
Technical Lead/ Engineering Manager
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● Operate as a key senior team member within the Engineering team driving execution strategies and implementation of product roadmap
● Lead one or more squads of engineers (front-end and back-end) - hiring, managing them as well as 1:1 coaching and mentoring them to advance in their careers
● Lead work in tandem with Product Squads (including PM, Designers, Analysts) and other internal stakeholders to strategize on and build world-class product/s
● Develop scope and objectives of projects and sprints based on technical feasibility, keeping relevant stakeholders in the loop, and ensuring engineering team delivers consistently on the same
● Ensure engineering bandwidth based on availability and allocation, and develop and maintain detailed project plan to track progress and set expectations with engineering squad/s
● Perform regular risk management to evaluate and minimize project risks
● Manage own time and bandwidth with being hands-on as required on a regular basis.
● Performing research and finding opportunities to utilize development best practices, forming guidelines to improve system productivity, and working on scaling and monitoring.
● Scale technology architecture and team to drive short and long term product growth
● Be a key engineering voice for Virtual Internships in the external world, showcasing the world-class capabilities of the engineering team through blog, posts, events and more
REQUIREMENTS
Must haves
● Overall 4 - 8 years of product engineering experience (ideally full stack)
● 1+ years of experience of managed engineering teams that have a strong record of developing and delivering world-class products
● Experience leading teams/working in an EPD/Squad structure working closely with PM, Designers, Analysts, Engineers and QA
● Deep technical skills and expertise but lean more on leadership skills to get the job done
● Past experience with MERN/MEAN Stack along with good exposure building scalable and distributed systems using microservices
● Good grasp and understanding of technical skills (at least a few):
Front-end - HTML, CSS, React.js, Webpack, Redux, Javascript, Enzyme
Back-end - Node.js, SQL, Redis, RestAPI
● Strong communication and inter-personal skills, especially to streamline flow of information between Engineering and other teams/departments, as well as strong conflict resolution skills
● Good at creative problem solving and critical thinking to resolve issues quickly for Engineers and other teams
Good to have
● Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a similar field
● Previous experience on recruiting engineers and coaching/mentoring them
● Experience with high and low level software development concepts such as Scaling, OOP, Loadn Balancers, Storage, Application server protocols like HTTP, Websocket, etc.
● Experience working with complex data structures and data architecture
Bonus ‘to-haves’
● Experience with a (any) set of incredible product development and task management tools (such as ClickUp, JIRA, etc)

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Responsibilities:
• Take on complex problems that span multiple components and teams.
• Independently own one or more multiple modules, which include: requirement analysis, design, development, maintenance & support
• Write extensive, efficient code to address complex modules that handle the interaction between multiple components.
• Rapidly iterate to add new functionalities and solves complex problems with simple and intuitive solutions
• Produce architecture with clean interfaces, that are efficient and scalable
• Participate and contribute to architectural discussions
• Solve production issues. Investigate and provide solutions to minimize the business impact due to the outage
• Continuously improve performance metrics of modules you own.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to solve problems, execute and deliver results
Requirements:
• Experience: 3+ years
• A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science
• Software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms
• Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications
• Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus
• Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithms
• Experience with web technologies, Go/Java/Python
• Language: GO or Python
• Strong expertise in DS and Algo
• Strong leadership skills - have experience mentoring, building products from scratch or incumbent in design and architecture.
• Have worked in the scaling of the system right from scratch.
• Someone worked in small user base to a large user base and wrote optimized code
• Both HLD and LLD
About PlanetSpark:
PlanetSpark is on a mission to build the next generation of confident speakers and creative writers amongst kids and young adults. We are a Series B funded, global company impacting over 13 countries through live 1:1 personalized classes on Public Speaking and Creative Writing through handpicked top 1% teachers. Our kids participate in gripping debates, create viral YouTube videos, start their own podcast channels, perform stand-up comedy, write nail-biting mystery stories, and become confident and fearless speakers. PlanetSpark is on its journey to becoming the global leader in the large and untapped communication skills segment by 2024. We are backed by some top VCs such as Prime Venture Partners and global entrepreneurs such as Binny Bansal, Deep Kalra, Gokul Rajaram and Shirish Nandkarni. Come, join a passionate team of over 500 young and energetic team members and 3500+ expert teachers on this roller coaster ride to build the most loved brand for kids who will move the world!
