Lead Database Engineer

SENIOR PLATFORM ENGINEER

LOCATION: BENGALURU

It is a leading global sports activity platform with over 5 million

users across 5 countries, that connects players, venues, trainers, and

brands in one full stack ecosystem across 50+ sports. We operate at

the intersection of consumer technology, social networking,

marketplaces & real-world logistics and are building a scalable, multi-

vertical sports-tech venture with a focus on long-term sustainability

and global dominance.

Senior Platform Engineer

The Opportunity: This is a high-ownership, foundational role. You will set the direction for how we

run our systems — incident response, reliability, security, quality and cost — and build the systems

and practices.

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Infrastructure: Be the accountable owner of our Cloud Infra across AWS and GCP —

including ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, networking (VPC), and IAM services

● Observability & SLOs: Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets and build the metrics, logs, tracing,

and alerting that catch problems before customers do.

● Reliability engineering: Incident management & on-call. Own end to end incident process —

severity levels, paging, an incident bridge, and act as incident commander.

● Cost/FinOps: Own cloud cost — right-sizing, commitments (Savings Plans / RIs), cost-

allocation tagging, and resource lifecycle — balancing efficiency against performance.

● Security: Drive security best practice — least-privilege IAM, MFA/SSO, secrets management

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and rotation, network segmentation, detective controls, and encryption.

Requirements:

● 4 - 6 years experience with end-to-end ownership of production including platform,

infrastructure and SRE responsibilities

● Hands-on depth across AWS - compute, data stores, networking, and IAM, and fluency with

the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its trade-offs.

● Deep observability understanding — SLIs/SLOs/error budgets, metrics/logs/traces, and

alerting that pages on real user-facing symptoms

● Passion for sports and fitness

● Excitement about working in a fast-paced startup environment

What You’ll Do:

We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join us early, own critical systems, and help shape both the product and the engineering culture from day one.

Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Own end-to-end product development, from user experience to backend integration
• Build and scale a modern SPA using React, TypeScript, Vite, and Tailwind Design intuitive, high-trust UIs for finance workflows (payments, approvals, dashboards)
• Collaborate closely with backend systems written in Go via well-designed APIs
• Translate product requirements into clean, maintainable components and state models
• Optimize frontend performance, bundle size, and load times for complex dashboards
• Work directly with founders and design partners to iterate rapidly on product direction
• Establish frontend best practices around architecture, testing, and developer experience
• Contribute across the stack when needed, including API design and data modeling discussions.

What You’ll Need:

• Strong experience with Go in production systems
• Solid backend fundamentals: APIs, distributed systems, concurrency, and data modeling
• Hands-on experience with AWS, including deploying and operating production services
• Deep familiarity with Postgres, including schema design, indexing, and performance considerations
• Comfort working in early-stage environments with ambiguity, ownership, and rapid iteration
• Product mindset — you care about why you’re building something, not just how
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make pragmatic tradeoffs

Set Yourself Apart With:

• Experience with Tailwind or other utility-first CSS frameworks
• Familiarity with design systems and component libraries
• Experience building fintech or enterprise SaaS UIs
• Exposure to AI-powered UX (LLM-driven workflows, assistants, or automation)
• Prior experience as an early engineer or founder
• product engineering culture from the ground up.

Human Resources Associate – Pune (Male Candidate Only)

About the Role:

We’re hiring a dynamic HR Associate with experience in the Hospitality, QSR, or Hotel industry to join our team in Pune. The ideal candidate will support recruitment, payroll, and employee engagement while ensuring smooth HR operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end recruitment and campus hiring.
• Support payroll and statutory compliance.
• Plan and conduct employee engagement activities.
• Maintain accurate employee records and assist in HR processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field (MBA preferred).
• 01–02 years of HR experience in Hospitality, QSR, or Hotel sector.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Based in Pune.
• Male candidates only.

