Principal Architect/Tech Lead

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

 

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

 

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

 

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

 

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

 

Cogoport Leadership

https://www.linkedin.com/in/purnendushekhar/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitabhshankar/

 

Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

 

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

 

For more insights about the company:  https://cogoport.com/about

 

Why Cogoport?

 

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

 

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

 

Areas of Impact for you

• Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

 

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
• Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
• Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
• Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
• Experience with Agile development.

                  

 

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

As a Technical Architect, you need to be

• Technology Expert
• Creative and self-driven
• Customer centric
• Visionary
• Comfortable operating in fast paced environment

You will closely work with Head of Product Engineering responsible for for the platform development, Chief Technology Officer driving the technology innovation, Software Development Leaders, Program Manager, SCRUM Masters, UX Designers

You will be responsible for

• Driving and defining the technical architecture of the Core SaaS platform
• Develop high-level technical specifications and design of the platform
• Define technical product roadmap to continuously enhance the platform.
• Communicate successfully all concepts and technical guidelines to development team
• Promotes and ensures use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools
• Bring in best of the class architectural practices in the platform

Your Qualifications

• 8 – 15 years of software product development experience, with majority of them is hands on experience developing in enterprise software product
• Experience in developing and hosting PaaS or SaaS based products/platform with hands on experience in multiple cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and so on
• Experience developing enterprise- grade software products that can perform, scale, and integrate into a broad enterprise ecosystem
• Can mentor train existing team members on aspects of architecture, design and explain, document and elaborate architecture and design changes
• Strong background in architectural principles, patterns and anti-patterns
• Must have contributed to technology tools evaluation and technical proof of concept applications
• Should have experience in multiple tech-stacks including Data Analytics tech-stacks as well.

CoreStack, an AI-powered multi-cloud governance solution, empowers enterprises to rapidly achieve Continuous and Autonomous Cloud Governance at Scale. CoreStack enables enterprises to realize outcomes such as 40% decrease in cloud costs and 50% increase in operational efficiencies by governing operations, security, cost, access, and resources. CoreStack also assures 100% compliance with standards such as ISO, FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, AWS CIS & Well Architected Framework (WAF). We work with many large global customers across multiple industries including Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Education, Telecommunications, Technology and Government.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Part of a Cloud Governance product team responsible for installing, configuring, automating and monitoring various Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
• Be at the forefront of Cloud technology, assisting a global list of customers that consume multiple cloud environments.
• Ensure availability of internal & customers' hosts and services thru monitoring, analysing metric trends, investigating alerts.
• Explore and implement a broad spectrum of open source technologies. Help the team/customer to resolve technical issues.
• Extremely customer focused, flexible to be available on-call for solving critical problems.
• Contribute towards the process improvement involving the Product deployments, Cloud Governance & Customer Success.

 

Skills Required

• Minimum 3+ Years of experience with a B.E/B.Tech
• Experience in managing Azure IaaS, PaaS services for customer production environments
• Well versed in DevOps technologies, automation, infrastructure orchestration, configuration management and CI/CD
• Experience in Linux and Windows Administration, server hardening and security compliance
• Web and Application Server technologies (e.g. Apache, Nginx, IIS)
• Good command in at least one scripting language (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Ruby, Python)
• Networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Experience in managing version control platforms (e.g. Git, SVN)

In partnership with a 1500 CR Conglomerate, we will be launching a combination of FinTech & Retail Marketplace focused on empowering Kirana Stores.  Formal registration, Business Plan finalization and  kick off  activities are work-in progress. We are looking for 15+ years experienced technology specialists for the role of Head of Engineering.

