Digit88 Careers

About Digit88

Digit88 is a boutique software product engineering company helping innovative product companies engineer world class products since 2014. The founding team at Digit88 has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, China and the US.

The Opportunity

We have partnered with one of the world's foremost Conversational AI companies to set up their GIC in India. Over the past 4 years we have been collaboratively engineering a highly scalable, high performance, resilient platform with globally distributed teams in US, UK, Germany and Australia. The team is led by some of the biggest names in Conversational AI globally. 

We are also setting up new Offshore Development Centres (GICs) for some very exciting mid-stage US companies in the areas of Data Privacy/Security, Life Sciences/E-Procurement and TeleHealth/Remote Care (promoted by ex Uber co-founder).

The candidate will join an existing team of 4-5 TA specialists and would be responsible for planning and driving end to end talent acquisition for the current and upcoming tech (all levels), managerial and non-tech (if any) positions. This would entail sourcing, assessing and on-boarding at least 30 engineers over the next 6-9 months with gradual capacity ramp up in the period ahead.

Job Profile

The ideal candidate is a high-energy, self-motivated, hands-on senior technical recruitment specialist and HR operations generalist who will lead and drive end-to-end talent acquisition for our expansion. This would include working with hiring managers and leadership team to plan sourcing strategy and own the KRAs, work allocation for the team, source top tier candidates, schedule/track interviews, measure & track recruiting process/effectiveness and own vendor management.

The candidate will be an evangelist for exceptional candidate experience, data driven decision making while meeting organization hiring goals and help build a strong employer brand for the company. 

To be successful in this role, you should possess

• BE/BTech or Self-learned Technical/IT background with 5-8 years hands-on experience in technical talent acquisition with startups or mid-sized IT product companies, driving recruitment at scale. 
• MBA with specialisation in Human Resources & Marketing or a related field will be an advantage
• Strong understanding of Modern Web Applications, SaaS products and what it takes to build high performance scalable B2B and B2C products
• Strong understanding of modern open source Java/JavaScript techstack and technologies - Node, Angular, React/Redux, Vue, Java/J2EE, Spring, Kafka, Elastic Search, ELK and domains like Messaging, Telecom, HealthTech. 

• Should understand threading and sockets and the difference between Angular and React and what is a Message Queue used for.

• Proven experience in end-to-end talent acquisition: designing and executing recruiting strategies to attract, evaluate and hire best in breed product engineers from entry level to Principal Engineers and Engineering Managers.
• Hands-on experience with searching & posting jobs on social media and job boards such as Naukri, AngelList, CutShort, InstaHyre, Linkedin, Employee Referrals and more.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication. Provide ability to pitch and sell the opportunity to top tier candidates.
• Experience in managing or leading a team of recruiters and crafting sourcing strategies for various roles, from entry-level to senior-level positions. 
• Outstanding MS-Excel and presentation skills with passion for data driven decision making and hands on experience presenting plans/strategies to senior management.
• Experience in leading employment branding initiatives
• Passion for leveraging innovative selection methods for profile screening, video/in-person interviews, assignments, psychometric tests etc. to correctly assess applicants faster and optimize the funnel.
• Experience in maintaining talent pipelines with potential candidates and past applicants for future staffing needs
• Expertise with one or more ATS.
• Experience in determining current staffing needs and producing forecasts
• Proven experience in compensation planning and benchmarking against industry standards
• Proven experience in defining, developing and maturing relationships with strategic vendors

You are someone who would easily be able to

• Develop sustainable talent acquisition and hiring plans and strategies 
• Use HRIS, Recruitment Marketing tools to source candidates
• Source and find candidates qualified for open positions from non conventional sources (e.g. other than Naukri)
• Perform analysis of hiring needs and provide employee hiring forecast
• Design, plan and execute selection processes (conduct interviews and screening calls, administer psychometric tests etc.)
• Lead, oversee and supervise members of the recruiting team
• Use innovative sourcing methods for hard-to-fill roles
• Determine HR and Recruiting KPIs and create and present KPI reports to management.
• Design, plan and execute employer branding activities
• Plan employee referral programs - encourage employees to be brand ambassadors
• Review employment applications and background check reports
• Find bottlenecks in the recruiting process
• Perform candidate and employee satisfaction evaluations and workshops
• Plan procedures for improving the candidate experience

