Senior Engineer-Application & Engineering

Project Estimator (Appraisal & Estimation)

Job Location: Mumbai / Pune

Key Responsibilities:

A. Project Estimation (Pre-Tender)

• Study tender drawings, specifications, BOQs, and scope documents for façade works.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates for unitized, semi-unitized, stick systems, skylights, ACP, glazing, louvers, and special façades.
• Perform quantity take-offs from architectural and façade shop drawings.
• Prepare rate analysis for aluminium profiles, glass, hardware, sealants, accessories, and installation.
• Coordinate with design, procurement, and vendors for technical clarifications and budgetary quotes.
• Evaluate subcontractor and supplier quotations and carry out techno-commercial comparisons.
• Identify project risks, assumptions, exclusions, and opportunities during estimation.
• Support tender submissions, value engineering proposals, and bid negotiations.

B. Project Appraisal (Post-Award)

• Prepare detailed project appraisal / cost break-up immediately after order award.
• Finalize project budget aligned with contract value and approved specifications.
• Compare tender estimate vs final appraisal vs execution budget.
• Identify margin gaps, risk items, and cost-sensitive components.
• Define target rates for procurement and subcontracting.
• Prepare cash flow forecasts and billing milestones for façade works.
• Hand over commercial and cost data to the project execution team.

C. Cost Control & Performance Monitoring

• Monitor actual cost vs appraisal budget during execution.
• Support variation pricing, change order evaluation, and claim preparation.
• Assist in project profitability analysis and post-completion cost review.
• Maintain historical cost database for future estimations.

D. Coordination & Reporting

• Coordinate with projects, planning, procurement, and finance teams.
• Prepare management reports on project margins, cost trends, and risk exposure.
• Participate in project review meetings and value engineering discussions.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Education:
• B.E. / B.Tech / Diploma in Civil / Mechanical / Structural Engineering
• Experience:
• 2–6 years in façade estimation and commercial management
• Strong exposure to unitized curtain wall systems preferred

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in AutoCAD, MS Excel (advanced), MS Word
• Experience with façade estimation tools / ERP systems (preferred)
• Knowledge of aluminium extrusion systems, glass specifications, façade testing norms

Strong understanding of Indian façade contracting practices and BOQ structures

Responsibilities include: 

• Convert the machine learning models into application program interfaces (APIs) so that other applications can use it
• Build AI models from scratch and help the different components of the organization (such as product managers and stakeholders) understand what results they gain from the model
• Build data ingestion and data transformation infrastructure
• Automate infrastructure that the data science team uses
• Perform statistical analysis and tune the results so that the organization can make better-informed decisions
• Set up and manage AI development and product infrastructure
• Be a good team player, as coordinating with others is a must

About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)  

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship 

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions. 

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric 

What is on our offer?  

• An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values. 
• We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career. 
• Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge. 

 Profile Brief:  

You will be an experienced Backend Engineer with an interest in data and analytics, developing our fast growing Analytics Team. Working closely as an active team member, having ownership & accountability to develop analytics stories, in delivering timely projects through Scrum. Working with product owners and team leads to clarifying requirements, challenge assumptions in order to ensure successful executions and push the client analytics to its best.  

Key Skills and Experience  

Required Skills: JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, Nodejs, AWS (Lambda, Athena, S3) 

Good to have: TypeScript, IoT, AWS Certifications 

Experience: 4-6 years  

• Data processing and manipulation expert 
• Able to easily comprehend and write complex & efficient SQL queries  

• Ability to understand, design and fully document end-to-end scalable IoT systems 
• Expert in in building Well-Architected solutions using AWS Services (eg Lambda, Athena, S3 etc) 
• Master in JavaScript with excellent understanding of asynchronous patterns  
• Comfortable with of ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies  
• Experience of building secure, metered REST APIs and connectors for BI tools like Tableau and PowerBI 

• Hands-on programmer 

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Key Behaviours  

• Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions. 

• Lead by example by demonstrating best practice and mentoring of team members 
• Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, breaking the problem down into simple achievable and realistically estimated steps 
• Seeing a project through from conception into production and support ensuring quality throughout. 
• Ensure high standards by instilling  data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices. 
• Able to challenge solutions and processes in creating the best products and environment to work. 

• Unafraid to own mistakes  
• Customer focussed 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the Software Team. Ensure consistent deliveries of planned features while ensuring code quality, testing standards, and processes are maintained.

• Work with the leadership team to cultivate and grow the Internal Software Team Culture at

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth

• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful application design.

• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity.

• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team.

• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at a large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.

• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

CANDIDATES MUST HAVE

• Experienced in designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of Python

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 3-5 years of experience building large-scale software applications and working with large software teams.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering • Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Knowledge of Python and Backend Development

• Experience building Web/Mobile applications

• Excellent debugging and optimization skills

• Unit and Integration testing experience

• Being knowledgeable about engineering processes and good practices

• Passionate about learning new tools. Ability to continuously learn and acquire knowledge.

• Able to adapt to changing complexity of tasks.

• Explain specific services to consumers.
• Explain different customizable features.
• Represent and promote the organization with services at in-home product presentations, showrooms as required.
• Determine seasonal trends and adjust as needed.

• You will work on long-term React Native mobile applications for innovative startups.
• Together with your colleagues and our clients you will analyse requirements and envision a qualitative solution. You will be responsible for the entire development - from architecture to implementation - and deliver user-friendly, performant and well-tested mobile applications.
• You will be part of our continuous improvement culture, hone your skills and share your experience with your colleagues.

• You have at least 3-year experience implementing and deploying React Native apps.
• You developed and published at least one React Native app on Google and Apple Store.
• You are familiar with Google and Apple Store guidelines and compliance.
• You can build pixel-perfect UIs for all mobile platforms.
• You have strong knowledge of Javascript ES6 and higher.
• You know how to make a solid relational data model and have a good knowledge of SQL.
• You have integrated a variety of web API's and understand HTTP.
• You know how to write clean and flexible object-oriented code.
• You have a good understanding of async programming concepts.
• You work daily with tools like Git, NPM and a proper IDE (Webstorm).
• You can deliver POCs, experiments and technology evaluations following design thinking practices.
• You will be contributing towards architecting and building React Native applications, as well as coordinating with the teams responsible for other layers of the product/project infrastructure.
• You write clean code and are a pragmatic programmer.

• You wish Typescript was the default language of the web.
• You stepped outside the Expo world and have experience with native iOS or Android development. You are familiar with XCode and Android studio, and leverage native APIs for deep integration with Android and iOS.
• You have experience with state management libraries like MobX and Redux.
• You write automated tests and perform end-to-end testing with Detox or Appium.
• You are familiar with functional programming concepts and apply it occasionally.
• You worked with other hybrid mobile platforms like Sencha, HTML5, PhoneGap, etc.
• You have experience with Scrum and Lean methodology