Senior User Experience Designer

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

• Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.
• Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.
• I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

Responsibilities:

• Develop user-facing features such as web apps and landing portals.
• Ensure the feasibility of UI/UX designs and implement them technically.
• Create reusable code and libraries for future use.
• Optimize applications for speed and scalability.
• Contribute to the entire implementation process, including defining improvements based on business needs and architectural enhancements.
• Promote coding, testing, and deployment of best practices through research and demonstration.
• Review frameworks and design principles for suitability in the project context.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify opportunities, lay out rational plans, and see them through to completion.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 5-8 years of software product development experience.
• Proficiency in React, Django, Pandas, GitHub, AWS, and JavaScript.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and designing REST APIs.
• Experience with scalable interactive web applications.
• Understanding of software design constructs and implementation.
• Familiarity with ORM libraries and Test-Driven Development.
• Exposure to the Finance domain is preferred.
• Knowledge of HTML5, LESS/CSS3, jQuery, and Bootstrap.
• Expertise in JavaScript fundamentals and front-end/back-end technologies.

Nice to Have:

• Strong knowledge of website security and common vulnerabilities.
• Exposure to financial capital markets and instruments.

Compensation and Benefits Package:

• Competitive compensation with a discretionary annual bonus.
• Performance-linked variable compensation.
• Medical insurance.

A note on location. While we have team centers in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore, this role is based out of Mumbai. 

TIFIN is an equal-opportunity workplace, and we value diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any discrimination.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with the core team to understand their needs and ensure that our products are meeting the needs of the market.
• Designing database structure that are easy to maintain, improves data consistency and are cost effective in terms of disk storage space
• Identify, prioritise and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
• Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Build efficient, testable, and reusable PHP modules

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• A 5+ years of experience in developing desktop and mobile web applications
• Strong knowledge of core PHP with experience of working with MVC framework such as CodeIgniter & Laravel
• Experience with object-oriented PHP programming
• Experience with third party API integration
• Experience in managing AWS services
• Previous experience creating scalable applications
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)

  Minimum 3+ Years of Core Java Programming with Collections Framework, Concurrent Programming, Multi-threading (Good knowledge in Executor service, Fork joins pool and other threading concepts)

·       Good knowledge of the JVM with an understanding of performance and memory optimization.

·       Extensive and expert programming experience in JAVA programming language (strong OO skills preferred).

·       Excellent knowledge on collections like, Array List, Vector, LinkedList, HashMap, Hash Table, HashSet is mandate.

·       Exercised exemplary development practices including design specification, coding standards, unit testing, and code-reviews.

·       Expert level understanding of Object-Oriented Concepts and Data Structures

·       Good experience in Database (Sybase, Oracle or SQL Server) like indexing (clustered, non-clustered), hashing, segmenting, data types like clob / blob, views (materialized), replication, constraints, functions, triggers, procedures etc.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Mandatory skill in establishing a good relationship with vendors and Handling the vendors
• Manage the Full cycle Recruiting process for Internal Needs, Ensuring a Positive Candidate Experience
• Experience with End-to-End IT Recruitment Processes and Activities Right from Sourcing to Placement
• Learn, Understand, and Practice US Staffing Best Practices
• Sourcing, Screening, and Shortlisting Resumes based on Desired Skills and Experience through Job Portals, Social Networking, Bulk Emails, etc
• Screen Resumes, Interview Qualified Candidates, and facilitate Interviews and Hiring Discussions with Interviewers and Hiring Managers
• Create Talent Pipelines with high potential Candidates for Future Job Opportunities.

Requirements:

• Excellent Verbal and Written Communication is a must
• Good Interpersonal and Decision-Making skills
• Good understanding of Technology and Technical skills
• Male Candidates preferred

Working Mode: Work from Office

Timing: Monday- Friday US shift (6.00 pm to 3.00 am)

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: ₹400,000.00 - ₹600,000.00 per year

About Us:

We are a group of 110+ techies, data analysts, digital marketers, and operations professionals who have come together to provide next-generation e-commerce solutions. We help brands & private labels to grow their businesses by providing them a scalable and conversion-friendly e-commerce platform using Magento. We love brainstorming ideas on how businesses can utilize technology to achieve their desired goals.

