
About the Company:
Progcap is a Fintech and AI company that pioneers alternative credit scoring for small businesses using proprietary data from non-traditional sources. We aim to fuel credit to 100 million under-banked SMEs in the emerging markets worldwide with an initial focus on India.
Progcap is Sequoia-backed Series A startup, comprising of top tier talent from finance, technology, data science and operations. The Company is the recipient of the World Bank's "SME Product Innovation of the year", 2018 award, Madrid.
What you will be doing:
- Lead and provide first level supervision to project teams and ensures successful delivery of tasks assigned to the team along with sharing of project updates & related communication with stakeholders.
- Writing and ensuring reusable, testable, and efficient code.
- Managing data across multiple databases and providing analysis to stakeholders.
- Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Implementation of security and data protection (permission classes and middleware.)
- Implementation of user authentication and authorization across multiple systems, servers, and environments.
What you bring:
- Should have minimum 4 years of experience in development using Python and 1 year in leading Python based projects.
- Strong experience in Application lifecycle management – development, testing and deployment.
- Strong understanding and experience with code version control tools (git, svn, etc.)
- Expert in Python with working experience on Django, AWS, Lambda, RDS, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Integration of data storage solutions redis, postgresql, mysql (big query, big table, pubsub, appengine).
- Strong in data structures and algorithms
- Preferably candidates with Financial/lending Applications development experience with any Fintech Co.

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autonomous world.Rich data in large volumes is getting collected at the edge (outside a datacenter) in use cases like autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, satellite imagery, smart retail, smart agriculture etc.These datasets are characterized by being unstructured
(images/videos), large size (Petabytes per month), distributed (across edge, on-prem and
cloud) and form the input for training AI models to get to higher degrees of automation.
Akridata is engaged with building products that solve these unique challenges and be at the forefront of this edge data revolution.
The company is backed by prominent VCs and has it’s entire software engineering team
based out of India and provides ample opportunities for from-scratch design and
development.
Role:
This role is an individual contributor role with key responsibilities in developing web server
backends for Akridata management plane software that provides a ‘single pane of glass’ for users to manage assets, specify and monitor large volume data pipelines at scale involving 10s of petabytes of data.
This role involves:
1. Working with tech leads and the rest of the team on the feature design activities and
picking appropriate tools and techniques for implementation.
2. Be a hands-on developer able to independently make correct implement choices, follow
sound development practices to ensure an enterprise grade application.
3. Guide and mentor junior team members.
What we are looking for:
1. A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science with strong CS fundamentals and
problem solving.
2. 5+ years of hands-on experience with software development with 3+ years on web
backend development.
3. A good understanding of backend application interactions with relational databases like
MySQL, Postgres etc
4. Knowledge of web server development frameworks preferably on Python.
5. Enthusiastic to work in a dynamic, fast paced startup environment.
Good to have:
1. Hands-on experience with designing database schema and implementing and debugging SQL queries for optimal performance for large datasets
2. Experience working with applications deployed on Kubernetes clusters.
3. Experience with working on a product from early stages of it’s development typically in a
startup environment.

Job Description:
As a L3 analyst, you will play a key role within the Application Management team, leading services for its customer(s). This service has responsibility for the smooth daily operational running of the Client platform both in the cloud and on-premises. The Client application is business critical and centrally manages data for trading, settlement, risk, client and regulatory reporting systems. As a L3 analyst, you will be responsible for supporting complex infrastructure and application issues raised by L1/L2 support teams, and business analysts. You would also be working on client requests for enhancements, fixes, maintaining custom code, and following the best practices such as Agile, DevOps, etc.
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- Accountability and primary responsibility/duties:
- A typical day would look like as follows: -
- 40% support issues.
- 40% configuration/development work.
- 20% continuous improvement, automation, CICD, so on.
- Activities would range across the lifecycle from discovery to post-implementation support.
- Understanding client’s requirement, replicate the problem and providing the solution
- Understanding and developing new requirements coming in from BAs (Business Analysts) and customers.
- Update the existing functionality based on client needs.
- Develop changes that cater to enhancing the product and/or fixing production issues
- Prepare product releases of software components. (Java/SQL-PLSQL)
- Contribute in all phases of the development cycle. (development/Deployment/Testing, peer review)
- Create technical document for all changes made.
Required Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Strong basics and working experience in following technologies: -
- Core Java.
- SQL / PLSQL coding.
- Object Oriented Programming concepts and data structures.
- Working knowledge on Unix platform
- Working knowledge on XSLT and XML handling
- Basic understanding App & web server working knowledge (JBOSS, WebLogic and WebSphere) and debugging skills.
- Advantageous to have:
- Working understanding on CICD, Dev-ops technologies.
- Queuing technologies including Kafka, MQ, Solace.
- Scripting including Python, Unix, java.
- Hands on knowledge of Dev ops processes and tools Good interpersonal and communication skills.



