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Samagra X - Tech Architect

As Samagra expands into Digital Public Goods (DPGs), we’re looking for a Tech Architect to help us shape how open-source products and platforms can transform governments' worldwide function. As Samagra, we pride ourselves on being thoughtful and intentional about the impact that can be created through well-built products and platforms.

In this role, you’ll work with a mission-driven team on some of the world’s most complex governance problems, where technology will play a pivotal role. You’ll design the architecture of platforms, answering

questions like-

• How to deliver quality advisory services to 100mn farmers nationwide?
• How can standardised assessment/practice tools be enabled to ensure FLN1 in children?
• How to build the capacity of paramedical staff in the country?
• How can govt administrators in any domain monitor the progress of flagship programs?
• How to build an open commerce network to connect farmers to the best service providers?

Working at Samagra, you’ll be challenged and rewarded with impact at scale. We value excellence, collaboration, empathy, and high ownership mindset. The most successful candidates will exhibit work that reflects these values. We want you to enable every team member to do their best work. We expect you to have a solid technical background, excellent communication skills, a flare for open-source products/platforms and a commitment to making everyone feel included.

Your Impact

In this role, you’ll have tremendous opportunities to learn, collaborate and impact millions of citizens in India and abroad by transforming how governments function. As a Tech Architect, you will:

• Take Ownership of technical vision for a given DPG - Define standards, drive technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap with the DPG working groups
• Collaborate with the DPG development partner to translate technical vision into a deliverable roadmap and product design. Pitch in with code, code reviews, architectural reviews and technical mentoring
• Work closely with the DPG development partner at various milestones of the product delivery to ensure a high-quality product is delivered and the product meets all the requirements, including debuggability,
• supportability, availability, scalability, cost-efficiency and performance.
• Continuously develop and improve the interface between technology and the DPG community. Ensure
• that overall technical practices are scalable, constantly evaluating tech stacks to cater to evolving business needs.
• Participate in building ecosystems around DPG with the community - build platforms, plugins & apps.
• Ensure all internal processes & external services comply with security, privacy policies and regulations.
• Stay on top of digital trends, principles and paradigms and be able to relate how these trends will affect the DPG community.
• Engage with internal and external collaborators, and maintain relationships/partnerships with internal team members and adopters to develop strategies, goals and objectives consistent with the DPG
• strategy.

Skills required

• Solid technical skills - Strong experience in having architected, built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems; Worked on defining problem statements at all levels - RFCs to good first issues. Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices; Experience with enterprise software development built and delivered on both on-premise and Cloud is preferred; Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate tasks; Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Leadership - Mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and tactful stakeholder engagement, which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company/community. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful
• Collaboration and communication - with the geo-distributed teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Also, able to communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed.
• Planning & execution - Able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines; keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks

Qualifications

• B. tech/BE(CS/IT) & from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutes of India/Abroad or equivalent; M. tech/Ph.D. preferred
• 8+ years of software development experience with 4+ years contributing to software architecture
• Experience in architecting, designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience in contributing and actively participating in multiple open source projects.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in working with a developer ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Automate the development and test automation processes through CI/CD pipeline (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker containers).
• Experience in one of the following programming languages: Python/Javascript/Typescript/Java.
• Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MariaDB) and any other large scale distributed database systems.
• Have expertise in one or more areas like building and scaling web apps, Machine Learning, UI Engineering, Information Visualization, etc.

About Samagra

Samagra is a mission-driven governance consulting firm. We co-work with the bureaucratic leadership across states and the Centre on long-term systemic transformation programmes cutting across domains. Since 2012, when Samagra was founded, we have worked with the Government of India and 7 state governments on 15+ large-scale systemic transformation projects in sectors like education, agriculture, skills, employment, and public service delivery. Over the last 5 years, we have also built strong GovTech and DataGov capabilities, now housed under the SamagraX umbrella. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of citizens through better governance. And this mission is

what fuels every goal we chase. Want to know more about Samagra?

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcPdI2SHwU&;t=4s&ab_channel=Samagra-TransformingGovernance" target="_blank">this masterclass by our Founder and CEO, Gaurav Goel

Our Tech Leadership

Rahul Kulkarni - Chief Technologist

Nitin Kashyap - Senior Vice President - Product

Utkarsh Vijay - Vice President

Sukhpreet Sekhon - Vice President

Suresh Unnikrishnan - Vice President - Engineering

Product Examples

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-03-31-leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-deliver-advisory-to-farmers/" target="_blank">Ama KrushAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CEo_R8XIhI" target="_blank">Nipun Lakshya App 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8m4VS8kqA" target="_blank">e-SAMWAD

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Krushak Odisha database - DataScience

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Sunbird cQube

https://saral.sunbird.org/" target="_blank">Sunbird SARAL

A leading College at Coimbatore requires Male/ Female candidates for the post of Lecturer

Passionate, result-oriented Lecturer with good technical skills to coach the technical team. Strong Technical Expert across Web/Mobile Application Development.

Required Candidate profile

The person who is interested in Teaching

Communicate with Management to understand their training needs and ensure training programs align with organizational goals.

Strong Communication skills.

Job Description

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team-player. You will be a responsible developer helping our clients, either developing new products or enhancing products. You should be able to contemplate and communicate as much as possible!

Responsibilities

• Writing clean, maintainable, desired quality, desired performing code.
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements
• Coordinate cross-functionally to ensure project meets business objectives and compliance standards
• Support test and deployment of new products and features
• Participate in feature brainstorm, code reviews
• Explore cutting edge technologies and taking up PoC line up.

Qualifications

• Team player
• Passion to solve problems
• Constant learner
• A degree in Computer Science (or related field)
• 4-7 years of relevant work experience
• Able to code in JAVA (with Spring framework)
• Ability to organize, and prioritize work
• Good at Object Oriented Design, Database Design(SQL/NoSQL), and Microservices
• Exposure to UI framework (React/Angular/Vue/Next)
• Exposure with Agile software development methodologies
• Exposure to any one public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Exposure to cache, messaging systems, docker, API gateway

What we will not ask from you?

• Your current CTC, you'll be paid for what you deserve!
• If you had breaks in your career that's okay! We will not poke you on why you had your break blah blah...!
• Your notice period in current organization! If everything goes well, you let us know your joining date we will roll out the offer with joining the date as you say!

What's onboard for you as an employee?

• Empathy
• Generous package.
• Variable pay as low as possible (max 15% of your CTC)
• Medical Insurance (limited to spouse & kids) is not part of your CTC.
• Tax beneficial salary structure.
• Comprehensive leave policy
• Flexible Remote working
• Weekly Social Hour on working days
• Open-source Hour on working days
• Flat organization structure
• 15 days notice period (we wanted to keep it as same day exit! we would love to have you with us as long as possible.)

Next steps:

• Feel free to apply for this job if you like this JD.

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science, MCA or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience
• Strong Django and ReactJS experience
• Advanced knowledge of Python and relational databases
• Understanding of APIs, pagination, searching, sorting 
• Experience with building, modifying and extending API endpoints (REST or

GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.

• Creating high performance UI etc.
• Experience with SQL and NOSQL databases

• Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements

collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.

• Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and

influencing skills.

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience
• Not more than 15 year experience.
• Startup experience is a must. 

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week but with 4 hours a day overlapping with client timezone.  Typically clients are in California PST Timezone.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Java
J2ee
working experience with one or more clouds

Understanding of design architecture

Experience with Traditional databases and nosql databases

Sound in Algorithms,data structures and problem solving 

Good at coding and design