Technical Product Manager

Preferring candidates from Ahmedabad / Bangalore specifically!

Thence is searching for a highly skilled and motivated individual who is enterprising and eager to make a significant impact in the service space by enabling exceptional products. The ideal candidate should have a robust technical background, outstanding leadership skills, and a proven track record of managing complex technical projects. Moreover, this role includes consideration for a Partner role after completing one year with Thence, accompanied by sizeable equity.

Reporting directly to the COO, you will have the opportunity to shape the direction of the company's growth by delivering digital products to clients across various verticals like healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.

If you are a motivated individual with a passion for driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our dynamic team at Thence.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Developing digital products, applications and minimum viable product (MVP), including defining the overall architecture and system design to meet business requirements.
• Enabling our client to select the appropriate technology stack, considering factors such as scalability, performance, security and maintainability.
• Designing and configuring the infrastructure to support the software application.
• Choosing the development toolkit, frameworks and libraries best suited based on business and project's needs.
• Crafting and executing database designs, ensuring data integrity, performance and scalability.
• Enhancing and optimising application architecture to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Ensuring application scalability to handle increased user loads and data volumes effectively.
• Upholding quality assurance standards through code reviews, testing and continuous integration practices.
• Ensuring IP security by implementing robust authentication, authorisation and encryption mechanisms.
• Exploring and integrating new technologies to enhance the software's capabilities and keep it up-to-date with industry trends.
• Developing the startup's strategic resource allocation plan, including budgeting for technology investments and staffing needs.
• Ensuring efficient utilisation of technologies by optimising resource allocation and minimising waste.
• Assessing and integrating new systems and infrastructure to support the evolving needs of the organization.
• Deliver digital products to clients across various verticals, including healthcare, Fintech, hospitality, manufacturing, etc.
• Building, attracting and mentoring talented developers to foster a culture of learning, innovation and collaboration within the team.
• Collaborating closely with the sales team to ensure effective communication and strategic positioning of technology solutions, while continuously refining sales pitch strategies based on feedback and market trends to maximize success rates and drive revenue growth.
• Defining, managing and evaluating team members based on goals and performance metrics, providing status updates to the leadership team on a bi-weekly basis.
• Identifying process gaps and development inefficiencies within the organisation and defining and driving Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to address these gaps effectively.
• Generate business opportunities from existing clients and collaborate with the business team to convert new business.
• Work towards achieving annual and quarterly revenue targets.

Skills Required

• Strong business acumen, with the ability to make strategic decisions and take ownership of account growth, revenue and outcomes.
• Strong technical background with experience in managing complex technical projects encompassing diverse realms such as Web, Mobile, Applications (Apps), Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML).
• Extensive experience in establishing and refining processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) aimed at measuring and enhancing the quality and efficiency of development capabilities. This includes implementing frameworks to assess performance metrics, optimise workflows and drive continuous improvement across the development lifecycle.
• Excellent leadership skills and the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
• Proven track record of driving business growth and creating lasting client partnerships.
• Enterprising and adept at handling clients effectively.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an inspiring and confident team player with:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and/or significant relevant work experience
• Minimum of 4+ years of proven agency experience in software development projects.
• Experience in leading a team of highly skilled developers, engineers, and testers
• working on multiple client projects
• Experience managing products and projects, and delivering large scale technical solutions on time and on budget
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, with a track record of managing stakeholder expectations effectively.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools
• Experience with cloud-based technologies and infrastructure, microservices, and serverless architecture

Additional Opportunities:

After completing one year with Thence, high-performing individuals will be considered for a Partner role, with the potential for substantial equity ownership in the company.

We are looking for motivated individuals who are keen to work on Cloud or Big Data services or have worked on Cloud and Big Data. If you want to work in a start-up culture and are ready for the challenge, then join us on our exciting journey.

Responsibilities:

• Design, code and debug cloud-native applications.
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Write well designed, testable, efficient code
• Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures
• Serve as a subject matter expert

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software development

• Deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or Google)

• Experience with large scale distributed systems

• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems

• Prior experience with data encryption, TLS/SSL is a strong plus

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is a plus

• Deep experience with Java

• Excellent communication (writing, conversation, presentation) skills, consensus building, Quick learner
  Good to have experience in Production support - Tier 4
  
  Experience with these technologies are a plus: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudera, Snowflake, Mongo DB, Oracle, Databricks, Datastax, Confluent

- Working on Architecture and Standards team to validate designs and standards.

- Perform coding, bug verification, unit testing, and integration testing.