 

Critical Soft Skills:

• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.
• Self driven with a strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.
• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.
• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.
• Should have the passion to learn and implement, analyse and troubleshoot issues

Senior Web Application Engineer - Angular/NgRx/RxJS
Experience: 5-8 Years
Location: Bangalore
Type: Full-time
About Digit88
Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore, India with experience of building offshore development centers for US startups and MNCs since 2014. The founding team has 50+years
of product engineering and services experience out of India, China and the US.
The Opportunity
Digit88 is establishing a new offshore product development team for its US (Boston/Chicago) based partner, to help engineer an innovating B2B SaaS platform in the space of Product Lifecycle Management, Agile Merchandising, AR/VR for the ECommerce industry. The candidate would be joining an existing team of outstanding product engineers in the US and help us expand product engineering, web application
development for our partner.
Job Profile:
We are looking for enthusiastic, self-driven, mid to senior front-end engineers with exceptional modern web
app development skills using JavaScript/TypeScript based frameworks, specifically Angular, Ngrx, Rxjs.
Experience with a fast-paced India/US product start-up or a product engineering services company in a
senior front-end engineer role, building and managing a high-performance real-time streaming type system
is mandatory. Applicants must have a passion for engineering with accuracy and efficiency, be highly
motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, and also possess the ability to work independently
with minimal supervision.
To be successful in this role, you should possess
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with a minimum 5 years experience working as a
senior front-end engineer
● At least 4 years hands-on experience with Angular (2+), TypeScript and hands-on with Angular 11
● Strong experience with websockets, observable based programming using RxJS.
● Expertise with redux type data stores using NgRx
● Strong Object-oriented JavaScript programming skills with proficiency in multiple JavaScript based
frameworks.
● Strong with HTML5/CSS3/SASS/LESS/Bootstrap/Material design
● Experience in creating client side asynchronous web applications using Ajax. Experience building a
streaming analytics system is a big plus.
● Experience with building Google docs like collaboration SaaS products is a huge plus.
● Practitioner of Test Driven Development. Proven experience with unit testing using one or more of
Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, Jest.
● Cloud experience with Microsoft Azure or GCP or AWS
● Hands on with Build automation, deployment using Jenkins
● Experience in other Javascript frameworks like Vue.JS, React.js/Redux is a big plus.
● Backend engineering experience with Node.js, Mongo, GraphQL is a big plus
You are someone who would easily be able to
● Write and promote re-usable and efficient code and build libraries.
● Work closely and directly with the CTO and US engineering team to help build the next generation
front-end applications in the PLM space
● Own the development of new modules and features. Research and promote best practices and libraries.
● Be able to contribute independently with minimal supervision.
● Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario
● Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking
● Study and learn the latest in PLM/Ecommerce domainAdditional Project/Soft Skills:
● Should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.
● Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and
emails.
● Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.
● Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.
● Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.
● Should have the passion to learn and implement, analyse and troubleshoot issues
Benefits/Culture @ Digit88:
● Comprehensive Insurance (Health, Accident)
● Flexible Work Arrangements/Remote Work
● Profit Share Opportunities
● Accelerated learning & non-linear growth
● Flat organisation structure. Zero politics.
● Global Peers - Working with some of the best engineers/professionals globally from the likes of Apple,
Amazon, IBM on the world’s top most Conversational AI platform.
● Ability to make a global impact with your work, leading innovations in Conversational A

Senior iOS engineer 

Experience: 6-8 Years 

Location: Bangalore 

Type: Full-time 

About Digit88

Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of building offshore development centers for US start-ups and MNCs over the last 7+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, and US. 

The Opportunity

Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based NLP/Chatbot platform development partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. You would be working directly with a world class team of executives who excel at creating world class products.

