Flytbase Careers

We are looking for a Passionate Android Developer to join our award-winning, talented team, building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers. You will be responsible for the development of Android applications and their integration with back-end services.

About FlytBase

FlytBase is a 4-year old, venture-funded, high growth startup –  a global pioneer in software-led automation of commercial drone applications. The team has a cumulative professional experience of several decades, with engineering graduates from IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Texas & Georgia Tech.

FlytBase develops intelligent software that leverages reliable, off-the-shelf drone hardware to automate and scale drone deployments for commercial use-cases. FlytBase platform is hardware-agnostic, has intelligent plugins for autonomy, manages drone fleets via 4G/5G, and uses APIs to integrate into enterprise workflows. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA and has R&D offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally, the most recent one being the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Global Champion 2019’.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable android code.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, ship new features, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 1+ years of experience in designing and building Android applications.
• Good knowledge in programming concepts – OOPs, design & coding patterns.
• Experience in developing Android applications using Kotlin/Java.
• Strong knowledge of Android UI design principles, MVC, MVP and MVVM patterns.
• Strong knowledge of MAPS, Sqlite, GPS functionality etc.
• Strong experience in Material Design.
• Experience in writing Unit Tests and UI tests, must be familiar with Junit, Mockito and Espresso.
• Experience in integrating SSO and auth modules or libraries.
• Experience in Git or Bitbucket Repository.
• Experience in REST API integration.
• Familiarity with Android local connectivity API (Bluetooth, WiFi, USB).
• Familiarity with RxKotlin / RxJava (operator, thread management, eventBus).
• Familiarity with cloud message APIs and push notifications.

What Will I Earn?

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Designing and developing test automation scripts for a web application (Angular) using test automation guidelines.
2. Performance, Security, Penetration, Vulnerability testing.
3. Build tools and frameworks to aid continuous delivery, deployment, and debugging.
4. Supporting the development team and software engineers during the development and testing phase.
5. Prepare defect reports and report test progress.

Qualifications and Requirements:

1. Experience in Automation Testing with Cypress, JavaScript, Typescript, or similar end-to-end testing tools.
2. Experience with Regression, Smoke testing, API, and Backend testing.
3. Experience with non-functional testing, performance, vulnerability testing.
4. Excellent knowledge in testing skills (design test plan and test strategy, writing and executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs, etc).
5. A team player, fast learner with good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Location: Pune, India

About FlytBase:

FlytBase is a 4-year old, venture-funded, high growth startup –  a global pioneer in software-led automation of commercial drone applications. The team has a cumulative professional experience of several decades, with engineering graduates from IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Texas & Georgia Tech.

FlytBase provides drone agnostic software solutions to automate and scale drone operations. It is the world’s first Internet of Drones Platform (IoD), that allows easy deployment of intelligent drone fleets, connected with cloud-based business applications.

As a key contributor to our lean Talent team, you will be responsible to build and manage our talent pipeline. You will work directly with our Engineering, Design, Strategy and Business leaders to help us scale and meet the demands of a fast-growing global technology product startup. This is a full cycle recruiting role, meaning, managing your entire pipeline from talent marketing, sourcing, evaluation process, negotiation, reference checks, offer acceptance, pre-boarding and joining.

Responsibilities:

• Source high caliber active and passive candidates through market research, networking, advanced search tools, employee referrals, and community events.
• Drive the interview and offer process, including creating job descriptions, overseeing interviews & feedback, tactful negotiations, reference checks and closing of positions.
• Innovate our current talent & outbound sourcing strategies.
• Ensure candidates have a world-class experience throughout each stage in our recruitment process.
• Lead talent marketing and employer branding initiatives.
• Organize and attend job fairs, hackathons and other recruitment events.
• Build and sustain relationships with campuses to meet the hiring requirements.
• Developing and executing presentations,career fairs and participating in campus interviews.

