Technical Team Lead

Engineering Lead (Backend/Full stack)

About

It is a mission-oriented high-growth fintech startup building payment &

lending products to simplify education payments. Jodo’s suite of products make education payments convenient & affordable for parents while simplifying & streamlining fee collections for educational institutes. Jodo aims to be a category-defining company with a mission to be a

trusted partner to parents in fulfilling their aspirations for their kids’ education.

We are backed by marquee VC investors – Tiger Global, Elevation Capital and Matrix Partners – to realize this mission. It is started by three co-founders who have a pedigreed education

(IIT/IIM) and professional background (Nomura, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Matrix Partners).

🎬Job Description:

We are looking for an Engineering Leader with a focus on building maintainable and scalable applications. The Lead will be responsible for the design and development of Jodo’s fee payments platform and be owning one of the products/verticals. Leads will be closely working

with Product Managers and Founders to execute projects from ideation to completion. As a hands-on Team Lead, you will take ownership of services/systems and guide a team of

developers.

📈Key Responsibilities

● Own and drive the development of one or more of Jodo’s products

● Take the lead in the design and development of the backend platform

● Mentor a team of developers, promote collaboration and engagement, and promote practices that improve the developer experience

● Work closely with Product Managers and Founders to brainstorm requirements and prioritize

● Own quality - actively participate in code reviews

● Own reliability - continuously monitor Production Health, proactively fix production issues

● Own execution - Plan and delegate work for the team, optimize for speed of development and incremental delivery

📃Requirements

● 6+ years of hands-on experience in application development

● 1+ years of leading a team

● Experience in working with distributed systems

● Proficient in building Microservices/RESTful APIs with any modern tech stack

● Working knowledge of relational and nonrelational databases

● Prior working knowledge of Python/Django is a big plus

● Familiarity with modern CI/CD tools

● Knowledge of AWS or any other Cloud Platform services

● Champion code quality and drive best practices

● Ability to analyze and convert business requirements into technical requirements

● Self-starter and ability to take the ownership

● Prior experience working in a startup environment is great to have

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

🤩Benefits

● Becoming a part of the early core team

● Competitive salary

● Work with colleagues from strong backgrounds & hungry to succeed

● Opportunity to interact with and learn from high-pedigree investors & mentors -

○ VCs: Elevation Capital (erstwhile SAIF Partners), Matrix Partners

○ Select angel investors: Kunal Shah, Nithin Kamath, Amit Ranjan

🔎What are we looking for?

● Self-starter with a high sense of ownership → Comfortable to work with minimal

supervision

● Hungry to learn and grow → Passion to learn & be a better version of oneself; motivated to succeed

● Bias for action → Have the temperament to experiment and execute in uncertainty

● Hustler → Ability to generate resources to solve a problem

● Intellectual honesty → Always seeking and presenting truth irrespective of personal

POV or beliefs

● Mission-oriented → Deeply care about delivering value and making an impact on customer’s lives

✅Key Details

● Role: Engineering Lead

● Location: Bengaluru

● Compensation: Negotiable based on candidate profile (structured as Fixed + ESOPs)

● Date of Joining: ASAP

Job Purpose

• Responsible for managing and driving a team of Virtual Relationship Managers (VRM) handling

portfolio of eligible Imperia & Preferred customers in order to achieve the targets set and that all

guidelines and regulatory requirements are followed.

• Ensuring that customers get world-class services and their needs are understood and met through

financial products that the Bank has to offer.

• Consistently meet portfolio objectives defined Viz. sales, income, group product holding etc.

• Ensure adherence to Operations process aimed at zero defect transaction processing & meeting the

Audit & Compliance guidelines.

• Responsible for managing, training and motivating staff.

• All of the above parameters consistently met by the team of VRMs.

