Java Engineering Manager - Software Product Development

Key Responsibilities:

• Generate qualified leads in Mumbai and Bangalore.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships.
• Prepare and deliver product demos, proposals, and technical presentations.
• Coordinate with pre-sales/engineering teams for customized solutions.
• Follow up on proposals using CRM and convert to deals.
• Attend industry events, conferences, and site visits.
• Keep track of market trends, competitors, and pricing strategies.

Job Title: Senior Fullstack Engineer - Fintech

Location: Bangalore

Company: TIFIN Give

About Us:

TIFIN Give is an early growth-stage fintech company offering a modern, tech-driven Donor Advised Fund to empower charitable giving. We have a lean, hungry team building a feature-rich product and automated operations platform, through which we are servicing multiple enterprise clients. Our roadmap and deal pipeline is full to the bursting, and we’re looking for someone to join our team in this exciting stage. As we continue to scale, we’re looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to lead our engineering teams and drive the successful delivery of our ambitious product roadmap.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

• Grow at the Edge: We strive for personal growth by stepping out of our comfort zones and finding our genius zones with self-awareness and integrity. No excuses.
• Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth: We value transparency, communicating with radical candor, authenticity, and precision to create shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, we commit fully.
• I Win for Teamwin: We work within our genius zones to succeed, taking full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude, flying in formation to win together.

Role Overview:

Experienced Full Stack Developer with 8 years of hands-on expertise in designing, developing, and deploying web applications.

• Proficient in backend development using Python, with strong skills in frameworks such as Django and FastAPI.
• Skilled in frontend development using ReactJS, ensuring seamless user interfaces and responsive design.
• Skilled at SQL database management, with a focus on performance optimization and data integrity.
• Capable of contributing to system design and architecture discussions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Strong communicator with a track record of collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams and delivering high-quality solutions.
• Open to transitioning into Data Engineering roles leveraging strong SQL skills and understanding of data pipelines.
• Good debugging skills.

Key Skills:

• Backend Development: Extensive experience in Python-based backend development with Django and FastAPI frameworks. Proficient in building RESTful APIs, handling authentication, authorization, and data validation.
• Frontend Development: Skilled in frontend technologies, particularly ReactJS, for creating dynamic and responsive user interfaces. Familiar with state management libraries like Redux and context API.
• Database Management: Strong command over SQL for designing schemas, writing complex queries, and optimizing database performance. Experience with ORM frameworks like Django ORM.
• System Design: Understanding of system design principles, including scalability, performance optimization, and microservices architecture. Ability to contribute to architectural decisions and technical design discussions.
• Data Engineering: Open to roles in Data Engineering, with skills in SQL, data pipelines, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts.
• Communication: Effective communicator with experience in team collaboration, client interactions, and articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Proven ability to work in Agile development environments.

Note: Completely IC Role and Hands-on coding is mandatory.

Additional Skills (Good to Have):

• Experience with Next.js for server-side rendering and building React applications.
• Familiarity with Snowflake / Redshift for cloud-based data warehousing and analytics.
• Knowledge of data manipulation and analysis tools such as Pandas and NumPy.
• Exposure to Salesforce platform APIs and extensions or similar CRM functionalities.

Technical Proficiency:

• Backend: Python, Django, FastAPI, Flask, RESTful APIs, GraphQL
• Frontend: JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Design
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, ORM (Django ORM)
• Data Engineering: SQL, ETL Processes, Data Warehousing Concepts
• Tools & DevOps: Git, Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS), CI/CD pipelines, Agile methodologies

Professional Experience:

• Developed and maintained scalable web applications using Django and FastAPI, ensuring high performance and reliability.
• Designed and implemented frontend components and user interfaces using ReactJS, enhancing user experience and interactivity.
• Optimized SQL queries and database schema design to improve application performance and data integrity.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams in Agile environments to deliver features and meet project milestones.
• Open to transitioning into Data Engineering roles, leveraging SQL skills and understanding of data pipelines to contribute to data-driven solutions.

Compensation and Benefits Package:

• Competitive compensation with a discretionary annual bonus.
• Performance-linked variable compensation.
• Medical insurance.

