Head of Engineering

Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Visual Designer with a deep understanding of UI principles and a proven track record of excellence in the field. As a key member of our creative team, the ideal candidate will bring a wealth of design expertise, strategic thinking, and innovative solutions to enhance the user experience across various digital platforms. If you are passionate about creating visually stunning and user-friendly interfaces and have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Qualifications:

1.    Bachelor's degree in Design, Visual Arts, Communication, or a related field.

2.    Minimum 3- 5 years of professional experience as a Visual Designer, with a strong emphasis on UI design.

3.    Proven track record of successful projects showcasing your design and copywriting skills.

4.    Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, or similar.

5.    Strong understanding of UI principles, design thinking, and user-centered design.

6.    Excellent copywriting skills with the ability to craft clear, concise, and compelling messaging.

7.    Exceptional portfolio demonstrating your design and copywriting capabilities.

8.    Strong communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities:

●     Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and fellow designers, to understand project goals and requirements.

●     Design and conceptualize visually appealing user interfaces for various digital platforms, ensuring a seamless and delightful user experience.

●     Integrate strategic copywriting skills to create engaging and persuasive content that complements the visual design and enhances the overall user experience.

●     Develop and maintain design systems and guidelines to ensure consistency across all digital touchpoints.

●     Stay current with design trends, industry best practices, and emerging technologies, and apply these insights to your work.

●     Conduct user research, analyze feedback, and iterate on designs to continuously improve user satisfaction.

●     Provide mentorship and guidance to junior members of the design team.

Role – Business Development Executive (F/M/X)

Experience – 3+ Years

Position - Work from Office

About Us

Join a team that wants to make the impossible possible

• We are Vitec, a company full of talents, tech nerds, and motivated people who work on our vision every day with dedication and conviction.
• Our vision is to become the 360° Software Development Partner of customers worldwide. If you get that, we got you:
• We offer everyone a professional environment with great opportunities to improve their skills, learn new trending technologies/methods, and become part of a caring family of goal-getters!
• As 360°Software Development Partner, we build and maintain unique and complex solutions with a team of great individuals who love their work and who know responsibility not only from hearing it but who living it. For this reason, we only hire the best and most motivated.
• Joining Vitec means becoming a member of the family and making the impossible possible every day.

About You

As an experienced Business Development Executive, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and growing sales strategies/channels to connect with potential clients. You will generate meaningful leads, create together with our Solution Architects solutions for clients, and seal the deal. You will work closely together with the management to enable long-term partnership and growth processes. You will make the impossible possible!

What do you need to bring?

• 3+ years of proven experience in the business development area.
• Strong understanding of building, maintaining, and scaling sale strategies in the IT area.
• Strong knowledge of bidding platforms like Upwork and Fiverr.
• Solid technical knowledge about how IT Solutions such as mobile Apps, web Apps, websites, and server infrastructures are built is a very big plus point.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for building meaningful relationships with clients.
• Strong customer service and sales skills for generating leads.
• Advanced presentation and persuasive skills.
• Advanced decision-making and problem-solving skills.
• Highly motivated to achieve results in my responsibility from scratch to the highest satisfaction.
• Sharing knowledge with others and helping others to grow is a matter of course for you.
• Very good English skills in written and spoken.

A day in the life of our Business Development Executive

• Attracting new clients by innovating and overseeing the sales process for the business.
• Working with management to identify and manage company risks that might prevent growth.
• Identifying and researching opportunities that come up in new and existing markets.
• Preparing and delivering pitches and presentations to potential new clients.
• Communicating with clients to understand their needs and offer solutions to their problems.
• Building high-level technical concepts together with the team to create meaningful proposals.
• Creating positive, long-lasting relationships with current and potential clients.
• Ensuring excellent customer service through regular client follow-up
• Translating proposals into ready-to-sign contracts
• Owning the sales lifecycle from prospecting to implementation
• Managing virtual and in-person sales meetings

Job Title - Senior Backend Engineer

About Tazapay 

Tazapay is a cross border payment service provider. They offer local collections via local payment methods, virtual accounts and cards in over 70 markets. The merchant does not need to create local entities anywhere and Tazapay offers the additional compliance framework to take care of local regulations and requirements. This results in decreased transaction costs, fx transparency and higher auth rates. 

They are licensed and backed by leading investors.   www.tazapay.com 

What’s exciting waiting for You? 

This is an amazing opportunity for you to join a fantastic crew before the rocket ship launch. It will be a story you will carry with you through your life and have the unique experience of building something ground up and have the satisfaction of seeing your product being used and paid for by thousands of customers. You will be a part of a growth story be it anywhere - Sales, Software Development, Marketing, HR, Accounting etc. 

We believe in a culture of openness, innovation & great memories together. 

Are you ready for the ride? 

Find what interesting things you could do with us. 

About the Backend Engineer role

Responsibilities (not exhaustive)

• Design, write and deliver highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant systems with minimal guidance 
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Partner with the product management team to define and execute the feature roadmap
• Translate business requirements into scalable and extensible design
• Proactively manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, changes and dependencies
• Coordinate with cross functional teams (Mobile, DevOps, Data, UX, QA etc.) on planning and execution
• Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight
• Willingness to learn new languages and methodologies
• An enormous sense of ownership
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization

The Ideal Candidate

Education

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in commercial software development in large distributed systems

Experience

• Hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying applications on Golang, Ruby,Python, .Net Core or Java for large scale applications
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures
• Expert in at least 1 of the following languages: Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++
• Proficient in OOP, including design patterns. 
• Ability to design and implement low latency RESTful services
• Hands-on coder who has built backend services that handle high volume traffic.
• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling
• Possess excellent communication, sharp analytical abilities with proven design skills, able to think critically of the current system in terms of growth and stability
• Data modeling experience in both Relational and NoSQL databases
• Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
• Ability to plan, prioritize, estimate and execute releases with good degree of predictability
• Ability to scope, review and refine user stories for technical completeness and to alleviate dependency risks
• Passion for learning new things, solving challenging problems
• Ability to get stuff done!

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Golang ecosystem
• Familiarity with running web services at scale; understanding of systems internals and networking are a plus
• Be familiar with HTTP/HTTPS communication protocols.

Abilities and Traits

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to provide exceptional attention to details of the product.
• Ability to focus for extended periods of repetitious activity.
• Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions
• Work well as a team player and help the team members to resolve issues
• Be committed to quality and be structured in approach
• Excellent and demonstrable concept formulation, logical and analytical skills
• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills

Location - Chennai - India

Join our team and let's groove together to the rhythm of innovation and opportunity!

Your Buddy

Tazapay

Responsibilities:

·        Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including hardware engineers, system architects, and product managers, to define software requirements and specifications for embedded systems.

·        Design and develop efficient, reliable, and scalable embedded software solutions that meet the defined requirements.

·        Write, test, and debug code in programming languages commonly used for embedded systems, such as C, C++, and assembly language.

·        Interface with hardware components, such as sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, and communication interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C,CAN etc.).

·        Develop and implement device drivers, firmware, and low-level software to control hardware peripherals.

·        Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards.

·        Perform unit testing, integration testing, and system testing of the embedded software.

·        Analyse and optimize system performance, memory usage, and power consumption.

·        Collaborate with the quality assurance team to identify and resolve software defects.

·        Stay up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and technologies related to embedded systems and software development.

·        Document software design, code, and test procedures for internal and external use.

·        Provide technical support to other teams during product integration, testing, and deployment.

Qualifications:

·        Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

·        Proven experience in embedded software development, including designing, coding, testing, and debugging.

·        Proficiency in programming languages such as C and C++.

·        Familiarity with Embedded C, 32-bit microcontroller,16-bit microcontroller hardware interfaces.

·        Knowledge of real-time operating systems (RTOS) and multi-threaded programming.

·        Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex hardware-software interactions.

·        Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team.

·        Familiarity with communication protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet) is desirable.

·        Knowledge of security considerations in embedded systems is an advantage.

Location: Chennai

• Creating and maintaining digital assets, such as interface design files, wireframes, and interactive mockups using design and prototyping tools: e.g., Sketch and InVision
• Designing, building and maintaining highly reusable JavaScript, HTML and CSS code
• Understanding the limitations of our tech stack and business model and providing technical advice wherever necessary
• Coordinating the workflow between the UI/UX designs, HTML, CSS and backend application logic
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

Desired Candidate Profile

• Confidence in working with HTML5/CSS3, JQuery, Ajax, Bootstrap, responsive design
• Expert knowledge of HTML5 and its best practices
• Proficiency in designing interfaces and building clickable prototypes using Sketch, InVision, Axure, etc.
• Knowledge of Git version control
• Knowledge of the command line
• 2+ years experience as a front-end developer
• 1+ year experience as a UI/UX designer    

• Should be able to handle softwares like Illustrator & Photoshop for creating / resizing layouts, and image editing.
  Basic indesign knowledge would be an add on to make edits in the collaterals.
• Understanding the brand guidelines to select colours, imageries, and types.
• Understanding specifications such as dimensions, colour codes & resolution of images if required for print.