Your Roles and Responsibilities:
Business Development is a critical aspect of our platform business.
1. Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking and social media.
2. Calling 65-70 leads everyday
3. Setting up meetings with potential clients (parents)
4. Generating Trial Classes - Pitch Parents to take PlanetSpark trial Classes
5. Negotiate/close deals and handle complaints or objections
6. Follow and achieve department’s sales goals on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis (3L revenue per month) 7. “Go the extra mile” to drive sales
Mission Statement
1. In your training of 1st month, we shall actively probe you through the process using Training Decks, Live Experiences, Re-Training Programs that aims to give you an overall Learning experience along with you paid stipend along the journey.
2. We create career oritented BDT in this 1 month whose skill becomes unmatched across the sector.
3. You are required to use right sales strategy and accomplish 1 Lac of revenue in the training period, hence making a way to achieve License to Sell (L-2-S)
4. You will be entitled for training stipend of INR. 21428. In-office attendance of 90% is mandatory in 1month of training
5. Post 1L Revenue achievement, you will be entitled for below
US/ Canada Shift (8:00 pm to 5:00am) - INR 7.23 LPA (4.83 Fixed + 2.4 LPA Variable)
What are we looking for?
1. Proficiency in English
2. Thorough understanding of marketing and negotiating techniques
3. Fast learner and passion for sales
4. Self-motivated with a results-driven approach
5. Proven experience in sale or relevant role is a plus
6. A friendly and energetic personality with customer service focus
Criteria
1. Willing to work 6 days in a week in a fast paced startup
2. Ready to work from Office and join immediately.
What are the behavioral attributes that we are looking for?
- A keen desire to bring growth for a fast-growing Series B funded startup
- An apparent Founder's mindset
- The candidates should be able to work in a high paced ever-changing digital environment. The role will require you to be resourceful, proactive and an expert communicator. In turn it offers immense learning and growth.
Job Title -Senior Java Developers
Job Description - Backend Engineer - Lead (Java)
Mumbai, India | Engineering Team | Full-time
Are you passionate enough to be a crucial part of a highly analytical and scalable user engagement platform?
Are you ready learn new technologies and willing to step out of your comfort zone to explore and learn new skills?
If so, this is an opportunity for you to join a high-functioning team and make your mark on our organisation!
The Impact you will create:
- Build campaign generation services which can send app notifications at a speed of 10 million a minute
- Dashboards to show Real time key performance indicators to clients
- Develop complex user segmentation engines which creates segments on Terabytes of data within few seconds
- Building highly available & horizontally scalable platform services for ever growing data
- Use cloud based services like AWS Lambda for blazing fast throughput & auto scalability
- Work on complex analytics on terabytes of data like building Cohorts, Funnels, User path analysis, Recency Frequency & Monetary analysis at blazing speed
- You will build backend services and APIs to create scalable engineering systems.
- As an individual contributor, you will tackle some of our broadest technical challenges that requires deep technical knowledge, hands-on software development and seamless collaboration with all functions.
- You will envision and develop features that are highly reliable and fault tolerant to deliver a superior customer experience.
- Collaborating various highly-functional teams in the company to meet deliverables throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Identify and improvise areas of improvement through data insights and research.
What we look for?
- 5-9 years of experience in backend development and must have worked on Java/shell/Perl/python scripting.
- Solid understanding of engineering best practices, continuous integration, and incremental delivery.
- Strong analytical skills, debugging and troubleshooting skills, product line analysis.
- Follower of agile methodology (Sprint planning, working on JIRA, retrospective etc).
- Proficiency in usage of tools like Docker, Maven, Jenkins and knowledge on frameworks in Java like spring, spring boot, hibernate, JPA.
- Ability to design application modules using various concepts like object oriented, multi-threading, synchronization, caching, fault tolerance, sockets, various IPCs, database interfaces etc.
- Hands on experience on Redis, MySQL and streaming technologies like Kafka producer consumers and NoSQL databases like mongo dB/Cassandra.
- Knowledge about versioning like Git and deployment processes like CICD.
What’s in it for you?
- Immense growth, continuous learning and deliver the best to the top-notch brands
- Work with some of the most innovative brains
- Opportunity to explore your entrepreneurial mind-set
- Open culture where your creative bug gets activated.
