Product Manager

About Digit88 

Digit88 empowers digital transformation for innovative and high growth B2B and B2C SaaS companies as their trusted offshore software product engineering partner! 

We are a lean mid-stage software company, with a team of 75+ fantastic technologists, backed by executives with deep understanding of and extensive experience in consumer and enterprise product development across large corporations and startups. We build highly efficient and effective engineering teams that solve real and complex problems for our partners. 

With more than 50+ years of collective experience in areas ranging from B2B and B2C SaaS, web and mobile apps, e-commerce platforms and solutions, custom enterprise SaaS platforms and domains spread across Conversational AI, Chatbots, IoT, Health-tech, ESG/Energy Analytics, Data Engineering, the founding team thrives in a fast paced and challenging environment that allows us to showcase our best. 

The Vision: To be the most trusted technology partner to innovative software product companies world-wide

The Opportunity: 

As the Data Science Lead, you will own and drive the company's data initiatives, managing a team of data scientists, and ensuring the

As a Data Scientist II, you will be part of the Product Risk Operations team that owns the development of AI-powered technology that helps our clients make communities safer and more resilient. Our technology helps our customers in reducing carbon emissions, reducing infrastructure risk and avoiding fatalities, a fact that we pride ourselves in.

As a part of the Risk Operations team, you will be working on a wide range of activities related to end-to-end Machine Learning (ML) deployments, research and development of ML product features to support internal and external stakeholders.  This is a great role for someone who enjoys variety and is also looking to expand their skill set in a structured fashion.

What You’ll Do

• Become a subject matter expert on products, including understanding how AI can be used in the utilities industry to enable our clients desired outcomes.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, design experiments and deploy repeatable and scalable machine learning solutions that drive business impact.
• Lead design of experiments and hypothesis tests related to machine learning product features development. 
• Lead design, implementation, and deployment of machine learning models to support existing as well as new customers.
• Communicate findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through clear visual presentations.
• Monitor and analyze machine learning model performance and data accuracy.
• Mentor junior staff members.
• Stay current with best practices in data science, machine learning and AI.

Who You Are

• 3-5 years of experience building and deploying machine learning models
• Master’s or PHD in statistics, mathematics, computer science or another quantitative field
• Strong problem solving skills with emphasis on product development.
• Well versed in programming languages such as R or Python with experience using libraries such as pandas, scikit-learn, tensor flow .
• Experience with SQL and relational databases for data extraction and manipulation.
• Experience using a variety of Machine Learning techniques for Predictive Modeling, Classification, Natural Language Processing (including Large Language Models), Content Recommendation Systems, Time Series Techniques 
• Passionate about being up-to-date with the latest developments in Machine Learning 
• Strong organizational, time management, and communication skills
• High degree of accountability
• Utility, Infrastructure or Energy related field experience is a plus

Benefits/Culture @ Digit88: 

• Comprehensive Insurance (Life, Health, Accident) 
• Flexible Work Model 
• Accelerated learning & non-linear growth 
• Flat organisation structure driven by ownership and accountability. 
• Opportunity to own and be a part of some of the most innovative and promising AI/SaaS product companies in North America and around the world. 
• Accomplished Global Peers - Working with some of the best engineers/professionals globally from the likes of Apple, Amazon, IBM Research, Adobe and other innovative product companies 
• Ability to make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational AI, Energy/Utilities, ESG, HealthTech, IoT, PLM and more. 

You will work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenges. 

This is the right time to join us and partner in our growth!

Remote position

Full-stack developer | .NET Core + Angular

Are you...

• Interested in working at a successful, well-funded scale-up where every team member can make a huge contribution?
• Keen to make software that people will use every single day to make their lives easier?
• Excited to work on greenfield projects with responsibility and independence?
• Ready to develop and use your skills across our frontend, backend and mobile offerings?
• Meticulous about quality, and gifted with a strong desire to write beautiful code?

About the company

KeyNest solves the key exchange problem for Airbnb users. Our worldwide network of over 4,000 shops store keys so that Airbnb guests / cleaners / contractors can pick them up whenever is convenient for them. As a global partner of Airbnb we’ve checked-in over 2 million guests.

Why we need you

As the entire Airbnb ecosystem increasingly relies on KeyNest, our customers expect us to integrate additional features without reducing the ease of use that our customers love. This is why we continue to invest in beautiful, intuitive user interfaces that integrate with every tool and are used by our customers, their guests and staff, as well as our own staff.

A product manager, a team lead, two full-stack developers, one mobile developer, and a UX designer make up our product team. Who will serve as your mentor. We are looking for a developer who cares about how their code affects users so that we can work together.

With a genuine passion for high quality work, attention to detail and readiness to own your own projects, you will be looking for a new and exciting challenge which allows you to use your experience to drive change and maintain the high standards of our organisation.

Our Tech Stack

• C# MVC modern tech stack
• .Net Core
• Front end web in TypeScript & Angular
• Test Driven Development (TDD) and follow SOLID design principles.
• EF 6.0
• SQL Server 2017
• Agile experience (Scrum, Kanban)
• TFS
• Cloud hosted in Azure with micro-services architecture

Your qualities

• 5+ years experience in C#
• Experience with .NET core
• Front-end web experience in Angular and CSS
• Track record of building great products
• You’ll love the idea of being a big part of a small team. Current team size is 5.
• Motivation and ambition to succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Not afraid to take on responsibilities

What we offer

• Crucial role in a funded, dynamic & fast-growing scale-up shaking up the sharing economy
• Competitive salary based on relevant experience
• Flexible working for our most committed staff
• Unparalleled opportunities to develop your career as the company develops rapidly

If you want to join the KeyNest team, please get in touch – we look forward to meeting you.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Skill set Key words

Java17, Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes/AKS/Docker(Knowledge), Microservices, (MongoDB/DynamoDB)

Role and Resposbilities :

•  Hands on experience in Java back-end development and skills with Spring-boot framework

•  Real life experience with Continuous Delivery principles and related tools (Kubernetes, AKS, Docker)

•  Expertise with Microservices design

•  Understanding of the Design Patterns, Architectural Blueprints, UML and Application Design

•  Experience in stateful application and web sessions

•  Experience with MongoDB, DynamoDB

•  Excellent communication skills and an ability to work in a team

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain scala application phases, code, and software.
• Conduct software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging, as well as recommending changes to improve the established processes.

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.

• Customer Service - Delivering efficient and friendly responses to customer across different channels (main responsibility)
• Credit Risk - Evaluate loan applications for new borrowers applying for Branch loans, find and prevent fraud (main responsibility)
• Servicing & Collections - Proactively reaching out to borrowers who have missed payments
• Product - Escalating customer feedback and IT bugs to help improve our product
• Finance - Manage refunds, repayments, and other payment processes
• General - various administrative projects as needed

• 1-2 years of previous job experience in customer service
• Passionate about our mission and our customers
• Highly entrepreneurial, proactive, and willing to get your hands dirty
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Good grammar, spelling and punctuation
• Driven by data and highly analytical, good understanding of excel preferred
• Good typing speed (ideally above 45 wpm)
• Ideal candidates will be extremely flexible with scheduling e.g. willing to work on weekends and occasionally holidays

• You are required to take an online typing speed test through the link below
• Go to http://www.typingtest.com/">http://www.typingtest.com/ to complete a type speed test.
• On the left, select English, 1 minute, and Aesop's Fables.
• Click the green "Start Test" button.
• Please upload a screen shot of your typing test results as part of your cover letter.