Software Architect

Cogoport Story

Do you prefer to get speeding tickets or parking tickets?

Because at Cogoport we are speeding ahead to do something remarkable for the world. We are trying to solve the Trade Knowledge and Execution Gap, which is currently widening and preventing trade to the tune of $3.4 trillion annually. This Gap has enormous economic as well as human impact and disproportionately hits small and medium businesses globally.

The team at Cogoport is working on developing a new category, the Global Trade Platform, that helps companies discover and connect with appropriate trade partners, optimize shipping and logistics options and costs, and improve cash management and cash flow.

Cogoport is currently in hypergrowth mode. We are proud to have been named an Asia-Pacific High-Growth Company by the Financial Times and an Indian Growth Champion by the Economic Times. We are aiming to reach an annualized revenue of $1 billion (7700 Crores INR)  by this summer and are hiring over 500 additional employees. We are currently hiring in Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai and Bangalore.

Cogoport Culture: We have two core values at Cogoport—Intrapreneurship and Customer-centricity. If you share these values and are a hard worker who is willing to take risks (and occasionally get a speeding ticket), you can make a huge impact and propel your career in an endless number of directions with Cogoport.

Cogoport Leadership

https://www.linkedin.com/in/purnendushekhar/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitabhshankar/

Life at Cogoport :It’s rare to be able to join a company that can give you the resources, support and technology you need to break new ground and see your ideas come to life. You’ll be surrounded by some of the smartest engineers and commercial specialists in India and the Asia Pacific Region.

With huge growth and the right entrepreneurial mindset, comes huge opportunities! So, wherever you join us, you’ll be able to dream, deliver better and brighter solutions, and speed ahead with the possibility to propel your career forward in endless directions as our company continues to grow and expand.

For more insights about the company:  https://cogoport.com/about

Why Cogoport?

International Trade can be complicated at times and every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.  When we simplify international trade, it empowers and affects every human being on the face of this earth. Seven billion people - one common problem.

As a part of the Talent team at Cogoport, you will get an opportunity to be a part of an industry-wide revolution in the world of shipping and logistics by collaborating with other brilliant minds to resolve real world on-ground challenges. You will have a direct impact on the revenue and profitability growth for the organization.

Areas of Impact for you

• Ownership of product delivery, devops, cybersecurity, performance, impeccable software quality, and configuration.
• Hands-on management with deep-dive into the details of software design, implementation and debugging.
• Attract, hire, retain, motivate and mentor the team..
• Guide your teams in developing roadmaps and systems to drive product growth, then identify, plan, and execute projects to support that growth.
• Leadership role in the driving technical architecture, specifically leveraging micro-services.
• Manage multiple projects across a wide breadth of technologies, coordinate dependencies, and interactions with the internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from across functions to keep the development team in sync with all functions and overall business objectives.
• Set up, create and manage strong best practices/architecture to ensure reliable, secure, bug-free, and performant software is released on-time.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science with 8-10 years of total work experience in a software product company with at least 3-4 years of experience in managing projects and leading teams.
• Experience owning highly-available and scalable software systems
• Strong technical background with proven record of individual technical accomplishments
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Ability to make quick decisions in high pressure environments.
• Demonstrated negotiation, influencing and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Understanding of team dynamics, have the ability to inspire highly-talented engineers and develop team-level leaders
• Experience with Agile development.

Cogoport is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and respected at work.  

Job description

Imagine,

Cryptocurrency Traders are looking for a strong global platform that can help them trade faster, better and smarter. We are building a platform that can solve their needs. The opportunity is big, and the journey is tough. Now that’s a challenge that needs to be addressed. You are phenomenal in solving these complex challenges. You handle product deliveries and you play a critical role in building the engineering team. As an Engineering Manager, you do all of the above and more.

You make a difference.

Making a difference by,

• Managing end to end product development and delivery
• Owning the technical architecture and leading the engineering decisions for the product
• Collaborating with designers, developers, growth managers, and product managers to estimate and plan projects in an Agile environment
• Leading a team of engineers, mentoring them and motivating them to solve complex problem. Sharing timely feedback with the team members

Job requirements

• Be both highly technical, hands-on coder and an effective people manager
• Communicate cross-functionally and drive engineering efforts
• Be a Subject Matter Expert in one or more product domains
• Should have demonstrated ability to recruit and manage technical teams, including performance management

About CoinDCX

CoinDCX is India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange. We provide users single-point access to a diverse suite of crypto-based financial products and services that are backed by security processes and insurance. CoinDCX aims to be the global gateway to cryptocurrencies where users can start building their cryptocurrency portfolio with ease. We provide a comprehensive set of advanced and powerful products to trade crypto-based instruments in the fast-paced markets and aim to keep opening new opportunities for its traders as well as new customers to level up their potential with industry-first innovations. Recognized and awarded for its contribution to the Indian emerging tech space, CoinDCX is backed by investors such as Coinbase Ventures, Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Block.one and HDR Group, operator of BitMEX.

