Linux Engineer (L3)

Branch Overview

Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. With offices in the United States, Nigeria, Kenya, and India, Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company that uses the power of data science to reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. We believe that everyone everywhere deserves fair financial access. The rapid spread of smartphones presents an opportunity for the world’s emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility. 

Branch’s mission-driven team is led by the founder and former CEO of Kiva.org. The company presents a rich opportunity for our team members to drive meaningful growth in rapidly evolving and changing markets. In 2019, Branch announced its Series C and has garnered more than $100M in funding with investments from leading Silicon Valley firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Trinity Capital, Foundation Capital, Visa, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive working environment where human beings of all backgrounds can thrive. 

Job Overview

Branch is seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer to own parts of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps operations. In this role, you will lead by example, and design, deploy, and optimize our AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring seamless orchestration of workloads across Kubernetes and serverless environments like AWS Lambda.

You will play a pivotal role in automating processes, enhancing system reliability, and driving the adoption of DevOps best practices. Collaborating closely with our Engineering, Product, and Data teams, you’ll contribute to scaling our infrastructure and supporting our rapid growth. This position offers a unique opportunity to refine your technical expertise in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the architecture, design, and scaling of various parts of our cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring security, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Optimize Kubernetes clusters, including advanced scheduling, networking, and security enhancements to support mission-critical workloads
• Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines, incorporating automation, canary deployments, and rollback strategies for seamless releases
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions to ensure proactive issue detection and system performance tuning at scale
• Establish and enforce security best practices, including IAM governance, secret management, and compliance frameworks
• Be the go-to expert for multiple infrastructure components, providing technical leadership and driving improvements across interconnected systems
• Lead large-scale projects spanning multiple quarters, defining roadmaps, tracking progress, and ensuring timely execution with minimal supervision
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams, including ML, Data, and Product, to align infrastructure solutions with business and engineering goals
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and best practices
• Set and refine DevOps standards, driving automation, scalability, and system reliability across the organization

Qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a similar role, with expertise in designing and managing large-scale cloud infrastructure
• Experience working on software product development, with proficiency in a mainstream stack.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and VPC networking
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code, including best practices for scaling and managing cloud resources
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster provisioning, networking, security hardening, and performance optimization
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go, with experience integrating APIs and optimizing workflows
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or ArgoCD
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch
• Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM governance, role-based access control (RBAC), and compliance frameworks like SOC2 or ISO 27001
• Proven ability to lead and mentor junior engineers while fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cultures, functions, and time zones in a globally distributed team

Benefits of Joining

• Be part of a mission-driven, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment that fosters innovation and impact
• Receive a competitive salary and equity package, reflecting your value and contributions
• Thrive in a collaborative and flat company culture that encourages open communication and idea-sharing
• Enjoy the flexibility of a remote-first work setup, with opportunities for occasional in-person collaboration
• Benefit from fully-paid Health Insurance to support your well-being
• Work-life balance is not a myth. Take advantage of paid time off, including personal leave, bereavement leave, and sick leave
• Access fully paid parental leave, with 6 months of maternity leave and 3 months of paternity leave
• Leverage annual professional development budget to upskill and advance your career
• Participate in discretionary trips to our offices around the globe, supported by global travel medical insurance
• Enjoy team meals and social events, both virtual and in-person, to connect and bond with colleagues

About us:

Pi - India’s 1st SuperMoney App, is an AI-native Fintech startup building ML platforms for financial advisory and wealth management. Founded by a former Investment Banker (IIT/IIM/ CFA®) with over a decade of experience.

We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers who are passionate about developing world-class ML platforms. You will be part of the Core Founding team that lays the foundation for a Unicorn journey. You'll join a visionary, funded startup on the ground floor and get to build it up one conversation at a time.

Qualifications:

• Overall experience of 4 to 7 years in ML
• B.Tech/BE from top-tier colleges (IIT, NIT, IIIT)

Requirements:

• Applied GenAI expertise in implementing cutting-edge LLMs and diverse generative models, specializing in transformers and GPT models.
• Demonstrated proficiency across various modalities, showcasing a dynamic skill set for innovative solutions.
• Expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a comprehensive understanding of the entire stack involved in designing, training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models, particularly large language models.
• Deep understanding of the entire stack when it comes to designing, training, evaluating, and deploying ML models. Successfully collected a new giant dataset and played a critical role in shipping a new ML product that required custom components.
• Extensive experience in designing and building intelligent agents, leveraging AI techniques to create autonomous and adaptive systems for various applications.
• Proficient in writing distributed ML infrastructure, debugging and fixing hard-to-find bugs in ML models, and owning production-grade projects from start to finish.
• Experience with Deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow. , Jax, and Keras.
• Proficient in writing GPU kernels using CUDA .
• Experience with AWS SageMaker and the AWS Machine Learning suite of tools.
• Developed novel techniques for ML model measurement and mitigation.
• Proficient in Apache Kafka for seamless data streaming, Apache Spark for large-scale batch processing, and Apache Airflow for efficient orchestration.
• Demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes-based workflows, specifically Kubeflow, for scalable and portable machine learning and data processing deployments, enhancing pipeline reliability and performance.
• Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, and Vector databases.
• Experience with analytics.
• Proficient in Kubernetes, Python, Github, Huggingface, R(for Analytics)
• Experience in mentoring and growing engineers.

Additional Benefits:

Competitive compensation along with ESOPs of a path-breaking Fintech startup

Company Profile

Jamboree is the oldest institute in India and the best of its kind, which offers comprehensive classroom and online preparation programs for GMAT®, GRE®, SAT®, ACT®, TOEFL™, and IELTS™. Jamboree has 39 centers in 22 cities of 2 countries including India and Nepal. Each center follows a uniform curriculum and has outstanding faculty, all of whom are trained at our head office. Each center offers the same teaching standards and syllabus.

Position - Counselor

Location - Southern Avenue - Kolkata

Experience -0 -5yrs

Job description

- Generating walkins through cold calls

-Counseling the students for the Test Prep Programs like GMAT, GRE, SAT, IELTS AND TOEFL.

-Handling enquiries and getting the enrollments done

-Achieving monthly sales targets, cold calling/ follow up.

-Work Schedule: 6 days a week (including weekends), 1 fixed weekly off on weekdays

- Timings - 11am to 8pm on weekdays and 10am to 8pm on weekends.

Qualification: CA Qualification

Location: Mumbai CST

Language: Marathi

Exper: 2 minimum

Tentative Roles and Responsibilities -

• Understanding the data requirements of each desk
• Gathering elementary level Master data by visiting each of the 15 desks
• Assess the data points of information flow in Supply Chain Management Application and mapping it with the data points of the integrated financial management system
• Assess the gathered data for optimizing the information flow in the department
• Assess the integration points and workflows of Financial Institute with other entities
• Preparation of report formats for each desk
• Review and monitor the development of key financial modules for claim settlement, reimbursements, proforma accounts, budgeting and expenditure, accounts and bookkeeping, purchase management and infrastructure and administration
• Ensuring implementation of Accounting Management related Services and coordination with appointed CA firm for its completion
• Co-ordinate with different stakeholders to appraise issues at their end, which may lead to delay in the project, suggest solutions to remove the bottlenecks
• Support in reviewing, monitoring, and management of performance and conformance to the vendor's SLA
• Develop training plans and managing the training phases for the users on the functions and operations of the new application
• Drive change management during the transition phase
• Identifying key risk areas and mitigation and management of risks
• Providing technical and project management support during implementation and post-implementation

Job Role:

• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms.

• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.

• Maintain and write clean code to ensure the product is of the highest quality.