Engineering Manager

GradRight is an ed-fin-tech startup focused on global higher education. Using data science, technology and strategic partnerships across the industry, we enable students to find the “Right University” at the “Right Cost”. We are on a mission to aid a million students to find their best-fit universities and financial offerings by 2025.

Our flagship product - FundRight is the world’s first student loan bidding platform. In a short span of 10 months, we have facilitated disbursements of more than $ 50 million in loans this year and we are poised to scale up rapidly.

We are launching our second product - SelectRight as an innovative approach to college selection and student recruitment for students and universities, respectively. The product rests on the three pillars of data science, transparency and ethics and hopes to create value for students and universities. 

Brief:

We are pursuing a complex set of problems that involve building for an international audience and for an industry that has largely been service-centric. As a Principal Engineer at GradRight, you’ll bring an unmatched customer-centricity to your work, with a focus on building for the long term and large scale.

You’ll drive the creation of frameworks that enable flexible/scalable customer journeys and tie them with institutional knowledge to help us build the best experiences for students and our partners. You’ll also manage a team of high performers to achieve the planned outcomes.

You’ll own the technology strategy of the engineering organization and be a key decision maker when it comes to processes and execution.

Responsibilities:

1. Drive design discussions and decisions around building scalable and modular architecture
2. Work with product, engineering and business teams to ideate on technology strategy and line up initiatives around the same
3. Build clean, modular and scalable backend services
4. Build clean, modular and scalable frontends
5. Own quality and velocity of releases across the engineering organization
6. Manage and mentor a team of engineers
7. Participate in sprint ceremonies and actively contribute to scaling the engineering organization from a process perspective
8. Stay on top of the software engineering ecosystem, propose and implement new technologies/methodologies as per the business needs
9. Contribute to engineering hiring by conducting interviews
10. Champion infrastructure-as-code mindset and encourage automation
11. Identify problems around engineering processes, propose solutions and drive implementations for the same

Requirements:

1. At least 8 years of experience, building large scale applications
2. Experience working at startups in growth phase with war stories to share
3. Experience with frontend technologies like vue.js or react.js
4. Strong experience with at least one backend framework, preferably express.js
5. Extensive experience in at least one programming language (preferably Javascript, GoLang) and ability to write maintainable, scalable and unit-testable code
6. Experience in CI/CD and cloud infrastructure management
7. Strong understanding of software design principles and patterns
8. Excellent command over data structures and algorithms
9. Passion for solving complex problems
10. Good understanding of various database technologies with strong opinions around their use cases
11. Experience with performance monitoring and scaling backend services
12. Experience with microservices and distributed systems in general
13. Experience with team management
14. Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Good to have:

1. Worked on products that addressed an international audience
2. Worked on products that scaled to millions of users
3. Exposure to emerging/latest technologies like blockchain, bots, AR/VR
4. Exposure to AI/ML

One of our premium-based customers, we are looking to hire a team of Azure .Net Architects in Bangalore/Pune/Noida, looking for Tech Geeks, who have 14+ years of experience full-time.

PFB the JD: Proven Full Stack development skills and have solid business acumen and hands-on experience in architecting solutions

-14+ years Exp

-Expertise in designing and developing Cloud Native applications using Azure Services and managing IaC using Terraform modules and ARM templates

 -Cloud Technologies: Azure Services(-(Paas Services, At least experience in some of the services is good enough - Logic Apps, API Management Service, Microsoft Graph API, Azure AD, Azure functions, Cosmos db(mongo db API), Event hub, Stream Analytics, Azure SQL Server, Azure storage table, Azure Storage Queue, Azure blob storage, Azure Event grid, Azure App Service, Application Insights, Azure ARM templates, Azure Worker Roles, Azure web jobs, Azure Relay services, Azure KeyVault, Azure App Services, Logic Apps)

- App Service, Azure Functions, VMs, ASF, AKS, Azure Container Registry, Key Vault, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Azure AD, Azure B2C and B2B, APIM, Azure Monitor and App insight

