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31/07 Abhimanyu Jha
Co-Founder / CMO at SabPaisa

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SabPaisa - Vice President - Engineering (6-10 yrs)

Delhi/NCR Job Code: 477971

Want To Be In The Group Of Technologists That Are Actively Helping Indian Payments Get Digitized-

Looking For An Awesome VP Engineering (To Be Our Senior-most Tech Person) For Our Fast Growing Payment Startup SabPaisa (We have grown 4000 X = 400000 % in the last 12 months since 1st transaction happened on SabPaisa Platform in Feb 2016)

I am Abhimanyu Jha, Chief Marketing & Experience Officer of SabPaisa (sabpaisa.in), an IIT Madras/IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, and among the top 100 influential marketing leaders for 2016 chosen by World Marketing Congress.

We are looking for dynamic, smart and ambitious people with an enormous appetite for learning to be a part of the SabPaisa growth story.

More details are given below.

WHO WE ARE

We @ SabPaisa are a rapidly growing company in the payments domain aiming to be a key player in the total digitization of fee, loan, e-commerce payments etc, both data and transactions, in line with Indian Government's demonetization/digitization drive.

We are changing the way financial institutions, hospitals, government bodies, e-commerce companies, schools, colleges, universities, councils, trusts etc collect money and data from their clients and customers.

Our payments and collection application suite has already processed more than INR 4500 Million, a figure that will grow exponentially over the next several months as SabPaisa's SAAS applications continue to penetrate the fastest growing segment of the data and payment digitization sector.

Our clients and partners include names like Axis Bank, Indusind Bank, Yes Bank, Allahabad Bank, Corporation Bank, IISc Bangalore, NIT Jalandhar, Bihar School Education Board, SSNC Delhi University, Patna University, Council of Architecture, etc.

In total, SabPaisa till date has served more than 120 clients and partners and close to 1.5 Million end-customers across India.

Our executive team consists of senior members with more than 90 years in banking and technology having brands in their resume like IIT, IIM, ICICI, HDFC, Axis, Kotak Mahindra etc.

Headquartered in New Delhi and led by a team with deep expertise in the banking and payments domain, SabPaisa is currently poised for explosive growth and is looking to grow its team with dynamic, smart and ambitious people with enormous appetite for learning who would love to be the part of a payment startup success story.

In summary, we are a technology company building killer applications for data and payment digitization, with an immediate need to hire the most senior technology leader @ SabPaisa to help us scale our application platform, develop new technology, and continue to expand our lead in the smart data and payment application space.

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US

Because this opportunity could be a technologist's dream job. We are a payment startup on steroids with worldwide ambitions working in a wide-open rapidly transforming space that has a market potential of close to INR 45000 MN only in India. We seek a very talented technical leader to manage all technology decision-making and development on its way to becoming one of the largest payment companies. Post demonetization, payments and data in India are going the digitization way rapidly, and seldom do such opportunities emerge that allow the right person to help shape a rapidly growing startup's technology strategy and to drive its execution, and simultaneously drive the growth of a key industry to undergo such widespread transformation. The ideal candidate will appreciate this because he or she is a simultaneously left and right brained, intelligent and driven person whom smart people love to follow because he/she is always working on great projects and has a proven track record of being near the action and achieving the excellent.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING OVERALL

SabPaisa seeks an experienced software development leader, an executive who can step in, build and lead our engineering team, deliver timely solutions to the market, and execute the challenging development activities on our comprehensive application roadmap.

VP, Engineering at SabPaisa will be responsible for executing on the Company's overall technology vision, shaping its technical strategy, and driving its development execution that will firmly place SabPaisa as the leader in providing cutting-edge data and payment digitization applications to the market. This person will recruit world-class talent, manage the appropriate development methodologies, and create the proper organizational structure to drive a high performing development team to deliver these applications to the market with relentless execution. This person will keep abreast of and influence technology trends, standards, and stakeholders which will further enhance adoption and market share of SabPaisa's solutions, and work in tandem with Product, Marketing and Customer Success teams as well as other members of the leadership team to further define our application roadmap and deliver against it. This person will have the ability to bridge technology with business acumen, will bring experience in developing industry leading customer facing applications, and will develop and sustain a culture of passion, hard-work, and innovation that will make SabPaisa the place to be for anyone interested in developing payment industry's leading SaaS applications.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING ON A REGULAR BASIS

This role has responsibility for the overall engineering, testing, and production systems for our entire application suite. That suite is comprised of SabPaisa, and its modules, QwikCollect, LinkPaisa, SettlePaisa all developed on JAVA in an Agile environment. This role also will start and oversee our efforts to automate our development, quality assurance, and production code roll-outs.

RESPONSIBILITIES IN DETAIL

1. Providing overall strategy and technology direction for the development of applications and communication infrastructure supporting SabPaisa's solutions

2. Strategic planning for all product development efforts to include the subsequent testing, release and production environment needs

3. Overseeing all activities of the development groups (development, QA, and application release)

4. Planning the overall architecture of our products and support infrastructure including day-to-day operations in conjunction with software development managers and product management teams

5. Assuming overall responsibility for the current and long range direction of technology for both internal and SaaS-based solutions by enhancing and implementing best-in-class programs, policies, practices and systems while delivering high quality and repeatable results

6. Supporting the development of the Company's product roadmap

7. Leading and enhancing our agile methodology for the design, development, test and release of our products and features.

8. Establishing departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures

9. Staying abreast of new technologies and issues in the software-as-a-service industry, including current technologies, platforms, standards and methodologies

10. Defining and communicating corporate plans, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and designing new software products

11. Recruiting, managing and continuously developing through leadership and collaborative team building a world-class team of technology professionals that will take SabPaisa towards leadership in the payment industry

12. Participating in the strategic business and product planning process

13. Being actively engaged in technology standard settings boards and organizations that may impact the Company and its offerings

14. Being an active spokesperson and evangelist both internally and externally by communicating and promoting the Company's technology vision and solutions

15. Evaluating new technologies and solutions in the market and being responsible for keeping abreast of trends that may impact the Company

16. Ensuring the knowledge sharing of engineering best practices across departments; and developing and monitoring technical standards to ensure adherence to them

17. Being directly responsible for establishing and managing the operating budget to maximize utilization of resources and delivery of products and solutions

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

A dynamic, ambitious and people person comfortable with startup culture and having both the technical and managerial chops to achieve world-class goals

Specifically, we want someone who has

1. Previous leadership roles in product or application development and engineering for high growth companies

2. Proven experience as a leader developing, deploying, and supporting software as a service / platform as a service solutions to commercial/industrial/institutional users

3. Proven ability to recruit the best and brightest developers in the world and provide them with a vision and working environment to develop world-class applications while instituting compelling performance measurements that continually drive transparency and improved performance

4. Excellent communication skills, strong team player, and the ability to work cross functionally in a fast-paced, high-productivity startup environment

5. Experience in Agile development methodology

6. Experience in a multi-product, multi-application development environment

7. Experience in development with open source technologies

8. Experience in developing products and solutions around Linux, Java, Javascript & Python

9. Experience in building and maintaining applications that are mission critical for customers

10. Bachelors in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related engineering field

11. 6+ years of product engineering experience

12. Passion about winning

13. Experience in payments not required, but considered a plus

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