Job Profile: 

Digit88 is looking for a senior iOS Middleware/SDK Developer for the offshore engineering centre for our Seattle, US based client partner that is a leader in Conversational AI. The ideal candidate succeeds in a fast-paced environment, is self-motivated, and has a passion for both the business and the technology. Responsibility will include taking ownership of and developing and enhancing the iOS Client SDK and supporting its integration with end user client applications. As a Senior iOS Engineer you'll be tasked with writing elegant and well-structured code and creating thoughtful design with scalability and maintainability. You'll be empowered to provide user design feedback for UX designers and collaborate closely with designers, QA, and product managers. Will work on a cutting-edge app that will be used by millions of consumers.

 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the effort to drive the design and development of advanced SDK/Middleware & applications for the iOS platform
• Work collaboratively in a cross-functional team (PM, UX, engineering, science) team to transform user stories into prototypes & production code

• Drive the end to end product development. 

• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Identifying & eliminating performance and scale issues that ripple from front-end to back-end
• Work with CRM systems and APIs integration
• Get involved in end to end product development. 
• Thoughtfully apply UI design principles & best practices for iOS
• Building an app with best engineering practices
• Work closely with US engineering team

 

Requirements:

• BE/BTech degree in Computer Science with at least 6+ years of experience developing, releasing and maintaining native iOS mobile applications
• Experience with Swift, Objective-C/C++, Cocoa, Core Data
• Experience with designing APIs and working with RESTful, Websocket, SSE and long polling
• Hands on experience in building Middleware, SDKs for high-performance applications
• Strong practical experience with applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems 
• Strong coding skills & ability to perform in a dynamic, agile & entrepreneurial environment
• Hands-on independent programmer with experience in International product development. 
• Consumer facing, enterprise or big brand app development experience and ideally one or two personal projects or significant open source contributions
• Deep knowledge and understanding of client-side architecture and experience building large scale applications
• Experience with Git & JIRA
• Experience with MVC/MVVM

 

Good to have:

• Experience/understanding of server side development is a plus
• Experience with SwiftUI/Combine is a plus

 

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Product from scratch experience: at least 2 products, should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.

• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.

• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.

• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.

About Digit88:

Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of building offshore development centers for US start-ups and MNCs over the last 6+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, China and the US. 

The Opportunity:

Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based NLP/Chatbot platform development partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. You would be working directly with a world class team of executives who excel at creating world class products. 

Job Profile:

Digit88 is seeking a Chatbot Developer to join our Chatbots development team. As a Bot Developer, you will participate in project design and development stages from the concept to final hand-off to the customer. 

Responsibilities: 

• Prepare Chatbot storyboards, user/process flows to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas. 
• You will Develop, Debug and Deploy conversational Chatbot experiences using appropriate client platform and tools 
• Discuss development and key milestone deliverables with peers, executives and executive-level client stakeholders. 
• Participate in creating guidelines, best practices and standards of Chatbot-featured deliverables. 
• Keep abreast of the latest Chatbot trends, techniques, and technologies 
• Perform demonstrations for client stakeholders on project features and sub features, which utilizes Chatbot solutions. 

Requirements: 

• Minimum 4-6 years of professional development experience 
• Experience designing and developing Chatbots for various channels (web, Facebook Messenger, SMS, etc) using bot platforms or raw code is desired 

• Extremely strong JavaScript skills 

• Experience with one or more of backend technologies - Node, PHP, Python, Java is a big plus 

• Experience working with REST APIs and JSON 

• Portfolio showcasing excellent development skills and demonstrating problem-solving skills 
• Experience in creating workflows, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps. 
• Knowledge and experience in some of the key AI platforms - Facebook Wit.Ai, Google DialogFlow, Microsoft Luis, IBM Watson is a big plus 

Additional Project/Soft Skills: 

• You are a creative problem solver 
• Positive attitude and self-motivated 
• Proficiency in current web design technology 
• Extremely detail-oriented and also able to see the big picture 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and presentation ability 
• Strong visual design skills with good understanding of user-system interaction 
• Strong presentations skills and team player abilities 
• Strong problem-solving skills with creative approach