You will lead this new value stream help the platform scale up to servce over a 3 million user base in the next 3-5 years

 

Location ; Bangalore / Chennai 

Travel  : Would be required in the initial stages 

Compensation  - Industry standard (open for discussion)

You

• 9+ years experience developing highly scalable, distributed applications, products and services in Java or similar languages
• 3+ years of experience in team management, including hiring, building key projects and career management.
• Deep understanding of how distributed resilient software is built and deployed
• Entrepreneurial spirit, priding yourself on getting things done with a high level of quality
• Strong desire to work in an unstructured, fast moving startup environment
• Passionate Tech architect, retains narrow focus on research, system performance and scalability

Technology

Good knowledge of languages like Java, Python and web technologies (e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS)

Expertise in front end and backend JS frameworks (e.g React JS, Angular, Node.js,)

Experience working in Agile frameworks and project management tools (e.g. Atlassian, Git)

Knowledge of deployment of distributed RESTful search platforms (like Elastic or Solr)

Experience in designing hyperscale architecture

Exposure to Microservices, AI/ML and Bigdata

Worked on at least one 0-1 initiative preferably IT product firms

Hands on ready to code any time (candidates who are interested only in advisory model, please excuse)

Candidates with good exposure working with OR algorithms would be given preference

Reasonably networked to be able to attract tech talent and build a large Engineering team independently

- Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver software products that delight our customers and accelerates our business growth.
• Be a combination of technical hands-on software engineer and a leader who has the ability to influence, guide, and inspire those around you.
• Empower the team to achieve a high level of productivity, reliability and simplicity.
• Hire and retain a team of high-performing engineers and managers.
• Understand the market and our end customers.
• Stays current on leading industry trends.
• Conduct performance reviews, calibration sessions and feedback discussions for direct reports.

Job Title: Engineering Manager
Job Location: Chennai
Job Summary

The Engineering Org is looking for a proficient Engineering Manager to join a team that is building exciting
and futuristic Data Products at Condé Nast to enable both internal and external marketers to target
audiences in real time. As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the day-to-day execution of technical
and architectural decisions. EM will own engineering deliverables inclusive of solving dependencies
such as architecture, solutions, sequencing, and working with other engineering delivery teams.This role
is also responsible for driving innovation, prototyping, and recommending solutions. Above all, you will
influence how users interact with Conde Nast’s industry-leading journalism.
● Primary Responsibilities
● Manage a high performing team of Software and Data Engineers within the Data & ML
Engineering team part of Engineering Data Organization.
● Provide leadership and guidance to the team in Data Discovery, Data Ingestion, Transformation
and Storage
● Utilizing product mindset to build, scale and deploy holistic data products after successful
prototyping and drive their engineering implementation
● Provide technical coaching and lead direct reports and other members of adjacent support teams
to the highest level of performance..
● Evaluate performance of direct reports and offer career development guidance.
● Meeting hiring and retention targets of the team & building a high-performance culture
● Handle escalations from internal stakeholders and manage critical issues to resolution.
● Collaborate with Architects, Product Manager, Project Manager and other teams to deliver high
quality products.
● Identify recurring system and application issues and enable engineers to work with release teams,
infra teams, product development, vendors and other stakeholders in investigating and resolving
the cause.
● Required Skills
● 4+ years of managing Software Development teams, preferably in ML and Data
Engineering teams.
● 4+ years of Agile Software development practices
● 12+ years of Software Development experience.
● Excellent Problem Solving and System Design skill
● Hands on: Writing and Reviewing code primarily in Spark, Python and/or Java
● Hand on: Architect & Design end to end Data Pipeline (noSQL databases, Job Schedulers, Big
Data Development preferably on Databricks / Cloud)
● Experience with SOA & Microservice architecture
● Knowledge of Software Engineering best practices with experience on implementing CI/CD,
Log aggregation/Monitoring/alerting for production system
● Working Knowledge of cloud and devops skills (AWS will be preferred)
● Strong verbal and written communication skills.
● Experience in evaluating team member performance and offering career development
guidance.
● Experience in providing technical coaching to direct reports.
● Experience in architecting highly scalable products.
● Experience in collaborating with global stakeholder teams.
● Experience in working on highly available production systems.
● Strong knowledge of software release process and release pipeline.
About Condé Nast
CONDÉ NAST INDIA (DATA)
Over the years, Condé Nast successfully expanded and diversified into digital, TV, and social
platforms - in other words, a staggering amount of user data. Condé Nast made the right move to
invest heavily in understanding this data and formed a whole new Data team entirely dedicated to
data processing, engineering, analytics, and visualization. This team helps drive engagement, fuel
process innovation, further content enrichment, and increase market revenue. The Data team
aimed to create a company culture where data was the common language and facilitate an
environment where insights shared in real-time could improve performance.
The Global Data team operates out of Los Angeles, New York, Chennai, and London. The team at
Condé Nast Chennai works extensively with data to amplify its brands' digital capabilities and boost
online revenue. We are broadly divided into four groups, Data Intelligence, Data Engineering, Data
Science, and Operations (including Product and Marketing Ops, Client Services) along with Data
Strategy and monetization. The teams built capabilities and products to create data-driven solutions
for better audience engagement.
What we look forward to:
We want to welcome bright, new minds into our midst and work together to create diverse forms of
self-expression. At Condé Nast, we encourage the imaginative and celebrate the extraordinary. We
are a media company for the future, with a remarkable past. We are Condé Nast, and It Starts Here.

