4539- Software Engineer

We're seeking an experienced Senior Tech Lead to oversee both frontend and backend teams for a production-ready enterprise project. You should possess strong managerial skills along with an entrepreneurial mindset. In this dynamic role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and deploy products aligned with our vision and strategy. Your leadership will be key in driving product success from conception to launch, ensuring they meet business objectives and user expectations.

Experience: 7+ Year

Working Time: 12.30 PM to 9.30 PM

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor developers: Provide guidance and support to ensure high-quality deliverables and drive engineering best practices. Experienced in leading development teams, fostering collaboration, and mentoring junior engineers for adherence to best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Define project requirements, timelines, and priorities, and coordinate product releases.
• Architect scalable solutions: Design systems for both frontend and backend that are maintainable using modern architecture patterns and RESTful API design principles.
• Project Management Skills: Proficient in Agile methodologies, managing timelines, and prioritizing tasks effectively to ensure project success.
• Define product features: Set sprint goals and translate user feedback into actionable enhancements.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Analytical problem-solver adept at addressing technical challenges and implementing practical solutions.
• Analyze data: Validate product goals and adapt strategies accordingly, and track project progress to ensure timely delivery of features.
• Test and accept product features: Ensure accurate implementation of product features based on user stories.

Requirements

• Bachelor's / Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a leadership role.
• Nice to have: Experience in building a product from concept to launch.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Strong proficiency in NodeJS, RESTful APIs, Weaviate Vector Database, and graph databases.
• Proficient in NestJS with full lifecycle experience and expertise in MongoDB integration.
• Proficient in MongoDB, with expertise in NoSQL principles, instance management, data modeling, and efficient query optimization for cloud and on-premise environments.
• Strong proficiency in ReactJS, NextJS, MaterialUI, and React Query.
• Proficient in TypeScript development, skilled in building type-safe applications and leveraging TypeScript configurations for enhanced development efficiency.
• Proficient in AWS services, specializing in Lambda for serverless computing, API,Gateway for secure API management, and integration with IAM, S3, and CloudWatch.
• ​Knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools to automate the testing and deployment of applications.

Benefits

• Gain real-world experience in corporate functioning.
• Learn to collaborate with diverse teams and meet deadlines in a professional environment.
• Access various learning and development programs to explore your passion.
• Work in a fast-paced, rapidly expanding tech team undergoing a revamp, with exposure to advanced technology and tools relevant to your role

Required Skills 

1) Good experience in React/Angular

2) Hand on Node.JS./Express JS 

3) Database : MYSQL/MongoDB 

4) Experience in Java Script, Typescript. 

5)Good experience in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Jquery 

6) Experience working in an Agile environment. 

7) Good communication skills.

About Us

We have grown over 1400% in revenues in the last year.

Interface.ai provides an Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) to FIs to automate calls and customer inquiries across multiple channels and engage their customers with financial insights and upsell/cross-sell.

Our IVA is transforming financial institutions’ call centers from a cost to a revenue center.

Our core technology is built 100% in-house with several breakthroughs in Natural Language Understanding. Our parser is built based on zero-shot learning that helps us to launch industry-specific IVA that can achieve over 90% accuracy on Day-1. 

We are 45 people strong with employees spread across India and US locations. Many of them come from ML teams at Apple, Microsoft, and Salesforce in the US along with enterprise architects with over 20+ years of experience building large-scale systems. Our India team consists of people from ISB, IIMs, and many who have been previously part of early-stage startups. 

We are a fully remote team.

Founders come from Banking and Enterprise Technology backgrounds with previous experience scaling companies from scratch to $50M+ in revenues.

As a SDE III, you will be :

1. Designing and implementing FullStack applications of interface.ai’s conversational AI platform and playing a significant role in evolving them.
2. Working with a team of driven and passionate engineers working on cutting edge technology, who take pride in solving complex problems.
3. Engaging in cross-functional team discussions on Product, design, QA, deployment and maintenance,  in a fast-moving collaborative set up.
4. Building reusable code and libraries for future use
5. Analyzing high level requirements, breaking it down into workable/demoable tasks, estimating them and delivering with high quality.
6. Contributing to improve our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

1. Are extremely self motivated
2. Have ability to learn quickly
3. Have a growth Mindset (read this if you don't know what it means - https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322" target="_blank">link)
4. Have Emotional Maturity (read this if you don't know what it means - https://medium.com/@krisgage/15-signs-of-emotional-maturity-38b1a2ab9766" target="_blank">link)
5. Are Passionate about the possibilities at the intersection of AI + Banking
6. Have worked in a startup of 5 to 30 employees
7. Have outstanding problem-solving abilities
8. Have proactive outlook for ways to make the solution better
9. Have 5+ years of experience in delivering scalable complex technical products
10. Have Good knowledge of distributed technologies, low latency, and highly scalable systems. 
11. Have Expertise in JavaScript and Node.js
12. Have Hands-on experience in Node.JS / Express.JS / Hapi.js / Koa.js (or any other Web Framework), and Relational Databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
13. Have Expertise with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
14. Have Hands-on experience in Mocha or other Javascript testing frameworks
15. Have experience working with react, python (Nice to have)
16. Have hands-on experience in developing applications using microservices, container technologies, container management systems such as Kubernetes
17. Have a strong understanding of systems using real-time interactions (web sockets, long-polling, server-sent events)
18. Have hands-on experience in the Implementation of security and data protection
19. Are eager to learn new technologies
20. Have excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.
21. Are passionate about helping teams grow by inspiring and mentoring engineers