• Income generation through a right blend of enhancement of CASA balance and through cross sell of appropriate products. So that the VRM becomes the top of the mind recall amongst the customers in the catchment for all their financial needs and services, thereby ensuring that the VRMs also achieves the key performance parameters set

Job Responsibilities(JR) : 6 – 8 Areas

Business Achievement and Development for VRM & Team

• Ensure proper scoping is done and target / niche customers identified with ACTIVE collaboration from concerned Product/Sales Support Teams

• Ensure that the targets on liability accounts, through the channel (Branch and direct sales), are met under all parameters specified.

o Meet value target for Liability Balances of the customers

o Ensure quality of sourcing is maintained and depletion rates are controlled.

o Ensure that Salary credits reach or exceed the expect Salary Credit targets

• Ensure that all managed portfolios are effectively managed through VRMs and that set targets on each of the portfolios is reached.

• Also, Team Manager has to ensure seamless servicing of customers.

• VRMs are made aware of the Scorecard targets & Portfolio Benchmark.

• Ensure that the High Net worth individuals are persuaded to avail the private banking products and services (advisory, etc.)

• Ensure that there is cross sell to the customer on asset products as offered by the Bank.

• Ensure that the customers get credit cards and start using the same for all their transactions- credit card activation push.

• Income to be generated at a customer level.

• Ensure that cross sell targets on Third Party Products is met for the Unit

• Ensure Staff are trained on product knowledge and requisite certifications

• Engaging with bottom 20% performers and identifying ares of improvement and demonstrating the How.

• Review Daily Sales Report of the staff and provide guidance on ways to improve on the same

• Managing and monitoring performance of all the sales resources

o Productivity of Liability and Non Liability sales staff

• Attrition control of customers

o Includes persuading the customer to continue and if required renew FD’s

§ Monitor large amount movements / account closure from the deposit accounts and ensure that customer does not attrite

o Ensure that the marketing analytics list on possible attrite, is called and retained

• Ensure that there is no revenue leakage

Customer Service / Customer engagement

• Plan monthly/ weekly/ daily contacts for the team of VRMs basis the contact policy & track implementation

of the interaction plan.

• Effective planning & implementation of event based trigger, birthday calls, campaign calls and other defined

objectives for customer contacts.

• Ensure that VRMs offers highest quality of service to the customers and meets expected Service Quality standard by educating the customers to use the Digital Banking mediums for their banking transactions /

needs. This is measured iva call evaluations and Sup

Reviews

• To review contact attempts versus successful contacts and analyze reasons for non-contactable customers.

• Ensure VRMs make regular contact with customers for service as well as business updates.

• Adequate logging of complaints, Reviewing & Resolving all complaints received (VRM, self, branch, other units) within the stipulated TAT

o Monitor all complaints received and ensure that they are closed within TAT

o Improve customer communication on closures

o Check with customers if the process of complaint has been managed well

o Ensure no escalations happen

o Preventive complaint management

o Asking for feedback from customers, who are not complaining

o Discussing with staff the importance of getting feedback from customers on a regular basis

• Periodic review of customer base i.e. Contactibility,

Eligibility, Product penetration & profitability. Take appropriate action to activate every customer / improve

the product penetration & profitability of the customer to become a Primary Banker for the customer.

• Carry out VoC to assess strengths and to ascertain possible improvement areas of the VRMs basis customer feedback. Take appropriate action- reward the VRM for appreciations/ corrective actions as required.

• Monitoring implementation of Sales Process.

Business Generation / Sales Tracking

• Track business generation and income for each VRM in the team on a daily basis, and take due steps.

• Review leads generated by each VRM and ensure real time lead status availability.

• Ensure VRMs actively track their leads, keep customer regularly updated on the lead status & complete the lead closure within a reasonable timeline, basis product.

• Tracking and highlighting possible customer issues on account of improper lead management.

Supervisory Reviews frequency to assess effectiveness of customer interactions by the VRM.

• Check profiling done by the VRM to ascertain effectiveness.

• Basis interaction logs captured by the VRM & discussions with the VRM, provide directional inputs on customer interactions & business generation.

• Demonstrate “how”.

• 220 Sup Reviews per month

Operations

• Conduct internal checks on a regular basis & share a feedback with VRMs on time to time.

o Lead file maintained by VRMs

o Requests captured by VRMs

o CRM Interaction

• Ensure seamless handling of operations areas such as customer requests, transactions, reversals etc.

