ML Engineer

Location: Chennai (Hybrid)

Commitment: Minimum 2 Years (Excluding 3 months of Probation)

Experience Level: Fresher / Entry Level

Job Overview:

We are looking for a skilled and versatile System Administrator with strong expertise in Windows and Linux environments, along with working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, automation, and AI/ML systems.

The ideal candidate should be capable of handling enterprise IT infrastructure, supporting multi-cloud environments, and contributing to AI/ML deployment and integration activities. Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with technical and client-facing teams are essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and maintain Windows and Linux server environments ensuring stability, performance, and security.
• Support deployment, configuration, and administration of IT infrastructure components across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability of services.
• Work with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Assist in implementation of security solutions including IAM, firewalls, endpoint protection, and SIEM tools.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Python, PowerShell, or JavaScript.
• Support deployment and integration of AI/ML models into production environments.
• Collaborate with engineering and development teams to optimize infrastructure and application performance.
• Participate in technical discussions, documentation, and client support activities when required.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux system administration.
• Good understanding of networking, servers, and cloud fundamentals.
• Experience or exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or JavaScript.
• Basic understanding of cybersecurity principles and system hardening.
• Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and deployment workflows is an advantage.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with virtualization and containerization (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to MLOps concepts and model deployment workflows.
• Understanding of monitoring tools and logging systems.
• Experience working in hybrid or enterprise IT environments.

What We Offer:

• Exposure to enterprise-level infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Opportunity to work on real-world AI/ML integration projects.
• Structured career growth into Cloud, DevOps, Security, or AI/ML engineering roles.
• Collaborative work environment with hands-on learning opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and long-term growth path.

Who Should Apply:

• Freshers or candidates with up to 2 years of experience.
• Candidates passionate about system administration, cloud computing, and AI/ML.
• Individuals eager to work in infrastructure-heavy, production environments.
• Strong communicators who can work in team-oriented and client-facing roles.

We seek a highly skilled and experienced Ruby on Rails Development Team Lead/Architect to join our dynamic team at Uphance. The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in leading and architecting RoR projects, focusing on building scalable, high-quality applications. This role requires a combination of technical leadership, mentorship, and a strong commitment to best practices in software development.

Job Type: Contract/Remote/Full-Time/Long-term

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-quality Ruby on Rails applications that meet our high-quality standards.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby code.
• Utilise your expertise in Ruby on Rails to enhance the performance and reliability of our platform.
• Set the technical direction for the existing RoR project, including system architecture and technology stack decisions.
• Guide and mentor team members to enhance their technical skills and understanding of RoR best practices.
• Conduct code reviews to maintain high coding standards and ensure adherence to best practices.
• Optimise application performance, focusing on ActiveRecord queries and overall architecture.
• Tackle complex technical challenges and provide efficient solutions, particularly when specifications are unclear or incomplete.
• Establish and enforce testing protocols; write and guide the team in writing effective tests.
• Define and ensure consistent adherence to best practices, particularly in the context of large applications.
• Manage the development process using Agile methodologies, possibly acting as a Scrum Master if required.
• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to meet project requirements and timelines.

Technical Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, HTML, and JavaScript (6+ years)
• Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails and familiarity with its best practices
• Proven track record of technical leadership and team management
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to address issues with incomplete specifications
• Proficiency in performance optimisation and software testing
• Experience with Agile development and Scrum practices
• Excellent mentoring and communication skills
• Experience with large-scale application development
• Application performance monitoring/tuning

General Requirements:

• Availability to work during the IST working hours.
• High-speed Internet and the ability to join technical video meetings during business hours.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to work as part of multi-functional teams.
• Ability to collaborate and be a team player.

Why Uphance?