As an Engineering manager on the Backend team, you'll contribute to building the best top-notch engineering team and solve end to end business problems at scale for the platform team powering our flagship data aggregator platform, which directly impacts millions of creators each day. This is a unique opportunity for an EM who can work with talented people in product, design, engineering and other teams to help build our next-generation creator’s products. It's a very high-impact role where you will interface with all major product & platform teams at Phyllo, building out the coverage platform experiences. Part of the core team and responsible for end-to-end development.

Engineering Manager

Key deliverables

Software Architecture: Ensure implementation of a modular, scalable, secure and robust cloud software framework.

Project Management: Sprint Management for development projects to ensure tracking, planning and agile development and upgrades.

Certifications and Regulatory Approvals: Work with regulatory agencies and consultants to ensure implementation for an acquiring certification and regulatory approvals - FDA, ISO 13485, ISO 27001,

GDPR, HIPAA compliance

Other deliverables

Compliance and Tracking: Tracking key KPIs for cloud software to ensure performance and solve for

any deltas in the expected KPIs.

3rd Party Tech Integration: Work with third parties to ensure smooth integration of our offering in

their system. Establish Dozee as the backend for healthtech.

Associated tasks

Documentation: Industry Standard API documentation, software architecture, specifications and

technical documentation.

QA: Ensure zero down time and correctness of the data and features

Detailed Description

Software Architecture

Brainstorming for software architecture and implementation strategy

Working with developers to ensure swift and smooth development

Project Management:

Sprint Management for development projects

Tracking and planning for project deliverables and releases

Resource planning and utilization

Compliance and Tracking:

Setting up infrastructure to track key metrics for tech.

Ensure compliance with the target KPIs

Solve for any delta in KPIs

3rd Party Tech Integration:

Ensuring smooth and seamless integration for 3rd Parties

Collateral (videos/blogs) to demonstrate API integration in healthtech infra

Regular communication with 3rd parties

Certifications and Regulatory Approvals:

Ensure FDA documentation, clinical trials, submission and approval with the regulatory consultant and our team

ISO-13485 SOP, Documentation and Implementation across all systems in the organization ISO-27001 documentation, gap analysis, solving for deltas and certification

GDPR and HIPAA compliance

Other necessary accreditations and approvals

QA:

Enhance existing QA coverage

Setup automated systems to monitor the health of the production environment

Setup proper reporting for any deltas identified by QA

Required Skills

A proactive nature, high EQ and good interpersonal skills are essentials for this role.

Building, maintaining and managing relationships, negotiation skills, conflict resolution, persuasion skills,

judgement making and critical thinking capabilities will be tested each and every day on this career path.

Additionally a knowledge of the below mentioned skills shall be of great help -

Experience:

Experience in software development and management, especially API development, microservices,

serverless systems and cloud development. (2-4 years)

Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation and leadership skills. Experience with

hiring and managing a team of at least 10 developers.

Attitude and Aptitude:

Demonstrates intelligence, positive attitude and loads of patience

Logical and analytical in approach with problem-solving aptitude

Work with high levels of intellectual rigour

Resilient in withstanding pressure and delivering efficiently

Strong analysis capability and exceptional ability to communicate data and results to a wide range of individuals including senior leadership

Ability to handle multiple tasks and meet multiple deadlines.

Academic:

Bachelors in Engineering (preferred Computer Science and Engineering)

• 15+ years of Hands-on technical application architecture experience and Application build/ modernization experience

• 15+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles.

• Ability to travel to client locations as needed (25-50%)

• Extensive experience architecting, designing and programming applications in an AWS Cloud environment

• Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS OpsWorks

• Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability and high availability

• Hands-on programming skills in any of the following: Python, Java, Node.js, Ruby, .NET or Scala

• Agile software development expert
• Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)

• Hands-on familiarity with CloudFormation

• Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible)

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Powershell, Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems

• Extra curricula software development passion (e.g. active open source contributor)

About BiteSpeed

Hey there! We are a seed funded SaaS startup on a mission to help ecommerce brands embrace conversational commerce as the future of selling online.

We're starting by building the tools for any ecommerce brand to be able to sell and engage with their customers on chat apps like Whatsapp, FB Messenger.

💡 Read more about our mission and the story of commerce here!

Within 2 years of launch, we have 1500+ e-commerce brands across 50+ countries using our product (pretty cool right?).

Check us out here - **https://apps.shopify.com/bitespeed-fb-messenger-chatbot** and do read through the 180 odd 5-star reviews to get a sense of what our customers say about us (we openly brag about this 😉).

