Tech Lead

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a talented Engineering Team of 8+ members. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members and assist them in their career progression.

Set OKRs, progress checks and do performance evaluations. Manage the development pipeline to deliver features on schedule while maintaining high bar for quality.

Closely Interact with other functions such as PM, Design, UI/UX, Art, QA, and deliver planned features.

Perform Design reviews, Code reviews Create a solid Tech backlog that involves modernizing tech stack, set goals for performance improvements.

Establish Best Process and Development Practices and drive the centre of excellence for the teams. Updates with new technology trends and constantly evolve Facilitate and create problem-solving culture in the team.

Be obsessed about players and giving the best experience to our players.

Requirements

Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent.

Should have 8+ years of professional experience in mobile, development using C++, C#, PYTHON, GO Lang, Javascript.

Should have 2+ years of experience in managing teams, including hiring, mentoring and building strong teams.

Shown ability to motivate teams and operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-energy environment.

Exposure to using Agile and Scrum methodologies. Good communication skills, interpersonal skills with experience in building strong internal relationships.

Good Analytical, Problem-solving and Debugging skills.

Hands-on experience in Designing, Coding and release management. Desired Skills and Experience NET,C++,Golang,Java,JavaScript,Python,Quality Assurance,C#

• Build and manage a team of software engineers as the team’s capacity requirements grow
• Organize software development lifecycle
• Prepare specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code
• Organize, document, and maintain software functionality
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Evaluate and deploy software tools, processes, and metrics
• Provide support and consulting on software systems usage
• Ensure compliance with project plans and industry standards
• Research, implement and improve on a range of cutting-edge technologies.

Ideal Experience & Skills

• 8+ years experience of working in a Computer Software Engineer or Software Developer position
• 3+ years experience leading a team of developers
• Significant experience in developing web applications
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL and ORM technologies 1
• Good experience in designing interactive applications with test-driven development
• Experience with Go, React, AWS, React Native, Python
• Experience documenting requirements and specifications
• Close familiarity with software engineering tools, software development methodology, and release processes
• B.E/B.Tech or any equivalent degree

About You

• A+ character. We are team-first here at the company.
• A hard-working mentality. It’s early and there is still a lot to build.
• An excellent communicator.
• A fun attitude. Life’s too short. We can have fun while we work hard on cool things.
• Smarts. We need people that are smart enough to make decisions on their own and also smart enough to know when they need input from others.
• Perks & Benefits
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Group Medical insurance
• Life and long term disability insurance
• Collaborative workspace
• The opportunity to join the fastest-growing startup alongside a team of motivated and driven individuals

Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence and its applications in the software development lifecycle? Are you excited about building AI models that can revolutionize how developers ship, refactor, and onboard to legacy or existing applications faster? If so, Zevo.ai has the perfect opportunity for you!

As an AI Researcher/Engineer at Zevo.ai, you will play a crucial role in developing cutting-edge AI models using CodeBERT and codexGLUE to achieve our goal of providing an AI solution that supports developers throughout the sprint cycle. You will be at the forefront of research and development, harnessing the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to revolutionize the way software development is approached.

Responsibilities:

1. AI Model Development: Design, implement, and refine AI models utilizing CodeBERT and codexGLUE to comprehend codebases, facilitate code understanding, automate code refactoring, and enhance the developer onboarding process.
2. Research and Innovation: Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in NLP and ML research, identifying novel techniques and methodologies that can be applied to Zevo.ai's AI solution. Conduct experiments, perform data analysis, and propose innovative approaches to enhance model performance.
3. Data Collection and Preparation: Collaborate with data engineers to identify, collect, and preprocess relevant datasets necessary for training and evaluating AI models. Ensure data quality, correctness, and proper documentation.
4. Model Evaluation and Optimization: Develop robust evaluation metrics to measure the performance of AI models accurately. Continuously optimize and fine-tune models to achieve state-of-the-art results.
5. Code Integration and Deployment: Work closely with software developers to integrate AI models seamlessly into Zevo.ai's platform. Ensure smooth deployment and monitor the performance of the deployed models.
6. Collaboration and Teamwork: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to align AI research efforts with overall company objectives.
7. Documentation: Maintain detailed and clear documentation of research findings, methodologies, and model implementations to facilitate knowledge sharing and future developments.
8. Ethics and Compliance**: Ensure compliance with ethical guidelines and legal requirements related to AI model development, data privacy, and security.

Requirements

1. Educational Background: Bachelor's/Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field. A strong academic record with a focus on NLP and ML is highly desirable.
2. Technical Expertise: Proficiency in NLP, Deep Learning, and experience with AI model development using frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow. Familiarity with CodeBERT and codexGLUE is a significant advantage.
3. Programming Skills: Strong programming skills in Python and experience working with large-scale software projects.
4. Research Experience: Proven track record of conducting research in NLP, ML, or related fields, demonstrated through publications, conference papers, or open-source contributions.
5. Problem-Solving Abilities: Ability to identify and tackle complex problems related to AI model development and software engineering.
6. Team Player: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a team-oriented environment.
7. Passion for AI: Demonstrated enthusiasm for AI and its potential to transform software development practices.