Job Profile

Digit88 is looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands-on Java/J2EE platform engineer to join the
back-end platform engineering team for our partner. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product
start-up or a product engineering services company in a developer role, building a high-performance
real-time system is mandatory. Applicants having experience in developing and maintaining large scale
messaging platforms are preferred. Applicants must have a passion for engineering with accuracy and
efficiency, be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, and also possess the ability
to work independently with minimal supervision.
To be successful in this role, you should possess
● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 7-9 years hands-on experience with
Java based open source tech stack
● Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot,
Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems
● Practical experience with MySQLand/or NoSQL databases like Couchbase, DynamoDB,
Cassandra
● Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues (JMS,
RabbitMQ)
● Practical hands-on experience in JavaScript and NodeJS
● Experience in building high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients
● Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, Splunk, Kibana
● Prior experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant
● Experience with Kubernetes
● Prior experience in transformation to cloud platforms is preferred
● Experience with Kafka is a definite plus
● Experience with building analytics pipeline and analytics DB is a plus
● Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex
problems, strong problem solving skills

You are someone who would easily be able to

● Study and learn the latest in AI/NLP/Chatbots domain and the messaging platform
● Work closely with the US and India engineering teams to help build the Java/Spring based backend
and REST APIs.
● Closely collaborate with the principal engineer in the India engineering team in technical excellence
and ownership of critical modules; own the development of new modules and features
● Troubleshoot live production server issues; assume leadership responsibilities in the production
issue resolution lifecycle
● Handle client coordination and be able to work as a part of a team, be able to contribute
independently and drive the team to exceptional contributions with minimal team supervision
● Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario
● Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking

Principal Java Backend Engineer

Experience:

10-15 Years

Location: Bangalore

Type: Full-time

About Digit88

Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of building offshore development centers for US startups and MNCs over the last 6+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, China and the US.

The Opportunity

Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based NLP/Chatbot platform development partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. The candidate would be joining an existing team of 16+ engineers and help expand and lead the Platform Engineering, Production Support and Monitoring services for our client.

Job Profile

Digit88 is looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands on Java/J2EE back-end developer to join the back-end engineering team for our partner. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product start-up or a product engineering services company in a developer role, building a high-performance real-time system is mandatory. Applicants must have a passion for engineering with accuracy and efficiency, be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, and also possess the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

To be successful in this role, you should possess

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 10-15 years hands on experience with Java based open source tech stack.

• Expertise in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest) in distributed systems

• Are hands on with MySQL and DynamoDB and/or NoSQL databases, Hibernate

• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues (JMS, RabbitMQ)

• Have hands on experience with Apache Solr, Rhino & Nashorn JS Engines,

• Expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, Splunk, Kibana.

• Prior experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Experience with Couchbase is a definite plus

• Experience with building analytics pipeline and analytics DB is a plus

• Have built high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients.

• Strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems, strong problem solving skills.
• You are someone who would easily be able to

• Study and learn the latest in AI/NLP/Chatbots domain and the messaging platform

• Work closely with the US and India engineering teams to help build the Java/Spring based backend and REST APIs.

• Lead the India engineering team in technical excellence and ownership of critical modules; own the development of new modules and features

• Troubleshoot live production server issues.

• Handle client coordination and be able to work as a part of a team, be able to contribute independently and drive the team to exceptional contributions with minimal team supervision

• Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario

• Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.

• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.

• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.

• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.

• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.

• Should have the passion to learn and implement, analyse and troubleshoot issues

Java Backend Developer  

Experience: 2- 5 Years 

Location: Bangalore 

Type: Full-time 

About Digit88

Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of building offshore development centers for US startups and MNCs over the last 6+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India and US. 

The Opportunity

Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based NLP/Chatbot platform development partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. The candidate would be joining an existing team of 16+ engineers and help expand Platform Engineering, Production Support and Monitoring services for our client.

