Engineering Manager

Branch Overview

Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. With offices in San Francisco, Lagos, Mumbai, Nairobi, and Tanzania, Branch is a for-profit, socially conscious company that uses the power of data science to reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. We believe that everyone, everywhere, deserves fair financial access. The rapid spread of smartphones presents an opportunity for the world’s emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility. 

The founder and former CEO of Kiva.org leads the Branch’s mission-driven team. The company presents a rich opportunity for our team members to drive meaningful growth in rapidly evolving and changing markets. Most recently, Branch announced our Series C and has garnered more than $100M in funding with investments from leading Silicon Valley firms.

We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive working environment where human beings of all backgrounds can thrive. 

Job Overview

Branch launched in India in early 2019 and has seen rapid adoption and growth. We are looking for talented Machine Learning Engineers to join us and be part of this journey. You will work closely with other Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists to develop, improve, and deploy machine learning models and to solve other optimization problems. We make extensive use of machine learning in our credit product, where it is used (among other things) for underwriting and loan servicing decisions. We are also actively exploring other applications of Machine Learning in some of our newer products, with the ultimate goal of improving the user experience.

Machine Learning sits at the intersection of a number of different disciplines: Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Data Science, and others. At Branch, we fundamentally believe that in order for Machine Learning to be impactful, it needs to be closely embedded into the rest of the product development and software engineering process, which is why we emphasize the importance of software engineering skills and experience for this role.

As a company, we are passionate about our customers, fearless in the face of barriers, and driven by data. As an engineering team, we value bottom-up innovation and decentralized decision-making. We believe the best ideas can come from anyone in the company, and we are working hard to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to propose solutions to the challenges we face. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a fast-moving, innovative, and customer-focused setting.

Here are some things you’ll do

• Credit Decisions: Core to our business is understanding and building signals from unstructured and structured data to identify good borrowers.
• Customer Service: Using machine learning and NLP, automate customer service interactions and provide context to our customer service team.
• Fraud Prevention: Identify patterns of fraudulent behavior and build models to detect and prevent these behaviors.
• Team work: Bring your experience to bear on the technical direction and abilities of the team, and work cross-functionally with policy and product teams as we improve processes and break new ground.

Minimum Requirements

We’re looking for a motivated and versatile engineer who understands the needs of a startup.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience building software in a production environment. Startup or early-stage team experience is preferred.
• Experience coordinating and collaborating with various business stakeholders and company leadership on critical functional decisions and technical roadmap.
• Excellent software engineering and programming skills, especially Python and SQL.
• A diverse range of data skills, including experimentation, statistics, and machine learning, and have used these skills to inform business decisions.
• A deep understanding of using cloud computing infrastructure and data pipelines in production.
• Self motivation: You teach yourself new skills. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise. You roll up your sleeves and get stuff done.
• Team motivation: You listen to others, speak your mind, and ask the right questions. You are a great collaborator and teacher.
• The drive to make a positive impact on customers' lives.

Benefits of Joining

• Mission-driven, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
• Competitive salary and equity package
• A collaborative and flat company culture
• Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally
• Fully-paid Group Medical Insurance and Personal Accidental Insurance
• Unlimited paid time off including personal leave, bereavement leave, sick leave
• Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity leave and 3 months paternity leave
• Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget
• $500 Annual professional development budget 
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance 
• Team meals and social events- Virtual and In-person

Branch International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company does not and will not discriminate in employment on any basis prohibited by applicable law. We’re looking for more than just qualifications -- so if you’re unsure that you meet the criteria, please do not hesitate to apply!

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence and its applications in the software development lifecycle? Are you excited about building AI models that can revolutionize how developers ship, refactor, and onboard to legacy or existing applications faster? If so, Zevo.ai has the perfect opportunity for you!

As an AI Researcher/Engineer at Zevo.ai, you will play a crucial role in developing cutting-edge AI models using CodeBERT and codexGLUE to achieve our goal of providing an AI solution that supports developers throughout the sprint cycle. You will be at the forefront of research and development, harnessing the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to revolutionize the way software development is approached.

Responsibilities:

1. AI Model Development: Design, implement, and refine AI models utilizing CodeBERT and codexGLUE to comprehend codebases, facilitate code understanding, automate code refactoring, and enhance the developer onboarding process.
2. Research and Innovation: Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in NLP and ML research, identifying novel techniques and methodologies that can be applied to Zevo.ai's AI solution. Conduct experiments, perform data analysis, and propose innovative approaches to enhance model performance.
3. Data Collection and Preparation: Collaborate with data engineers to identify, collect, and preprocess relevant datasets necessary for training and evaluating AI models. Ensure data quality, correctness, and proper documentation.
4. Model Evaluation and Optimization: Develop robust evaluation metrics to measure the performance of AI models accurately. Continuously optimize and fine-tune models to achieve state-of-the-art results.
5. Code Integration and Deployment: Work closely with software developers to integrate AI models seamlessly into Zevo.ai's platform. Ensure smooth deployment and monitor the performance of the deployed models.
6. Collaboration and Teamwork: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to align AI research efforts with overall company objectives.
7. Documentation: Maintain detailed and clear documentation of research findings, methodologies, and model implementations to facilitate knowledge sharing and future developments.
8. Ethics and Compliance**: Ensure compliance with ethical guidelines and legal requirements related to AI model development, data privacy, and security.