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Prior experience of about 6-10years

1 - Must have fair understanding of products like future, forward, options(call and put), bonds, swaps etc

2 - Must have fair understanding of mutual funds and NAV

3 - Should have good communication skill.

4 - Basic SQL

5 - Business analyst experience and should know about BRD.

6 - Good to have Knowledge of risk management in general.

Responsibilities:

Candidate will have to perform data analysis.

Candidate will have to speak with different risk engine team to identify the appropriate engine for given asset classes, and accordingly he has to do requirement analysis and testing.

Should have good product knowledge.

Should have good communication skill.

Position Responsibilities :

1. Prime focuses on installation, testing, and configuration for Oracle, ASM, backup/recovery, security, monitoring, maintenance, logging, HA, and DR setup.
2. Managing hundreds of Oracle databases using more innovative routines/tools to identify the opportunities for better security and availability 
3. Setup and manage Oracle OEM
4. Analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time
5. Bring standards across environments and products by developing SOPs.
6. Optimize day-to-day operations and bring efficiencies
7. Plan and implement industry best practices for the best utilization of available resources
8. Perform duties in compliance with Deltek, industry, and regulatory security and compliance standards as defined
9. Work with cross-functional teams to assist in application and hosting optimization
10. Respond effectively to high-priority issues and incidents when needed
11. Provide Technically expertise and training to internal and external teams for Oracle Administration
12. Work independently and with a global team on highly specialized projects
13. Provide on-call support as required
14. Perform duties in compliance with Deltek, industry, and regulatory security and compliance standards as defined.

Qualifications :

1. 10+ years of Oracle DBA experience, at least 4 of which are in 12c or newer with multitenancy in a virtualized environment, AWS is preferred
2. In-depth knowledge and extensive hands-on experience with Oracle, Grid, ASM, OEM, Fleet Management, RMAN, Data Guard, TDE, CMU, Patching, and other critical components of Oracle
3. In-depth knowledge of Pluggable Databases, Virtualize Platform, Linux OS environments, and operating system Internals
4. Thorough understanding of configuration options, configurable components, concepts, and technologies
5. Strong expertise and hands-on with installation, configuration, backup, and restoration of all data
6. Extensive experience in troubleshooting and maintaining 100+ database instances using a variety of tools
7. Experience with large-scale database management designs, best practices, and issues
8. Good experience with database scripting Shell/python scripting to manage effort-consuming tasks in a more innovative way
9. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
10. Excellent time management and prioritization skills with an ability to escalate concerns or questions
11. Data-driven solid analytical skills, ability to create reports and present decision-supporting data/patterns
12. A plus is knowledge and experience in OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Snowflake, and Rubrik.
13. Individuals will be working European hours to support Denmark. 
14. Perform duties in compliance with Deltek, industry, and regulatory security and compliance standards as defined.
15. Improves and contributes towards the team's delivery process and raises change requests appropriately. Can estimate the effort required and ensure priority & urgency are understood. Ensures appropriate monitoring is in place.
16. Displays good skills in executing and creating solutions for toil reduction and efficiency. Exercises abilities in troubleshooting, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
17. I can handle all incidents and lead incident response with appropriate communication. I take a systematic approach to problems and see them through to the conclusion. 
18. Deliver business value by improving functional/product knowledge by executing best practices and contributing ideas toward innovation.
19. Ability to exercise analytical and technical thinking across multiple areas of responsibility.
20. When delivering tasks, collaborating, and managing feedback, the sphere of influence influences the supervisor, peers, clients, and other teams. Decisions' impact affects a wide range of teams or areas of responsibility and facilitates the crafting and implementation of strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Writing clean and efficient codes for Android applications
• Monitoring the performance of live apps and work on optimizing them at the code level
• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks, rectifying bugs and enhancing application performance
• Performing unit and instrumentation tests on code
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and design new features
• Staying up to date with new mobile technology trends, applications, and protocols

Key Requirements:

• You have experience in publishing an application on the Google Play store
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to effectively integrate Android applications
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Familiarity with various testing tools
• You are a problem solver with good analytical skills

Skills: Java, Android SDK & NDK, MVVM/MVC/MVP

Roles & Responsibilities

Selected engineer's day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Maintaining UNIX user accounts and access managements,

• Good understanding of LDAP vs local IAM management.