Must have:

• 2+ years in full cycle technical/non-technical and leadership recruitment, preferably with a fast-growing startup.
• Deep knowledge in delivering a world-class talent experience and ability to influence top tier talent.
• Hacker mindset -- come up with ideas/hacks to attract the best talent for a given role, and to shorten the closure time for open positions.
• Excellent work ethic, a strong sense of urgency and attention to detail.
• Self-directed and able to work independently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Exposure to various campus recruiting practices and techniques – including the ability to build new partnerships, identify areas of brand building and provide ad-hoc reporting and market intelligence.

What Will I Earn?

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit, and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

 Perks:

• Fast-paced Startup culture
• Hacker mode environment
• Enthusiastic and approachable team
• Professional autonomy
• Strong meritocracy
• Zero bureaucracy 
• Company-wide sense of purpose
• Flexible work hours
• Informal dress code

UI & UX Designer

Type: Internship / Full-Time

Location: Pune (Work From Home allowed until COVID-19 situation improves)

Experience: 0-1 Year

About FlytBase
https://flytbase.com 

FlytBase is a Silicon Valley and Pune based startup, building the world's first internet of drones platform for deploying fully-automated and intelligent commercial drones at scale. FlytBase is led by a team of experts in robotics, computer science, AI/ML technologies, and is a global leader in drone automation. FlytBase Labs is based out of Pune, India.

About the position
We are looking for a UI/UX Designer to join our award-winning, talented team, building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers. Ideal candidate gets to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced, result-driven environment. Applicants must have substantial experience informing designs through critical design thinking, rationalizing for B2B systems, websites and mobile devices.

Responsibilities

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers.

• Quickly and iteratively create interaction flows, wireframes, and visual design mockups throughout the design process

• Present design work to UX, Product, and Engineering teams, as well as stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain detailed information architecture and design specifications

• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.

• Design graphics user interface elements like menus, tabs and widgets.

• Build page navigation buttons and search fields.

• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like.

• Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches, and tables).

• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders.

• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness).

• Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback.

• Adhere to style standards on fonts, colors, and images.

Requirements

• A portfolio of UI/UX design work for both web and mobile platforms.
• Collaboration: Work with individuals of varying roles, skill sets, and backgrounds 
• Domain knowledge: Understanding UX fundamentals & technology 
• Initiative: A bias toward action, even on items not explicitly within your direct responsibility 
• Rational creativity: Ability to think way outside the box, and then dial in on what is feasible 
• Communication: Written/verbal storyteller; can present to multiple audiences 
• Empathy: Ability & desire to truly get to know your user’s pain points 
• Resiliency: Comfortable with ambiguity, failing in a safe environment and getting out of your comfort zone 
• Attention to detail: You absolutely sweat the small stuff 
• Curiosity: A hunger to grow and learn new things 
• Advocacy: Strong support and appreciation for Enterprise Design Thinking and the importance of the user.

Skill(s) required

• Prototyping, UX design, UI design, User Research, Wireframing, Illustration

Perks

• Fast-paced Startup culture

• Hacker mode environment

• Enthusiastic and approachable team

• Professional autonomy

• Strong meritocracy

• Zero bureaucracy 

• Company-wide sense of purpose

• Flexible work hours

• Informal dress code

• Culture that promotes challenging oneself & continuous improvement. End-to-end Ownership given to team members.

Engineering Manager

Location: Pune, India

We're seeking an experienced engineering leader to join our award-winning, talented team, building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers. This is a technical hands-on management position. Primarily you will be responsible for application development and project delivery for a portfolio of applications within the Enterprise Contact Center. This is a playing coach role, which encompasses people management, technical/ functional expertise, and relationship/stakeholder management.

About FlytBase

FlytBase is a 4-year old, venture-funded, high growth startup –  a global pioneer in software-led automation of commercial drone applications. The team has a cumulative professional experience of several decades, with engineering graduates from IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Texas & Georgia Tech.

