Equal Experts

Do you love creating elegant software from scratch?
If yes! then join us @ Equal Experts.
Equal Experts does not work on support & maintenance projects.
It creates enterprise software applications & products for its global clients from scratch.
Things you will NOT get at Equal Experts:
Fancy designation - You will be called a Software Engineer here, regardless of your experience or expertise.
▪ Projects in only 1 language - Today you might code in Java, tomorrow in
Groovy, the day after in Scala... :-). At Equal Experts, we work on diverse tech stacks, and you simply have to be a polyglot.
▪ "Management" role - We don't hire dedicated PMs, IMs, DMs ...or any other Ms out there.
▪ If you are part of Equal Experts, you are a techie who will code every day.
Here's what else you can look forward to:
▪ Freedom - Freedom to explore new technologies & implement them on
projects.
▪ Responsibility & ownership - Writing elegant code every day. Taking design & architectural decisions.
▪ Agile expertise - TDD, BDD, XP practices. Working with experts & thoughtleaders in Agile.
▪ Cutting edge - Work on Ruby, Scala, Hadoop, MongoDB, Neo4j, Groovy,
J2EE, iOS 6, Angular JS, Cucumber and the likes.
▪ Consulting exposure - Interact with clients every day. Travel onsite
frequently.
▪ Open culture - No hierarchy. No cubicles. No formal dress codes.
Here's what you must possess:
Exceptional OOP skills - Solid, Grasp, Kiss and Dry should mean more than words to you. Your daily code must be clean, simple, modular, extensible, and always thoroughly unit tested.
▪ Conceptual understanding of whatever you've worked on - We're more
interested in knowing how & why you used a particular technology/approach to solve a problem. Definitions and theory don't interest us that much.
▪ Decision-making experience - We need you to start new projects from scratch.
Accordingly, you must have the experience of taking design decisions &
influencing architecture on projects

Job description

• Equal Experts is an innovative software delivery consultancy specializing in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors.
• We deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognized for our leadership in the application of Agile and Lean delivery methods to assure delivery.
• We are focused on hiring DevOps Engineers with skills in AWS, Automation tools, CI/CD tools and the likes.
• The DevOps Consultant will be working with an on-site client team and will be expected to mentor and share their skills and knowledge with the existing client developers.

Your Responsibilities Include:

• Continuous Delivery of quality software created by our project teams. Ensuring smooth build and release with continuous integration.
• Configuration Management - Design and implementation of deployment strategies for multiple projects.
• Virtualization and Infrastructure Provisioning.
• Maintenance and upgrade of our cloud environment (AWS).
• Version control and source code administration.
• Administration of Web Servers, Application Servers and Servlet Containers
• Setting up and managing the Automation efforts for multiple projects.

Technical Expertise:

• Should have worked on Agile projects featuring weekly iterations and releases.
• Should have extensive hands-on experience with:
• Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins.
• Configuration Management tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Cloud computing using AWS, EC2.
• Hands-on experience on Kubernetes.
• Virtualization tools like Vagrant, Docker or VMWare
• You have an active presence in the DevOps community through your blogs, Stack Overflow and GitHub profiles.
• You are passionate about DevOps. You love to mentor people and evangelize about best practices and innovations in DevOps.

Equal Experts is a community of talented experienced software development consultants, specializing in Agile Delivery. A place where you are a Front-End Dev, working alongside the client, enabling them, and adding real value to their products. A world where you are working with great, like-minded people, while you learn new technology on the go and implementing the best practices.

We indulge in all things that would excite you!!

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using JavaScript,
• Node (ReactJS, VueJs) and the likes
• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and
• consulting services, so you'll be flexible about travel
• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title
• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside
• Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

What we look for in you?

• 3 + years of Hands-on development and delivery experience with JavaScript, and frameworks the likes
• HTML, CSS, React Js, Vue Js, Webpack, Grunt, Gulp.
• Testing tools like Jasmine, Jest, Enzyme
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)
• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems.

