Careers @ LENDINGKART

About Lendingkart

Lendingkart is a leading fintech startup in the working capital space. The Company has developed technology tools based on big data analysis which facilitates lenders to evaluate borrowers credit worthiness and provides other related services.The Company aims to transform small business lending by making it convenient for SMEs to access credit easily. The Company uses technology and analytics tools, analyzing thousands of data points from various data sources to assess the creditworthiness of small businesses rapidly and accurately. The group is backed by reputed international investors like Fullerton Financials Pte Singapore, Sistema Asia Fund, Mayfield India, Saama Capital, Bertelsmann India Investments, Darrin Capital Management and others and has raised USD 113 Million of equity till date. In Feb 2018, group has raised USD 87 Million of equity in series C round led by Fullerton Financial Pte Singapore. Since its inception, Lendingkart Finance (the NBFC arm of Lendingkart) has evaluated more than 100,000 applications, disbursed over 22,000 loans in more than 1000 cities helping more than 16,000 SMEs across 23 diverse sectors. Lendingkart is the only Indian Fintech player featuring in the Global Top 50 Established Innovators list published by KPMG in collaboration by H2 Ventures in 2017. The Product Operations team is the backbone of the organisation and is the voice of the customer for Lendingkart. This team simplifies the experience for the end customer through the entire loan life-cycle by closely working works closely with multipleall the teams including Marketing, Operations, Credit, Business, Accounts and Data Science as well as external partners. This team builds the pipeline to ensure swift and seamless processing of the loan applications while ensuring that the cost of processing is as low as possible. Since, the team partners with multiple stakeholders, it provides a 360 view into the entire life-cycle and an opportunity to tackle the most impactful problems. (S)he is also comfortable looking at data to make data-driven decisions and build business casses.

Engineering Manager

As an Engineering Manager you are responsible for the technology decisions that enable the business plan and will manage an engineering team in an agile environment. You will be responsible for providing guidance to engineers and making relevant decisions related to technology solutions. The key to the success of this position is having a strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Drive best practices and ensure development of high quality solutions/technologies through advocating for and ensuring standards for common assets and framework components
• Determine the right technology choices (upgrade decisions, hosting decision) to best delivery business value keeping in mind availability, scalability and reliability of solution.
• Build and manage a team of high caliber engineers and inform on resource allocation strategy.
• Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment and accountable by working with business owners for meeting delivery dates
• Guide product team(s) as appropriate, manage cross-product technical dependencies and drive resolutions to conflicts or remove barriers for the product team(s)
• Advocate for and ensure standards around technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes and guiding values of the domain architecture
• Ensure all solutions/technologies adheres to all development & security standards.

Skills

• Extensive technical knowledge and background, plus additional role-specific technical skills as required
• Good knowledge of open source frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
• Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
• Strong sense of ownership and problem solving skills.

Requirements

• MS or BS degree in computer science or equivalent with 8+ years of experience planning, designing, developing and delivering large scale platforms and products.
• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager leading software development teams.
• Hands-on experience with design and development of scalable web services and platforms
• Is a strong leader with the ability to lead & manage a high performing team, can creatively balance high-quality delivery with customer focus to meet business needs.
• Proven track record of delivering results in an aggressive and fast paced environment

Must have

1. At least two system design and development cycle experience with distributed services.
2. At least 50% technical routine contribution.

Industry-Product based/Startup

Job description 

Associate Director-Engineering

– As Sr Engineering Manager you are responsible for the technology decisions that enable the business plan and will manage an engineering team in an agile environment. You will be responsible for providing guidance to engineers and making relevant decisions related to technology solutions.

– The key to the success of this position is having a strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Responsibilities :

– Drive best practices and ensure development of high quality solutions/technologies through advocating for and ensuring standards for common assets and framework components

– Determine the right technology choices (upgrade decisions, hosting decision) to best delivery business value keeping in mind availability, scalability and reliability of solution.

– Build and manage a team of high caliber engineers and inform on resource allocation strategy.

– Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment and accountable by working with business owners for meeting delivery dates

– Guide product team(s) as appropriate, manage cross-product technical dependencies and drive resolutions to conflicts or remove barriers for the product team(s)

– Advocate for and ensure standards around technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes and guiding values of the domain architecture

– Ensure all solutions/technologies adheres to all development & security standards.

Skills :

– Extensive technical knowledge and background, plus additional role-specific technical skills as required

– Good knowledge of open source frameworks

– Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences

– Team-orientated, passionate about developing others skills and capabilities

– Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology

– Knowledge of Agile and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices

– Strong sense of ownership and problem solving skills

Requirements:

– BE/BTech/BS degree in computer science or equivalent

– Deep experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, etc)

– 10+ years of engineering experience

– 5+ years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for large, cross-functional projects

– Experience operating large scale systems

– Experience with test-driven development and software test automation