FlytBase develops intelligent software that leverages reliable, off-the-shelf drone hardware to automate and scale drone deployments for commercial use-cases. FlytBase platform is hardware-agnostic, has intelligent plugins for autonomy, manages drone fleets via 4G/5G, and uses APIs to integrate into enterprise workflows. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA and has R&D offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally, the most recent one being the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Global Champion 2019’.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and manage multi-complexity projects.

• Accountable for the overall delivery of the product/application - ensuring the quality of code and committing to the timelines.

• Lead a software engineering team, provide technical coaching, mentor teammates and manage project timelines.

• Build an elegant and maintainable Web Application using Node, JavaScript (Typescript), Angular2+, Redux, ngrx and related technologies.

• Advocate of strong Agile development methodologies (SCRUM), automated testing, and continuous integration.

• Work with product owners and development teams to gather and refine requirements, and see development through to QA, deployment and ongoing maintenance.

• Collaborate with Product and UX teams to design and build responsive, data rich tools for our customers.

• Collaborate across multiple teams to architect new solutions.

• Drive efforts to reduce inefficiencies in development, QA and deployment processes.

• Mentor and guide the team to make sound engineering decisions, improve code quality and encourage the team to get out of their comfort zone, whilst working with team members to grow.

• Manage work flows and ensure productivity of team.

• Recruit and hire team members.
  
  

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in designing, developing web applications.

• Must have a minimum of 2+ years of experience in managing development projects and leading a team of successful software engineers.

• Must be able to discuss technical aspects of architecture/design/code issues directly with technical teams.

• Very strong Full stack development and Architecture experience using Microservices Architecture, UI/UX, CI/CD, Design Patterns & Cloud Platform enablement.

• Experience designing, developing and supporting REST services.

• Practitioner of unit testing, data structuring, profiling, performance tuning and debugging.

• Ability to deal with ambiguities effectively (Technology, People, Process, or Partner).

• Must be able to mentor team members and partners to accomplish project and departmental goals and objectives.

What Will I Earn?

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fitness and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

Perks:

• Fast-paced startup culture

• Hacker mode environment

• Enthusiastic and approachable team

• Professional autonomy

• Strong meritocracy

• Zero bureaucracy 

• Company-wide sense of purpose

• Flexible work hours

• Informal dress code

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

We at FlytBase are looking for passionate and hardworking Software QA Automation Engineers to join our rapidly growing team. As a Software QA Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for the planning and implementation of tests that prove the functional and non-functional requirements of the system.

Role and Responsibilities:

1. Designing and developing test automation scripts for a MEAN stack application.
2. Using test automation guidelines.
3. Testing and proving that the software meets major architectural requirements.
4. Proving for scalability and performance of a software.
5. Ensuring the quality of the system as a whole.
6. Supporting the development team and software engineers during the development and testing phase.
7. Build tools and frameworks to aid continuous delivery, deployment and debugging.
8. Prepare defect reports and report test progress.

Qualifications and Requirements:

1. At Least 2 years of experience in Automation Testing or similar role for MEAN stack application
2. Experience with Jasmine, Karma, Protractor or similar end-to-end testing tool.
3. Excellent knowledge in testing skills (design test plan and test strategy, writing and executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs etc)
4. A team player, fast learner with good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.

Good to have:

1. Experience or keen interest in aerial robots i.e. drones.
   
   

   What Will I Earn?

   This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

    

    

   
   Perks:

   1. Fast-paced Startup culture
   2. Hacker mode environment
   3. Enthusiastic and approachable team
   4. Professional autonomy
   5. Strong meritocracy
   6. Zero bureaucracy 
   7. Company-wide sense of purpose
   8. Flexible work hours
   9. Informal dress code

If you are an analytical problem solver with a strong Web Development knowledge and a passion for teamwork and innovation, we have the perfect job for you!

We are looking for a Web Developer to join our award-winning, talented team, building the next generation automated drone applications for our global customers.

As a front-end developer, you will implement a complete user interface in the form of a web app. A thorough understanding of all of the components of FlytBase platform and infrastructure is required. You will need to take ownership of your projects, which involves detailing requirements after discussion with the Product Owner, building user interfaces, developing and maintaining web apps with a focus on user experience. 