Role Description:

• Lister is actively engaged with client across digital transformation and engineering
• As a part of this engagement, you will be working with our clients on solution design and architecture, technology decisions, while co-ordinating technical efforts for the team
• As a Technical Lead:, You will need to collaborate with Solution Architects define technology
• roadmap, evaluate/recommend technologies, architect and design solutions, Work
• with other developers to oversee the development and implementation
• You will translate functional requirements from business stakeholders to the technical
• team for implementation
• You will need to troubleshoot design flaws and system bottlenecks
• You will have to be hands-on with code reviews and evaluate implementation for performance and scale
• Manage communication between our clients and internal teams in India and USA
• Coordinate with the offshore team to deliver projects across work streams, Identify risks, issues and blockers to progress and mitigate them for the team
• Rapidly gain an understanding of project requirements and drive execution
• Work with delivery team to ensure the highest quality of materials are being produced and all client needs are met.

Skills Required:

• Excellent understanding of backend and frontend components in the following stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, Javascript, ReactJS, multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB Experience of working on AWS services (Lambda, Step functions, SQS, S3 SNS)
• Microservice design pattern is a must
• Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and CI/CD pipelines is preferable
• Experience in software development tools like Prettier, CodeCov, Snyk, etc..
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; client facing and interpersonal skills; must be a listener, a presenter, and a people-person
• Experience in Designing scalable architecture systems for Node-based applications
• Ability to grasp complex implementations; Proven results of delivering client solutions
• Should have experience of working with offshore team
• Experience in working on large scale technology transformation projects for product companies is preferable
• Technology contributions to open source projects will be an added advantage
• Should have completed Certifications or training on AWS (AWS Solutions Architect), NodeJS, front-end frameworks.

Full Stack Engineer

Front End Technology:

• Minimum 2+ years’ experience in working web development technologies

• Experience writing modular/reusable code and using modern JS frameworks / libraries like

React or other comparable frameworks or toolkits

• Strong expertise with HTML5, CSS, and writing cross-browser compatible code.

. Experience with Responsive Frameworks like Bootstrap / Flex.

• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Design concepts.

Back end Technology:

• Have extensive experience in designing a backend stack of the product

• Strong understanding of Data Structures / Algorithms.

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience in Writing Backend Microservices in Node

JS/Python

• Ability to build the product from scratch & drive it to completion

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Design and build a next-generation product that drives the business and meets the functional

needs of our customers and partners.

• Designing overall architecture of the web/ mobile application

• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications

• Optimize web applications to maximize speed and scale. Support diverse clients from high

powered desktop computers to small footprint mobile devices.

• Write client-side/backend code for web-based applications, create fast, easy-to-use, high

volume production applications, and develop prototypes quickly.

• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

• Develop application code and unit test (Karma, Mocha, Chai).

• Ensuring high performance and security of web apps developed.

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Functions:

• Engineering

• Information Technology

Skills

• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

• JavaScript

• Data Structures

• Front-end Development

• Algorithms

• React js
• Express js

• Swagger

• Github

Qualifications

• Experience in building scalable systems.

• Exposure in building and using reusable code and libraries.

• Candidates should proactively keep their knowledge and skills up to date.

• Candidates should be able to work in a fast-paced environment independently and as part of a team.

• Candidates should be able to work in a highly collaborative environment with excellent communication skills.

Other Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-moving, and growing environment.

• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills. Should be able to strategize immediately.

• Strong knowledge of web application architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.

Mandatory Skill set:

• Multiple solution stack development experience along with MEAN(Mongo, Express, Angular and Node)

• Python with any web framework

• Micro Services, Performance Engineering, Docker, Kubernetes, AZURE, CI/CD pipeline, , MySQL and Database design

Job Role:

• Responsible for component selection, design standardization, common library building.

• Build services and templates based on published standard (RFC type)Build coding templates and architypes adhering to design standard.

• Understand NFR and define architecture, design and validation for each NFR element.

• Design data model, service contract and document framework.Define and ensure coding standards

• Define and ensure UI standards are followed. Design micro services, security, deployment Well-versed in module level effort estimationWell-versed in application integration patterns Exposure to bug fixing, maintenance, continuous integration releases.

• Exposure to building architectural view like logical, physical and deployment.Exposure to performance bottleneck, RCA and remediation.Exposure to security issues, RCA and remediation.

Process Exposure:

• Able to interact with team, stakeholders and architects. Understand functional requirements and create design documents for features.

• Participate in sprint planning and story elaboration sessions.

• Candidate should be able to work independently in an Agile project.

• Experience with Test-Driven Development, Integration testing and Agile processes.Code review from a standard and design adherence perspective.