- Leads more than one projects end-to-end and collaborates across functions. Drives planning, estimation and execution.
- Manages stakeholder expectations and offers scalable, reliable, performant and easy to maintain solutions
- Consistently delivers complex, well backed and bug-free products in time
- Consistently takes well thought technical/design decisions
- Develops expertise in more than one area and shares knowledge with others. able to mentor/train in areas which are new to them.
- Drives people to solve engineering challenges
- Enjoys high respect of Tech and other cross functional teams
- Demonstrates effective communication with project team, management and
internal/external clients as necessary.
- Surfaces both technical and non-technical team challenges and helps resolve them
- Champion for SDLC best practices and high quality standards
- Expert at in RoR, Golang, NodeJS or Python. Good to have exposure to ML.
- Must have experience in cloud computing
- Operates independently with almost no oversight
- Is able to apply domain expertise to think critically and make wise decisions for the
team, taking into account tradeoffs and constraints.
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered multiple projects with end-to-end engineering ownership
- Keeps track of new technology/tools and embraces them as necessary
- 7+ years of experience in product driven organization
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute (preferably



- 5-7+ years of commercial Java development experience
- Experience with well known Open Source frameworks/libraries, like Spring Boot
- Work experience with Docker
- Microservice experience
- Experience with AWS like ECS, Lambda, SQS, RDS, Kinesis streams
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- Upper-intermediate level of English
- Solid understanding of communication and network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP).
- At ease with Unix/Linux
- Excellent analytical and debugging skills
- Familiar with both SQL and noSQL databases (MySQL, DynamoDB, Memcached, Redis)
- Practical experience with scaling applications to big user numbers is a plus
- Experience with other programming languages is a plus.

● You’ve been building the backend for web applications.
● You have experience with any of these backend programming languages --
Python, NodeJS or Java.
● You write an understandable, testable code with an eye towards
maintainability.
● You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to
designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
● You possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures,
algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information
retrieval.
● You have completed a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or
related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.


- Set up, manage, automate and deploy AI models in development and production infrastructure.
- Orchestrate life cycle management of AI Models
- Create APIs and help business customers put results of the AI models into operations
- Develop MVP ML learning models and prototype applications applying known AI models and verify the problem/solution fit
- Validate the AI Models
- Make model performant (time and space) based on the business needs
- Perform statistical analysis and fine-tuning using test results
- Train and retrain systems when necessary
- Extend existing ML libraries and frameworks
- Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
- Ensuring that algorithms generate accurate user recommendations/insights/outputs
- Keep abreast with the latest AI tools relevant to our business domain
- Bachelor’s or master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related field
- A Master’s degree in data analytics, or similar will be advantageous.
- 3 - 5 years of relevant experience in deploying AI models to production
- Understanding of data structures, data modeling, and software architecture
- Good knowledge of math, probability, statistics, and algorithms
- Ability to write robust code in Python/ R
- Proficiency in using query languages, such as SQL
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow and libraries such as scikit-learn
- Worked with well know machine learning models ( SVM, clustering techniques, forecasting models, Random Forest, etc.)
- Having knowledge in CI/CD for the building and hosting the solutions
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- Ability to work effectively and independently in a fast-paced agile environment with tight deadlines
- A flexible, pragmatic, and collaborative team player with an innate ability to engage with data architects, analysts, and scientists.







