Senior HR Manager

At Upswing, we are a passionate and self-driven team of thinkers who aspire to build the rails to connect the legacy financial sector with financial innovators through a simple and powerful banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform.

We’re building our platform putting the focus on pragmatism, reliability, and maintainability. We believe that keeping the engineering complexity under control is key to preserving the development productivity and long-term evolution of a platform.

To bring this vision to life, we are building the infrastructure using Microservices architecture using the latest set of technologies that are also fun to work with such as Java, Scala, Postgres, Akka, Kafka with a completely automated DevOps pipeline from the get-go using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Grafana, Graylog.

We are looking for motivated engineers who will be working in a highly creative and cutting edge technology environment to build a world-class financial services suite.

Why you should join us:

• You will redefine the financial services landscape for India in the coming years.
• Be part of a core Engineering team that will create innovative and scalable Fintech solutions.
• Work with passionate and experienced engineering, product & business workforce that believes in teamwork, and that helps fast-track your learning on solving complex technical challenges.
• We are funded by the leading fintech VC `QED Investors` and other established Founders and Executives of awesome Indian companies.

What you will do if you join us:

• Propose solutions to solve complex system architecture challenges and actively lead the end-to-end development of the system.
• Create robust, flexible, consistent, and easy-to-use APIs
• Continuously strive for performance improvements, code reusability, and readability

You should have:

• Tech or a higher degree in computer science or a related field.
• 1+ years of experience working on the back-end development for complex distributed systems who are willing to adopt any Programming language as per the requirement.
• Familiarity with any of the following – Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring, Play, Hibernate, Django, etc.
• Good understanding of Algorithms, Data Structure, OOP, Design patterns, Parallel programming, Multithreading concepts & Event-Driven Systems.
• Experience with Relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or any NoSQL database.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Worked on Micro-services architecture

Whom are we looking for?

- Someone with a passion for games.

- Excited to be part of a team that envisions the look and feel of games.

- Having the creative spark that’ll hook gamers to our titles.

- Someone who can bring the Game Designers’ abstractions to life.

- An artist who can craft entire worlds and unique characters through concepts and sketches.

What will you do?

- Work with different Art Pipelines, foresee bottlenecks and resolve/make it easier for the artists.

- Define the Game Art/Asset development pipeline.

- Bridge between Art and Programming teams to develop asset production pipeline.

- Define and document pipelines and tools that are conducive for artists.

- Create and produce artwork in accordance with the direction of other Artists, Art Directors, designers, and producers.

- Report the status of deliverables to your team, Art Director, Lead, Producer, and Development Director.

- Work within a small, motivated team and communicate effectively.

How will we help you grow?

- You will be provided with constant learning opportunities.

- You have the opportunity to learn from our accomplished art team from around the world.

- You will be provided with all the tools required to learn and explore new avenues and directions.

- You will be a part of bi-weekly art challenges to interact with peers and hone your skills.

Portfolio: The portfolio that would catch our eye would have UI work with great design, color, and font choices. Preferably should showcase art in hand-rendered technique with mobile-specific lightweight styles. Include pieces that give insight into how you approach your work and generate your ideas! Sketches, storyboards, stages of progression, and full implementations for features, stores, or inventory systems would be awesome.

• Over 8 years of experience and 5+ in API/mulesoft
• Expert with API technology including (REST, JSON, XML, Web Security, API Management, Public/Private APIs)
• Strong experience with MuleSoft cloud hub/AnyPoint Platform with proven experience architecting, designing, implementing enterprise services, and platform operations.
• Should be proficient in developing enterprise standards, guidelines, best practices and policies for the Mulesoft platform and drive adoption
• Should be able to provide technical expertise in bringing-in automation across API life cycle ( code quality, migration, deployment, platform monitoring etc) using tools such as App Dynamics, puppet, chef or any similar tools
• Should be hands-on and proficient in DevOps methodologies such as CICD, test automation etc
• Should be able to evangelize and work with enterprise architects on API driven architecture, platform roadmap
• Should be very proficient in planning, stakeholder management, team mgmt. and communication at all levels
• Provides overall API technical leadership working with Business, BAs, Tech lead, Scrum Master to clarify requirements and set technical direction for the team

• Analyze organic search landscapes to discover opportunities that may drive valuable traffic
• Help keep our pages SEO optimized for mobile users and search performance
• Perform extensive keyword research and product listing audits to put forth optimized content regularly
• Grow into an SEO leader, taking additional responsibilities as and when needed
• Conduct competitive site analysis
• Monitor SEO impact with key metrics
• Develop and implement link building strategies
• Work with the editorial team to drive SEO traffic in content creation through other digital marketing channels such as the blog
• Recommend changes to website architecture, content, linking, and other factors impacting SEO positions for target keywords

• Has a minimum of 2 years of SEO experience Offpage, Onpage, Technical SEO
• Is passionate and flexible to get innovative to boost organic search; should not accept theories at face value and should prefer testing, exploring to prove the effectiveness of tactics
• Is adept with SEO suits and tools such as Google Webmaster Tools, Analytics, SEMRush, Ahrefs, among others
• Has extensive knowledge in link building, keyword research, content creation, and on-page optimization (is a plus)
• Has prior experience of managing a team or is willing to take up the responsibility of managing a team and is a team player

Responsibilities

• You will design and develop large scale distributed services
• You will analyse and improve the efficiency, scalability, stability, and security of the platform as a whole.
• You will act as the primary owner of one or more components while driving innovation in your area of ownership
• You will proactively research & evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques to improve the value of the system.
• You will work with engineering leadership in solving and architecting solutions for challenging or complex development issues.
• You will work independently and handle dependencies with very minimal oversight
• You will take initiatives in developing and maintaining integrations of best practices within the back-end.
• You will help identify systemic issues, performance bottlenecks and work on design/architect improvements.

Requirements

• You have 1 - 9 years of experience in software development.
• You have designed and scaled up the system.
• You have a strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.
• You are an incessant problem solver and tougher the problem gets, more fun you have.
• You have strong command in any one or more of the following languages: Python and Django
• You understand the business impact of your decisions.

Good To Have

• You have prior experience in fintech companies

Traits We Are Looking For

• Experience in a specific tech stack doesn't matter for us.
• The general engineering mindset and aptitude is what matters more.
• Technically strong and curious.
• Should have a hacker mindset and should love exploring new technologies.

Desired Skills and Experience

Java, Python, Data Structures, Algorithms

• Oversee the sales process to attract new clients.
• Work with senior team members to identify and manage risks.
• Maintain fruitful relationships with clients and address their needs effectively.
• Research and identify new market opportunities.
• Prepare and deliver pitches to potential investors.
• Foster a collaborative environment within the organization