If this sounds like a company you would like to be a part of, and a role you would thrive in, please don’t hold back from applying! We need your unique perspective for our continued innovation and success!
So let’s converse! Our inquisitive nature is all keen to know more about you.
Skills
JAVA, MONGO, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka, rabbitMQ
Srijan is hiring for a Scrum Master/Senior Scrum Master role with a permanent WFH option.
A notice period of 30 days or less is preferred.
Remote working option available.
Roles and Responsibility:
Backlog Maintenance
- Create and Manage Backlog
- Backlog grooming: Manage/Update “sprint-backlog” and “project-backlog” regularly after client calls and demos
- Plans forward-looking technology investigations (spikes / POC)
- After each sprint demo work with the dev team to estimate and re-estimate the backlog
- Facilitate prioritization of backlog first time;
- Facilitate prioritization of backlog during planning n+1 sprint with client
- Creating mock-ups/wireframes/Sketch images to illustrate or to detail for getting clarity from the client, and for communicating the task to the dev team
- Use JIRA for all backlog (no use of Google spreadsheets)
Daily Stand-ups
- Drive daily-stand-ups
- Ask what was done yesterday, what is the plan for today
- Ask probing questions in the stand-ups and outside of it
- Identify potential roadblocks or challenges that may come up
- Consult Group Lead and raise your concerns
- Implement advice by GL
- Ensure that the team is working towards completion of the sprint; each stand-up well did, will suggest if the velocity is enough to complete Sprint or no
- (Maintain and) Update the “information radiator board (with stickies)” for all sprints
Sprint Demos
- Run sprint demos
- Calls must be marked on the client and team’s calendar; no ambiguity in when calls happen
- Every member must be present on calls at least 2-mins before the scheduled time on the calendar; be the first to join the call as moderator
- If you are unable to join, ensure that the session is recorded; if it cannot be recorded, ensure the team has captured all feedback during the demo
Business Analysis
- Understand the business of the client and the project
- This will enable you to question business needs that clients communicate
- Validate and record agreements in stories, acceptance criteria
- Create mock-ups/wireframes/Sketch annotations to illustrate or to detail -- for getting clarity from the client; and for communicating the task to the dev team -- put these in stories in JIRA
Project Management
- The Plan -- Do -- Check -- Act (Complete control on the project)
- Create Physical boards “information radiator board (with stickies)
- Plan deliverables (JIRA/Sprint) along with the team
- Organize the Sprint, get re-estimates done,
- Plan Sprint n+1 with the client -- prepared stories for the n+1 sprint to be taken up by dev team; work with QA in
- Learn to read JIRA Burndown Charts to know if the project is on time or is there likely to be a delay
- If there is likely to be a delay, speak to the Agile Coach / Group Lead to decide the nature of communication to be sent to the client
- Release Planning - define release goals
Quality Assurance
- Detail out stories with acceptance criteria
- Ensure all stories have acceptance criteria
- Work with QA in improving quality of acceptance criteria
- Work towards zero-defect sprints
- Defect triage - accept/reject
- Support the Dev+QA team in testing yourself
- Use JIRA for all these activities
- Drive testing strategy
- Deliver stories piecemeal for testing throughout the sprint
- Validate technical architecture by asking relevant questions
Stakeholder Management
- Send out weekly Status emails to internal and external clients -- must be on SM’s calendar
- Red, Amber, Green status
- Budget consumption
- Key activities this week
- Pre-empt and document roadblocks that you/team foresee
- Raise/Flag issues to clients and work aggressively within the team/org to mitigate this
- Coach clients on agile/scrum, our model, align them on our practices, using Jira, etc
Engineering Practices
- Drive towards Unit Testing
- Drive towards Continuous Integration (CI) using Jenkins; leads to a clear release and deployment strategy/plan
- Piecemeal UAT strategy
- Drive Intrinsic quality like Code, stories written, test scenarios written
- Continuously monitor and improve them. Question people on them
- Use Jira rigorously to track stories, defects, and manage it end to end.
People, Process and Tool Coach
- Coach people to improve in their role
- Challenge and question people on the way they are working to make it better
- Run sprint-retros
- During retros listen for “cause” behind the words; by asking probing questions
- Continuously strive to improve yourself
- Handhold team on Scrum way of doing
- Strategize which tool to use for what purposes.
