Launch Ventures Career

Launch Ventures is a niche, award-winning technology company that co-creates products with industry partners who bring valuable expertise in the domain for which the product is intended. We are working with a range of startups to Fortune 500 companies. Some of our early products have achieved global scale and attracted investments from the likes of Google. We work in web, mobile, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud and AI / ML based applications, and have worked across multiple industry domains (financial services, media, e-commerce and more).

We care deeply about the products we build and the software craftsmanship that goes into making them. This has been our mission and passion, to take software products from concept to scale, maturely and responsibly.

You’ll be a part of / leading a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from inception, to deployment to production.

For this position you need to have deep experience with, at least, one programming language, and, preferably, experience with a few more. You also need to have full-stack development experience—front-end (and, preferably, mobile), backend, databases, etc.—and experience in designing and configuring CI/CD pipelines. Finally, you have experience with leading software teams. 

• Guide team development efforts towards successful project delivery.

• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship.

• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team.

• Collaborate with other software developers, business analysts and software architects to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the software system being developed.

• Assist in the collection and documentation of user's requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.

• Design, develop, and unit test applications in accordance with established standards.

• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code.

• Package and support deployment of releases.

• Proven experience with leading software teams. 

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to communicate to stakeholders at all levels.

• Committed to continuous learning and improvement.

• Experience with Agile software development.

• Deep experience with, at least, one programming language and its main frameworks and libraries. 

• Full-stack development experience, including front-end (web, or mobile, or both), and backend.

• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD), unit testing, and automated testing in general.

• Good understanding of evolutionary and incremental architecture, incremental development, and design for testability.

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.

• Good understanding of database technologies (relational, non-relational, graph, etc.), I/O and networking.

• Experience in designing and configuring CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience in configuring cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform)

• Experience with multiple programming languages and frameworks is a plus.

• Knowledge of cloud-based Architectures. 

• Knowledge of secure coding practices (e.g., OWASP).

• Experience in Typescript, CSS preprocessors such as SASS, Less, cross-browser compatibility issues and workarounds, JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD is a plus.

• Experience front-end tools, such as Webpack, Grunt.

• Experience with setting up basic web security guidelines in the project.

• Experience with clean code, design patterns and principles. 

• Experience with training, mentoring, and coaching of team members.

• You enjoy crafting elegant, well-tested solutions, not just delivering working code.

• The acronyms FP, OO, SOLID, TDD, BDD, XP mean something to you.

• You have logical and well-researched opinions on existing and new technologies, and relish the learnings and challenges of working on different platforms and products.

• You have experience with or interest in user-centered interaction design.

• You have an entrepreneurial mindset.

• You strive for yourself, your team and your organization to continuously learn and improve.

• An environment where your opinion will be valued and will make a difference.

• Opportunities to learn, explore and implement the latest technologies.

• Benefits up and above CTC include MacBook (for official purposes), fixed assets (desk, chair, monitor, accessories etc.), internet allowance, medical insurance (optional)

• Platform to publish your writings on Medium via Codewords publication

• An unbiased performance management system that takes care of your technical as well as non-technical upskilling, ensuring transparent reviews and growth opportunities.

• Opportunity to upskill in the field of work your interest lies in, and a constant guiding and supportive team that will drive you to achieve your career goals.

• A flexible working environment where equal importance is given to personal and professional life, maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Launch Ventures is a niche, award-winning technology company that co-creates products with industry partners who bring valuable expertise in the domain for which the product is intended. We are working with a range of startups to Fortune 500 companies. Some of our early products have achieved global scale and attracted investments from the likes of Google. We work in web, mobile, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud and AI / ML based applications, and have worked across multiple industry domains (financial services, media, e-commerce and more).

We care deeply about the products we build and the software craftsmanship that goes into making them. This has been our mission and passion, to take software products from concept to scale, maturely and responsibly.

We are currently looking for a Software Architect with good problem-solving skills and solid experience building and scaling software systems. If you believe in the vision of working, coaching and training a top-notch team, and like to work on exciting products solving some real-world challenges, then this is the place where you can do all of that. 

• Work closely with all project stakeholders and the pre-sales teams, to discover functional and quality requirements and map them to a suitable system architecture.

• Keep the architectural documentation relevant, and up-to-date.

• Provide technical guidance, mentoring and coaching to engineers and other team members.

• Keep learning new relevant technology trends.

• Lead community knowledge sharing and brand building activities like technology conferences, meetups and programming events.

• Strong software architecture and design skills. Strong understanding of design and architectural patterns. A firm grasp of concurrency, parallelism, and asynchronous communication.

• Ability to understand stakeholder's needs and translate them into an appropriate architecture.

• Knowledge of UML, Architectural Decision Records, and / or other architectural documentation tools.

• Strong oral and written communication skills. Ability to talk to stakeholders at all levels. Good negotiation skills.