• Handling queries of VRMs on floor and provide resolution.

• Ensure timely responses to customers through call out/ e-mail as applicable.

• Handle 1st level escalations and ensure satisfactory resolution to the grievances.

• Ensure judicious utilization of financial and non- financial authority.

• Carry out periodic checks to ensure team adheres to Audit & Compliance guidelines.

Audit and Service Quality

• Ensure all laid down system and process are followed as stipulated by Audit and Senior Management

• Monthly / Periodic Verification of Auditable items.

• Review of CRM Interactions & Lead Quality

 MIS - Reporting and Analysis :

• Ensure timely and accurate updates of all portfolio

performance parameters.

• Maintain track of VRM performance w.r.t leads, conversions, income, achievement of portfolio parameters etc.

 Staff Management

• Ensure that all VRMs are adequately trained on the

Products of the bank and sales process

• Ensure that all VRMs are trained on the process to be followed (including amendment with new circulars)

• Be aware and make VRMs aware of various policies of the bank with regard to customer service and compliance

• Monitor productivity and give guidance on improving the same in conjunction with the Line Manager / Unit Head.

• Ensure that all VRMs are sent for class room training on a regular basis

• Ensure that nominated VRMs attend training sessions conducted by HR, without fail.

Job Scope

• Requirements Gathering & Designing: Liaison with SMEs to understand their Business Requirements and advise them on efficient system solutions. If required, guide the clients in re-engineering their Business Processes. Also, educate them on alternatives for system design & advice on how to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Implementation: Configure and Test SAP SuccessFactors modules
• Data Migration:  Perform/Support Data Migration as required
• Client Engagement: Set up relevant data within the configured SAP SuccessFactors module, to showcase to the client the end-to-end business process. Collect & process the feedback from Clients, to make necessary system changes. Also, extend extensive support to Clients when they test SAP SuccessFactors modules
• Training: Educate clients on how to use SAP SuccessFactors modules
• Documentation: Diligently document Business Requirements to baseline for implementation. Prepare training materials & other documents required for the successful completion of the project. 
• Support: Post implementation, understand the requirements/issues of the client and provide necessary technical solutions. This could include fixing issues and/or implementing new features based on business needs.

About Klenty

Klenty is a Software Product company operating in the Sales Engagement category.

One of the fastest growing SAAS startups in the sales engagement space, Klenty is headquartered in California and operates from Chennai, India.

Klenty’s Sales Engagement Product helps thousands of sales teams automate all the repetitive activities involved in the sales process like sending emails, follow-ups, tracking engagement metrics, etc - so that the sales team can focus more on activities like building relationships and closing deals.

With over 3000 customers all over the world, we are on a mission to transform every B2B Sales team into an unstoppable force

Join us in building the future of sales engagement software

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Ensure that the application doesn’t misbehave under changing user load and that no bugs or errors reach the end-users.

2. Understands and analyze performance test requirements - Develops performance test script suite and Executes tests —> Captures —> Analyzes results.

3. Conduct system performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability and reports performance test progress & defects.

4. Maintains performance script repository.

5. Writing test scripts of various test phases like integration, regression, system.

6. Analyzing users stories / Use cases / requirements for validity and feasibility.

7. Interact with SMEs & Business to gather PT/PE requirements.

8. Identifying tools and techniques to improve testing quality and efficiency.

9. Raise issues or concerns to the stakeholders upfront and if required come up with mitigation plan.

10. Collect all metrics (Client Side, Server Side, DB, Network and Load Balancer) and analyse the performance metrics and bottlenecks to suggest corrective actions.

11. Design and create benchmark scenarios and prepare performance benchmark documents.

12. Prepare test summary reports for management review.

13. Collaborate closely with other team members and departments and assist in other performance engineering activities as needed.

Seniority Level - Entry level

Industry - Information Technology & Services

Employment Type - Full-time

Job Functions - Product Development

Employment Type - Full-time

• Strong knowledge of PHP web frameworks like Laraveland working on other skills. 
• Strong knowledge of MYSQL, RDBMS 
• Familiar with of Apache Configuration
• Experience of object-oriented PHP programming
• Understanding of MVC design patterns
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Strong knowledge of the common PHP or web server exploits and their solutions
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes.