Job Profile: 

Digit88 is looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands on Java/J2EE back-end developer to join the back-end engineering team for our partner. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product start-up or a product engineering services company in a developer role, building a high-performance real-time system is mandatory. Applicants must have a passion for engineering with accuracy and efficiency, be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, and also possess the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Job Profile: 

To be successful in this role, you should possess:

• Minimum 2 years working experience working as a Java application developer 
• Strong in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE
• Practical experience in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services
• Hands on with MySQL and DynamoDB and/or NoSQL databases, Hibernate
• Practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues
• Familiarity and experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant
• Should have built high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients.

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Minimum of 2 years in Java development
• Exposure to DevOps technologies

 

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.

• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.

• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.

• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.

• Should have the passion to learn and implement, analyse and troubleshoot issues

SDET – FullStack Automation

About Digit88:

Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of building offshore development centers for US startups and MNCs over the last 6+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India and US. 

The Opportunity

Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based NLP/Chatbot platform development partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. The candidate would be joining an existing team of 16+ engineers and help expand Platform Engineering, Production Support and Monitoring services for our client.

Our Hunt:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands on SDET – Automation to join the engineering team for our Bay Area based partner. We’d love to hear from you, if you identify as someone who has strong fundamentals on system testing and end to end user level testing.

Your key responsibilities would be to
• Architect, design, build and maintain clear and reliable automation frameworks/scripts for complex web-
based applications from scratch to make testing processes effective and efficient in order to deliver high quality software.
• Understand business requirements and can work in a highly collaborative environment and follow a System/Product centric approach.
• Research and contribute ideas for continually improving code quality and automation test performance.
• Work closely with both technical and non-technical team members. Interact with various levels of individual contributors and management to educate and influence automation test strategy.
• Create accurate and detailed bug reports when issues are identified.
• Integrate automation tests with CI pipeline.

You’d make a great fit if you are someone who has
• Bachelor’s degree with 5-7 total years of hands-on software engineering experience as SDET
• Minimum 4+ Years as Full Stack Automation SDET with expert level experience on web application automation using Selenium
• Working experience on Jira, familiarity with Agile environment including daily scrum.
• Ability to write code in one or more programming languages like Java, JavaScript etc. to automate tests for the full solution stack (UI, App Layer, API, Web Service, batch jobs, etc)
• Experience with API Automation: Chrome Dev Tool using Postman, Newman, Mocha Chai Advanced
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures
• Demonstrated capability to develop, maintain, and ship reliable automation scripts with minimum guidance.
• Solid understanding of testing principles and methodologies.
• Understands TDD test frameworks like TestNG, JUnit etc.
• Experience with any of JMeter, Performance Centre/LoadRunner, VSTS
• Understands HTTP and how modern web applications are built
• Thinks about security and is aware of OWASP
• Understands CI/CD and Build pipelines like Jenkins.
• Knows the services offered by cloud platform providers such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
• Versatile with strong technical depth and ability to understand complex technical discussions and take decisions
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

Benefits & working @ Digit88
• Comprehensive health and accident insurance
• Attractive pay package
• Bonus/Revenue share opportunities
• Creative, flexible and rewarding work environment
• Opportunity to work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenge

Lead Java Backend Developer 

About Digit88:

Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of building offshore development centers for US startups and MNCs over the last 6+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, China and the US. 

The Opportunity

Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based NLP/Chatbot platform development partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. The candidate would be joining an existing team of 16+ engineers and help expand Platform Engineering, Production Support and Monitoring services for our client.

Job Profile: 

Digit88 is looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hands on Java/J2EE back-end developer to join the back-end

engineering team for our partner. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product start-up or a product engineering

services company in a developer role, building a high-performance real-time system is mandatory. Applicants must

have a passion for engineering with accuracy and efficiency, be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part

of a team, and also possess the ability to work independently with minimal supervision. 