Note on Location:

While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, this role is based out of Bangalore

TIFIN is an equal-opportunity workplace, and we value diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any discrimination.

• Interacting with clients, solving problems and making sure the deadlines are met
• Proactively assessing, clarifying and validating client needs on an ongoing basis
• Leading and participating in implementation of new initiatives and ideas
• Preparing regular reports of progress and forecasts to internal and external stakeholders
• Coordinating with all the departments within the company like Creative, Business Development, Accounts, Operations, etc
• Coordinating with vendors, agencies etc. for timely delivery

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA is an added advantage
• 1-2 years of experience from Edutech / Education Industry in a similar role
• Microsoft excel knowledge is must (vlook up, pivot table, data representation)
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong business acumen, ethics and high integrity
• High comfort level in using online software platforms
• Ability to multi-task
• A positive attitude and ability to work well within a team    

• Create and maintain optimal data pipeline architecture,
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.
• Author data services using a variety of programming languages
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
• Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and Azure ‘big data’ technologies.
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
• Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Keep our data separated and secure across national boundaries through multiple data centres and Azure regions.
• Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
• Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
• Work in an Agile environment with Scrum teams.
• Ensure data quality and help in achieving data governance.

• 2+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role
• Undergraduate degree required (Graduate degree preferred) in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
• Experience using the following software/tools:
• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools
• Experience with Azure cloud services: ADLS, ADF, ADLA, AAS
• Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases
• Understanding of ELT and ETL patterns and when to use each. Understanding of data models and transforming data into the models
• Experience building and optimizing ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures, and data sets
• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets
• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment

• Product development-oriented: leading the architecture and design of a multi-tenant, cloud-native platform that hosts the IoT and Analytics apps architecting integration engine with connectors to handle and consume structured and unstructured data from different sources (customers ERP systems, external meta-data, etc) designing frameworks to support Big Data Analytics and real-time actionability based on predictive ML models driving the development of company's IoT platform dashboard and mobile applications with support from UX consultant.
• Internal team-oriented: building and a mentoring team of software developers planning and managing project timelines towards meeting roadmap goals and customer deliverables driving the team towards a test-driven and documented codebase.
• Customer-facing: work with customer's technical team to understand requirements architect and draft solution proposals integrate with customers' existing systems.

Requirements:

• Customer experience-related software development projects.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of time-series (relational or NoSQL-based) databases.
• Experience in integrating multiple Big Data solutions and legacy database systems.
• Experience in designing high volume data chains, i.e. messaging queues, streaming, processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data for IoT eco-system.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise application frameworks like spring/apache software integration web services (SOAP/RESTful), ESB SDLC tools (Git, Automated Testing Frameworks) cloud platforms (Azure, AWS), and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in building Big Data, AI, Machine Learning analytics pipelines.
• Familiarity with security requirements in IoT space & wireless sensor networks is a plus.

• Design and Build cloud architecture/infrastructure
• Provision, maintain and administer MS Azure Cloud Environment
• Windows server administration.
• Implement and maintain cloud monitoring, auditing and network management functions.
• Optimize the processes for cloud-based data storage, backups and restores.
• Implement cloud security to protect data, applications, and infrastructure.
• Develop, maintain, and execute Configuration Management scripts.

• Experience in server hardening best practices
• Knowledge of special security arrangements like Network security, DoS Protection, OS firewall, etc
• Ability to work with software firewalls and web application firewalls
• Log management and replication to a central server
• Ability to architect a secure deployment in Azure/Aws cloud using the native abstractions and services provided by respective cloud service providers.
• Ability to conduct a self VAPT of the network and servers, so that the environments are better prepared for external audits by customers' info sec teams and/or auditors.
• Ability to use DevOps automation to setup environments from scratch and also patch them from time to time to handle the changes resulting out of various factors e.g. VAPT audits, customer requests
• Experience building solutions using MS Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of general networking concepts (e.g., DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls).
• Experience development & maintenance of a CI/CD system.
• In-depth knowledge of build and deployment automation technologies.
• An attitude and ability to take ownership and deliver a high-quality product, on time.
• Experience of implementing DevOps
• Experience in DevOps Architectural decisions, tools selection, best practices.
• Constant research and learning on new tools and technologies in DevOps space.