If you are eager to be at the forefront of AI research, driving innovation and impacting the software development industry, join Zevo.ai's talented team of experts as an AI Researcher/Engineer. Together, we'll shape the future of the sprint cycle and revolutionize how developers approach code understanding, refactoring, and onboarding!

‍Expected to manage the product plan, engineering, and delivery of Plum Integration activities. Plum is a rewarding and incentive infrastructure for businesses. It's a unified integrated suite of products to handle various rewarding use cases for consumers, sales, channel partners, and employees. 31% of the total tech team is aligned towards this product and comprises 32 members within Plum Tech, Quality, Design, and Product management. The annual FY 2019-20 revenue for Plum was $ 40MN and is showing high growth potential this year as well. The product has a good mix of both domestic and international clientele and is expanding. The role will be based out of our head office in Bangalore, Karnataka however we are open to discuss the option of remote working with 25 - 50% travel.‍

• Scope and lead technology with the right product and business metrics.
• Directly contribute to product development by writing code if required.
• Architect systems for scale and stability.
• Serve as a role model for our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the many codebases and processes you will encounter.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across disciplines like sales, customers, product, design, and customer success.
• Code reviews and feedback.
• Build simple solutions and designs over complex ones and have a good intuition for what is lasting and scalable.
• Define a process for maintaining a healthy engineering culture (Cadence for one-on-ones, meeting structures, HLDs, Best Practices In development, etc.).

• Manage a senior tech team of more than 5 direct and 10 indirect developers.
• Should have experience in handling e-commerce applications at scale.
• Should have experience working with applications like HubSpot salesforce and other CRM.
• Should have experience in B2B integrations.
• Should have at least 10+ years of experience in software development, agile processes for international e-commerce businesses.
• Should be extremely hands-on, with an Automate as much as possible mind set full-stack developer.
• Should exhibit skills to build a good engineering team and culture.
• Should be able to handle the chaos with product planning, prioritizing, customer-first approach.
• Technical proficiency
• Frameworks like React, React Native, Node.js, GraphQL
• Databases technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka
• Dev ops to manage and architect infra - AWS, CI/CD (Jenkins)
• System Architecture w.r.t Microservices, Cloud Development, DB Administration, Data Modeling
• Understanding of security principles and possible attacks and mitigate them.

‍You will lead the Plum Integration Engineering team and work in close conjunction with the Tech leads of Plum with some cross-functional stake with other products. Your will report to the CTO directly.

• Take the microservices architecture to the next level of scalability, efficiency, observability, and availability. 
• Build, deploy & run multi-homed systems that work in multiple regions and cloud providers. 
• Build (and open source) data processing, storage and fetch systems at the petabyte scale with the lowest cost/GB while still responding in milliseconds at the 99th percentile. 
• Optimize algorithms which influence personalization, fulfillment/allocation, pricing, maps & routing, fleet positioning, payments, fraud prevention etc 
• Create platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable 
• Write high-quality code that is modular, functional and testable; Establish the best coding practices 
• Formally mentor junior engineers on design, coding, and troubleshooting 
• Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture 
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment 
• Operationalize releases by partnering with Tech operations on capacity planning and operability of the product

Experience:

• of years  - 10+ years
• Type of experience - software design, development & architecture
• Experience in Product companies working on Internet-scale applications is preferred 
• Contribution to open-source software, tech blogs, talking at tech conferences, etc. 

Educational Qualifications:

○  Must have - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering from premier institutes preferred  

Key competencies:

•  Deep understanding of one or more of Java/Go/Scala/C++. Ability to understand and critique the core library/language constructs. 
• Knowledge of processor, memory, network and storage internals. 
• Deep understanding of distributed systems including fault modeling, concurrency, isolation, consensus etc. 
• Internals of a RDBMS like MySQL 
• Conversant with the internals of systems like Kafka, Cassandra/Scylla, Redis, RocksDB, etc 
• Working knowledge of hosting and network infrastructure (K8s, Envoy, etc) 
• Familiarity with binary serialization protocols like thrift/protobuf/flatbuffers etc 
• Familiar with gRPC, HTTP/2, QUIC, etc. 
• Troubleshooting memory issues, GC tuning, resource leaks etc. 
• Strong problem-solving skills, algorithmic skills and data structures. 
• Productionizing machine learning pipelines using Spark/Flink/TensorFlow etc 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in management, finance or computer sciences or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of IT management experience, preferably within the small and medium business market.
• 8+ year in Software/SAAS business
• Project management experience preferred

Responsibilities:

• Setting a vision for how technology will be used in the company.
• Product lifecycle from architecture perspective
• Ensuring that the technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs.
• Creating timelines for the development and deployment of all technological services
• Making executive decisions on behalf of the company's technological requirements
• Acting as a mentor to team members
• Maintaining a consumer-focused outlook and aiding in the delivering of IT projects to market
• Staying on top of technology trends and developments
• Powerful coder with an expertise in PhP, Laravel, Javascript, Architecture Design, Database Design and having agile mindset
• Must have strong knowledge in AWS infrastructure

Desired Skills:

• Communication
• Planning & Execution
• Problem Solving
• Project Management 
• Quality Management
• Knowledge of deployment tasks such as on site deliveries, installation, acceptance
• Risk assessment 
• Decision Making
• Customer focus