Engineering Manager - InApps

Designation: Manager Contracts and Procurement

Qualification: BE in Civil Engineering

Experience: 5+ Years in contracts & procurement preferably in commercial and hospitality projects.

Purpose of the Role: To Manage and assist Contract and Procurement Function including vendor sourcing, tendering, bid evaluation, contract drafting, negotiation, ward of contract and post contract management to ensure timely procurement of materials at optimum cost and quality.

Job Responsibilities:

Complete Handling of the tending of Civil, Interior, Façade and MEP works.

Able conduct techno – commercial bid evaluation and prepare comparative statements.

Able to draft, review and administer the tender documents.

Draft and review of consultants agreements.

Prepare and managing of procurement tracker.

Vendor identification and pre-qualification.

Able to effectively manage the variations, change order and Claims.

Aware of the Current Market Pricing and prevailing market rates, focus on budget.

Identify opportunities to consolidate supplier base wherever possible to leverage on volume economies

Demonstrate continuous effort to improve procurement process, decrease turnaround time and streamline work processes.

Ensure compliance to company’s standard processes and procedures.

Be proactive and manage internal and external customer expectations.

Should possess excellent communication skills and able to communicate effectively with internal team members and external partners.

Able to manage multiple priorities effectively.

Experience & Skills

Experience in procurement and contract administration and familiar with conditions of contracts

Knowledge of tendering and bid evaluation.

Strong negotiation and vendor management skills

Proficiency in MS Excel

Communication & documentation skills

Tech Lead

Full Stack, Architecture & Client Delivery

📍 Mumbai (On-site) | Full-time | 5-6 years

About the Role:

Unico Connect is an AI-first technology partner that builds custom mobile, web, and AI products for clients across multiple geographies.

We are hiring a Tech Lead who will own the technical direction of full stack engagements, lead a small pod of engineers, and represent Unico Connect directly in front of customers.

The mandatory requirement for this role is hands-on production experience as a senior or lead engineer building full stack web applications with React on the frontend and either Node.js or Python on the backend.

The role is hands-on.

Expect to spend meaningful time on architecture, complex implementation, and code reviews, while also driving delivery, mentoring a pod of 3 to 6 engineers, running client conversations, and contributing to solutioning on new opportunities.

A typical week includes a design review on a new module, a working session with a client product owner, paired implementation on a complex flow, and pre-sales input on an active opportunity.

Responsibilities:

Solutioning and Architecture

Own end-to-end architecture for client engagements: system design, API contracts, data models, integrations, deployment topology, and trade-off analysis.

Document and defend decisions in writing and in client reviews.

Hands-on Full Stack Delivery

Lead by example on complex modules, performance-critical paths, and high-risk areas of the system using React (with Next.js where relevant) and Node.js (Express, NestJS) or Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask).

Database Design and Performance

Drive PostgreSQL schema design, indexing strategy, query optimisation, migrations, and capacity planning.

Set the standard for data modelling across the pod.

Cloud and Infrastructure

Set up and operate production workloads on AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Make and own decisions on compute, storage, networking, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and cost.

Code Quality and Engineering Standards

Run code reviews, define engineering conventions, and raise the quality bar across the team.

Set the standard for testing, linting, branching, release management, and incident response.

Team Leadership and Mentorship

Lead, mentor, and grow a pod of 3 to 6 engineers.

Plan sprints, unblock the team, run retros, and own delivery commitments.

Client Engagement

Act as the primary technical point of contact for the client.

Run technical discussions, present trade-offs, manage scope and risks, and keep stakeholders informed in writing.

Pre-Sales and Solutioning

Partner with sales and account leadership on new opportunities, including discovery calls, effort estimation, architecture diagrams, and solution write-ups.

AI-Assisted Development

Use Claude, Cursor, and similar tools day to day.

Set the standard for the team on prompts, patterns, AI-assisted code review, and where these tools are and are not appropriate.

AI Feature Delivery

Where an engagement calls for it, design and ship LLM-based features into production, including prompt design, retrieval pipelines, evaluation, observability, and guardrails.

Requirements:

Hands-on Full Stack Production Experience as a Senior or Lead Engineer (Mandatory)

Must have personally built and shipped production web applications using React on the frontend and either Node.js or Python on the backend.

POCs, internal tools, and coursework do not qualify.

5 to 6 Years of Professional Software Engineering Experience

Including at least 1 to 2 years in a tech lead, team lead, or senior engineering role with direct responsibility for technical decisions and team output.

Hands-on Cloud Experience on at Least One of AWS, GCP, or Azure

Including deploying and operating production workloads.

Comfort with at least three of: EC2 or equivalent compute, S3 or equivalent object storage, Lambda or serverless functions, RDS or managed databases, CloudFront or equivalent CDN, IAM, VPC.