Preferred Skills, Experience, and Education:
- 8+ years of experience as a Scrum Master
- Must have experience leading a team of around 15-20 team members in an Agile environment.
- Experience working in multi-geo or offshore environment
- JIRA experience
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Proven success in delivering projects within budget and specified timeframes, while ensuring customer satisfaction
- Proven problem-solving skills from problem assessment to solution selection
- Ability to identify alternatives and make contingency plans
- Capacity to embrace change and quickly adapt to new situations, changes in direction, and altering priorities
- Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Ability to handle multiple projects and assignments
- Ability to demonstrate critical thinking, providing options and recommendations relating to resolving issues, mitigating risks, and resolving escalated items.
- CSM (Certified) or PMP (Certified) Good to have
We are looking for Salesforce Developer ( Remote working) for Noida based CMMI-3 Company.
Interested candidates can apply with below required details.
1. Total Experience.
2. Relevant Experience (Saleforce Development)
3. Current CTC.
4. Expected CTC.
5. Notice Period.
6. Current Location.
7. Reason for a job change.
8. Any offer ( if yes, please mention details)
Ksolves India Limited
* We're an IPO launched public-listed company on National Stock Exchange, India's largest Stock Exchange
* We have development centres in Noida (India), Indore (India) and sales offices in California (USA) and Mozambique (West Africa)
* We offer development services for high-end technologies such as Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Apache NiFi, Apache Kafka, Apache Hadoop, Salesforce, Data Lake, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Node.js, React.js, AngularJS, iOS, Android, Penetration Testing etc.
* We're a NASSCOM member company
* We're a Registered Salesforce Consulting Partner and an ISV Salesforce Partner as well
* Ksolves was conceived by Ratan Srivastava after a successful run as a blue-collared professional in several top IT companies and acing a top performing freelancer hustle. Eventually, his passion for entrepreneurship struck and he started Ksolves from the ground up. Along the way, he onboarded several of his trusted colleagues/friends from his past IT life who trusted him in his vision and joined in building up Ksolves to what it is today
requirements.
Must Have:
2. Hands-on experience as a Salesforce developer, or similar roles with certifications.
3. Hands-on experience in Salesforce Lightning Web Component (LWC) and/or Aura components.
4. Extensive experience in developing & configuration SFDC Apex classes, Triggers, Visualforce
pages, workflows and Integration.
5. Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
6. Self-Motivator to perform activities around design, evolve and deploy changes.
Good to Have:
1. Knowledge of XML, JSON and other data interchange formats.
2. Knowledge of Java , HTML5 , JQuery and other web technologies.
3. Strong development (coding), debugging, tuning skills.
4. Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills
5. Experience in CRM/Telco domain
4. Exposure to Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps processes.

Technical Skills:
Minimum 2 to 10 years of Experience in Software Development.
Hands on experience in
Back End Development - Node/ Nest JS, Postgre Sql, Micro services,
Kafka, Netflix OSS stack, AWS
Front End Development - Mobile & web technologies, ReactJS and
ionic
Desirable – Healthcare/ AI project experience, TCP/IP and UDP
experience etc.,
DEPARTMENT Finance
COMPANY Project X
REPORT TO CEO
We are looking for a skilled financial accountant and analyst to maintain our financial records, including purchases, sales, receipts and payments.
Job duties include working closely with Accounting team to create and analyse financial reports and ensure legal requirements compliance, process accounts payable and receivable and manage invoices and tax payments. Our ideal candidate holds a Commerce degree and is familiar with accounting software packages, like Zoho, Tally ERP.
Ultimately, the responsibilities are to accurately record all day-to-day financial transactions of our company.
ABOUT COMPANY
Founded in 2020 by Tarang Sanghi, Project X is an innovation lab, based in Jaipur, RJ (India) at its stealth-startup phase.
Our lab's designed to create and launch new companies, products and services. It's invaluable in jump-starting novel ideas that can either disrupt or complement existing companies. We draw from our cross-functional expertise and collaborate to create these new offerings.
We come up with new ideas, execute them, and iterate until the idea is fully implemented. For more details: www.tarangsanghi.com
THE PROJECT(s)
The summary of the key project(s) they will be undertaking will come here.
Foundation accounts setup for new and upcoming ventures.
Complete all historic accounting records.
SCENARIO
Environment- Startup - You will be working in a startup environment.