Requirements

1. Educational Background: Bachelor's/Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field. A strong academic record with a focus on NLP and ML is highly desirable.
2. Technical Expertise: Proficiency in NLP, Deep Learning, and experience with AI model development using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. Familiarity with CodeBERT and codexGLUE is a significant advantage.
3. Programming Skills: Strong programming skills in Python and experience working with large-scale software projects.
4. Research Experience: Proven track record of conducting research in NLP, ML, or related fields, demonstrated through publications, conference papers, or open-source contributions.
5. Problem-Solving Abilities: Ability to identify and tackle complex problems related to AI model development and software engineering.
6. Team Player: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a team-oriented environment.
7. Passion for AI: Demonstrated enthusiasm for AI and its potential to transform software development practices.

If you are eager to be at the forefront of AI research, driving innovation and impacting the software development industry, join Zevo.ai's talented team of experts as an AI Researcher/Engineer. Together, we'll shape the future of the sprint cycle and revolutionize how developers approach code understanding, refactoring, and onboarding!

• Actively work with Product Managers to scope out and plan projects
• Be actively involved in hiring and growing our engineering team
• Plan and organize sprints with a highly ambitious group of engineers
• Actively work with engineers helping them break roadblocks throughout the sprints
• Involved in building and reviewing Project Architecture
• Actively review Code, Product and API Specifications
• Develop engineers on the team and help them advance in their careers
• Care about agility as much you care about scalability and availability
• Build and help us evolve our culture
• Teams at Our Company is expected to be comfortable working across the stack, delivering new features and products from start to finish
• Most products are Ruby on Rails applications with ReactJS frontends. We have PostgreSQL for most of our storage, and everything is hosted on AWS

• Clear and influential in both, writing and person
• Being a role model for the team
• Bringing-in the experience of building and scaling system to 100x
• Programming expert - help team resolve programming related issues as quickly as possible and introduce the team to better ways of building products.

• Opportunity to work with "India’s leading B2B" E-commerce venture. The company grew its revenue by more than 5.5x last year to reach to a 350 Cr annual revenue run rate scale. We invite you to be part of the upcoming growth story of B2B sector through Us.
• Opportunity to work with most dynamic individuals in Asia recognized under Forbes 30 Under 30 and industry stalwarts from across companies like Microsoft, Paypal, Gravitas, Parksons, ITC, Snapdeal, Fedex, Deloitte and HUL
• Our Company is featured in LinkedIn Top Startups 2019: The 25 hottest Indian companies to work for!
• Working here translates into being a part of a dynamic start-up with some of the most enthusiastic, hardworking and intelligent people in a fast paced and electrifying environment
• Our company has been awarded as the most Disruptive Procurement Startup of the year - 2017
• Being a company that is expanding itself every day and working towards exploring newer avenues in the market, every employee grows with the company
• The position provides a chance to build on existing talents, learn new skills and gain valuable experience in the field of Ecommerce

• Experienced in defining & realizing end-to-end Technical Architecture for large scale enterprise systems. Ability to identify and define non-functional requirements and design systems to meet the same.
• Strong experience in OOAD and in applying Design patterns effectively
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in Java/ JEE technologies like Struts/JSF, Spring, EJB, JMS Experience only on front-end technologies like Struts, JSP, Servlets, HTML will not be sufficient.
• Experience in performance testing and optimization of JEE systems on any of the following application servers - WebLogic, WebSphere and JBoss. Deep expertise in any one of the application servers is a must
• Strong experience in at least one RDBMS (Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL).
• Experience in creating and reviewing technical documents like Architecture blueprint, Design specifications, Deployment architecture, Workload modelling etc
• Excellent understanding of software development methodologies and architectures
• Experience in either of these areas is a definite add-on - Infrastructure sizing, Capacity planning, Performance modelling, Cloud Computing
• Working experience on Linux/Unix based OS systems is a must
• Working experience on any one of these open source technologies (LAMP stack, Node.js framework, ELK, Cassandra, MongoDB, Couch base NO-SQL databases).