Strong Proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript

With React and Next.js (SSR, SSG, app router) on the frontend, and either Node.js (Express, NestJS) or Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask) on the backend.

API design experience across REST and GraphQL.

Willingness and demonstrated ability to pick up the other backend stack as engagements demand.

Production Experience with Docker, Git-Based Workflows, and CI/CD Pipelines

(GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or equivalent).

Strong PostgreSQL Skills

Schema design, normalisation, indexing, query performance, migrations, and at least one production system where you owned the data model end-to-end.

Caching and Event-Driven Architecture

Hands-on with Redis (or equivalent) for caching and session management, and message queues or event-driven patterns (RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka, or NATS) for asynchronous workflows.

AI and LLM Feature Delivery in Production

Experience designing and shipping at least one AI feature to production, covering prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, evaluation, observability, and guardrails.

POCs and demos do not qualify.

System Design Depth and End-to-End Ownership

Able to take an ambiguous problem, break it into components, evaluate alternatives, produce an architecture that holds up under review and load, plan execution, and ship to production with limited supervision.

Excellent Written and Spoken English

Experience working directly with international clients.

Confident, clear, and firm in stakeholder communication.

Comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders, pushing back where needed, and managing expectations across time zones.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing front desk operations and visitor handling

• Supporting office administration and vendor coordination

• Tracking attendance and maintaining employee documentation

• Coordinating travel bookings and schedules

• Handling courier and dispatch management

• Supporting onboarding and reimbursement records

• Assisting with payroll-related admin tasks using Excel

 Language Requirement:

• English and Kannada are mandatory

• Hindi will be an added advantage

Key Responsibilities:

●    Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure backend systems using Java.

●    Build and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices to support application functionality.

●    Collaborate closely with frontend developers to ensure smooth integration with React/Angular-based frontend systems.

●    Work with both relational databases (SQL) and NoSQL databases to design data schemas, optimize queries, and maintain data integrity.

●    Leverage cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to deploy, monitor, and scale applications.

●    Implement and maintain containerization using Docker and Kubernetes (K8S).

●    Write unit tests for both backend and frontend code to ensure code quality and reliability.

●    Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality standards and mentor junior developers.

●    Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, proposing and driving best practices in backend development, testing, and deployment.

Required Skills And Experience

●    Bachelors or Masters in computer science or related fields.

●    5+ years of experience in backend development, with strong expertise in Java (must-have).

●    Solid experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.

●    Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs, Docker, and NoSQL databases (such as MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.).

●    Strong experience with SQL databases (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.), including database design, optimization, and query writing.

●    Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and Kubernetes (K8S).

●    Experience in writing unit tests and understanding of test-driven development (TDD) principles.

●    Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Nice to Have:

●    Exposure to Automation Testing Frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress).

●    Experience working in a SaaS (Software as a Service) environment.

●    Knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Have architected /designed at least 2-3 systems/products of enterprise scale from scratch.
• Have banking and Financial service background and preferably worked in Mobile/Digital platform design and development. Payments /OLTP preferred.
• Should have experience of 20+ years with J2ee, REST, Microservice, API, Messaging, Encryption, security, NLP, ML background.
• Have 7+yrs of experience in Architecture field, designing and end to end not from consulting Architecture.
• Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of a feature or component/product with the highest quality with high-level directions from architects
• Driving innovations in the platform constantly & remaining ahead of the curve
• Development and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services.
• Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.
• Collaborating with peers and Architects both within their team and across the organization to deliver end-to-end products & features
• Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
• Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.
• Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable
• Mentoring junior engineers in the team both in the technical as well as on the product side
• Define and devise processes, tools and methodologies to achieve excellence in software development, testing and deployment, and in the management of the Centre.
• Good experience in working with any of the programming languages like PHP, Python, Django, Golang, Java, C++
• Experience developing applications that use high volume of data along with experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs.
• Solid knowledge of JAVA, J2EE, data stream, processing, big data etc.
• Comfortable with writing unit tests using JUnit
• Worked with Git and are comfortable with Merge/Rebase concepts.
• Worked with tools such as Eclipse, WebStorm, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, JSLint, Grunt and App Servers such as Tomcat, Jboss.
• Solid knowledge of algorithms, design patterns, and componentization approaches.
• Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting-edge technologies.
• Experience in software design patterns, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to determine impact of architectural solutions and recommendations.
• Must have experience in justification of technology solutions to business leaders.
• Experience in refactoring existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
• Know how to identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them in the first place.
• Have strong attention to detail.
• Ability to operate effectively both independently as well and within a team using Agile methodology.
• Proven problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.
• Knowledge of payment domain will be an added advantage

Qualifications

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in EE/CS or an equivalent qualification.
• 20+yrs of Experience.
• Minimum 12+years of hands on Java programming experience.