Equal Experts is a community of talented experienced software development consultants, specializing in agile Delivery. A place where you are a polyglot, working alongside the client, enabling them, and adding real value to their products. A world where you are working with great, like-minded people, while you learn new technology on the go and implementing the best practices.

What do we do on our regular day at EE?

• We indulge in all things that would excite you!!
• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala, Node
• MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS), and the likes
• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting
• services, so you'll be flexible about travel
• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation
• and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where
• your talent is valued over a designation or title
• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

What we look for in you?

• Hands-on development and delivery experience with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, bootstrap,
• Hands-on experience in ReactJS & related tech stack
• A strong Javascript foundation and clear understanding of Javascript classes, prototype-based inheritance, modules, etc.
• Ability to convert the UI designs into fully functional interactive prototypes.
• Experience in PSD to Html Conversion with Responsive design
• Knowledge in developing UI software interacting/interfacing with Browsers
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies
• Awareness of current trends and best practices in the front-end community.
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)
• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business

Equal Experts is a community of talented experienced software development consultants, specializing in Agile Delivery. A place where you are a polyglot, working alongside the client, enabling them, and adding real value to their products. A world where you are working with great, like-minded people, while you learn new technology on the go and implementing the best practices.

We indulge in all things that would excite you!!

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala,
• MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS), and the likes
• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting
• services, so you'll be flexible about travel
• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title
• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside the Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

What we look for in you?

• 6 + years of Hands-on development and delivery experience with Java, Scala, and the likes
• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess
• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge
• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean, and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)
• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems

Role: The role of lead is not a textbook checklist, however, there are technical responsibilities that a team must fulfill and we expect the tech lead to ensure these responsibilities are covered and be able to cover them themselves if needed.
We expect tech leads to taking a collaborative approach to leading their team. This is especially important when considering the amount of experience that each of our consultants brings.
Given this, we expect you to:
● Respect the other members of your team and recognize you don’t always know best.
● Spot gaps in team capability and figure out how to fix them as a team.
● Be hands-on, able and willing to contribute to development, however, don’t expect to be coding all of the time.
● Encourage the team to be proactive, give them responsibility

Responsibilities
● Have a clear understanding of the deployment architecture
● Have a clear understanding of the build pipeline
● Understand how you get changes into production
● Understand how all parts of the system work together
● Facilitate technical communication with other teams, both within your engagement and across other EE clients.
● Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team
● Ensure you have a release / branching strategy in place
● Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams
● Ensure there is a technical vision for the team
● Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production
● Encourage the team to follow good development practices aligned to EE technical values
● Feedback to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your team (good and bad)
● Recognize team members that have the potential to grow into team leads
● Ensure the use of new technologies or dependencies does not block the team.
● Ensure the team keeps ​necessary ​ architectural documents up to date
● Keep an eye on the long term consequences of architectural choices, and remind others when necessary
● Build good relationships with your team members. Act as a mentor when required
● Keep the client informed and engaged in the technical side of the project
● Build relationships across your client community

Technologies / Experience  The successful candidate must have the following experience:
● Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organization
● Have worked with a variety of different technical architect roles
● Be deeply proficient in at least one programming language
● Be comfortable using other languages and evidence using multiple languages
● Have hands-on experience with some form of configuration management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet
● Have hands-on experience of at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City or Bamboo.
● Full-stack development experience from the user interface through to data persistence
● A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD
● Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy
● Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and seen a number of different approaches to delivery
● Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end to end system security

The following exposure will also be looked on favorably:
● Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement
● Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure etc.
● Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform

We indulge in all things that would excite you!!

 

 

• Work on large-scale, custom distributed software systems using Java, Scala, MongoDB, JavaScript (AngularJS, ReactJS) and the likes

 

• We work almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting services, so you'll be flexible about travel

 

• Employ Agile development including task estimation, test automation, deployment automation, and Continuous Integration to improve overall execution speed and product quality

 

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical, and ego-free culture where your talent is valued over a designation or title

 

• Spread the word about best practices in software development inside and outside Equal Experts community like Expert Talks

 

 

What we look for in you?