Ruby on Rails Developer Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing new web applications.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting existing web applications.
• Writing and maintaining reliable Ruby code.
• Integrating data storage solutions.
• Creating back-end components.
• Identifying and fixing bottlenecks and bugs.
• Integrating user-facing elements designed by the front-end team.
• Connecting applications with additional web servers.
• Maintaining APIs.

Ruby on Rails Developer Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
• Experience working with ruby on rails as well as libraries like Resque and RSpec.
• Ability to write clean ruby code.
• Proficiency with code versioning tools including Git, Github, SVN, and Mercurial.
• Experience with AngularJS or BackboneJS.
• Familiarity with MVC, Mocking, RESTful, and ORM.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.
• Knowledge of server-side templating languages including Slim and Liquid.
• Familiarity with testing tools.

Job duties and responsibilities

• Develop, implement and manage our social media strategy
• Define most important social media KPIs
• Manage and oversee social media content
• Measure the success of every social media campaign
• Stay up to date with the latest social media best practices, trends, memes, and technologies
• Use social media marketing tools such as Buffer
• Attend educational conferences
• Copywrite and work with designers to ensure content is informative and appealing
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Product Development teams
• Monitor SEO and user engagement and suggest content optimization
• Communicate with industry professionals and influencers via social media to create a strong network
• Hire and train others in the team

Job requirements and qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, marketing, or a related field.
• 3 or more years of social media experience including planning and managing content in a corporate, or agency setting.
• Social Media Strategist using social media for brand awareness and impressions
• Excellent knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and other social media best practices
• Understanding of SEO and web traffic metrics
• Experience with doing audience and buyer persona research
• Good understanding of social media KPIs
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and must have a thorough understanding of social media management and strategy.
• Good time-management skills

• Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React.
• Proficiency with server side languages such as Python, Java, PHP and .Net.
• Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle and MongoDB.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.

Technical Manager

Who we are?

At Edge, we believe simplifying employee data will help large corporates solve sub-optimal talent management problems. This data is more critical after the pandemic, as managing a remote workforce has shifted from optional to essential.

We have spent our last eight years understanding the workforce from the IT and BFSI industries. We have used this employee data to create a sophisticated intelligence. This brain behind our AI-based products is called EdGE graph™. We have used 11 million job descriptions and more than 30 million profiles to build the graph.

Our products like Pathfinder, Recruit and Mobility are deployed in IT companies like Wipro, HCL, UST Global, etc. and help them upskill, invest, and maintain their existing people. It has helped organisations improve their workforce availability, billing, allocations and drive straight bottom-line impacts. The new order of talent decisions helps us define, identify, and plan for a future-ready workforce.

We build end-to-end talent management products for organisations so that they have a 360-degree view of their talent supply chain. This helps them make informed talent decisions efficiently and build an intelligent workforce.

We built Edge Networks in 2012 in an apartment in Bangalore and soon, were supported by the National Skill Development Corporation of India (NSDC). We are a part of the NASSCOM Product Council and have been recognized by Gartner, Deloitte, Equidam, NVIDIA, Amazon as an innovative tech HR startup in various titles.

At Edge, we understand that modern companies that put the employees at the center of their workings, backed with data, will make their organisation productive. This is how we, at Edge, use tech for good.

Role: Technical Manager

As a Technical Manager, you will be responsible to ensure that your team performs within set technical guidelines by providing or co-authoring standard operating procedures. For this role, technical function weightage will be 60% and project management function weightage will be 40%.

Traits that you have

A team player – I know we only win if we all win. I recognise and value the different perspectives and skills my squad mates bring. It is not about being a hero but jumping in and contributing to the successful delivery of our mission.

An excellent communicator – I know and understand the importance of clear, on-time communication. My spoken and written communication skills stand out for clarity and conciseness.  

The customer’s biggest fan – I demonstrate a thirst for better understanding the customer and define the problem and develop solutions through their eyes.

