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03/01 Siva Swaroop
Recruiter at Spandana Sphoorty

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Spandana Sphoorty - Chief Technology Officer (7-15 yrs)

Hyderabad Job Code: 781189

Company Introduction :


- Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited is one of the largest Microfinance Institutions (MFI) in the world. We are registered with Reserve Bank of India as an NBFC- MFI. Spandana provides micro-credit services to low-income households to improve their quality of life.


- Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited has over 950 branches across 17 States in India. We have done cumulative disbursement of over Rs.30,000 Cr with a portfolio of more than 5,800 Cr and 2.5 Mn borrowers.

- Simply put, we as an organization exist to help people in the low income household sector to get out of the vicious circle of poverty and make a positive change in the society. We want to provide access to formalized credit, that is both unsecured and affordable and we want to do for people that need it the most.

Why we are hiring?

- Micro finance industry is going by leaps and bounds and just like any other business, in today's time, for any industry to truly extract its fullest potential, it has to be supplemented by technology. Microfinance as an industry has yet to explore the extent to which technology can benefit the business.


- Spandana being an organization with upwards of 20 years of experience operating in the business, understands the business and the industry in and out, making us the best suited group of individuals to develop an ERP that can be used to uplift the industry.


- In order to achieve this, we have built a mini Tech-startup within the organization that goes by the name - finS- and it houses full time Technology professionals who are working to lead the vision of being the pioneers in technology in the MFI industry.

What's in it for you?

- Now that you understand what Spandana is, and why we are hiring, the next obvious question that comes to mind is why I should join this organization- Or what's in it for me?

- Well, let's just keep it simple and say that if the below mentioned points excite you, that should be enough reason for you to start your career with Spandana.

- Opportunity to lead our technological front in an underserved yet Rs. 2.63 lakh crore MFI market waiting to get disrupted.

- Exposure to a sector with an annual growth rate of 23% and opportunity to amalgamate technological enhancements which can be potential benchmarks not just for MFI but integrated financial sectors like NBFC.

- Providing the end to end ERP solution that would tie in different departments such as Accounts, Treasury, Payments, MIS, and Analytics to the core banking module.

- Opportunity to leverage our distribution network in rural markets and lead the e-commerce application development for the nascent and rapidly expanding - retail- arm of Spandana, Blue Lemon, with portfolio of over a 100 cr.

- Lead a pool of young and skilled professionals in a dynamic and progressive start-up environment

- Network with skillful personnel for an enhanced and elevated learning curve.

- We invite you to be a part of this exciting journey in disrupting the way Microfinance as an industry operates.

Requirements :

- Extensive first-hand development experience for 7+ years in reputed tech companies.

- Managed teams and led product development across the chain from Gathering business requirements; planning efficient system design and architecture; defining timelines for business goals; establishing development process flows and coding practices; streamlined continuous integration and deployment process.

- Built and maintained large scale systems with heavy user engagement - Sustaining the scalability of the application amidst rapidly growing business demands.

- Experience in handing live application support requirements, workflow automation and system-wide performance enhancements. Designed system architecture specifically targeting disaster recovery and management.

- Excellent team management skills - coordinate teammates with diversified skill sets. Effective and productive engagement with the management.

- Experience with latest web-mobile app development practices and technologies such as Ruby-Rails, Nodejs, Angular, Android/IOS etc. Exposure to latest technologies and practices essential. Expertise at Microsoft technologies like DotNet, MSSQL a huge plus. Experienced with RDBMS database systems (like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MSSQL).

- Command over version control tools (Git,SVN,Mercurial) and integration with project development and documentation, a must. Knowledge of product development methodologies like Agile-Scrum appreciated. Good understanding of CI-CD tools like Jenkins, a plus.

- Work experience in the Finance sector / Start-ups, a big advantage.

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