

Role – Technical Architect
Job Description
ZipLoan is looking out for a strong technology leader of Software Product Engineering, with a Technical Experience of about 12+ years, and hands-on experience in Software Product Development and ownership. You will head our Platform team which will be tasked with building ZipLoan's platform layer along with a set of engineers reporting to you.
Role:
- Understand the business end-to-end in order to drive a use-case driven architecture.
- Identify parts of the code-base which can be made reusable as modules or services.
- Propose architecture improvements to provide reliability and robustness at scale.
- Provide a roadmap for evolution of the technology ecosystem.
- Identify and erase technical debt.
- Provide consultancy to engineering teams on specific design challenges.
- Propose engineering best practices and help teams in adopting them.
Desired Profile:
- 12 years min experience in core software development.
- Hands-on experience building consumer Web/mobile apps at scale.
- Strong exposure to open-source technology – Python and other languages,
Linux, SQL and NoSQL databases, Web development frameworks
- Strong architecture skills.
- Ability to mentor engineering team members effectively.
- Preferably a strong full-stack engineer or at least strong backend skills with some front-end skill.

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WHO YOU ARE
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have the following skills:
· Love for coding: A fanatic about writing beautiful and scalable code.
· A sense of analytics: Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. Should be resourceful, innovative and inventive.
· Dynamic: Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have exquisite attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems.
· Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers.
· Accountability: High sense of ownership for your code and relentlessness to deliver projects with high business impact.
KEY QUALIFICATIONS
· BE/BTech in Computer Science or related field.
· 5+ years of professional production and development experience with leading-edge server and database technologies (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, Scala, Spring Boot, MySQL, and NoSQL databases).
KEY SKILLS
· Strong computer system analysis and design skills in current methodologies and patterns Experience with professional production cloud (AWS preferred).
· Experience with RESTful Services and APIs.

We are looking for a Senior Software Developer to produce and implement functional software solutions. You will work with upper management to define software requirements and take the lead on operational and technical projects.
In this role, you should be able to work independently with little supervision. You should have excellent organization and problem-solving skills. If you also have hands-on experience in software development and agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.
Your goal will be to develop high-quality software that is aligned with user needs and business goals.
Responsibilities
- Develop high-quality software design and architecture
- Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle
- Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Review and debug code
- Perform validation and verification testing
- Collaborate with internal teams and vendors to fix and improve products
- Document development phases and monitor systems
- Ensure software is up-to-date with the latest technologies.
Requirements and skills
- Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer
- Extensive experience in software development, scripting and project management
- Knowledge of selected programming languages (e.g. Django, Python, C++) and the elastic search.
- Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude
- Ability to work independently
- Excellent organizational and https://resources.workable.com/leadership-interview-questions" target="_blank">leadership skills
- BSc/BA in Computer Science or a related degree


https://www.ynos.in/" target="_blank">YNOS is a next-generation funded startup founded by IIT Madras faculty and incubated at IIT Madras Incubation Cell. It is a digital platform for Entrepreneurs, Investors, Innovators and Eco-system enablers, providing actionable insights on the startup and investment landscape in India. We are passionate about solving tough problems using technology and data, making a difference
The Opening
We are presently seeking for our next enthusiastic, talented, and driven Python Backend Engineer to start right away. We'd want you to
- Be excited about building a next-generation intelligence platform
- Possess a can-do attitude and be open to new challenges
- Value working with a great team - self-assured, creative, and insightful individuals who work together to achieve amazing things
- Be willing to explore, learn, and contribute new ideas to the platform, thereby improving it
- Be high on self-belief and enthusiasm to work in a startup culture - small team, fast-paced work environment
If this is you, we'd love to hear from you!
As the Python Backend Engineer in https://www.ynos.in/" target="_blank">YNOS, you will
- Create reusable optimised code and libraries
- Deploy task management systems and automate routine tasks
- Build performant apps that adhere to the best practices, therefore increasing latency, performance, and scalability
- Improve the existing codebase while reducing technical debt
- Take charge of all elements of the application, including architecture, quality, and efficiency
Requirements
- Proficient understanding of Python language
- Expertise in developing web apps and APIs using Python frameworks like Flask with an overall grasp of client-server interactions
- Familiarity with task management systems and process automation
- Comfortable with using Command Line and Linux systems
- Experience and understanding of version control systems like git, svn, etc
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
Good to have
- Expertise in other backend frameworks viz. Django, NodeJS, Go, Rust etc
- Knowledge of data-modelling, data-wrangling & data-mining techniques
- Experience with data visualisation tools & libraries such as Plotly, Seaborn etc
- Exposure to Statistical and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, particularly in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Familiarity with front-end tools & frameworks such as HTML, CSS, JS, React, Vue, and others
Work location, Job type & Salary
- Our office is located at https://respark.iitm.ac.in/" target="_blank">IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, surrounded by the beautiful IITM Campus!
- This is a full-time position and we’d like you to relocate to Chennai
- Expected salary range ₹6L - ₹8L per annum


