Technical Architect

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a Tech Lead/Principal SDE, you'll be leading the engineering team for the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product in our platform. You will be the owner of the product and would requires a unique balance between hands-on development, architecture knowledge and production support.

You would be ensuring technical excellence, innovation, and alignment within your team. Drive feature design, ensuring regular releases, system optimization, and mentorship while shaping our overall tech strategy along with the Technical Program Manager (TPM).

This is a high visibility & high impact role, where you will be working with the founders & TPM directly. You will be leading the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product in our platform.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Specialization in Technology: Act as the go-to person for specific technologies and proactively learn new ones to stay ahead in the industry.
• Technical Architecture: Create the technical architecture for the product, and keep evolving it to meet future requirements, defining and ensuring adherence to SLAs. Focus on reducing technical debt within the product.
• Ownership and Monitoring: Take ownership of production operations, releases, ensuring system uptime, and being mindful of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Hands-On Coding: Engage in hands-on coding activities, contributing 30% to 70% of your time to development tasks.
• Be like Yoda: The wise and learned mentor who guides others through challenges. If the engineering team is stuck, you should be able to step in, and show them how it's done.
• Team Coordination: Coordinate team members, providing constructive feedback, and facilitate productive discussions.
• Process Adjustment: Adapt and refine team processes based on feedback, guiding the team through necessary changes.
• Technology Evangelism: Research, create proofs of concept, and introduce innovative technologies to the team.
• Process Definition: Define and implement appropriate processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.
• Company-wide Impact: Contribute to the overall tech organization, influencing its direction and strategies.

Role Expectations:

• Quarterly Co-working: You would be expected to work for 1-2 weeks out of Bengaluru once every quarter depending on the requirements. Rest of the time will be fully remote.
• Architecture and Integration: Lead architectural discussions and ensure seamless product integration.
• Tech Mentoring and Alignment: Mentor team members, drive technology adoption, and ensure alignment with company goals.
• Technical Experiments: Conduct technical experiments, and drive innovation within the team.
• Code Reviews and Feedback: Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• System Design Presentations: Present and communicate system designs effectively within the team and to stakeholders.
• Technical Capacity Planning: Plan and forecast technical resource requirements, contributing to hiring decisions.
• Production Issue Management: Manage and escalate production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal downtime. What you build is what you own.
• System SLAs and Monitoring: Define and monitor system SLAs, metrics, and performance indicators.
• Product Direction and Practices: Define product direction & roadmap, establish best practices, and drive continuous improvement.
• Cross-team collaboration: Collaborate with other Tech leads, Technical Program Manager, Product manager, leadership to ensure alignment and synergy
• Development Process Improvement: Continuously improve the development process, promoting efficiency and quality.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years experience in a similar role or similar working experience
• Strong product & development background preferably in dev-tools or infra product is highly desirable (as a developer, SDET, architect, etc).
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Kong, Envoy, AWS Mirroring etc.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security is preferred - helps you stand out 😉
• Knowledge of GoLang, Python, JavaScript
• Experience with DevOps - Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.
• Proven experience in leading and managing technical teams, including mentoring and coaching team members.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns. Experience leading change in large-scale systems.
• Experience with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Experience with system monitoring and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company.
• Fully remote & agile working environment.
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits.

Designation : Business Development Executive

Cadre : Team Member 

Position Reports to : Team Leader

Job Type : Full time

Location : Mumbai, BKC.

Shift Timings and Working Days:

US Shift : 7pm to 3.30 am

Working Days : Monday to Friday – Prefer male candidate  

Additional Perk offer for Night Shift: 200 RS Per working day in cash which will be provided every Friday

General Shift : 9 am to 5:30pm

Working Days : Monday to Saturday – Prefer Female candidate

Additional Perk offer for Day Shift: Free Food will be offered.

Job Description :

ABOUT FINESTAR :

Finestar is a focused organization, sight holder of De Beers group of companies. We sources rough diamonds directly from primary sources, manufacture it entirely in our own fully-integrated factories and distributes the polished diamonds across the world through our global marketing & distribution network. The group has been expanding its operations over the last 25 years and today have a presence in 8 countries. 

Job Description :

As a Business Development Executive, you will play a crucial role in our organization by conducting a substantial volume of outbound calls daily to leads and oversee end-to-end conversions. Through your effective communication and persuasive skills, you will engage with potential clients, providing insightful information to convince and convert inquiries into successful online registration.