• Engage in Innovative Projects: Immerse yourself in cutting-edge projects that not only test your skills but also encourage the exploration of new design realms.
• AI-Integrated Challenges: Take on projects infused with AI, pushing the boundaries of your abilities and allowing for exploration in uncharted territories of software design and development.
• Flexible Work Environment: Whether you embrace the digital nomad lifestyle or prefer the comfort of your own space, Uphance provides the freedom to design and create from any corner of the globe.
• Inclusive Team Environment: Join a dynamic, international, and inclusive team that values and celebrates diverse ideas.
• Collaborative Team Dynamics: Become a part of a supportive and motivated team that shares in the celebration of collective successes.
• Recognition and Appreciation: Your accomplishments will be acknowledged and applauded regularly in our Recognition Rally.

Compensation:

Salary Range: INR 24 LPA to INR 32 LPA (Salary is not a constraint for the right candidate)

At Uphance, we value innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to lead a group of talented RoR developers, contribute to exciting projects, and play a key role in our company's success. If you are passionate about Ruby on Rails and thrive in a leadership role, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and follow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/uphance !

### Responsibilities:

* Collaborative Development:

 - Work closely with Product, UX/UI, and Backend teams to design, build and extend consumer facing products, platforms, and features.

* Reusable Components:

 - Develop reusable iOS software components for our platform, ensuring modularity and maintainability.

* Continuous Integration and Delivery:

 - Collaborate with QA to implement CI/CD pipelines for automated and manual testing, ensuring app releases maintain high standards.

* Performance Monitoring:

 - Monitor the performance of live apps, continuously improving code quality and user experience.

* Innovation and Evaluation:

 - Stay updated with new mobile methodologies and technologies, evaluating their potential integration into our development process.

### Requirements:

* Proven Experience:

 - Demonstrated experience in developing mobile applications, specifically on the iOS platform using Swift.

* Modern Development Practices:

 - Up-to-date knowledge of modern iOS programming paradigms and experience with native app development.

* API and SDK Expertise:

 - Experience in API design, SDK architecture, and the mobile software lifecycle development practices.

* UX/UI Design:

 - Strong exposure to UX/UI design with experience in creating intuitive apps with pixel-perfect interfaces.

* Computer Science Fundamentals:

 - Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.

* Methodologies:

 - Familiarity with SDLC and Agile methodologies.

* Startup Experience:

 - Prior experience working in a startup environment is a plus.

Who we are:

Stanza Living is India’s largest and fastest growing tech-enabled, managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India.

We have a full-stack business model that focuses on design, development and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the young consumers’ lifestyle. From smartly-planned

residences, host of amenities and services for hassle-free living to exclusive community engagement programmes – everything is seamlessly integrated through technology to ensure the highest consumer delight.

Today, we are:

• India’s largest managed accommodation company with over 50,000 beds under management across 24+ cities

• Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors – Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners

• Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn

• LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2022

The opportunity: Job Responsibilities:

• Perform data analysis on large volumes of data to identify trends and/or data processing rules

• Team player of core analytics team.

• Responsible for weekly and monthly Sales/Marketing Reports on Gross and Net basis and other adhoc reports.

• Generating reports on daily basis at all stages ·

• Analyze the data to come out with insights on what leads to better conversions, student preferences, role on various

investments and channels, optimizing the spend etc.

• Prepare reports and dashboard for various business functions to keep track of important business metrics.

• Elicit and document requirements at various levels including Business, Logical and Physical/Technical

Skill Sets

• Good hands-on Advanced Excel & SQL.

• Has extensively worked on live Dashboards, reporting, data manipulation and making flat tables in SQL

• Knowledge in Python/R

• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret data

• Natural curiosity and self-drive to understand the broader business in order to provide the appropriate reporting support

• Extremely high ownership, self-starter and work in a constantly-changing and fast-growing environment

• Establish collaborative and trusting relationships with the business’s key internal leaders and stakeholders in order to ensure that there is a free flow of ideas and information across the business

• First principle thinking and strong problem solving

What Can You Expect:

• A phenomenal work environment, with extremely high ownership and growth opportunities