A collaboration champion – I work closely with my colleagues to ensure alignment and champion the sharing of learning across teams.

Comfortable being uncomfortable – I am comfortable with uncertainty. I have the ability to effectively manage myself through ambiguity by making meaning, building relationships and creating clarity with my peers.

Continuous improvement junkie – I constructively challenge the status quo, I look for better ways of doing things and passionately advocate continuous improvement.

Committed to my own and others’ growth – I strive to stretch and grow myself and others by identifying my own development areas, seeking feedback, and providing feedback to others to help them learn and grow every day.

A problem solver – I am energised by tackling complex problems. I use my critical thinking, network, skills, knowledge, and available data to drive better outcomes for our customers and the product.

Commercially and Tech curious – I have a wide-angle lens. I am curious about what is happening in the external market and in emerging trends and innovations (technological and otherwise) and how we use this information to better inform our decisions and actions.

Risk savvy – I build sustainable solutions that protect stakeholders and customers and proactively address risks by role-modelling improvements in the product’s overall risk and control environment.

Responsibilities:

Project Management role details:

• Lead a team of 5-10 software engineers.
• Create, own the software delivery schedules and software deliverables.
• Track and ensure completion of tasks on time by team members.
• Own the quality of delivered software and ensure thorough testing is done during software development.
• Provide project metrics and status reports using pre-established process.
• Ensure smooth functioning of team, mentor team members, growth of team members.
• Hold project status meetings and publish weekly status reports.
• Provide feedback and data for Annual Appraisal process of team members.
• Create or modify processes to ensure efficient running of projects.

Technical role details:

• Understand product requirements clearly and translate into User stories, Sprints.
• Track project status in JIRA and bring high visibility into project status.
• Provide technical guidance to team members when difficult problems are met e.g evaluating alternative approaches, optimizing software, troubleshooting live issues.
• Review code, merge into production branches, resolve conflicts considering common code base guidelines.
• Interface with product, data science teams independently and arrange for required support for the development team. Understand and clear blockages faced by developers.
• Coordinate with DevOps team, plan and arrange for infra requirements deployments.
• Plan sprints, releases, allocate resources, and track sprint execution on a day-to-day basis.
• Ensure project documentation is captured and updated regularly.

Role Skills:

• General requirements
  • Should have 10+ years of total experience in software development and project management functions put together.
  • Have minimum people management experience for 2 or more years handling team size of 5 or more team members.
  • Strong experience across various stages of software development lifecycle involving requirements gathering, software design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
  • Should be a strong team player.
  • Strong experience with project management tools JIRA knowledge is a plus.
  • Good understanding of agile methodologies preferably Scrum.

• Technical requirements
  • Create release delivery schedules and make delivery time estimates.
  • Understand technical requirements and software design in a detailed manner to plan for features, validate schedules and estimates.
  • Good working knowledge of Python, Java, or any enterprise grade languages.
  • Good knowledge in RDBMS or NOSQL databases.
  • Good understanding of GIT and best practices of SCM tools.
  • Cloud working experience with either AWS or Azure or GCP.
  • Should have a basic understanding of DevOps tools and practices.
  • Should be able to learn new skills on a need to basis e.g., docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, etc.
  • Basic understanding of frontend stack e.g., ReactJS, Vue, Angular or equivalent.

Why should you join us?

We are concerned not only with the growth of the company, but each other’s personal and professional growth, too. We are transparent, open and have a collaborative work environment. And above all, you need to bring your best. The rest does not really matter. With WFH becoming more normalized, you best believe we have been sharing our favorite ways to prioritize a healthy work-life balance at home (Netflix, anyone?).

Location - Bangalore
Type - Permanent, Full Time

Responsibilities and Duties

• Creative in designing Creatives, Flyers, brochures, infographics, banner ads, on-screen marketing promotions, advertisements, posters according to requirement.
• Design creatives that are innovative and eye-catching, but at the same time, in line with the brand personality and visual guidelines.
• Come up with innovative ways to elevate the brand.
• Contribute to a culture that supports creativity through exploration, technological innovation, and individual development.