Must have:
- 8+ years of experience with a significant focus on developing, deploying & supporting AI solutions in production environments.
- Proven experience in building enterprise software products for B2B businesses, particularly in the supply chain domain.
- Good understanding of Generics, OOPs concepts & Design Patterns
- Solid engineering and coding skills. Ability to write high-performance production quality code in Python
- Proficiency with ML libraries and frameworks (e.g., Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
- Strong expertise in time series forecasting using stat, ML, DL and foundation models
- Experience of working on processing time series data employing techniques such as decomposition, clustering, outlier detection & treatment
- Exposure to generative AI models and agent architectures on platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Crew AI, Mosaic/Databricks, Azure
- Experience of working with modern data architectures, including data lakes and data warehouses, having leveraged one or more of the frameworks such as Airbyte, Airflow, Dagster, AWS Glue, Snowflake,, DBT
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and deploying ML models in cloud environments.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Good To Have:
- Experience with MLOps tools and practices for continuous integration and deployment of ML models.
- Has familiarity with deploying applications on Kubernetes
- Knowledge of supply chain management principles and challenges.
- A Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field is preferred


- Qualification: BE / B.Tech / ME / M.Tech
- You must have Experience of 3 - 7 years
- You must be proficient in Embarcadero Delphi10.3 or above Framework, Object oriented programing, clean code, Design patterns, Dependency Injection, Multithreaded programming
- Experience in cloud technology and mobile development
- Experience in using below libraries or equivalent
- DMVC Framework
- Mars Curiosity
- Developer Express
- FireDAC, ADO framework, TMS Aurelius
- Spring4d
- FMX Technology
- Knowledge on Cloud computing, IoT, Java script, Type script, Angular
- Good understanding of DevOps
- Experience in using ALM/Configuration management tools e.g. GIT
- Prior work experience in SQLite required
- You must be conversant with Agile software development processes / methodologies
What You Need to Succeed
- As a Delphi developer, you will understand, analyze and implement the requirements
- Create world class products using your knowledge in Delphi Framework and Libraries, OOPS programming skills, Design principles patterns
- Work with technologies : Cloud computing, IoT, Java script, Type script, Angular, Java
- Design, development and testing of new features in the applications
- Design implement DevOps Best practices, establish standards and policies for managing source code and continuous integration/delivery
- Responsible for regular communication with others involved in the development process
- Implement, test, and bug-fix functionality
- Participate as a team member in fully agile Scrum deliveries
- Experience in working with international environment with a multicultural team
- Exhibit excellent team spirit and good in communication