• Strong CS fundamentals in OOD, DS, Algorithms and Problem Solving for a wide variety of problem spaces and technologies
• Expert coder in any modern language such as Java, Golang or Scala.
• Experience in working with Product and Engineering leaders to drive and implement platform and product vision.
• Ability to leverage deep and wide knowledge of technology stack to recommend appropriate architecture and design solutions, and provide technical leadership to a team of rock star Software Engineers.
• Can translate the impact of design choices on non-functional attributes like scalability, performance, availability and security.
• Experience in providing leadership, career guidance, performance management, prioritization and personnel management for minimum team size of 10.
• Experience creating large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed web applications with databases, and designing web services, APIs, data models and schemas, using SQL or NoSQL.
• Experience with Cloud environments, such as AWS.
• Comfortable in Windows and Linux environments.
• Comfortable with different data storage solutions such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, ElasticSearch, SQL, Hadoop, or MongoDB.
• Experience delivering high quality software following continuous delivery and using code quality tools (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkin, Hudson, Sonar, PMD, Checkstyle, Findbugs, and Fortify etc.)
• Worked in Agile environments previously.
• Good command of development metrics, methodologies and tools.
• Will ensure timely and frequent delivery of high quality software, while adapting technical decisions to the immediate needs of the business.
• Good analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Can drive adoption of best practices across the Software Engineering Lifecycle, including reviews, source control, build processes, continuous integration and deployment.

About us:

We are a team of software avengers, passionate engineers & thinkers designing the future of education. The company has its roots from IIT, IIM Alumni and various SMEs in education space. Here, we all work together with & for a single dream; ‘Education For Everyone, Everywhere.’

Dizvik is an EdTech product-based tech start-up working on exciting technologies & latest tech amendments. We use technology as an effective & efficient tool to create things that are impactful & make education easier. Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality, Robust Media Streaming are few of our core areas.

We are a crazy bunch of people having multiple personas always trying to keep things light-hearted! Our roots are not new, the company is nurtured by the well established group excelling since 2003. The founders of Dizvik Technologies own multiple companies & one of those is Dhyeya Educational Services Private Limited (Dhyeya IAS) having more than 20 offline Institutes/Centers in India.

Role Description:

The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing and developing highly scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant micro-services based applications for the company. Using Node Js, Python, MongoDB, PostgreSql, JWT, Cassandra, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Rabbitmq, Redis, Middlewares, CDN, Elasticsearch, this candidate will be able to translate user and business needs into functional and enterprise level product.

Salary Range:  10 LPA to 25 LPA

Job Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing highly scalable, reliable and fault-tolerant backend architectures & applications for the company.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA, etc.) on planning and execution.
• Communicate, collaborate and lead the work & team effectively across distributed features
• Owning and working end-to-end on application – from system (server, deployment, configuration management) to back end (container, application, and database).

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science.
• 3+ years of experience in backend technologies: Node Js, Python, MongoDB, PostgreSql, JWT, Cassandra, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Middlewares, CDN, Elasticsearch etc.
• Implementation of security and data protection.(CSRF/JWT/ORM and various middleware/DB security implementations).
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills, and data structures experience.
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services in Monolith & Microservice both the architectures.
• Data modelling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases.
• Ability to understand and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Experience in troubleshooting server performance memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks, etc.
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks.
• Experience in versioning systems like GitHub, SVN, gitlab etc.

• Strong object oriented concepts. Experience in structure object oriented modelling with preferred expertise in using tools like Enterprise Architect or similar. Experience in working with TOGAF standards is preferred.
• Experience in architecting the technical scale and scope of high volume, scalable enterprise software solutions including logical and physical landscape requirements with specific attention to design, development, and deployment strategies
• Capability to adapt, learn and work with multiple technology platforms. 
• Knowledge in Application Security including Information security principles & realization, OWASP & PCI DSS Compliance ( Security Design & Technology Skills )
• In depth knowledge and experience in large scale database management, data modelling and database design in RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Experience in recommending and implementing DevOps tools for enterprise projects.
• Capability to evaluate tools, technologies and processes, including assessing their strategic benefit in the solution.
• Willingness to work hands-on with engineers to review, troubleshoot coding problems quickly and efficiently.
• Expertise in following technologies – ASP.Net MVC, Web API, ASP.Net Core, Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, ASP.Net Identity, REST
• Experience in implementing various application deployment models and monitoring the server infrastructure using industry standard tools.
• Experience in docker based deployment models.
• Experience in architecting, developing and deploying cloud based (One or more among AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) enterprise solutions.
• Experience in designing and developing micro-services based applications. 
• Experience in designing and developing solutions with TDD (Test Driven Development)

• Bachelors / Masters in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute with at least 8+ years over all professional experience. At-least 2+ years experience in managing/leading software development teams.
• Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring. Perform regular performance evaluation and share and seek feedback.
• Able to drive sprints and OKRs.
• Exceptional team managing skills; experience in building large scale distributed systems
• Experience in Scalable Systems - transactional systems (B2C)
• Expertise in Java/J2EE and multithreading
• Deep understanding of transactional and NoSQL DBs
• Deep understanding of Messaging systems - kafka
• Good experience on cloud infrastructure - AWS preferably
• Good to have: Data pipelines, ES
• Ability to think and analyze both breadth-wise and depth-wise while designing and implementing services
• Excellent teamwork skills, flexibility, and ability to handle multiple tasks.