Learn more about our investors here -

BiteSpeed Raises $1.9 Million Seed Funding From Sequoia India's Surge

D2C Enabler BiteSpeed Raises Funds From Sequoia's Surge, CRED's Kunal Shah, Others [Funding alert] BiteSpeed raises $275K in seed round led by Whiteboard Capital

About the team

BiteSpeed started out in the dorm rooms of BITS Pilani when we hardly knew much about running a company, in fact most of us hadn’t written a line of code in our lives.

We were inspired by companies like Postman and Freshworks which have built market leading software companies from India and had a desire to create something world-class which we could be proud of.

So we jumped off the cliff and built a parachute on our way down (just as Reid Hoffman likes to say).

We could make a long, boring list of 20 company values but by now you probably do get a gist of the kind of people we are. We are young, ambitious self-learners on a journey to create a globally competitive software company from India.

About the role

We’re looking for a Technical Lead to join our founding team and lead our product development. If you’re someone who thrives on high ownership, can figure stuff out on your own and wants to be part of the zero-to-one journey, this might be for you.

Years of experience: 4-10

What you’ll do
 We’re at 10M requests per day, you’ll take us to 100M requests per day.

• Designing for scale: We have complex systems working overtime with a lot of moving pieces. It’s just going to get worse. We need to reimagine scalable & reusable LEGOs 🧩;
• Setup DevOps: Rome was not built without discipline, and we’re not aiming for anything less. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover and we need your help 🛠;
• Building the dream team: We need a Phil Jackson to get us a Rodman for our defence. A Dhoni to make our Rohit open. It’s going to be tough finding the right people and tougher putting them to the right work ;
• Prioritise and delegate tasks: What tech debt to fix while also building for current business requirements? How to get it all done in time using limited resources? 🧐;
• And after all of it of-course, be ready to jam to this every time we push to prod - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QNUcrjtOs🔥;

Salary and Location

Expected CTC: 40-60LPA + Generous equity (ESOPs) Location: Remote

• Lead the tech team on daily project development including legacy system refactor and new feature implementation
• At least 4+ years of people management experience.
• Design, build and maintain our trading systems that deal with trade matching, accounting, financial reporting, liquidity, and risk management.
• Articulate a long-term vision for maintaining and scaling our trading systems.
• Liaise with business, product team members, and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience in leading a team to design and build services that are highly scalable and robust.
• 5+ years of professional experience with at least one of the following languages: Go (preferred).
• Solid knowledge of multithreading, enterprise integration pattern, microservice.
• Fluent English speaker.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Nice to have:

• Full-stack experience: knowledge of Javascript React, IOS and Android app development.
• Knowledge of Ethereum-like blockchains.
• Experience in crypto exchange development.
• Experience in building systems in the finance industry.
• Familiar with DevOps work with AWS or GCP

Conditions:

• Do something meaningful; Be a part of the future of financial technology and the no.1 company in the industry
• Fast-moving, challenging and unique business problems
• International work environment and flat organization
• Great career development opportunities in a growing company
• Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career
• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours, Casual work attire

Job Profile - Engineering And Product role

Major Responsibilities

•  Defining the technical specifications and architecture along with overall  product infrastructure.
• Provide creative and unique solutions to accommodate for the versatility and customizations during product development.
• The role would expect you to code and/or conduct code reviews so experience in PHP, java or similar languages would be useful.
• Managing a team of engineers and developers; ensuring quality is met at every process of the development and deployment phases.
• Managing AWS servers to track/monitor/optimize resource utilization and upgrade servers when necessary.
• Ability to understand and collaborate on a complete product lifecycle from concept to execution.
• Implementation of new technologies to optimize product quality and usage.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• 10+ years of expertise working on and managing Technology teams.
• Understanding of Algorithms, data structures and standard coding practices
• Understanding of RDBMS design. Experience in writing complex SQL/NoSQL queries and optimizing queries.
• Very good understanding of collections and multithreading Framework - SpringBoot , JPA.
• Understanding of RDBMS design. Experience in writing complex SQL/NoSQL queries and optimizing queries.

Engineering Manager Responsibilities:

• Platform stability and smooth functioning on a day to day basis.
• Proposing and managing budgets for projects and for growth.
• Supervising the work of multiple teams (build, test, infrastructure).
• Planning and executing strategies for completing projects on time.
• Identifying potential roadblocks and building contingency plans.
• Quickly dealing with bugs and breaks in the operational environment.
• Determining the need for training and talent development.
• Team building.
• Product launch with management buyin.
• Providing clear and concise instructions to engineering teams.

Engineering Manager Requirements:

• Bachelor's / Masters degree in CS or related.
• 8 t0 12 years' engineering experience.
• Proven supervisory and technical skills.
• Capable of working in an unsupervised agile environment.
• Must come highly-recommended.