1) Looking for a Senior Python Developer who will be responsible to understand, decode and maintain a pre-coded web application (Platform).
2) Primary focus will be on resolving real-time bugs on the live platform, testing, maintaining it fully functional, and making it live.
3) Work with the team to define, design, and deliver new features.
4) Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
5) Implementation of security and data protection.
6) Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient, reusable and testable code.
7) Should be able to participate in the requirements gathering and come up with efficient solutions.
8) Ensure platform is up-to-date with the latest technologies.
9) Should be a problem solver to contribute toward the success of the start-up.
10) Develop/Improve the core infrastructure and optimize the platform for high scalability.
11) Should be familiar with startup culture and be comfortable working with early-stage start-up.
Skills and Requirements: -
1) Expert in Python with complete knowledge of Python’s web framework ‘Django’ and related frameworks.
2) Good understanding of AWS and Azure platforms and able to make the platform optimize on the hosting, maintaining workload balancing on server.
3) Stronghold on Nginx, Redis and Celery.
4) A good experience in WebSocket to maintain In-Platform Chats.
5) Basic understanding of front-end technologies like Bootstrap, JavaScript,
JQuery, HTML5, CSS and AJAX while experience in Angular, Node JS, and React will be an added advantage.
6) Good hands-on experience in Creating REST APIs and API Integration with best coding practices.
7) Good knowledge of Relational and Non-Relational Databases.
8) Understanding of online payment gateways and integration knowledge.
9) Good understanding on Web Servers.
10) Experience working in an Agile development environment.
11) Data structure analysis and algorithm design, Solving complex performance problems and challenges.
12) Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like GIT and SVN.
13) Able to work with complex SQL queries and stored procedures.
14) Strong unit testing, integration testing and debugging skills.


At Embibe, we have just one mission - to truly personalize education. Because every child deserves it. This has led us to embark on this noblest of journeys to deliver life and learning outcomes for every student! Rooted in consumer behavior, we are leveraging AI and Data Science to deliver personalized achievement journeys for every student.
We are a tribe of intellectually fierce people from diverse backgrounds, focused on building cutting-edge products that empower everyone in the education ecosystem - students, teachers, educational institutes and parents. We enable a deeper understanding of student behavior, their strengths and weaknesses through analysis at a granular level. It is this shared vision of democratizing and personalizing education that unites us all.
Embibe is powered by AI and data science algorithms, using these contents being recommended across platforms and millions of learning outcomes delivered to students. Since its inception, millions of students have used the imbibe platform for learning concepts and outcomes. Academic users have spent 52mins on average with an average of 3 sessions daily. Embibe has been launched for 12 languages across India with support for 361 Exams (English), and 120 Exams (Hindi) for K6-K12 having 22.6L+ Qs and 58k+ Tests, 29k videos, 50k+ 3D assets. Embibe is the world's largest live online public sector implementation in edtech for test preparation, NTA app which is powered by Embibe has 3.1Mn+ downloads, and 14.3Mn hours spent by users with total 13.4Mn sessions and 1.64Bn attempts.SchoolApp is currently being used by 1000s of schools across India and we are planning to scale it to 100Mn students with 1Mn schools with 10Mn teachers in the period of the next 3yrs.
Prerequisite
We are looking for a Software Engineer across levels who have ever contributed to any large-scale systems be it content platform e.g. Quora/Medium, streaming platform e.g. Netflix or Hotstar, activity log system e.g. Twitter feeds or payment systems like Razorpay to name a few. I/O, Read-Writes, DB connections, Distributed Locking, Memory, Bandwidth, High Throughput, Low Latency and minimal CPU cycles excite you!! You are deep thinkers and can bring ideas to the table, before starting writing the code!!
Interested? We'd love to hear from you.
Who are you?
● 2-14yrs years of relevant large-scale product company experience ideally in a fast-moving B2C/B2B environment.
● Programming. Proficiency in object-oriented and multi-threaded programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python,React.js, Node.js, Next.js, PHP, Golang etc.
● Deep understanding & experience of high-performance web-scale & real-time response systems, and large scale distributed systems.
● CS Fundamentals – exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, Good in Data Structures and Algorithms Design, Problem Solving.
● Open source contributors and can do quick POC of technologies will catch our eyes.
● Expertise in designing, implementing and operating distributed Systems architectures and concepts, especially on public cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure)
● Demonstrated expertise in applying systems patterns (e.g., Client-server, N-tier, Master/Slave, MVC) and API constructions (e.g., Swagger, OpenAPI).
● Experience in a high-availability 24/7 environment (cloud platforms are a plus). Expertise should include several of the following:
○ High-performance,up-time (99.999%) and self-recoverable systems.
○ Control, orchestration and automation platforms leveraging containers or VMs. ○ RPC frameworks (e.g., Protobuf/gRPC, Thrift, Bond)
● Experience with one or more Data Stores like (MySql, Postgres ) and NoSQL DataStores ( Mongo, Cassandra, Scylladb, Hbase, Redis, Aerospike etc.).
● Experience with Agile software development, TDD, and Continuous Integration. ● Experience in building Web/RESTFul/GraphQL services.
● Sound knowledge of *Nix, ORM(Hibernate, JPA), Spring ecosystem, Messaging platforms like Kafka/RMQ, build framework like Maven/Gradle etc.
● Very strong system design and object-oriented skills with a nifty ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction.
● Solid coding skills with the ability to drive teams through massive refactoring exercises & improve coding standards across large code bases.
● Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions. ● Exposure to complete product development cycles – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, and re-architectures.
● Having experience building web infrastructure in cloud environments (such as AWS or Azure/GCP) is a plus. You understand and are always excited about learning new e.g.docker, Kubernetes.
● Education. M.Tech/M.Eng in Computer Science/Engineering or B.Tech/B.E in the same disciplines with equivalent years of experience would be a plus.
We'd particularly love it if:
● You’re a steward for engineering quality, reliability, scalability, availability, maintainability, flexibility habits and mindset in the organization under your purview, You know SOLID,12 factor App and Design Principles which you can apply or help the team in applying as needed. You can assure that our architectures are consistent with industry best practices. ● Version control tools like Git, SVN etc are good to have.
● Gather, understand, and prioritize requirements, research potential solutions, rapidly build prototypes, and distill and communicate what was learned, expected risks, resources & security concerns.
● Mentoring more junior engineers to instill engineering best practices and driving high standards in documentation, code reviews, design reviews, architecture discussions and strategy roadmap development.
● Actively participate in development along with team members - creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of the best practices.
● Set the vision of the domain architecture and technology stack for technology in your organization, You understand LLD and HLD.
● Be an evangelist for technology - drive a culture of curiosity and active debate around technology in your organization.
● Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create.
Note: We just use degrees to measure the Temperature!!