Key Responsibilities

• Primarily responsible for the design, development and testing of LTE features for small cell system being developed by Mavenir
• Software development (code & test) of their modules with no supervision. Ability to do high level design and review low-level design/code.
• Accurate estimation of their work.
• Participate in architecture discussions.
• Adherence to development process and quality metrics.

 

Job Requirements

 

• Good understanding of 5G,  LTE and/or UMTS standards.
• Knowledge of 3GPP NR, EUTRAN procedures.
• Knowledge on any of the protocols like RRC, MAC, RLC, LTE/NR L3/L2 protocol stacks.
• Knowledge of RRM, Tr069 interface, NETCONF, YANG.
• Experience of developing UNIX/Linux applications.
• Excellent knowledge of C, data structures and operating systems.
• Knowledge of Network virtualisation concepts will be a plus.
• Experience of any of the following would also be an advantage: IP Networks and Protocols, SCTP, MTP3, M3UA, SS7, SCCP, HNBAP, RUA, RANAP, S1AP, GTP
• Good knowledge of any of version control system like SVN, MKS, clearcase.
• Good team player with knowledge of Agile methodology will be a plus

 

Technical skills required: 

• 5+ years building enterprise systems 
• Worked on one or more large scale applications on Python Django
• Good understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and availability with an understanding of the CAP theorem and its implications for real-world distributed systems
• Understanding of distributed systems like Dynamo, HBase, various messaging and queuing systems and understanding of Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events, rate control, load distribution
• Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases and transactions Shrewd focus on latency and throughput of services
• In-depth understanding of concurrency, synchronization, NIO, memory allocation, and GC
• Experience with IaaS clouds like AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack etc. 
• Experience in working with Message Brokers and Application Containers
• Ability to detect fraud and risk mitigation

 

Responsibilities:

• Code reviews, ensuring that the code follows the best technical practices and design patterns
• Follow best technical practices, incorporate emerging solutions, and employ scalable designs that can be easily adopted
• Architect solutions by mapping customer business problems to end-to-end technology solutions
• Experience in working with Agile Methodology
• Regular monitoring and audits of the cloud infrastructure
• Managing System monitoring tools and developing processes for handling crisis situations
• Managing the development team and the support team. Setting processes that will increase the team’s efficiency
• Handling technical and managerial interviews for expansion of the team

 

Qualification and experience:

• B.E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S.
• 5+ years of experience  working as a full stack engineer with a track record of delivering scalable products
• FinTech experience with Prepaid payment instruments and UPI experience is a big plus
• Machine learning experience would be preferable

 

About Company : -

It is the 2018 Forbes Choice Award Winner and Galen Growth’s 2018 Most

Innovative Startup in Asia. It is a reliable & secure health-tech platform with a mission to

simplify access to healthcare by connecting millions of patients with licensed doctors, insurance, labs, and pharmacies in one mobile application.

 

Role : - Engineering Manager

Key Job Responsibilities:

● He/She is a responsive team player who can proactively contribute for building technical

strategies for applications and systems by promoting an understanding of the technology and business roadmap.

● He /she is someone who thrives in a fun, fast-paced, dynamic, startup-like environment.

● Work very closely with various business stakeholders to drive the execution of multiple

business plans and technologies.

● Work closely with Product, Design, and Marketing to conceive features, plan projects, and build roadmaps

● Prior experience with scalable Architecture managing team of minimum 5 engineers and

coaching, mentoring while maintaining a role with code development.

● Proven history of contributing to product strategy and shipping products with multi-functional teams.

● Highly involved in recruitment while building team also leading app development for both

platforms

● Promote and support company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity.

Minimum Qualification:

• Total of 9+ years experience
• Hands-on working on Java ( {Language understanding - Java 8, Lambdas, Collections,popular frameworks & libraries}, JVM, GC tuning, performance tuning)

• Worked on REST frameworks/libraries like Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, REST Express etc

• Worked on Relational data stores viz. MySQL, Oracle, or Postgres
• Worked on Non-relational data stores viz. Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase, MongoDB, etc
• Worked on caching infra viz. Redis, Memcached, Aerospike, Riak, etc
• Worked on Queueing infra viz. Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ etc

 

 

About Company:

ACKO General Insurance: Acko is India’s first online-only insurance company focused on independent general insurance with its entire operations offered through the digital platform. Being India’s first online-only insurtech player Acko plans to launch low-cost, small-ticket insurance products based on data analytics. Acko plans to create products and deliver opportunities in areas where there are gaps such as personalized insurance products based on user consumption behaviors. Distribution will be key for Acko as it competes with the large insurers which have massive reach. Acko will bring out multiple product lines, offer bespoke pricing and products catering to specific segments and create products for the internet economy. Low cost products for the rural sector will also be key over a period of time, delivered via technology. Website: https://www.acko.com/  

 

We are a Series C funded company and backed by a marquee set of investors like Mr. Binny Bansal, Amazon, Accel, SAIF, Catamaran etc. Our total funding till date is $143 Million. 

 

ounding Team:   

Varun Dua, Founder and CEO
Amit Upadhay, CTO (Ex- BrowserStack, CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Deepak Angrula, VP Engineering (Ex-CoverFox, Alumni IIT Bombay)
Vaibhav Shah, VP Engineering (Ex-Tesco, Ola , Alumni IIT Bombay)

 

Job Description:

Here’s what you'll do:

•  Lead and mentor a team of 6-10 talented engineers.
•  Develop, test, and deploy features across the entire stack alongside your teammates.
•  Responsible for hiring, mentoring and development of our team of engineers to grow a

high-performance engineering organization.

•  Collaborate with product & technology teams to deliver major initiatives that drive our

customer growth.

•  Guide engineering technical strategy and roadmaps.
•  Commitment to high code quality and delivery requirements.

Here's what we're looking for :

•  Minimally 8 years of work experience on large-scale and high-traffic projects, preferably in consumer-focused product startups.
•  Minimally 2 years of hands-on technical leadership or people management.
•  Hands on experience working with Web Back-end.
•  Strong hands on coding, design, and architectural skills.
•  Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change: excited about pushing out lots of code

quickly and constantly iterating.

•  Experience with hiring and building self-sustaining teams.
•  Thorough and methodical: you enjoy working with data and using it to make informed business decisions.
•  Empathetic and user-focused: you care deeply about the product experience, you understand users’ motivations and frustrations, and you genuinely want to help them.
•  Empathetic and employee-focused: you care deeply about the people in your team,helping them to achieve their professional goals, and enabling them to do the best work of their lives.