Senior Accounts Associate

Position: Estimation and Contracts Manager

Role Objective: To lead and direct the company's pre-contract and post-contract commercial functions, ensuring the preparation of accurate, competitive project tenders and the diligent management of all contractual obligations. This role is fundamentally accountable for securing profitable projects and mitigating commercial and contractual risk across all operations of Alumayer India Private Limited.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Estimation & Tendering Management:
• Lead the preparation and submission of all project tenders, ensuring bids are both competitive and commercially viable.
• Oversee the detailed analysis of project drawings, specifications, and Bills of Quantities (BOQ) to perform accurate cost estimations for materials, labor, and overheads.
• Direct the value engineering process to provide cost-effective solutions without compromising quality or design intent.
• Maintain and develop a robust database of costing information, supplier rates, and productivity norms.
• Contracts Administration & Governance:
• Serve as the primary authority for the review, negotiation, and finalization of all client and subcontractor contract documents, identifying and mitigating potential risks.
• Manage the complete contract lifecycle, including the administration of variations, extensions of time, and the preparation and negotiation of claims.
• Ensure all project activities and correspondence are in strict compliance with the established contractual terms and conditions.
• Provide expert contractual advice and guidance to the project execution teams throughout the project duration.
• Commercial Leadership & Reporting:
• Manage, mentor, and develop the estimation and contracts team, establishing departmental objectives and performance metrics.
• Prepare and present detailed commercial reports, cash flow projections, and risk analysis summaries to senior management.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, consultants, and key stakeholders.

Mandatory Candidate Profile:

• Education: A Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or Quantity Surveying is mandatory. A postgraduate qualification in Construction Management or Contract Law is highly advantageous.
• Experience: A minimum of 10-12 years of progressive experience in estimation and contracts management, with significant exposure to the façade, glazing, or specialized construction industry.
• Knowledge & Skills: In-depth knowledge of standard construction contract forms (e.g., FIDIC), tendering processes, and costing principles is essential. The candidate must possess exceptional negotiation, analytical, and risk management skills.

Reporting Structure:

• The position reports to the Commercial Director or the Chief Operating Officer.

Oister Global (www.oisterglobal.com) is India’s premier Alternative Assets Manager. We combine robust diligence, deep domain expertise, and an extensive network to create high quality private market opportunities for our investors.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer who will be pivotal in architecting and developing scalable, reliable backend systems from scratch. You will work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build new products, design backend architectures, and ensure high performance and responsiveness of the systems. This role requires strong backend fundamentals, cloud experience, a deep understanding of databases, and a passion for system design and architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

● Product Development: Architect, design, develop, test, and deploy new backend products and features from scratch.

● System Design: Take ownership of system design and architecture decisions for new modules, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. ● API Development: Build efficient and reusable APIs and backend services using Node.js.

● Database Management: Design data models, optimize queries, and manage MongoDB clusters efficiently.

● Cloud Management: Deploy, maintain, and optimize services on AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.

● Best Practices: Maintain coding standards, ensure code reviews, and champion best practices in security, testing, and maintainability.

● Collaboration: Work closely with frontend developers, product managers, QA, and other cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

● Performance Optimization: Monitor system performance and ensure system uptime and responsiveness.

● Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers as required.

● Documentation: Maintain thorough documentation of systems, processes, and best practices. Must-Have

Qualifications:

● Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

● Experience: 4–5+ years of hands-on backend development experience.

● Expertise in: Node.js (Express.js, Nest.js or similar frameworks) MongoDB (including indexing, replication, sharding concepts) AWS Services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM, etc.) Proficient in: System design principles Microservices architecture Event-driven architecture Strong understanding of: RESTful APIs.Authentication and authorization best practices (OAuth, JWT) Experience with: CI/CD pipelines Docker and containerization principles Hands-on experience in: Building scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems Good knowledge of : Logging, monitoring, and debugging distributed applications

Job Responsibilities.

•  Working with a wide range of media and using graphic design software.
• Thinking creatively and developing new design concepts, graphics, and layouts.
• Cultivate a solid body of work.
• Take the design “brief” to record requirements and clients' needs.
• Prepare rough drafts and present your ideas.
• Amend final designs to clients' comments and gain full approval.
• Work as part of a team with copywriters, designers, stylists, executives, etc.
• Motion Graphics and Video Editing

Requirement   

• Proven graphic designing experience.
• Possession of creative flair, versatility, conceptual/visual ability and originality.
• Demonstrable graphic design skills with a strong portfolio.
• Ability to interact, communicate and present ideas.
• Up to date with industry-leading software and technologies.
• Highly proficient in all design aspects.
• Professionalism regarding time, costs, and deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that established design standards are consistently and appropriately applied within design work
• Engage with product management, engineering, business stakeholders
• Develop and present documentation, user flows, annotated wireframes, and interactive prototypes
• Leverage user testing to make product improvements
• Hands-on designing and creative skills
• Willingness to learn and grow with the organisation
• Understand the brief from the team and come out with out-of-the-box ideas
• Plan and illustrate concepts by designing rough layouts of art and copy regarding arrangement, size, type, style, and related aesthetics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in 
• Proficient in visual design and wireframing tools like Figma
• Well-versed with computer skills in Photoshop or Illustrator and/or Dreamweaver

• Previous working experience as a PHP Developer for 3 years
• BS/MS  in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar relevant field
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP as a platform and its workarounds
• Proficient in PHP, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery Expert
• Experience with PHP MVC frameworks (Symfony)

Who You Are

• Creative thinker and strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail
• Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results
• Able to balance multiple tasks and projects effectively and quickly adapt to new situations and technologies
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Systematic problem-solver, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

What you need

• 3-7 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or a mix of a software engineer and DevOps.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Linux fundamentals, System administration scripting, performance tuning/scalability, troubleshooting.
• Write great quality code using SOLID principles including unit and integration tests.
• Hands-on development experience in an object-orientated programming language like Python.
• Hands-on experience developing task automations
• Experience using tools to create and manage CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous delivery) pipelines.
• Familiarity with software development tools: source code management (SCM systems), code review systems, issue tracking tools, build tools, test frameworks, code quality tools.
• Experience implementing open-source observability and alerting tools, like Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, Thanos, Alertmanager etc
• Have decent knowledge on networking (VPC, VNet, DNS etc) and of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing and load balancing.
• Worked with log and configuration management tool
• Prior experience of working with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
• Prior experience of working with Kubernetes, Docker and containers is plus
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.
• Documenting your work should be in your DNA

What you get

• A chance to develop and build something (probably from scratch) which you can be proud of
• Build and Implement modern systems observability solutions including monitoring, alerting, metrics, logging, and APM & distributed tracing.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Maintain business continuity by identifying and driving opportunities to make systems highly resilient and human-free.
• Closely work with the software engineering team to ensure accurate monitoring and metrics are being built into applications before going to production.
• Develop and maintain software modules for use and re-use in cloud and on-premise systems automation.
• Identify process gaps and implement process improvements to increase operational reliability
• Drive standardization efforts across the services, infrastructure, systems, and practices
• Develop Systems & Tools to help with Development team to uphold the Reliability principles