- 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
- We don’t expect you to be an expert or an AI researcher, but you must be able to take existing models and best practices and adapt them to our environment.
- Adherence to compliance procedures in accordance with regulatory standards, requirements, and policies.
- 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.



● work directly with the product team to understand requirements, help formulate aggressive growth plans, and then translate that into an effective technical solution
● design and create services and system architecture for your projects
● participate in brainstorming sessions and contribute ideas to our technology, algorithms
and products
● dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule
What will your day look like?
1. Own all services and tools
2. Develop and deploy required services responsible for the evolution of the overall product
3. Do server-side development in golang/python preferably (or any other language)
4. Deploying stuff in production in docker containers
5. Write tests
6. Invent awesome stuff to make your job easier
What are we looking for?
1. Motivation to design and build reliable, elegant backend services
2. Energy to build smart internal tools quickly
3. At least 1-2 years of backend development experience
4. Proficiency in golang is desired. We are open to you learning on the job.
5. Familiarity with SQL. Experience with Postgres, Redis is preferred.
6. Familiarity with message-oriented middleware like rabbitmq, google pubsub is preferred.


What we are looking for
- At-least 3 years of experience of development on backend applications. Full stack experience is a cherry on the top!
- Experience / knowledge of designing robust systems, maintaining & scaling them
- Experience with usage of NoSQL databases like MongoDB & with SQL and RDBMS Systems
- Experience of creating applications with any of the popular frameworks in Python, Java, GoLang, Node
- Experience with JS frontend frameworks like React, Angular, Vue etc is a big plus
- Well versed with versioning systems like git
- Understanding of rest API implementation
Some of the responsibilties you will be taking up are following
- Working on creating performant and fault tolerant systems which are scalable
- Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable codebase
- Effectively work with product to gather requirements, gain deep understanding of use cases and business needs, and translate into design and implementation.
- Maintain code integrity and organization.
- Manage basic devops related to CI/CD
- Creating secure systems
- Lead other junior developers
- Define optimal and minimal architecture to achieve product requirements