• Possess BE/BTech degree in Computer Science with 8-12 years hands on experience with Java based open source tech stack.
• Strong in Core Java, Data Structures, J2EE with proven expertise in Spring MVC, Spring boot, Microservices architecture, Web Services (Rest)
• Are hands on with MySQL and DynamoDB and/or NoSQL databases, Hibernate
• Possess practical experience with Caching frameworks Memcached/Redis, Message Queues (JMS, RabbitMQ)
• Have hands on experience with Apache Solr, Rhino & Nashorn JS Engines,
• Have expertise with log file analysis using one or more of ELK, Splunk, Kibana. 
• Have prior experience with CI/CD, Container architecture - Docker/Jenkins and build scripts Maven/Ant 
• Have built high performance, high availability REST APIs and REST clients. 
• Possess strong practical experience in applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems 

You are someone who would easily be able to 

• Study and learn the latest in AI/NLP/Chatbots domain and the messaging platform 
• Work closely with US engineering team and India engineering lead to help build the Java/Spring based backend and REST APIs. 
• Own the development of new modules and features 
• Troubleshoot live production server issues. 
• Handle client coordination and be able to work as a part of team or at times be able to contribute independently with minimal supervision. 
• Perform Unit Testing and Integration testing in a Continuous Deployment scenario 
• Follow Agile methodology, JIRA for work planning, issue management/tracking 

Benefits & working @ Digit88 

• Comprehensive health and accident insurance 
• Attractive pay package 
• Bonus/Revenue share opportunities 
• Creative, flexible and rewarding work environment 
• Opportunity to work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenges 

Lead Android SDK/Middleware Developer  

Experience: 9-12 Years 

Location: Bangalore 

Type: Full-time 

About Digit88

Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of establishing and managing offshore development centers for US start-ups and MNCs over the last 7+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, China and the US. 

The Opportunity

Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based client partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. You would be working directly with a world class team of executives who excel at creating industry leading and cutting edge products.

Job Profile: 

Digit88 is looking for a Lead Android Middleware/SDK Developer for our offshore engineering centre for our Seattle, US based client partner that is a leader in Conversational AI. Responsibility will include taking ownership of and developing and enhancing the Android SDK and supporting its integration with end user client applications. As a Lead/Senior Android Engineer you'll be tasked with writing elegant and well-structured code and creating thoughtful design with scalability and maintainability. You'll be empowered to provide user design feedback for UX designers and collaborate closely with designers, QA, and product managers. Will work on a cutting-edge app that will be used by millions of consumers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the effort to drive the design and development of advanced SDK/Middleware & applications for the Android platform
• Work collaboratively in a cross-functional team (PM, UX, engineering, science) team to transform user stories into prototypes & production code
• Drive the end to end product development. 
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Work closely with US engineering team and leadership for product delivery
• Work in a 24/7 production environment supporting a live product including troubleshooting, client interaction and planning
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Work with CRM systems and APIs integration
• Thoughtfully apply UI design principles & best practices for Android
• Building an app with best engineering practices
• Identifying & eliminating performance and scale issues that ripple from front-end to back-end

 

Requirements:

• BE/BTech - CS or MCA with at least 8+ years hands on experience in building complex Android apps & SDKs
• Strong in core Java, Data Structures, Collections
• Strong knowledge of Data Storage, SQLite
• Experience with designing APIs and working with RESTful, WebSocket, SSE and long polling
• Hands on experience in building Middleware, SDKs for high-performance applications
• Strong coding skills & ability to perform in a dynamic, agile & entrepreneurial environment
• Experience with designing APIs and working with RESTful, Websocket, SSE and long polling
• Strong practical experience with applying design patterns, multithreading concepts to solve complex problems 
• Hands-on independent programmer with experience in International product development. 
• Consumer facing, enterprise or big brand app development experience and ideally one or two personal projects or significant open source contributions
• Deep knowledge and understanding of client-side architecture and experience building large scale applications
• Experience with MVC/MVVM

 

Good to have:

• Experience/understanding of server side development is a plus
• Experience in React Native/Flutter/NativeScript is a plus
• Experience /Knowledge with and other CRMs and integration is a huge plus

 

Additional Project/Soft Skills:

• Product from scratch experience: at least 2 products, should be able to work independently with India & US based team members.
• Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over phone and emails.

• Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.

• Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.

• Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution.