Key Account Manager

Skills

Data - AI / ML Engineer 

Full-Time   |   On-site, Kolkata   |   Immediate Joining   |   4+ years experience

ABOUT US 

Company Name: Freeflow ventures

We are a venture building and investment firm focused on emerging markets across India, the Middle East, and Africa. We work with early-stage startups -diagnosing gaps, structuring interventions, and preparing them for investor-readiness through a proprietary data and intelligence platform.

Our platform combines automated data verification, startup scoring, and structured workflow automation to bring consistency and credibility to early-stage investment decisions. We are at an active build and expansion phase, and this role sits at the core of that infrastructure.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Data - AI / ML Engineer who can own both the data pipelines that bring verified information into our platform and the intelligence models that turn that information into reliable startup scores.

This is a dual-responsibility role. You will be expected to build and maintain robust data infrastructure as well as develop, calibrate, and improve machine learning models. Both are equally important to the platform.

You will work closely with the Platform Owner and alongside a Backend Engineer who owns system integrations and workflow logic. Your work produces the scored intelligence output. The Backend Engineer's work connects that output to platform actions. The two roles are tightly interdependent and require close daily collaboration, especially in the first 30 days.

Note: You are the first technical hire on the platform team. The Backend Engineer joins the same week. Clear communication, well-defined handoff points, and shared documentation between the two of you are non-negotiable from Day 1.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Data Pipeline

• Build and maintain pipelines that collect, clean, and normalize data from multiple external sources into a consistent, usable format
• Design connector architecture that allows individual data sources to be added, swapped, or removed without rebuilding the entire pipeline
• Implement automated data quality checks that catch bad data before it reaches the scoring layer -anomaly detection, constraint enforcement, and schema validation
• Build an automated eligibility screening system that verifies whether a startup has sufficient verified data before assessment begins
• Ensure the pipeline is resilient -critical data signals must have backup sources so a single vendor failure does not disrupt platform output
• Structure data storage to support different regulatory requirements across multiple countries -data from different regions must be handled according to the rules of that region

AI and Machine Learning

• Audit the existing scoring engine before making any changes -understand what it does, how it was built, and what would be lost if it were modified
• Calibrate scoring models against real portfolio data so that scores are meaningful, consistent, and comparable across different startup types and stages
• Build confidence scoring logic that determines when the system is certain enough to act autonomously and when it should route to human review
• Ensure every model output is explainable -investors must be able to see exactly which data points drove a score, not just the final number
• Build a feedback loop so that real-world outcomes feed back into the model over time, making it progressively more accurate
• Maintain a structured data store of assessment outputs and outcomes that the model uses to improve

Working With the Backend Engineer

• Define a clear data contract at the handoff point -what data you produce, in what format, and what the Backend Engineer can expect to receive
• Collaborate on trigger logic -what score thresholds or confidence drops should fire what system actions
• Align on data schema requirements so that the APIs the Backend Engineer builds conform to the structure your pipeline produces
• Communicate blockers early -the pipeline and backend system are built simultaneously, so delays on one side directly affect the other
• Document everything you build so the Backend Engineer and Platform Owner can understand, debug, and extend it without depending on you for every question

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Skills are divided into two categories. Must Have means the role cannot function without it. Good to Have means it gives you an edge.

Skill

Priority

Data Engineering

Building and maintaining data pipelines from multiple sources

Must Have

Data normalization and schema design

Must Have

Automated data quality validation

Must Have

API integration across different source types

Must Have

Pipeline orchestration and scheduling

Must Have

Cloud infrastructure -storage, compute, and deployment

Must Have

Version control and code documentation

Must Have

AI and Machine Learning

Building and calibrating supervised machine learning models

Must Have

Model explainability -making model outputs traceable and interpretable

Must Have

Confidence scoring and threshold calibration

Must Have

Experiment tracking and model versioning

Must Have

Building feedback loops that improve models over time using real-world outcomes

Must Have

Natural language processing or document understanding

Good to Have

Vector databases and semantic search

Good to Have

Collaboration and Context

Ability to define clear data contracts and handoff points with backend engineers

Must Have

Clear written documentation of pipeline logic, model decisions, and failure modes

Must Have

Prior experience working in or with early-stage startups

Good to Have

Exposure to financial data, investment platforms, or data verification systems

Good to Have

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive compensation based on experience -discussed during the interview process
• Ownership of both the data and intelligence layers from Day 1 -this is not a support or maintenance role
• Direct access to the Platform Owner and Founder 
• Close collaboration with a Backend Engineer from Day 1 -the two roles are designed to work as a unit
• Work on a genuinely novel problem in an emerging market context
• On-site Kolkata with a small, high-accountability team
• Opportunity to scale the platform across multiple international markets

Job Description

We are building an institutional-grade, fully automated equity research and decision-support system for Indian equities (NSE/BSE).

This is a backend-first, audit-grade system designed to function like an automated Investment Committee.

This is NOT:

• A trading bot
• A dashboard project
• A scraping tool
• A basic ML demo

It is a production-grade automation platform with strict data integrity and governance.

Core Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated ingestion of official NSE/BSE filings and authorized data sources
• Build PDF download, hashing (SHA256), deduplication, and versioning pipelines
• Implement deterministic BUY / HOLD / SELL rule engines in Python
• Enforce evidence validation before any AI/LLM processing
• Build audit logs, provenance tracking, and replayable pipelines
• Develop fault-tolerant scheduling, retries, and monitoring
• Ensure zero manual data handling

Technical Stack

• Python (primary)
• PostgreSQL
• REST / Authorized APIs
• Automated schedulers
• LLM parsing tools (e.g., LlamaParse or equivalent)
• Cloud deployment (AWS/GCP preferred)

Requirements

• 6+ years of backend / systems engineering experience
• Strong experience in building automated data pipelines
• Experience with financial / regulatory / compliance systems preferred
• Proven ability to deliver production-grade systems
• Comfortable working independently or leading a small team

Evaluation Process

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a paid Proof-of-Concept phase before long-term engagement.

This is a long-term opportunity for engineers who want to build serious, defensible financial infrastructure.

Should be good if experience . else intern are most welcome first. unlimited incentives will be provided

• Advanced Linux / Unix support experience required.
• · Strong shell scripting and python programming skills for SRE related activities required.
• · Understanding on Veritas Cluster Service, Load Balancers, VMWare and Splunk required.
• · Knowledge on ITIL principles required.
• · Effective oral and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills to work well in a team environment required.
• · Strong organizational and coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and high-pressure situations for outage handling, management or resolution.
• · Be available for weekend work.

About KAFQA

At Kafqa, we are building an online global performing arts academy. For our students, we offer live classes conducted by experienced & expert artists. For our artists, we offer a bouquet of opportunities to monetize their skills including being an instructor at Kafqa. Our mission is to serve artists in their journey from their first steps in the art to success on the largest stages in the world.

Role

The role is a unique opportunity to be a part of the core team at KAFQA. The responsibilities of the role are per the below:

·         Understand the needs of employees across different segments across their lifecycle (discovery of Kafqa opportunities, application experience, interview experience, decision experience, onboarding, settling down, scaling with the organization, attrition & separation) & design best in class experiences always thinking technology first

·         Understand the needs of instructors separately and design best in class experiences for them in partnership with head of departments and other teams.

·         Meet compliances mandated by central & state governments.  

The role is based in Bangalore, India and reports directly to the Founder, CEO of KAFQA.

Experience, Qualifications & Person Type

The ideal candidate is someone who –

·         Has 5+ years of experience preferably in a HR role

·         Thinks first principle to re-imagine experiences for employees & challenge status                quo

·         Thinks technology first

·         Is comfortable prioritizing

·         Is creative and can innovate

·         Interested in the performing arts & preferably is a performer themselves

·         Is willing to fulfil all responsibilities above & go beyond as needed

·         Is a self-starter, operates with autonomy & can deal with ambiguity while being                    innovative & frugal

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogs (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram, etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M e-commerce stores built by Indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework, and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.).
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters, and view set completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class-Based Views to write the backend API.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modeling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a codebase that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. The ability to write RAW SQL queries and further database-level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading, and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands-on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of the existing codebase and have a good grasp of it.
2. Write clean, stable, and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for business needs.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development and unit testing of web applications including back-end (microservices), maintenance & level 3 support of the same
• Assist Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Tech Lead in project planning (provide estimates, risk analysis, requirements analysis, technical options)
• Software Architecture
• Involvement in full life cycle of projects (including requirement analysis and system design, development and support if required)
• Support and work collaboratively with teams across areas of design, development, quality assurance and operations
• Commit your knowledge and experience into team success
• A small amount of travel (when needed) to work with other offices
• Attend meetings to discuss and demonstrate solutions at both technical and business level

 REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                                                                                           

• 5+ years web application development experience
• 3+ years developing with Python
• 3+ years developing with C# and .NET Framework 4.x
• Experience with ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebAPI 2, LINQ, and WCF
• Dependency Injection and other common ASP.NET MVC design patterns
• Experience with API design and development using REST
• Experience with performance optimization
• Experience integrating security best practices into the SDLC
• Experience with object-oriented programming (OOP) and OOP patterns
• Experience with Git
• 1+ years of Agile development experience
• Experience manipulating and working with data in a variety of forms: csv, xml, json, structured and unstructured                                                                                                
• Experience with SQL database schema design and querying. Microsoft SQL Server and PostGreSQL are used and preferred.

DESIRABLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE                                           

• Knowledge of JIRA, Bamboo, Confluence, or BitBucket is a plus.
• Experience with a JavaScript MVVM library such as Web Components, knockout.js, Angular, React, etc. is a plus (Web Components and knockout.js are used and preferred)
• Experience with HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/ and AJAX is a plus
• SPA (Single Page Application) design and implementation is a plus
• Experience with any ORM such as Entity Framework or NHibernate is a plus (NHibernate is preferred)
• Experience with TypeScript is a plus
• Experience with MS Build is a plus
• Experience with CI/CD is a plus
• Experience with Object Mapping Frameworks (AutoMapper, etc) is a plus
• Understanding of OOD, DDD and TDD is a plus
• AWS-based development is a plus
• Knowledge of Flask is a plus.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Clever personality
• Strong spirit skills set: conflict resistant, self -motivated, result-oriented, responsible, honest, “open”, courageous

We are looking for a highly skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Full Stack Developer will responsible for developing and designing front end web architecture, ensuring the responsiveness of applications and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties.Full Stack Developer will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Developing front end website architecture.
• Designing user interactions on web pages.
• Developing back end website applications.
• Creating servers and databases for functionality.
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones.
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications.
• Working alongside graphic designers for web design features.
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 1-5 years of experience in programming
• Strong communication, conceptual thinking, typography skills and design skills
• Portfolio of work