Product Manager

About the Role

We are looking for a highly motivated DevOps Engineer with a strong background in cloud technologies, big data ecosystems, and software development lifecycles to lead cross-functional teams in delivering high-impact projects. The ideal candidate will combine excellent project management skills with technical acumen in GCP, DevOps, and Python-based applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment
• Create and maintain project documentation including detailed timelines, sprint boards, risk logs, and weekly status reports.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.
• Actively manage risks, scope changes, resource allocation, and project dependencies to ensure delivery without disruptions.
• Ensure compliance with QA processes and security/compliance standards throughout the SDLC.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and senior leadership to communicate progress, blockers, and key milestones.
• Provide mentorship and support to cross-functional team members to drive continuous improvement and team performance.
• Coordinate with clients and act as a key point of contact for requirement gathering, updates, and escalations.

Required Skills & Experience



Cloud & DevOps

• Proficient in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services: Compute, Storage, Networking, IAM.
• Hands-on experience with cloud deployments and infrastructure as code.
• Strong working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform (or similar tools).

Big Data & Data Engineering

• Experience with large-scale data processing using tools like PySpark, Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, and Spark Streaming (preferred).
• Proven experience in managing and optimizing big data pipelines and ensuring high performance.

Programming & Frameworks

• Strong proficiency in Python with experience in Django (REST APIs, ORM, deployment workflows).
• Familiarity with Git and version control best practices.
• Basic knowledge of Linux administration and shell scripting.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge or prior experience in the Media & Advertising domain.
• Experience in client-facing roles and handling stakeholder communications.
• Proven ability to manage technical teams (5–6 members).

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge cloud and data engineering projects
• Collaborate with a talented, fast-paced team
• Flexible work setup and culture of ownership

Job Description:

• Contribute to all phases of the development life-cycle of the students and train a dynamic team of students.
• Should possess strong knowledge of JavaScript, Typescript, Angular JS, React JS, Node JS, and DBMS along with a passion for Blockchain.
• Good to have knowledge of Rust and Solidity
• Excellent in any of the programming languages.
• Ready to upgrade the idle candidates. Should stay up-to-date with the latest development in the field.
• Facilitating the student's available resources such as curriculum, data, hardware, etc.
• Upgrading the students’ knowledge quality by taking them through the important functionalities of technologies.
• Sharply train the student's minds in analyzing the problem-solving ability of the students
• Train and guide the students to analyze the errors and design strategies to overcome them.
• Lead learning enhancement through developing assignment and assessment modules
• Integrate the use of advanced technology for upscale training quality, and develop plans to track and monitor the progress of students.
• Should be capable of completing the assigned module in the given time.
• Conduct regular research for further enhancement of curriculum on a regular basis.
• Should be able to communicate and connect with students in an effective way.
• Maintain individual and group training records
• Organize and promote courses
• Prepare teaching/course materials
• Proctor course examinations
• Develop and deliver programs of learning activities
• Check and assess (grade) students’ work and deliver feedback with course grades
• Apply new technologies to deliver courses and improve the learning experience for students.
• Keep personal IT skills and knowledge up to date

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

As a Software Engineer at Quince, you'll be responsible for designing and building scalable infrastructure and build applications to solve some very interesting problems in the logistics and finance tech space.

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect solutions on the cloud for various business problems with workflow efficiency and scale in mind.
• Be on the forefront with the business team to learn, understand, identify and translate function requirements into technical opportunities.
• End-to-end ownership - from scoping the requirements to the final delivery of the solution with keen eye to details and quality.
• Build and improve logistics components for this innovative M2C supply-chain model.
• Build and maintain scalable ETL data pipelines.

Requirements:

• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science or closely related subject.
• 1-5 years of experience in building software solutions.
• Good at data structures and their practical applications.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Java, Python.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining applications on cloud platforms (Ex: AWS, Google cloud).
• Proficiency with SQL and databases - relational and/or nosql (Snowflakes, AWS RedShift, etc).
• Experience with messaging middleware such as Kafka is good to have.

Our backend(NodeJS+PHP) team is passionate about technology, and we love building scalable web solutions keeping performance in mind.We're looking for a full stack developer that has experience developing a variety of Web Apps using the PHP and NodeJS stack.

Role + Responsibilities:

• Work with the team to design, develop and support scalable applications        
• Developing API’s(REST), designing the database schema and implement same in web frameworks like Laravel and Express along with ORM(including migration script and seeds data)    
• Very good end-to-end debugging skills in PHP and NodejS stack.    
• Write, test, and release production-ready code.        
• Work with our DevOps team to ensure continuous deployments of our applications

Person Specification and Qualifications:

• Experience developing highly scalable services and APIs(in NodejS and PHP frameworks)    
• Knowledge of data modelling and database performance using NoSQL/SQL    
• Strong experience with PHP framework like Laravel(PHP) and JS frameworks like Express, and other Framework In nodeJS.    
• Good knowledge in code versioning(git or svn)    
• Good knowledge in html templating, javascript, html and css.    
• Good experience with code deployment on server like ubuntu, linux.    
• Knowledge of SDK integration(social media sdk like Facebook, google, etc and cloud services sdk like AWS and Azure)    
• Familiarity developing SaaS applications in AWS/Azure cloud services.        
• In-depth knowledge of designing and developing software in distributed architectures for multi-tier applications

Skills:

• Ability to understand complex business goals, product & technical content, and Interaction Design in order to create engaging & effective experiences for our customers
• Thorough understanding of User Experience Design
• Collaboratively evolve the functionality of digital products along with Business & Technology teams
• Develop and manage user mapping as well as, User experience guidelines and acceptance criteria
• Ability to research, create and present product user journey maps, user task flows, interaction models, storyboards
• Can develop new approaches to complex design problems and convey these designs in the form of presentations, prototypes, and design specifications
• Excellent time-management, multi-tasking, and communication skills; and the ability to quickly prioritize tasks
• Must communicate clearly and effectively; strong analytical and oral communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the project to on-time and quality delivery as agreed by the client
• Be the part-time project manager
• Raise and negotiate issues and risks with senior management of the client
• Manage profitability of the project
• As the lead designer, he/she needs to guide team members well and facilitate their learning in the organization
• Stay up-to-date with latest achievements, best practices and trends in design
• Candidate should be willing to travel for on-site project executions for short/long durations in India and abroad
• Candidate should be open to temporary/permanent relocation within Think Designs studios in India

Deliverables:

• Due to his/her role as a Project Manager, a Lead UX Designer will be responsible for ensuring on-time and quality delivery of all deliverables for the project even though he/she may not actually work on all of them. Depending on client requirements, as a Lead designer, he/she will be responsible for delivering all or some of the following:
• Design Strategy based on User Mapping, User Stories, Business Needs, Technology inputs
• Wireframes
• Navigation Structures
• Story Boards
• Interactive Guidelines
• Visual Designs
• Prototypes
• PSD Files
• Specification Documentation

What Think Design is offering:

• The diversity & impact of our services and client engagements; and the unique way we’re structured as an organization along with a highly innovative work environment—will add immense value to your experience.
• Be part of an organization that is a unique blend of a highly collaborative teams working closely in studio environment, who’re are part of a Global Group (Havas Global).
• Opportunity to help make & gain experience on meaningful & measurable impact on a fast growing organization.

Please find the JD below.

2   One Order framework and APIs, BADI Implementation, Implicit & Explicit enhancements, User exits, Customer Exits ,BSP Component Enhancement, GeniL and BOL Programming

3   ABAP Programming skills,  RICEFW elements, OOPS ABAP, Debugging skill

4   Abap interface using Web services, Configurations in SOAMANAGER, Basic understanding of XML

5   CRM Web UI Designing and Developments, AET tool, SQVI query

6   UI Framework & Configuration including Business Roles, Navigation Bar Profiles, Navigation Links

7   Experience on Smart Forms & mail forms and Develop/enhance smart forms

8   Knowledge on SolMan is preferable

Interview date F2F only on 1^st August 2019