· Making outbound calls to potential clients

· Take care of existing & New Clients

· Closing sales leads and assisting the client in entire process

· Meeting or exceeding monthly goals assigned by the Team Leader

· Working with the team and keep developing new market opportunities

· Perform any other jobs assign by management

Desired Candidate Profile :

· Excellent English communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written

· Competitive and enthusiastic personality with negotiation skills

· Excellent interpersonal and customer-facing skills

· Expertise in Microsoft Office

Other Requirements/Details :

·        Tech-savvy, proactive, and eager to learn attitude

·        The logical, solution-oriented mindset with good analytical ability

·        Bachelor’s degree in any stream

·        Fresher or 1-3 years of experience in Luxury domain is plus

·        CTC Offer : between 2.5 LPA to 3.5 LPA

·        Immediate joiner

*No Target , No Pressure*

Mumbai Based candidates only

• Providing technology leadership, vision, and passion to the product team.
• Working closely with the product management team and engineering team to transform customer needs into product engineering architecture and initiatives.
• Responsible for defining and implementing solid product engineering best practices and processes to guarantee results for product delivery.
• Take ownership and drive technology initiatives in the organization.
• Manage the product architecture design and reviews, review platform test automation, and DevOps Practises.
• Recruiting and mentoring a team of world-class developers.
• Provide the Delivery and Support teams with technical advice and support.

• Should have a strong technical background in product development and the complete software development life cycle.
• Coding skills are mandatory and we’re looking for someone who is technology agnostic and can jump in where needed. Our current tech stack scales across various technologies and platforms: JAVA, Ionic/Angular, IOS, Android, PHP and Python among others.

• Flexible, adaptable to the challenging pace of identifying and adopting new technologies.
• Have a strong sense of ownership and motivation to make our product successful.

• Result-oriented with a strong sense of drive and driven technology initiatives in previous jobs.

• Must have experience in building teams, identifying and mentoring talent, and working on architecting and building large-scale products.
• Must have an excellent understanding of the current web and mobile app technology landscape.
• The ideal candidate should have 12+ years of experience in software engineering with at least 8-10 years in product development. 
• Last position as an technical owner of a product engineering team with at least 15 people.
• A Bachelor’s degree or better, preferably in Computer Engineering, from a reputed college/university.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The candidate is expected to create and lead a team of engineers and drive dev efforts for

Medibuddy and its various products.

The candidate will be part of the Engineering leadership team (IIT/IIM grads) and will help

strategise, execute product roadmap.

Work closely with Product and business teams to strategize or design the features and

product experiments.

Lead a team of 10+ Engineers [backend and/or mobile]

Responsible for engineering delivery in platform & product engineering pods at Medibuddy.

Scale the technology architecture, team and product to drive a 10x growth in next 12-24

months.

Code and Architect key features that form backbone of DocsApp

Conduct performance reviews and mentor and guide the team reporting

Drive adoption best engineering practices in the team and the organization

1. Deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable code at a fast pace.Skills & Qualifications:
2.  9+ yrs. relevant experience in consumer tech/ or SaaS space.
3. Tier 1 background (IIT/BITS/IIIT/NIT), Pass-out from 2014 batch or earlier.

Strong Technical Background: You have strong programming, architecture, DevOps and QA

chops. You should have experience working with a diverse engineering stack in a fast-paced

environment.

Biased toward action. You must be able to do more with less and turn would-be blockers into

opportunities for growth.

Balancing Short Term with Long Term - You have demonstrated strategic execution

balancing short term tactical execution with long term vision. You should be able to adapt

quickly as per the demands of the situation.

Efficient Execution - You must be persuasive, patient, compassionate and possess exquisite

prioritization skills.

Prior management and team-building experience. You'll be managing several direct reports

initially and will have the opportunity to scale and build out a high-performing engineering

team.

Stakeholder management - You complement product and business owners with finding the

right solutions in a timely manner.

Past entrepreneurial experience is a big plus.

Strong grasp of Nodejs/Python stack

Databases/Datastores : Mysql , Redis / Memcache , MongoDB

1. Basic Understanding of Android, iOS, Web Application stacks
2. One of SQS, RabbitMQ, SNS
3. Familiarity with AWS and its services including RDS, ECS, EBS, Cloudwatch, ELK, Redshift
   
   Nice to have -

Logging : ELK, Cloudwatch.

Frontend : html , css , Javascript

Protocols : HTTP, XMPP, MQTT, Socket.io, TCP

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.

• If you are from IIIT, NIT;
• If you have experience of Amazon or equivalent product company;
• If you are confident to use technology and meet any product goals; Coding must be your interest as entrepreneurs need to do anything and everything if required. 
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• If you are ready to take the challenge with Company Stake, Co-founder role, and a minimum fixed salary (don't compare it with your corporate salary) to run your essentials; then THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TRY ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH MINIMUM POSSIBLE RISK. You will not get an option to be a co-founder of a 3+years old totally operational startup, who gives you the seed for the next year to give a final touch and raise Series A.