Job Title: Software Development Manager
Job Type: Full – Time 
Location: Pune 
Work Timings – General Shift

Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Provide project management and overall leadership on every aspect of the software and infrastructure
• Engage in external customer and client discussions at all stages of a project lifecycle as needed, including initial project scoping efforts through development and project presentation.
• Get involved to provide directions for different projects inclusive of research, development, design, evaluation, testing along with delivery.
• Supervise architecture planning and lead efforts to develop a technical roadmap for projects.
• Breakdown the Project stories into Sprints and ensure project completion on time by delegating, monitoring, and mitigating risks.
• Establish and stimulate software development standards and processes along with best practices.
• Perform closely with Engineers, Developers, and Product Management throughout the organization.
• Brainstorming new product development strategies and solutions.
• Constantly find ways to improve efficiency, introduce automation and smart measures for robust quality.
• Ensure quality design reviews to meet the customer’s SLA.
• Supervise resource allocation to assure the attainment of apt business and personnel development goals.
• Involve in strategic plans to accomplish technical as well as business with leadership chain, team, and customers.
• Evaluate projects, develop and update schedules plus supervise project status.
• Collaborate effectively with all team members as well as hold regular team meetings.
• Provide a safe and healthy environment for the team to develop and grow into highly productive, self-motivated, and competitive intellectuals
  
  

Skills and Experience:

Qualifications:

• BE/B-Tech/MBA in any related field.
• Experience: 5+ years

Skills:

• Strong Verbal and Written Communications Skills.
• Strong Relationship Building Ability with teams at all locations.
• Ability to work Collaboratively with various Verticals across multiple Geographical Locations.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, efficiently & accurately.
• Should have technical knowledge of product development over Mobile, desktop, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Should have the ability to independently manage development from design through testing and deployment.
• Should have had experience tech stacks like MERN, MEAN, LAMP, or equivalent.
• UI experience is preferred.
• 2+ years of application development experience using Cloud technologies.

Personal Qualities and Behavior traits:

• Be a good team worker demonstrating loyalty and commitment to the organization and team members.
• Good organizational and communication skills and excellent attention to details
• Interact with individuals to facilitate information and feedback.

Evox Systems is an innovative IT company founded in Mumbai in 2014 and now based in Vadodara. We are a small international team of like-minded, young, enthusiastic individuals from India and Russia. We are on a hunt for curious, hardworking, like-minded people for various roles at the organization. If you feel you fit the bill, shoot in your CV or hit apply.

We are looking for an experienced full-stack developer to work on a number of company's web applications.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the development of a new web application,

- Oversee and guide the work of junior developers,

- Discuss high-level technical problems with the tech lead,

- Discuss user experience with the customer representative,

- Write high-quality code across the whole stack (MERN),

- Review code of the junior developers,
- Manage the team and product development.

Requirements:
- Experience in fullstack development,

- Experience in leading a team of junior developers,
- Ability to understand and implement nontrivial algorithms,
- Good knowledge of networking standards (HTTP specs, HTML specs, etc).

Working conditions:

- Working days: 5 days a week, from 10:00 till 19:00,
- Employment type: full-time
- Job location:

  * We will give preference to candidates who are willing to relocate to Vadodara, Gujarat. We will provide relocation assistance and support.

  * Exceptional candidates willing to work remotely will also be considered. 

Technical Manager: We are looking for someone who can report to the firm’s chief technology officer, the technical lead is a full-time position that participates in all phases of the project lifecycle and consistently delivers business value to our clients. The technical lead is a leader within our client-facing project delivery team structure and sets best practices, approach and direction for the technical aspects of our practice. The ideal candidate has a passion for the web and higher education and is a champion for Laravel or similar frameworks.  And guide our passionate Software Developers to design, develop robust products. Candidates should be open minded to new solutions, forward thinking and strong ability to adapt. As a Lead, you’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure system consistency and improve user experience. Ultimately, you should be able to lead, develop and maintain functional and stable web applications to meet our company’s needs along with managing the team.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participates in pre-project business development activities including writing proposals, developing price estimates, and delivering pitches for new work. 

• Participates in pre-project business development activities including writing proposals, developing price estimates, and delivering pitches for new work. 

• In partnership with the other technical lead, sets direction for all aspects of our technology practice. 

• Leads and advances our growing Laravel practice. 

• Responsible for various aspects of ongoing support and maintenance engagements. Partners with project managers and web developers to successfully manage these client relationships
  
  

•  Understand requirements & plan the architecture for frontend/backend of the application
• Plan out the contracts & APIs for communication of various components.
• Work on integration of any external libraries and tools as per required by the application needs
• Working with modern tools to make the application more robust, efficient and scalable

• Understands each client’s organizational goals and objectives. 

• Develops lasting relationships with client personnel that foster client ties. 

• Seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships. 

• Delivers training to client personnel of various skill levels and technical capabilities.

Communication Responsibilities:

•    Delivers engaging, informative and well-organized presentations.
•    Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion. 
•    Understands how to tactfully communicate difficult/sensitive information.
•    Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills. 
•    Elicits cooperation from a variety of sources including Froogal management and client  

   team  members.

•    Comfortable using teleconferencing and web-based technology to communicate with our 

   Clients.

Other Responsibilities: 

•   Helps team members progress toward their professional development goals.
•   Defines and disseminates technology best practices.
•   Ensures we are proactive in our pursuit of new solutions and innovation within our   

   technology practice. 

•   Advances the firm’s thought leadership, specifically around web technologies, via the    

              mStoner blog, social media outlets and industry events and conferences. 

• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming & its implementation in any programming language. Knowledge of PHP and/or JS is a plus
• Proven industry experience as a Tech Lead
• Experience/Knowledge of microservice architecture
• Fluency and Hands-on Experience on Laravel 5+ PHP Framework (specially working with Eloquent Models/Collections) and/or React/Redux is a plus.
• Excellent knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and/or NoSql based DB such as MongoDB.
• Experience in JavaScript. Vue JS/React JS is a plus