Paytm Payment Bank to support women
Paytm Payments Bank, India’s digital bank providing zero balance accounts with zero charges on digital transactions, has partnered with the Startup Village Collective (SV.CO) to support women in their strides to join leadership roles in tech and engineering companies. The company will mentor bright and talented women engineering students to pick up the knowledge and skills required to build software technology products.
SV.CO’s upcoming six-month programme will start enrolling women engineering students via social media and in college campuses as a part of Paytm’s Women Tech Leaders programme. All women students selected for the SV.CO programme will get an opportunity to learn from the company’s engineering and design teams, and the company leadership team. The company will offer internships and opportunities for job interviews to top performers of the batch. All students will also be eligible for a Rs. 100,000 merit scholarship by Paytm Payments Bank.
Renu Satti, MD & CEO - Paytm Payments Bank said, “We strongly believe that women must hold leadership roles in every sector and we are committed to supporting them in their endeavors. With our Women Tech Leaders programme, we will offer them knowledge of the latest industry practices along with mentorship across Tech, Design and Management. This will help us seed great ideas and necessary skills in young college-going women to help them grow into natural leaders as they start their career.”
Sanjay Vijayakumar, SV.CO Chairman said, “The Indian startup ecosystem needs developers with these capabilities. Startup Village Collective is a mission-based organization to solve problems that require the collective effort of many participants. We are happy to have a partner in Paytm Payments Bank, India’s startup industry leader whose products are driven by the strength of its engineering team.”
For students with SV.CO experience, the biggest advantage over peers when it comes to seeking jobs in the software industry after graduation is the variety of roles they can apply for, based on skills and interest, including front-end programming, back-end programming, full stack engineering, User Interface Design, User Experience Design, Product Engineering and Product Management. SV.CO teaches students not just the technical expertise, but also an understanding of the best industry practices enabling both students and industry to become winners in a hypercompetitive environment.