Growisto has expertise of providing the below services:

1)Amazon Marketing: Boost sales, improve visibility, and reduce cost to scale up Amazon business globally by

1) Leveraging machine learning to identify search patterns

2) Creating a data driven marketing strategy to target the right audience

3) Optimizing strategies to adapt to the ever-evolving Amazon algorithm

2)E-Commerce Website Development: Boost direct sales and enhance user experience by

Designing and developing custom e-commerce websites with latest e-commerce technology stack of Magento backend, ReachJs frontend and a PWA

-Create a scalable and conversion-friendly e-commerce platform

- Integrating with multiple third-party systems and migrate from legacy system seamlessly

3)Website Marketing: Drive targeted traffic to website in order to increase sales and reduce customer acquisition cost by

- Optimising the website for search engines to increase organic traffic

-Strategically placing ads on search network

About the role:

Growisto is looking to further increase its business primarily in Western, European and Middle East market. As a sales manager, you will be solving the below key problems:

1) How to close more accounts from North America, European and Middle East markets?

2) How to improve the increase leads to a conversion ratio?

3) How to get accounts with more recurring revenue and higher billing rate?

4) How to get more enterprise accounts?

In order to embark on the next leg of growth, we need committed people managers who would want more than just a job.

Key Responsibilities:

We strongly believe that in order to solve above mentioned problems, the activities/responsibilities will keep changing depending on the need of the hour. We want you to take complete ownership of the sales and then define the activities yourself to meet the goal. Still, to give you a better understanding about the role, here is what we have on the top of our mind:

-Work closely with the department head(s) to understand the sales gap and work backwards to close the same

-In order to close the sales, take complete ownership of providing the right solution to the prospects

-Achieve a high lead to conversion rate

-Be hands-on in taking the calls to qualify the leads and take them to conversion

-Develop the right sales collateral such as service deck, case studies, proposal templates, etc. to improve the conversion rate

-Work with practice head(s) to refine the working model to deliver the next results for the clients

-Work with the marketing team closely to improve the lead conversion ratio

-Stay actively involved in R&D to help in building offerings as well as identifying new markets for expansion

-Strategic partnerships with consulting companies, agencies in other markets

Skills (Must Have):

-Track record of services selling in non-Indian or Indian market

-Experience conducting cold outreach and nurture campaigns to build a sustainable pipeline

-Demonstrable command of consultative selling skills and an ability to manage complex sales cycles end-to-end

-High emotional intelligence and the ability to appeal to the varying needs of multiple stakeholders in the sales process

-Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to persuasively communicate recommendations and effectively champion customer needs

-Excellent use of insights and reliability around data-driven decision making

-Excellent organization, project management, time management skills along with an ability to take initiatives

Why should you consider joining Growisto?

-It will be a challenging role and you will get complete ownership to solve challenging problems.

-If you like challenges and think from a first principle basis, you should definitely take this up

-If you have the aspiration to grow and develop as a leader in parallel to a multifold growth rate of a start-up then you should join us

-If your thought process and personality resonate with our cultural values, then you should join Us.

Why should you not consider joining Growisto?

-If the role description does not excite you, then you should not join us

-We are a startup and things will move fast. If you are not comfortable in a fast-paced environment, then you should not join us

-If we have to choose between culture/team and profits, our obvious choice is culture.

-If you don’t believe in the same philosophy then you should not join us.

• Take the lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
• Ensure that the team always has an adequate amount of prior prepared tasks to work on
• Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product 
• Define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities 
• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
• Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories 
• Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value or ROI 
• Lead the planning product release plans and set the expectation for delivery of new functionalities 
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals 
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product 
• Follow our competitors and the industry 
• Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

• Previous overall working experience of 8-14 years, including 3-5 years working as a Product Owner. 
• Bachelor’s in Engineering 
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles 
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills 
• Excellent organizational and time management skills 
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Creative thinker with a vision 
• Attention to details