 

 

• 3 + years Hands-on in development and delivery experience with Java, Scala, and the likes

 

• Passion for software engineering and craftsman-like coding prowess

 

• Great OO skills, including strong design patterns knowledge

 

• Experience working with Agile, TDD, Lean and/or Continuous Delivery approaches and best practices, such as Extreme Programming (XP)

 

• Enthusiastic to work collaboratively with people and sharing your ideas to solve real business problems.

What’s it like in Equal Experts: Currently, we are working to create a platform on mobile for a giant enterprise to help them roll out their new offering. The company is now amongst the world’s biggest startups and fastest growing IT companies that are creating groundbreaking innovations. This platform will help them build capabilities to scale up to 1 million installations a week. In addition, it will let them on-board and empower over a million people in the workforce. The platform will then scale to create disruptions in the retail and e-commerce space, solving real-world problems. Scalability, extensibility, and reusability are key attributes of this platform. As a Platform Architect, you'll be involved in: Defining the technology strategy for the platform, including ensuring operability, performance, and security. Providing technical leadership and consulting on all aspects of the program. Coordinating and facilitating technical decisions across the multiple deliver streams on the platform. Providing technical and delivery mentoring to client technology department.

Role: The role of lead is not a textbook checklist, however, there are technical responsibilities that a team must fulfill and we expect the tech lead to ensure these responsibilities are covered and be able to cover them themselves if needed. We expect tech leads to taking a collaborative approach to leading their team. This is especially important when considering the amount of experience that each of our consultants brings. Given this, we expect you to: ● Respect the other members of your team and recognise you don’t always know best. ● Spot gaps in team capability and figure out how to fix them as a team. ● Be hands on, able and willing to contribute to development, however, don’t expect to be coding all of the time. ● Encourage the team to be proactive, give them responsibility. Responsibilities ● Have a clear understanding of the deployment architecture ● Have a clear understanding of the build pipeline ● Understand how you get changes into production ● Understand how all parts of the system work together ● Facilitate technical communication with other teams, both within your engagement and across other EE clients. ● Actively seek to remove knowledge silos within the team ● Ensure you have a release / branching strategy in place ● Act as the primary point of contact for your team when communicating with other teams ● Ensure there is a technical vision for the team ● Liaise with environment specialists to ensure smooth deployments to production ● Encourage the team to follow good development practices aligned to EE technical values ● Feedback to the delivery lead or engagement manager on the quality of your team (good and bad) ● Recognise team members that have the potential to grow into team leads ● Ensure the use of new technologies or dependencies does not block the team. ● Ensure the team keeps necessary architectural documents up to date ● Keep an eye on the long term consequences of architectural choices, and remind others when necessary ● Build good relationships with your team members. Act as a mentor when required ● Keep the client informed and engaged in the technical side of the project ● Build relationships across your client community Technologies / Experience The successful candidate must have the following experience: ● Worked as the tech lead of a development/delivery team in a large organisation ● Have worked with a variety of different technical architect roles ● Be deeply proficient in at least one programming language ● Be comfortable using other languages and evidence using multiple languages ● Have hands-on experience with some form of configuration management tooling, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet ● Have hands-on experience of at least one continuous integration and continuous delivery technology, e.g. Jenkins, Go, Team City or Bamboo. ● Full stack development experience from user interface through to data persistence ● A strong proponent of XP practices such as TDD ● Working with a delivery team to formulate an automated test strategy ● Worked as part of a number of agile delivery teams and seen a number of different approaches to delivery ● Good appreciation of secure coding practices and end to end system security The following exposure will also be looked on favorably: ● Performing an ‘architect’ role, while retaining hands-on involvement ● Working with cloud hosting platforms such as AWS, Rackspace, Azure etc. ● Infrastructure management technologies such as Cloud Formation or Terraform