Engineering Manager

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for managing projects to make sure the proposed plan adheres to the timeline, budget, and scope. Their duties include planning projects in detail, setting schedules for all stakeholders, and executing each step of the project for our proprietary product, with some of the World’s biggest brands across the BFSI domain. The role is cross-functional and requires the individual to own and push through projects that touch upon business, operations, technology, marketing, and client experience. 

• 5-7 years of experience in technical project management.

• Professional Project Management Certification from accredited intuition is mandatory.

• Proven experience overseeing all elements of the project/product lifecycle.

• Working knowledge of Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

• Prior experience in Fintech, Blockchain, and/or BFSI domain will be an added advantage.

• Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies, and methods.

• Strong sense of personal accountability regarding decision-making and supervising department team.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to define project requirements and scope.

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform. We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting-edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability
• Understand the product in detail and predict potential issues in feature development.
• Mentor and lead junior members of the team

You should have:

• Ability to think of out of the box
• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Understanding of micro-services architecture and best practices.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It is a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure or Google Cloud

Requirements:

 Time management and prioritising workload

 Industry Knowledge and Experience desirable

 Working knowledge of Microsoft office

 People management skills

 Excellent oral and written communication skills

 Presenting skills

Roles and Responsibilities:

 Manage the overall running of the sales team

 Develop and implement strategic sales plans that expand a company’s customer base and Solidify its presence

 Achieving growth and hitting sales targets by successfully managing the team and by assessing the teams’ strengths and weaknesses.

 Developing and implementing new sales initiatives, strategies and programmes to capture key demographics

 Liaise and develop professional relationships with team members.

 The setting of objectives for all team members.

 Conducting regular 1 2 1’s business day meeting

 Absence management

 Performance management

Our Tech stack:

· Java 11, Spring Boot, React.JS

· MySQL, Redis, Elastic Stack, MongoDB

· Docker, K8s

· GitHub, Jenkins

· Slack, Jira

What we're looking for:

· Minimum of 5 years of experience as a software developer.

· Excellent knowledge of Java.

· Demonstrated skills in web-based development, including REST API s and JS frameworks such as Vue JS/React.

· Experienced with cloud platforms (AWS / GCP).

· Experienced with SQL and NoSQL databases.

· Experienced with CI/CD environments.

· Familiar with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).

· Proficient in agile programming practices.

· Strong analytical mind with a good dose of creativity.

· Meticulous person who strives to constantly improve his/her/their competencies.

· Excellent communication skills.

Nice-to-haves:

· Familiarity with Web sockets.

· Has contributed to open source projects and can point us to his/her/their GitHub account.

Blaze Madurai looking for a young and motivated Business Development Executive with hands-on experience in the IT software industry. 

Job Description: 

• Growing business through the development of new leads and new contacts. 
• Required experience in handling/acquiring overseas clients & projects. 
• The ideal candidate has to work with the clients to understand their business requirements. 
• Identifying new revenue opportunities. 
• Building business relationships with current and potential clients. 
• Collaborating with management on sales goals. 
• Developing and executing sales and marketing strategies to grow business and meet monthly and quarterly sales goals. 

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's degree with excellent Communication and presentation Skills. 
• Proven experience as a BDE/ Sales executive or relevant role in a similar Industry. 
• Enthusiastic to build good relationships with people 
• Ability to work well in a team environment 

Job Type: Full-time 

Experience: 3+ years 

• Minimum 6+  years experienced in .Net Core 3.0/MS.NET & Azure
• Should have advanced knowledge of C# programming, ASP.Net Web API, REST Framework, MVC, MVVM architecture
• Understanding of Agile scrum, Project Management methodologies
• Should be able to understand high level technical architecture and develop low-level design
• Should be able to lead a team of technical resources as per sprint delivery targets
• Strong understanding of design patterns and advanced code review, debugging
• Experience in front-end technologies like HTML5, CSS, JavaScript is required.
• Good experience in Angular/React is good to have
• Good communication skills, quick learner with professional attitude and a team player
• Good customer facing skills and experience in working with other offshore/onsite teams