We offer an outstanding team environment, flexible working hours, and various opportunities to advance your career. We are looking for a long-term relationship and committed individuals to join our team. This position is based out of our development centre in Pune, India.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a team developing applications and services using Agile development methods
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
• Effectively use tools and ingenuity to identify and fix defects before they become a problem
• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components
• Learn about the domain and competitors to propose new drone apps as well as improvement for existing apps
• Collaborate on projects with a closely knit team

As a Front End Developer

• Delivering a complete front end application
• Ensuring high performance on mobile and desktop
• Writing tested and documented TypeScript/JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Coordinating the workflow between the graphic designer, the backend developers, and yourself
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful APIs
• Make design and technical decisions for Angular projects.
• Communicating with external web services
• Develop and maintain web apps using our FlytAPIs

As a Back End Developer

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and high-performance applications
• Implementation of security and data protection
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code

Skills/Experience

• 1-4 yr experience as an Angular 2+ or React or Ionic Developer.
• Strong expertise with NodeJS, HTML5, CSS, JSON, jQuery, Bootstrap and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Knowledge of NodeJS frameworks such as ExpressJS etc.
• Knowledge of Creating RESTful services with Node.js and Experience with Socket.io
• Good understanding of HTML Dom manipulation Techniques
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Proficiency working with source control (git) / versioning systems, continuous integration in an agile development setup
• Strong analytical skills and problem solving aptitude
• Attention to details
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills

Good to Have

• Understanding of how to deploy Mean stack applications in AWS/Azure deployment environment, considering security, reliability, etc.
• Knowledge of other python-based server side frameworks such as Flask or Django.

FlytBase is committed to delivering drone automation solutions for warehouse inventory management. Sales at FlytBase involves segmenting the target market, in-depth understanding of customer pain points, creating a portfolio of techno-commercial collateral, helping stakeholders build a business case for drone adoption, generating high-quality leads, and driving closure of commercial contracts. We believe that sustained intensity, go-to-market creativity and customer empathy are crucial for world-class sales performance in emerging technologies, besides a keen eye for detail, a genuine interest in drones, and written communication skills.

What Will Be My Role & Responsibilities?

Primary responsibilities include:
• Generate B2B sales leads and nurture them, while tracking conversion rates, timelines, cost of leads, etc.
• Be an expert user of tools such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Lusha, Hunter, Owler, Zoominfo, Mailchimp, GetProspect, ZeroBounce, Funnelbake, Pipedrive, Hubspot, Intercom, Drift, etc. for company analysis and lead generation
• Use Internet research to develop company & contact lists, curate email databases, CXO lists, etc.
• Measure, track & improve RoI on investments in lead generation initiatives
• Be passionate about using the latest & best marketing automation & lead generation tools

You can also aspire to:
• Develop and execute strategies to expand inbound lead / demand generation
• Develop and execute strategies for outbound, targeted, account-based marketing
• Grow into a leadership position in the company.

Should I Apply?

Only those candidates need apply who:
• are willing to be held accountable for lead generation targets,
• have an undergraduate degree in engineering and can demonstrate 2+ years of full-time experience in lead generation for IP-rich software products,
• can be effective in an extremely fast-paced environment,
• are keen to work evenings and weekends to coordinate across time zones and meet deadlines,
• are able to start the role by July 2020, if selected, and
• love to generate sales leads!

What Will I Earn?

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit and alignment to FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

Indicative Compensation Range: 6 – 10 LPA

What Else?

Flexible work hours, informal dress code, talented colleagues, strong meritocracy, zero bureaucracy, professional autonomy, and a company-wide sense of purpose.

What Is FlytBase?

FlytBase (https://flytbase.com/" target="_blank">flytbase.com) develops intelligent software that leverages reliable, off-the-shelf drone hardware to automate and scale drone deployments for commercial use-cases. The FlytBase platform is hardware-agnostic, has intelligent plugins for autonomy, manages drone fleets via 4G/5G, and uses APIs to integrate into enterprise workflows. FlytBase is a Silicon Valley (California, USA) company and has offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally, the most recent one being the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Global Champion 2019’ award.