• Demonstrated expertise in building Web Applications, Enterprise Applications, Web Services, and systems at scale.

• Experience in working in two or more programming languages, with strong knowledge of, at least, one. Ability to implement software prototypes.

• Good understanding of evolutionary and incremental architecture, incremental development, and design for testability.

• Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.

• Good understanding of database technologies (relational, non-relational, graph, etc.), I/O and networking.

• Good understanding of system security and privacy.

• Good knowledge of cloud-based Architectures. 

• Deployment and operational aspects of AWS or other cloud platforms.

• Experience in leading tech community events, meetups, and participating in conferences.

• Experience in writing technical, in-depth, knowledge rich articles, blogs based on personal experience.

• You enjoy crafting elegant, well-tested solutions, not just delivering working code.

• The acronyms FP, OO, SOLID, TDD, BDD, XP mean something to you.

• You have logical and well-researched opinions on existing and new technologies, and relish the learnings and challenges of working on different platforms and products.

• You have experience with or interest in user-centered interaction design.

• You have an entrepreneurial mindset.

• You strive for yourself, your team and your organization to continuously learn and improve.

• An environment where your opinion will be valued and will make a difference.

• Lots of learning opportunities.

• Benefits up and above CTC include MacBooks (for official purposes), fixed assets (desk, chair, monitor, accessories etc), internet allowance, medical insurance (optional)

• Platform to publish your writings on Medium via Codewords publication

• An unbiased performance management system that takes care of your technical as well as non-technical upskilling ensuring transparent reviews and growth opportunities.

• Opportunity to upskill in the field of work your interest lies in, and a constant guiding and supportive team that will drive you to achieve your career goals.

• A flexible working environment where equal importance is given to personal and professional life maintaining a healthy work life balance.

This position will be remote.

Software Craftsperson, Full Stack JS Developer, 2-4 yrs, Remote / Launch Ventures ( Red Panda Private Limited - Formerly) 

Launch Ventures is a niche, award-winning technology company that co-creates products with industry partners who bring valuable expertise in the domain for which the product is intended. We are working with a range of startups to Fortune 500 companies. Some of our early products have achieved global scale and attracted investments from the likes of Google. We work in web, mobile, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud and AI / ML based applications, and have worked across multiple industry domains (financial services, media, e-commerce and more).

We care deeply about the products we build and the software craftsmanship that goes into making them. This has been our mission and passion, to take software products from concept to scale, maturely and responsibly.

Job description:

We are seeking to hire some most capable Full-Stack Developers who are ever motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. You will be part of a cross-functional team that's responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. 

More details: 

As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility. 

Responsibilities 

• Write clean, testable (test driven), well architected software applications
• Setup tooling and infrastructure to ensure continuous and reliable delivery of software.
• Ensure cross-platform optimization for mobile phones 
• Ensure responsiveness of applications 
• See through a project from conception to finished product 

Must have qualifications: 

• 2 - 4 years of advanced knowledge and practical experience in JavaScript and related libraries and frameworks such as ReactJS, Angular, Vue.js, etc. 
• 2 - 4 years of advanced knowledge and practical experience in writing server side applications using Node.js in JavaScript libraries like Express.js, Hapi.js, LoopBack, etc.
• At least 1 year of experience in writing Unit test cases with libraries like Jest, Chai, Mocha, Jasmine, etc 
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds 
• Good understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3 
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Experience of working with code versioning tools, such as Git, in depth
• Experience with and an accurate understanding of agile methodologies 

Good to have : 

• Experience in Typescript is a plus 
• Experience of working with CSS preprocessors such as SASS, Less
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
• Experience of working with cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues 
• Familiarity with tools, such as Webpack, Grunt, npm, npx, nx, Light House 

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You should certainly apply if: 

• You enjoy crafting elegant, well-tested solutions, not just delivering working code
• The acronyms FP, OO, TDD, BDD, XP mean something to you 
• You have logical and well researched opinions on existing and new technologies, and relish the learnings and challenges of working on different platforms and products
• You have experience with or interest in user-centered interaction design
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset 
• You strive for yourself, your team and your organization to continuously learn and improve. 

• An environment where your opinion will be valued and will make a difference.

• Opportunities to learn, explore and implement the latest technologies.

• Benefits up and above CTC include MacBook (for official purposes), fixed assets (desk, chair, monitor, accessories etc.), internet allowance, medical insurance (optional)

• Platform to publish your writings on Medium via Codewords publication

• An unbiased performance management system that takes care of your technical as well as non-technical upskilling, ensuring transparent reviews and growth opportunities.

• Opportunity to upskill in the field of work your interest lies in, and a constant guiding and supportive team that will drive you to achieve your career goals.

• A flexible working environment where equal importance is given to personal and professional life, maintaining a healthy work-life balance.