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Samagra X - Tech Architect

As Samagra expands into Digital Public Goods (DPGs), we’re looking for a Tech Architect to help us shape how open-source products and platforms can transform governments' worldwide function. As Samagra, we pride ourselves on being thoughtful and intentional about the impact that can be created through well-built products and platforms.

In this role, you’ll work with a mission-driven team on some of the world’s most complex governance problems, where technology will play a pivotal role. You’ll design the architecture of platforms, answering

questions like-

• How to deliver quality advisory services to 100mn farmers nationwide?
• How can standardised assessment/practice tools be enabled to ensure FLN1 in children?
• How to build the capacity of paramedical staff in the country?
• How can govt administrators in any domain monitor the progress of flagship programs?
• How to build an open commerce network to connect farmers to the best service providers?

Working at Samagra, you’ll be challenged and rewarded with impact at scale. We value excellence, collaboration, empathy, and high ownership mindset. The most successful candidates will exhibit work that reflects these values. We want you to enable every team member to do their best work. We expect you to have a solid technical background, excellent communication skills, a flare for open-source products/platforms and a commitment to making everyone feel included.

Your Impact

In this role, you’ll have tremendous opportunities to learn, collaborate and impact millions of citizens in India and abroad by transforming how governments function. As a Tech Architect, you will:

• Take Ownership of technical vision for a given DPG - Define standards, drive technical architecture, strategy, and roadmap with the DPG working groups
• Collaborate with the DPG development partner to translate technical vision into a deliverable roadmap and product design. Pitch in with code, code reviews, architectural reviews and technical mentoring
• Work closely with the DPG development partner at various milestones of the product delivery to ensure a high-quality product is delivered and the product meets all the requirements, including debuggability,
• supportability, availability, scalability, cost-efficiency and performance.
• Continuously develop and improve the interface between technology and the DPG community. Ensure
• that overall technical practices are scalable, constantly evaluating tech stacks to cater to evolving business needs.
• Participate in building ecosystems around DPG with the community - build platforms, plugins & apps.
• Ensure all internal processes & external services comply with security, privacy policies and regulations.
• Stay on top of digital trends, principles and paradigms and be able to relate how these trends will affect the DPG community.
• Engage with internal and external collaborators, and maintain relationships/partnerships with internal team members and adopters to develop strategies, goals and objectives consistent with the DPG
• strategy.

Skills required

• Solid technical skills - Strong experience in having architected, built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems; Worked on defining problem statements at all levels - RFCs to good first issues. Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices; Experience with enterprise software development built and delivered on both on-premise and Cloud is preferred; Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code, and automate tasks; Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Leadership - Mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and tactful stakeholder engagement, which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company/community. You have a strong bias for action and being resourceful
• Collaboration and communication - with the geo-distributed teams in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Also, able to communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed.
• Planning & execution - Able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines; keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks

Qualifications

• B. tech/BE(CS/IT) & from Tier 1 or Tier 2 institutes of India/Abroad or equivalent; M. tech/Ph.D. preferred
• 8+ years of software development experience with 4+ years contributing to software architecture
• Experience in architecting, designing, developing, testing, and deploying large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience in contributing and actively participating in multiple open source projects.
• Strong leadership skills and experience in working with a developer ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Automate the development and test automation processes through CI/CD pipeline (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker containers).
• Experience in one of the following programming languages: Python/Javascript/Typescript/Java.
• Experience with RDBMS (Postgres, MariaDB) and any other large scale distributed database systems.
• Have expertise in one or more areas like building and scaling web apps, Machine Learning, UI Engineering, Information Visualization, etc.

About Samagra

Samagra is a mission-driven governance consulting firm. We co-work with the bureaucratic leadership across states and the Centre on long-term systemic transformation programmes cutting across domains. Since 2012, when Samagra was founded, we have worked with the Government of India and 7 state governments on 15+ large-scale systemic transformation projects in sectors like education, agriculture, skills, employment, and public service delivery. Over the last 5 years, we have also built strong GovTech and DataGov capabilities, now housed under the SamagraX umbrella. Our mission is to improve the quality of life of citizens through better governance. And this mission is

what fuels every goal we chase. Want to know more about Samagra?

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPcPdI2SHwU&;t=4s&ab_channel=Samagra-TransformingGovernance" target="_blank">this masterclass by our Founder and CEO, Gaurav Goel

Our Tech Leadership

Rahul Kulkarni - Chief Technologist

Nitin Kashyap - Senior Vice President - Product

Utkarsh Vijay - Vice President

Sukhpreet Sekhon - Vice President

Suresh Unnikrishnan - Vice President - Engineering

Product Examples

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-03-31-leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-deliver-advisory-to-farmers/" target="_blank">Ama KrushAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CEo_R8XIhI" target="_blank">Nipun Lakshya App 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR8m4VS8kqA" target="_blank">e-SAMWAD

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Krushak Odisha database - DataScience

https://www.samagragovernance.in/blog/2023-01-16-leveraging-data-science-algorithms-to-improve-data-quality-in-government/" target="_blank">Sunbird cQube

https://saral.sunbird.org/" target="_blank">Sunbird SARAL

• B.Tech/B.E (preferably in Computer Science Engineering) 
• 7+ years of hands-on programming experience in building data-driven REST APIs, services & platforms using advanced Java frameworks like Spring, Redis, Node.js etc. with deep focus on integration & scale.
• We also look for hands-on experience with Mysql, Elasticsearch (or Solr) and Nosql stores.
• Our evaluation starts with focus on computer science fundamentals, data structures & algorithms.
• You will have been learning new technologies every week and prefer folks who can use golang/rust for backend development and are familiar with equivalent data stores, index stores and pub-sub technologies.

Please find below the required skill set

Skillsets:

• Strong Experience in Ruby on Rails
• Solid understanding of Ruby principles and core concepts.
• Good understanding of Object Oriented Concepts and principles.
• Understanding of RESTful/ SOAP APIs.
• Good understanding of front-end technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, ReactJS and Bootstrap framework.
• Knowledge/ Experience in SQL and PL/SQL programming.
• Excellent communication Skill.

Backend - Software Development Engineer-III

Responsibilities:-

• Research, design and build highly reliable, available and scalable platforms
• Explore design implications and work towards an appropriate balance between functionality, performance, and maintainability.
• Lead by example, mentor and guide team members on everything from structured problem solving to development of best practices
• Own large technical deliverables and execute in an exemplary way
• Be able to conceptualize and develop prototype quickly
• Working with a cross-discipline team of Design, Product, Data Science and Analytics team.
• Active participation in the hiring process to bring quality engineers in the team.

Requirements:-

• Strong proficiency in Javascript and TypeScript
• Strong proficiency of Node.js and frameworks available for it such as Express
• Strong understanding and experience of creating highly scalable and complex database design
• Good understanding of Data Modeling using RDBMS and NoSQL(Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis) data stores
• Strong problem-solving skills with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Experience of creating highly scalable, fault tolerant, resilient distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of creating scalable system design and good understanding of microservice based architectures
• Understanding of caching enabled, PubSub and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience and good knowledge of AWS services
• Understanding automated testing platforms like selenium and unit tests like Chai, Mocha, Jasmine etc
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
• E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S.
• Curiosity to explore the cutting edge technologies and bake them in the products.
• Zeal and drive to take end to end ownership.
• 5+ years of experience in back end development preferably in microservice environment.