If you are an analytical problem solver with strong Web Development knowledge and a passion for teamwork and innovation, we have the perfect job for you!

We are looking for a Technical Lead to join our award-winning, talented team, building global software products for automation of drones for various commercial applications.

A thorough understanding of all of the components of FlytBase platform and infrastructure is required. You will need to take ownership of your projects, which involves detailing requirements after discussion with the Product Owner, building user interfaces, developing and maintaining web apps with a focus on user experience. 

We offer an excellent team environment, flexible working hours, and various opportunities to advance your career. We are looking for a long-term relationship and committed individuals to join our team. This position is based out of our development centre in Pune, India.

Skills/Experience

• 3-6 yr experience as a MEAN Stack developer
• Strong expertise with Angular2+, NodeJS, ExpressJS, HTML5, CSS, JSON, jQuery, Bootstrap, Socket.io, Git, CI/CD integration and writing cross-browser compatible code.
• Knowledge of unit testing (Jasmine/Mocha), integration testing frameworks
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a secured, scalable, production ready application development and deployment

Roles/Responsibilities

• Work as part of an agile team developing applications, design sprints and lead the team ensuring deliveries are met.
• Ensure best practices in Web application development
• Bring in passion, dedication, and lead-from-the-front quality to build global products
• Participate in the complete software development lifecycle and write code that is maintainable, clear, and concise.
• Bring in technical and architectural leadership, and mentor team members enabling them to achieve their goals.
• Ability to balance strategic and tactical solutions.
• Manage application deployment practices in AWS, considering security, scalability and reliability
• Manage/evolve automated testing setup for backend and frontend for faster bug reporting and fixing
• Contribute to team and organizational improvements in process and infrastructure
• Effectively use tools and ingenuity to identify and fix defects before they become a problem

Good to Have

• Knowledge of other python-based server-side frameworks such as Flask or Django.

We are always on the lookout for like-minded individuals sharing our passion for autonomous drones.

We are looking for a self motivated and passionate individual, with strong desire to learn and ability to lead. This position is for a Flight Test Engineer, with exposure to building and flying sUAS (RC Multirotors and Fixed wings). See the detailed job description below.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute flight test plans for new software features, electronics, sensors, and payloads.
• Perform hands-on mechanical and electrical integration of new hardware components on the internal fleet of test vehicles for R&D and testing.
• Troubleshoot and debug any components of a drone in the office or in the field. Maintenance of vehicles – keep the fleet ready for flight tests.
• Participate in defining and validating customer workflows and enhancing User experience.
• Coordinate cross-team efforts among FlytBase engineers to resolve issues identified during flight tests.
• Drive collaboration with FlytBase Developer team, Business Development team and Customer Support team to incorporate customer feedback and feature requests into FlytBase’s product development cycle.
• Learn about the domain and competitors to propose new drone applications, as well as, improvements in existing applications

Experience/Skills

• Experience in flight testing and operating/piloting small UAS and/or RC aircraft (both fixed-wing and multirotor systems).
• Experience in using flight-planning and ground control station software.
•Familiarity with UAV platforms, like, Pixhawk, DJI, Ardupilot and PX4.
•Experience in integrating, operating, and tuning autopilots on a variety of unmanned vehicles.
•Basic knowledge of electrical test equipment (multimeter, oscilloscope) and UAS sensors.
•Ability to work hands-on with electro-mechanical systems including assembly, disassembly, testing, troubleshooting.
•Good verbal and written communication skills.

Good to have

• RF communications fundamentals.
• Passionate about aerial robots i.e. drones.
• Programming languages and scripting for engineering use (C++, C, MATLAB, Python).

Compensation:
As per industry standards.

Perks:
+ Fast-paced Startup culture
+ Hacker mode environment
+ Great team
+ Flexible work hours
+ Informal dress code
+ Free snacks