Internship Program

What you will do

We are looking for an exceptional engineering lead to join our team. You will be responsible for building and owning the systems that would have critical impact for the business and the experience of our community from day one. 

• Build and lead an agile engineering team
• Work closely with Founder on product development
• Collaborate with operations team to understand customer pain points and solve interesting problems
• Code, test, ship - manage the entire application cycle
• Build libraries and documentation for future references
• Research and develop best practices and tools to enable delivery of features
• Set up capabilities to track and report business and user metrics
• Design and improve architecture to ensure scalability
  
  

Requirements

• Proven experience at scaling tech companies, preferably in commerce or social network
• Keen to innovate, open-minded and collaborative
• Able to interpret product needs and suggest appropriate solutions
• Have led a team, also able to code hands-on
• Strong communication skills
• Strong work ethic: responsible, responsive, and detail-oriented.
  
  

Technologies we use
Go, Flutter, AWS, Google Cloud

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Samagra X - Tech Architect

As Samagra expands into Digital Public Goods (DPGs), we’re looking for a Tech Architect to help us shape how open-source products and platforms can transform governments' worldwide function. As Samagra, we pride ourselves on being thoughtful and intentional about the impact that can be created through well-built products and platforms.

In this role, you’ll work with a mission-driven team on some of the world’s most complex governance problems, where technology will play a pivotal role. You’ll design the architecture of platforms, answering

questions like-

• How to deliver quality advisory services to 100mn farmers nationwide?
• How can standardised assessment/practice tools be enabled to ensure FLN1 in children?
• How to build the capacity of paramedical staff in the country?
• How can govt administrators in any domain monitor the progress of flagship programs?
• How to build an open commerce network to connect farmers to the best service providers?

Working at Samagra, you’ll be challenged and rewarded with impact at scale. We value excellence, collaboration, empathy, and high ownership mindset. The most successful candidates will exhibit work that reflects these values. We want you to enable every team member to do their best work. We expect you to have a solid technical background, excellent communication skills, a flare for open-source products/platforms and a commitment to making everyone feel included.

Your Impact

In this role, you’ll have tremendous opportunities to learn, collaborate and impact millions of citizens in India and abroad by transforming how governments function. As a Tech Architect, you will:

• Take Ownership of technical vision for a given DPG - Define standards, drive technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap with the DPG working groups
• Collaborate with the DPG development partner to translate technical vision into a deliverable roadmap and product design. Pitch in with code, code reviews, architectural reviews and technical mentoring
• Work closely with the DPG development partner at various milestones of the product delivery to ensure a high-quality product is delivered and the product meets all the requirements, including debuggability,
• supportability, availability, scalability, cost-efficiency and performance.
• Continuously develop and improve the interface between technology and the DPG community. Ensure
• that overall technical practices are scalable, constantly evaluating tech stacks to cater to evolving business needs.
• Participate in building ecosystems around DPG with the community - build platforms, plugins & apps.
• Ensure all internal processes & external services comply with security, privacy policies and regulations.
• Stay on top of digital trends, principles and paradigms and be able to relate how these trends will affect the DPG community.
• Engage with internal and external collaborators, and maintain relationships/partnerships with internal team members and adopters to develop strategies, goals and objectives consistent with the DPG
• strategy.

Skills required

• Solid technical skills - Strong experience in having architected, built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems; Worked on defining problem statements at all levels - RFCs to good first issues. Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices; Experience with enterprise software development built and delivered on both on-premise and Cloud is preferred; Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate tasks; Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Leadership - Mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and tactful stakeholder engagement, which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company/community. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful
• Collaboration and communication - with the geo-distributed teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Also, able to communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed.
• Planning & execution - Able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines; keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks

Qualifications

• B. tech/BE(CS/IT) & from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutes of India/Abroad or equivalent; M. tech/Ph.D. preferred
• 8+ years of software development experience with 4+ years contributing to software architecture
• Experience in architecting, designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience in contributing and actively participating in multiple open source projects.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in working with a developer ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Automate the development and test automation processes through CI/CD pipeline (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker containers).
• Experience in one of the following programming languages: Python/Javascript/Typescript/Java.
• Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MariaDB) and any other large scale distributed database systems.
• Have expertise in one or more areas like building and scaling web apps, Machine Learning, UI Engineering, Information Visualization, etc.

About Samagra

Samagra is a mission-driven governance consulting firm. We co-work with the bureaucratic leadership across states and the Centre on long-term systemic transformation programmes cutting across domains. Since 2012, when Samagra was founded, we have worked with the Government of India and 7 state governments on 15+ large-scale systemic transformation projects in sectors like education, agriculture, skills, employment, and public service delivery. Over the last 5 years, we have also built strong GovTech and DataGov capabilities, now housed under the SamagraX umbrella. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of citizens through better governance. And this mission is

what fuels every goal we chase. Want to know more about Samagra?

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcPdI2SHwU&;t=4s&ab_channel=Samagra-TransformingGovernance" target="_blank">this masterclass by our Founder and CEO, Gaurav Goel

Our Tech Leadership

Rahul Kulkarni - Chief Technologist

Nitin Kashyap - Senior Vice President - Product

Utkarsh Vijay - Vice President

Sukhpreet Sekhon - Vice President

Suresh Unnikrishnan - Vice President - Engineering

Product Examples

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-03-31-leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-deliver-advisory-to-farmers/" target="_blank">Ama KrushAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CEo_R8XIhI" target="_blank">Nipun Lakshya App 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8m4VS8kqA" target="_blank">e-SAMWAD

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Krushak Odisha database - DataScience

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Sunbird cQube

https://saral.sunbird.org/" target="_blank">Sunbird SARAL

• Hybrid app development in Flutter, with Magento 2 hybrid ecommerce
• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React JS, Ionic and Amber.
• Proficiency with server language Java(Spring Framework)
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB, NoSQL, ElasticSearch and other database technologies.
• English language
• Experience: 3 to 5 years
• Education: software engineer or self-education. Speed, knowledge, and competencies are key factor.
• working days based on UAE calendar/min 20 days per month, working hours 9 AM – 6:30 PM/Ahmedabad time zone

• Translate business objectives and user needs into clearly written technical requirements
• Evaluate HR systems to identify points of improvement
• IT project management experience to implement improvements 
• Partner with internal stakeholders to develop technology solutions that help to streamline and automate (new) HR processes
• Implement process improvements and policy changes designed to improve efficiency and the user experience with the system
• Serve as the go-to subject matter expert for the system used in the organization (e.g., Workday, Oracle, SAP)
• Serve as a system administrator for HR systems and applications
• Ensuring security, end-user access, and data integrity across all HR platforms
• Work with HR, finance and IT to maintain and improve the HRIS, including configuration, end-user access, security, and system efficiency
• Supports critical system maintenance and operational tasks within the HRIS

• Owning responsibility for defining and driving operational/business goals.
• Managing Day-to-day operations of the ecommerce platform.
• Building on the existing business by adding new categories and product portfolio listings on the marketplaces.
• Product Portfolio management – Assisting the team with product sales and category and performance inputs to optimize the product portfolio from time to time.
• Overseeing the day-to-day marketplace eCommerce operations, customer service, updates, post listings, promotions, merchandising, maintenance and performance.
• Staying up-to-date with the promotional calendars and plans of eCommerce platforms. Driving category interventions.
• Supporting the eCommerce Manager on campaigns and programs.
• Supporting integrations of eCommerce platform with main website as well as backend systems and applications.
• Guiding internal teams and vendor teams on development & implementation issues.
• Coordinating with Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Operations on Day-to-day management of the eCommerce platform.
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What you need to have:

• Minimum 5 years of experience within an ecommerce operations role
• Experience handling ecommerce platforms, online sales and website content management
• Excellent communication and organizational skills in addition to project management experience
• Financial acumen- ability to reconcile accounts receivables with payments received from sales partners
• Ability to manage tasks simultaneously
• Experience working on Google and web analytics
• Experience evaluating and executing SEO strategies    

We are looking for an ideal candidate who will lead our marketing activities. The mission of an Assistant SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Manager is to maximize the volume of inbound organic traffic from search engines to our business websites. This will be accomplished through a combination of on-page and off-page techniques, including link-building, social media strategy, viral marketing, metadata sculpting, site speed optimization, content strategy, information architecture, and more.

As Assistant Manager, you are responsible to lead the marketing team and suggest them the best marketing techniques for social media and other digital media campaigns. You should grab the attention of customers and market the products and services.

