AWS)
• Working on or leading enterprise tech products and worked with enterprise customers
• Mentor & grow / Hire Engineering Managers to lead up these individual units.
• Work closely with Product Management, Business Development and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.
• Set up the organisation & processes to enable timely delivery of projects with high quality.
• Set up best practices for development and champion their adoption.
• Well versed in Software Architecture and Design - You should be able to spot flaws in the existing architecture and design. You would help us refactor and re-architecture the code for easier and faster development.
• Oversee Architecture & design of technically robust, flexible and scalable solutions.
• Perform well in uncertainties and collaborate and work with unclear interfaces to other teams in our rapidly evolving organisations.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.
• Identify, define, and coordinate the training needs of the team.
• Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback on a regular basis
• Building and maintaining data capabilities at KredX while taking care of scaling, privacy and processing aspects.
• Ability to work with external partners and vendors to integrate with KredX product
• Write blogs and other technical papers to share the lessons with community both inside and outside the company and or participates in technical events to get new knowledge to the organisation while improving brand of engineering team at KredX
• Appropriately escalate any issues/concerns that require immediate attention from other affected parties
• Always be thinking about the engineering systems and business from different angles - fraud, downtimes, scale, business direction and more

Requirements:

• Experience in working with large scale unstructured data, and data science
• Deep Understanding of enterprise grade technologies.
• Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Possess superb troubleshooting and problem analysis skills.
• Knowledgeable about new engineering paradigms and developments in software engineering

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