Fresh / Established- You are the first person in the accounts team, and will be expected to set up the department.
AREA OF RESPONSIBILITIES
PLANNING
- Develops a system to account for financial transactions by establishing a chart of accounts; defining bookkeeping policies and procedures.
- Plan accounts strategy for all the group companies and units.
BOOKKEEPING
- Maintains historical records by filing documents.
- Maintain an accurate record of financial transactions.
- Maintains records of financial transactions by establishing accounts; posting transactions; ensuring legal requirements compliance.
- Maintains subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, and posting transactions.
- Maintain - Journal Vouchers, Ledger, Cashbook, Trading Account, P&L Account, and Balance Sheet.
- Reconciliation of accounts - Bank, and account reconciliation.
- Handle payroll in a timely manner
- Prepares financial reports by collecting, analysing, and summarising account information and trends.
- Monitor any variances from the projected budget.
- Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools.
Coordination with CA for filing of returns and audits.
Conducting daily banking activities
Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
COMPLIANCE
- Complies with central, state, and local legal requirements by studying requirements; enforcing adherence to requirements; filing reports; advising management on needed actions.
ADDITIONAL SKILL SET (Financial Planner)
- Experienced in handling international purchase and sales.
- Advising on investment activities and provide strategies that the company should take
- Analyze costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company’s actual performance compared to the business plans.
Requirements
- Years of Relevant Experience- 5+
- Education & Work experience- We prioritize skills over degrees but Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field.
- Software and Applications- Microsoft Excel- High Level Proficiency, Quickbooks, ZohoBooks, Tally ERP or other applications.
- Skills- Advanced Mathematical Skills, Strong fluency with Excel formulas and functions, Strong analytical and data gathering skills.
- Should have experience in: Handling accounting in a Group company and multi-business scenario example, e-commerce, consulting, hospitality, investments and VC.
- Qualities & Capabilities-
- Strong knack for details.
- Produce work with a high level of accuracy.
- Professionalism and organisation skills.
- Very procedure oriented.
- Tech friendly, and quick to learn.
Benefits
We offer competitive compensation and benefits.


KeepTruckin is on a mission to modernize the trucking industry. With the leading fleet management platform, we are bringing trucks online and fundamentally changing the way freight is moved on our roads.We see our hard work rewarded in tangible ways every day and we believe that intelligence is most powerful when paired with humility. We're motivated by the opportunity to impact and improve every facet of a trillion-dollar industry that touches everyone's lives. KeepTruckin is proud to be a Forbes Cloud 100 company, a 2020 Career-Launching Company by Wealthfront and named a Forbes Best Startup Employer 2020.
About the Role:
As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will play an integral part in designing components and platforms for new services within KeepTruckin's Freight product line. You will implement complex features using modern frameworks and work on a fast-growing team eager to make a significant impact by connecting the world's trucks.We are looking for senior engineers who are driven by impacting and revolutionizing a space where the last major technical innovation was the invention of the diesel engine. We are seeking team players who have strong problem solving skills, and thrive on innovation and continuous improvement. We pride ourselves on our culture and the ability to work effectively across a highly diversified team.
What You'll Do:
Work alongside product and other cross-functional counterparts including designers, back end, and QA on features that power freight productsCreate the best possible user experience in our web applications, and come up with creative, outside-the-box solutions for complex problemsWrite modular and maintainable front-end code, and actively participate in writing unit tests, improving quality, and performing code reviewsParticipate in full SDLC process in a CI/CD centered development, and actively work on our AWS cloud infrastructureResearch new technology and design patterns in collaboration with fellow engineers; propose changes that bring both short term and long term benefits
What We're Looking For:
BTech/MTech in Computer Science or related fields and 5+ years of experience building front-end software that is shipped in productionExperience with modern front-end frameworks, patterns, and browser technologies, and experience building single-page frontend applicationsExpert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other display-centric web technologies, and in at least one modern JS framework (ReactJS, AngularJS, VueJS, etc)Proficient knowledge of asynchronous request handlingExperience working with REST APIs, GraphQL, -or- similar APIs, and experience with automated testing, Agile/Scrum, and SaaS, as well as B2B Enterprise applications and AWS infrastructureCreating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of KeepTruckin's core values.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here. ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xs7GivrHCj05XC6-mn6MsRGG3V5AcgZ5/view?usp=sharing )