-Containerization tools: Docker, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Container Registry

-Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, and ARM templates

-DevOps tools: Azure DevOps, CI/CD using Git and Azure Pipeline, Azure Repos

-Microsoft Technologies: ASP.NET Core, .NET Core Web API, .NET, ASP.Net MVC, ADO.Net, TPL, LINQ, PLINQ, WCF Services, ASP .Net Web API, Angular

-Databases: NoSQL/document Databases Azure Cosmos DB, Oracle

 -Strong experience in SQL -Experience in Integration or service layer is recommended

Do you love leading a team of engineers, coding up new products, and making sure that they work well together? If so, this is the job for you.

As an Engineering Manager in Unscript, you'll be responsible for managing a team of engineers who are focused on developing new products. You'll be able to apply your strong engineering background as well as your experience with large-scale development projects in the past.

You'll also be able to act as Product Owner (we know it's not your job but you'll have to do this :) ) and make sure that the team is working towards the right goals. 

Being the Engineering Manager at Unscript means owning up to all things—from technical issues to product decisions—and being comfortable with taking responsibility for everything from hiring and training new hires, to making sure you get the best out of every individual.

About Us:

UnScript uses AI to create videos that were never shot. Our technology saves brands thousands of dollars spent in hiring influencers/actors, shooting videos with them. UnScript was founded by distinguished alums from IIT, with exemplary backgrounds in business and technology. UnScript has raised two rounds of funding from global VCs with Peter Thiel(Co-founder, Paypal) and Ried Hoffman ( Co-founder, Linkedin) as investors. 

Required Qualifications:

• B.Tech or higher in Computer Science from a premier institute. (We are willing to waive this requirement if you are an exceptional programmer).

• Building scalable & performant web systems with clear focus on reusable modules.

• You are comfortable in a high paced environment and can respond to urgent (and at times ambiguous) requests

• Ability to translate fuzzy business problems into technical problems & come up with design, estimates, planning, execution & deliver the solution independently.

• Knowledge in AWS or other cloud Infra.

The Team:

Unscript was started by Ritwika Chowdhury. Our team brings experience from other foremost institutions like IIT Kharagpur, Microsoft Research, IIT Bombay, IIIT, BCG etc. We are thrilled to be backed by some of the world's largest VC firms and angel investors. 

What you need to have:

• Take complete ownership of the web application and API back end development
• Finalize User Stories, Tasks, Sprints etc. on JIRA based on the product roadmap
• Estimating delivery timelines and execution of relevant tasks with the team
• As individual contributor, writing clean, functional code on the front- and back-end
• Mentoring junior members of the development team
• Design and develop effective APIs for mobile apps
• Maintain and develop unit and integration tests (rails mini-tests)
• Co-ordinate web application releases with the DevOps team
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

SKILLS

Must have:

• Proven experience as a ROR Developer (individual contributor).
• Experience developing scalable web applications
• Sense of ownership about the product.
• Good communication and teamwork skills
• Experience of leading a tech team

Nice to have:

• 2+ years of experience with front-end frameworks such as - React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js
• Experience with more than one web application stack (e.g. .net, Java, Django etc.).

Qualifications:

MCS, B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering

Snapwiz Edutech India Pvt ltd Project Manager/Engineering Manager Job Description

We are looking for a passionate, entrepreneurial, hands-on Engineering Manager to manage an agile engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of application and front-end / Back-end engineers to drive innovation in full-stack product development, while relentlessly improving performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Requirements:

❖ 8+ years of solid experience in developing a high-performance web application

❖ Technically Hands-on, Prior experience with scalable Architecture, managing team of (5-10) Sr. engineers / Engineers, and coaching, mentoring while maintaining a hands-on role with code development

❖ Experience with web technologies, Javascript, MongoDB, Solr, Memcache, Redis, Java etc.

❖ Experience with high-performance web application catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus ❖ Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks ❖ Experience and ability to bring in software engineering lifecycle best practice ❖ Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills