Research & Production Engineer

Experience - 10-20  Yrs

Job Location - CommerZone, Yerwada, Pune

Work Mode - Work from Office

Shifts - General Shift

Work days - 5 days

Quantification - Graduation full time mandatory

Domain - Payment/Card/Banking/BFSI/ Retail Payments

Job Type - Full Time

Notice period - Immediate or 30 days

Interview Process -

1) Screening

2) Virtual L1 interview

3) Managerial Round Face to Face at Pune Office

4) HR Discussion

Job Description 

Job Summary:

The Production/L2 Application Support Manager will be responsible for managing the banking applications that supports our payment gateway systems in a production environment. You will oversee the deployment, monitoring, optimization, and maintenance of all application components. You will ensure that our systems run smoothly, meet business and regulatory requirements, and provide high availability for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and optimize the application for the payment gateway systems to ensure high availability, reliability, and scalability.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of production environments, including managing cloud services (AWS), load balancing, database systems, and monitoring tools.
• Lead a team of application support engineers and administrators, providing technical guidance and support to ensure applications and infrastructure solutions are implemented efficiently and effectively.
• Collaborate with development, security, and product teams to ensure application support the needs of the business and complies with relevant regulations.
• Monitor application performance and system health using monitoring tools and ensure quick resolution of any performance bottlenecks or system failures.
• Develop and maintain capacity planning, monitoring, and backup strategies to ensure scalability and minimal downtime during peak transaction periods.
• Drive continuous improvement of processes and tools for efficient production/application management.
• Ensure robust security practices are in place across production systems, including compliance with industry standards
• Conduct incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortem analysis to prevent recurring issues and improve system performance.
• Oversee regular patching, updates, and version control of production systems to minimize vulnerabilities.
• Develop and maintain application support documentation, including architecture diagrams, processes, and disaster recovery plans.
• Manage and execute on-call duties, ensuring timely resolution of application-related issues and ensuring proper support coverage.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 8+ years of experience managing L2 application support in high-availability, mission-critical environments, ideally within a payment gateway or fintech organization.
• Experience with working L2 production support base on Java programming.
• Experience with database systems (SQL, NoSQL) and database management, including high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams and drive initiatives forward..
• Ability to work well under pressure and in high-stakes situations, ensuring uptime and service continuity.

Company Description

KGiSL Institute of Technology is a higher education institution located in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. As part of the KGISL Campus, the institute is committed to delivering quality education in the field of technology. With a focus on both theoretical and practical learning, KGiSL Institute of Technology aims to produce skilled professionals who can meet the demands of the industry.

Role Description

This is a full-time, on-site role located in Coimbatore for a Content Writer / Copywriter. The Content Writer / Copywriter will be responsible for crafting and editing web content, developing content strategies, conducting research, writing and proofreading. The role involves collaboration with various departments to ensure a cohesive and high-quality content output aligned with the institute's objectives.

Job Overview:

The Head of Content Marketing is a strategic leader responsible for driving the content vision across

our group of educational institutions and business entities. This role oversees all aspects of content

planning, creation, distribution, and performance. The focus is on building strong brand narratives

and maintaining a unified voice across websites, social media platforms, and marketing collateral.

The ideal candidate will work with multidisciplinary teams, including a team of content writers, a

media team, and an SEO team, to deliver impactful, high-quality content that resonates with diverse

audiences.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 6 to 10+ years of marketing experience.
• Proven expertise in developing and scaling content strategies across digital platforms.
• Strong leadership experience managing multidisciplinary creative teams.
• Exceptional storytelling, editorial, and brand messaging skills.
• A good understanding of SEO, content performance analytics, and marketing principles.
• Familiarity with content management systems, project management tools, and digital publishing workflows.
• Highly organized, creative, and data-driven with strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in the education or related sectors is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and lead a comprehensive content marketing strategy aligned with organizational goals and audience needs.
• Oversee content production across formats (written, visual, and video) ensuring consistency in tone, branding, and messaging.
• Direct and mentor a team of content writers, graphic designers, video creators, and SEO specialists, fostering collaboration and high performance.
• Own the content lifecycle across all platforms, including websites, social media channels, blogs, newsletters, brochures, and other marketing materials.
• Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure content supports brand equity, business objectives, and engagement goals.
• Establish clear content governance, calendars, and workflows for planning, creation, approval, and publication.
• Lead the optimization of content for SEO, user engagement, and platform-specific formats.
• Oversee the strategic management of all content assets, including regular audits and updates across digital properties.
• Use content analytics and performance data to guide decisions, improve effectiveness, and report outcomes.
• Stay ahead of industry trends, tools, and best practices to continually evolve the content marketing approach.
• Ensure all content initiatives are on-brand, on-budget, and delivered on time.

Lead Java Full Stack Engineer

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Must-Haves :

Top Mandatory Skills: Java, Microservices, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript, typeScript 

Joining time / Notice Period: Immediate joiners

Minimum Relevant Experience: 08+ Years

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No gaps in organization

No job hoppers(candidate must have good stability)

Joining time / Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days

No Poach Clients (Plus other Strict No-Nos) :

NA 

Nice to Haves :

Skills: Cryptography

Target Companies :

Additional Guidelines :

Office Location : Pune - Hybrid work Model - 3 days a week

Interview Process : 2 - 3 Technical Rounds (Panel in the US)

Relocation Expenses: NA

Notice period : Immediate to 30days

• Delivering a full range of Partnership tax services for Financial Services Clients in compliance with laws and regulations within timeframe.

• Building relationships and interacting with clients to provide excellent planning, consulting and expertise.

• Providing tax planning and reviewing complex 1065 tax returns of Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, Venture Capital Funds, Fund of Funds and similar complex structures.

• Review and managing of the Tax returns and supporting Work papers as per US Tax Law

Roles and responsibilities:

- The business development counselor interacts with parents or adult learners after they have taken a demo class and have experienced the product. Since these were high intent nurtured leads, There is no cold calling required. The role involves achieving weekly revenue targets by:

- Inviting parents or the adult learners to a video counseling session

- Conducting a detailed video counseling session with the decision-makers and taking them closer to their decision to purchase

- Looking at the entire sales life-cycle, starting from engaging with parents till final conversion and i.e. enrolment in the program

How is sales at PlanetSpark different?

- High Intent Leads - you get leads after they take a 1-hour demo.

- Extensive Training- you will get extensive instructor training and on-the-job training

- Career Progression - Get fast-track growth in designation and compensation

- Rewards and Recognition- become a star performer and get recognized through the weekly rewards ceremony!

Mission statement for the role:

- Generate revenue by achieving weekly target through consultative inside sales.

Your career path

Working with a fast-growing, the startup provides the opportunity to grow, aggressively up the ladder and assume greater responsibilities and experiences at a very young age. Our meritocratic, performance-based policy identifies and promotes top performers.

- Business development counselor

- Senior business development counselor

- Assistant Manager

- Manager

- Senior Manager

- Associate Director - Associate Vice President - Vice president

Key skills to be successful in the role:

- Excellent communication, interpersonal presentation, and problem-solving skills

- A go better attitude and winning mindset

- Excellent influencing skills and Street smartness

- Performance-driven people who adhere to guidelines set by the organization

What we're looking for?

- We do not look for any specific degree of GPAs. We are open to all those who have a passion for sales and the zeal to grow quickly in their career.

- You should be located in Gurgaon or should be ready to locate to Gurgaon. This is a work-from-office role.

- You should be okay to work 5 days a week with a weekly off on Thursday. Saturday. Sunday are the most important days for your role as maximum customers take their counseling session on these days.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage, coordinate and arrange senior executives travel and travel-related activities, including hotel booking, transportation, and meal coordination
• Acting as the point of contact among executives, employees, clients and other external partners
• Manage correspondence flow in a timely and accurate manner
• Manage the MDs calendar and set up meetings
• Format information for internal and external communication memos, emails, presentations, reports
• Help prepare for meetings and accurately record the minutes from meetings.
• Screen and direct phone calls and distribute correspondence
• Organize and maintain the office filing system
• Maintain professionalism and strict confidentiality with all maters pertaining to the Company and all the senior executives.

Skills and Qualifications

• 4 - 8 years experience in a similar role reporting directly to upper management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong time-management skills and the ability to organize and coordinate multiple projects at once
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Virtual meeting platforms (Zoom, Google Meet etc) with an aptitude to learn new software and systems
• Familiar with international travel arrangements
• Flexible team player willing to do what it takes to get the job done; adaptable and enjoys a challenge
• Ability to maintain company confidences

Only Male Cadidate 

Must have Experience in HR field 

Summary
Our Kafka developer has a combination of technical skills, communication skills and business knowledge. The developer should be able to work on multiple medium to large projects. The successful candidate will have excellent technical skills of Apache/Confluent Kafka, Enterprise Data WareHouse preferable GCP BigQuery or any equivalent Cloud EDW and also will be able to take oral and written business requirements and develop efficient code to meet set deliverables.

Must Have Skills

• Participate in the development, enhancement and maintenance of data applications both as an individual contributor and as a lead.
• Leading in the identification, isolation, resolution and communication of problems within the production environment.
• Leading developer and applying technical skills Apache/Confluent Kafka (Preferred) AWS Kinesis (Optional), Cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse Google BigQuery (Preferred) or AWS RedShift or SnowFlakes (Optional)
• Design recommending best approach suited for data movement from different sources to Cloud EDW using Apache/Confluent Kafka
• Performs independent functional and technical analysis for major projects supporting several corporate initiatives.
• Communicate and Work with IT partners and user community with various levels from Sr Management to detailed developer to business SME for project definition .
• Works on multiple platforms and multiple projects concurrently.
• Performs code and unit testing for complex scope modules, and projects
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume environment (~900 Million messages)

• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, KSQL, KStream and Kafka Control center.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on AvroConverters, JsonConverters, and StringConverters.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector,  JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.
• Working knowledge on Kafka Rest proxy.
• Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.
• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.
• Create stubs for producers, consumers and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.  Leverage Hadoop ecosystem knowledge to design, and develop capabilities to deliver our solutions using Spark, Scala, Python, Hive, Kafka and other things in the Hadoop ecosystem. 
• Use automation tools like provisioning using Jenkins, Udeploy or relevant technologies
• Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
• Strong skills in In-memory applications, Database Design, Data Integration.