If you have the ability to utilize the organizational resources optimally for the business promotion activities, we would like to meet you.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Reviewing and analyzing websites for areas that can be improved and optimized
• Preparing detailed strategy reports and Marketing Plans
• Identifying powerful keywords to drive the most valuable traffic
• Writing powerful calls to action to convert visitors
• Filling websites and other content with effective keywords
• Developing link-building strategies;
• Ensure that the website, promotional material, and marketing campaign strategy are updated regularly.
• Analyzing keywords and SEO techniques used by competitors
• Keeping updated on both white hat and black hat SEO strategies to avoid staying within search engine guidelines
• Build and execute social media strategy through competitive research, platform determination, benchmarking, and messaging and audience identification
• Develop, implement and manage the marketing strategy
• Designing and measuring the success of every marketing campaign.
• Stay up to date with the latest marketing practices and technologies.
• Collaborate with the Marketing, Sales and Product Development team Communicate with industry professionals and influencers via social media to create a strong network.
• Create content marketing campaigns to drive leads and subscribers Use SEO best practices to generate traffic to our site
• Keyword research for the Addition of service based webpages on the website
• Ensure uploading of webpages on the Website through the SEO team.
• Perform Lead analysis daily to closely work for the end user needs from the website and to create campaigns accordingly.
• Experience in Email Marketing tools like Mailchimp
• Ability to plan Email calendars and schedule emails as per the plan.
• Guide the designing and content team for Email design and content along with other design and content-based changes needed on the website.
• Manage the ORM of the brand and work on creating a positive image of the Brand online along with mitigating the negative reviews.
• Closely coordinate with cross-functional teams to keep the website updated.

Job requirements and qualifications:

• Demonstrated SEO experience of at least 8-10 years.
• Strategic Understanding of Social Media and its usage in Marketing
• Experience with Google's Keyword Tool
• The ability to work with back-end SEO elements such as .htaccess, robots.txt, metadata, site speed optimization, and related skills
• Proven success in link-building and viral strategies
• The ability to deploy an effective local and long-tail search strategy
• Experience in building inbound organic search traffic and improving SERPs
• Expertise in Google Analytics, Google Search Console, SEMRush, Ahref’s
• Ability to make SEO proposals
• Ability to perform SEO Audit

We are a nascent quantitative hedge fund led by an MIT PhD and Math Olympiad medallist, offering opportunities to grow with us as we build out the team. Our fund has  world class investors and big data experts as part of the GP,  top-notch ML experts as advisers to the fund, plus has equity funding to grow the team, license data and scale the data processing.

We are interested in researching and taking in live a variety of quantitative strategies based on historic and live market data, alternative datasets, social media data (both audio and video) and stock fundamental data.

You would join, and, if qualified, lead a growing team of data scientists and researchers, and be responsible for a complete lifecycle of quantitative strategy implementation and trading.

Requirements:

• Atleast 3 years of relevant ML experience
• Graduation date : 2018 and earlier
•   3-5 years of experience in high level Python programming.
• Master Degree (or Phd) in quantitative disciplines such as Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science in top universities.
•   Good knowledge of applied and theoretical statistics, linear algebra and machine learning techniques. 
•   Ability to leverage financial and statistical insights to research, explore and harness a large collection of quantitative strategies and financial datasets in order to build strong predictive models.
• Should take ownership for the research, design, development and implementation of the strategy development and effectively communicate with other team mates
•   Prior experience and good knowledge of lifecycle and pitfalls of algorithmic strategy development and modelling. 
•   Good practical knowledge in understanding financial statements, value investing, portfolio and risk management techniques.
•   A proven ability to lead and drive innovation to solve challenges and road blocks in project completion.
• A valid Github profile with some activity in it

Bonus to have:

•   Experience in storing and retrieving data from large and complex time series databases
•   Very good practical knowledge on time-series modelling and forecasting (ARIMA, ARCH and Stochastic modelling)
•   Prior experience in optimizing and back testing quantitative strategies, doing return and risk attribution, feature/factor evaluation. 
•   Knowledge of AWS/Cloud ecosystem is an added plus (EC2s, Lambda, EKS, Sagemaker etc.) 
•   Knowledge of REST APIs and data extracting and cleaning techniques 
•   Good to have experience in Pyspark or any other big data programming/parallel computing
•   Familiarity with derivatives, knowledge in multiple asset classes along with Equities.
•   Any progress towards CFA or FRM is a bonus
• Average tenure of atleast 1.5 years in a company