• Setting up repositories and maintaining.

• Should be very comfortable with troubleshooting Linux-based systems on issues and failures with good grasp of the Linux command line

• Specialist knowledge in Unix Technologies – RedHat , SUSE Linux & SOLARIS.

• Good hands-on experience in parallel filesystems.

• Good understanding on basic networking technology e.g. TCPIP, ip multipathing, ip aggregation, DNS, DHCP etc.

• Comfortable exploring and testing new Open Source software systems should the need arise to solve particular problems

• Setting up and maintaining SUSE and Red hat Clusters with DRBD, Stonith and Coro sync

• Good knowledge in virtualisation/hypervisor technologies on various operating platforms e.g. VMWare, HPE Service Guard cluster

• Good understanding of the various enterprise technologies e.g. SAN, enterprise backup, enterprise monitoring etc

. • Good knowledge in handling NFS file systems and NFS servers

• Troubleshooting performance issues

• Shell, Power shell and python scripting

• Creating custom image based on the security requirements • Planning and executing security patches periodically

Education, Experience & other requirements

Ø Degree in Computer science, Information technology or any related discipline

Ø Minimum 4 - 5 years of experience into Unix server’s setup, administration, upgrading and support.

Ø Good verbal and written communication and able to manage key stakeholders i.e. project team, security, compliance and IT operations

Ø Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Meaningful experience working on large, complex systems.
• Ability to take extreme ownership over your work. Every day is a challenge to ensure you are performing to the expectations you and your team have agreed upon, both in regards to estimates and to the general process.
• Ability to identify with the goals of FullStack clients and dedicate yourself to delivering on the commitments you and your team make to them.
• An understanding of React Native best practices and a commitment to following them.
• Ability to work through new and difficult React Native issues and contribute to libraries as needed.
• Ability to create and maintain continuous integration and delivery of React Native applications.
• A positive mindset and can-do attitude.
• 2+ years of professional experience working with React Native.
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KaiOS is a mobile operating system for smart feature phones that stormed the scene to become the 3rd largest mobile OS globally (2nd in India ahead of iOS). We are on 100M+ devices in 100+ countries. We recently closed a Series B round with Cathay Innovation, Google and TCL.

What we are looking for:

• BE/B-Tech in Computer Science or related discipline
• 3+ years of overall commercial DevOps / infrastructure experience, cross-functional delivery-focused agile environment; previous experience as a software engineer and ability to see into and reason about the internals of an application a major plus
• Extensive experience designing, delivering and operating highly scalable resilient mission-critical backend services serving millions of users; experience operating and evolving multi-regional services a major plus
• Strong engineering skills; proficiency in programming languages
• Experience in Infrastructure-as-code tools, for example Terraform, CloudFormation
• Proven ability to execute on a technical and product roadmap
• Extensive experience with iterative development and delivery
• Extensive experience with observability for operating robust distributed systems – instrumentation, log shipping, alerting, etc.
• Extensive experience with test and deployment automation, CI / CD
• Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and tooling, such as Terraform
• Extensive experience with AWS, including services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, EMR, Redshift, Elasticsearch, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM, etc.
• Strong knowledge of backend and web technology; infrastructure experience with at-scale modern data technology a major plus
• Deep expertise in server-side security concerns and best practices
• Fluency with at least one programming language. We mainly use Golang, Python and JavaScript so far
• Outstanding analytical thinking, problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Requirements

Designation: DevOps Engineer

Location: Bangalore OR Hongkong

Experience: 4 to 7 Years

Notice period: 30 days or Less