• Opportunity to shape a potential unicorn

• Quick iterations and deployments - fail-fast attitude

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies

• Access to a world-class mentorship network

• Work with data science teams ,development teams and product managers to ideate
• software solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software .
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
• Capable to handle the individual module / Project

• 2-5 years of relevant experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing Web based,desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery etc).
•  Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. Java, Python,C#) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
• Experience in React.js .
• Experience in Python Django Framework .
• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL,Postgresql, MongoDB), web servers (e.g.Apache) and UI/UX design .
• Familiarity with Cloud services like AWS, GCP.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind

QA Engineer

StyleCracker is the most innovative fashion tech platform in the country. With a vision to make India stylish, we have developed the StyleCracker Box that combines leading technology and first hand stylist experience to curate highly personalised looks for every unique customer.

We're looking to build upon our solid foundation and develop an unmatched solution that can truly help us work towards our mission.

• Responsible for the quality of product visible to millions of users.
• Prepare proper documentation for test cases, release notes, etc.
• Keep track of bugs and prioritize those in coordination with Product Managers.
• Write and execute detailed test cases for upcoming features and ensure customer requirements and development is closely aligned.
• Contribute ideas to improve/develop our QA processes and best practices based on your extensive experience.
• Troubleshoot application issues and coordinate issue resolution with developers, PMs and internal teams.
• Ensure that software functionality is implemented with a focus on code optimization and organization.

• Excellent understanding of software development life cycle.
• Should be strong in writing use cases.
• Strong understanding of determining the cause of bugs.
• Excellent knowledge of API responses, statuses, etc.
• Excellent understanding of load time optimization, latency, etc.
• Hands on experience with performance measuring tools like jMeter, Postman, etc.
• Experience with using the latest engineering tools (eg. Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Git/Perforce).
• Excellent team orientation and communication skills.
• Good knowledge of frontend and backend technologies.
• Knowledge of automation testing tools such as Selenium.
• Experience working in agile methodology.
• Experience with API automation testing.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, manage workload and consistently deliver results.
• Understanding of the different types of testing between UAT, Security and Performance.
• Ability to generate benchmarks by comparing similar products / services.

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science or a related field.
• 2 – 3 years experience as a QA engineer on native mobile (android and ios) and web applications.

1.Demonstrating the product features to new customer (Online or Onsite)

2.Product show cases to client team during Implementation or after GoLive (after releasing the feature in Live).

3.Preparation of Business Case Document & coordinating with client or vendor team to understand the business objective or business need

4.Preparation of Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD) and Software Requirement Specification (SRS) along with sign-off from client team.

5.Designing Wire Frames & Prototype Documents along with sign-off from client team.

6.Regular follow-ups on any pending sign-off’s from stakeholders.

7.Regular follow-ups with Dev Team to complete the pending requirements.

8.Responsible for preparation of Use Case Document in collaboration with Testing team

9.Follow-up with client on further clarifications on requirements along with any additional information.

10.Scheduling the meetings with Client & Dev team for any technical clarifications

11.Responsible to maintain Requirements Tracker & ensure updating the same on daily basis or Weekly basis for project status reporting to Management

12.Responsible to maintain Work Tracker on BRD, FSD, Prototype or any other document & ensure updating the same on daily basis or Weekly basis for status reporting to Management

13.Validating the requirements as per BRD, SRS, FSD or Prototype or any other business document & ensure the readiness of the system.

14.Responsible for requirements verification – Functional or Regression Testing (if necessary)

15.Preparation of Release Notes & sharing the same with Client.

16.Handing over the user manuals

17.Regular follow-ups with Dev Team on pending tickets or issues raised by Client team.

18.Answering Request for Proposal (RFP) & Request for Information (RFI).

19.Preparation of Solution Approaches (applicable for New & Maintenance projects), Proposal Document (Applicable for Maintenance projects).

20.Preparation of Business Presentations (Power-Point Presentations) or Project Status Meeting presentations.

21.Preparation of Brochures

22.Responsible to answer Magazine or Interview Questions shared by Media