API Engineer

Description

Zycus is looking for a Meanstack/Mernstack Developer, who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. Responsibilities include implementing visual elements and their behavior with user interactions.. You will also be playing an active role on front end as well as backend development, and defining how the application looks and functions. We are looking for candidates with strong experience in MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Jquery, Ajax. If you are a Mean Stack or full stack developer with a strong technical experience, then you could be the best fit for the role!

Roles & Responsibilities

· Creating Apps by working on all layers of architecture Understanding the flow of code and how it interacts with different components.

· Creating technical design documents by understanding requirements, and product objectives.

· Writing effective Unit tests

· Good analytical skills and innovative mind.

· Source code management.

· Excellent communication skills.

Requirements

· Total experience of 5 - 8 years

· Experience on Mean Stack/Mernstack (MongoDB, Express.js, Angular, Node.js)

· Strong understanding of JavaScript, object-oriented JS, its quirks, and workarounds·

· Strong hands on experience in JavaScript· Strong proficiency with JavaScript or CoffeeScript depending on your technology stack.·

· Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors such as Stylus, Less·

· Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3· Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, JQuery, and AJAX·

· Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues· Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders, such as Require.js and AMD·

· Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as SVN· Good understanding of browser rendering behaviour and performance

· Key Programming Skills: MEAN stack, full stack, Angular, Java, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap.

· Experience working with Rest based APIs

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus

1. Cloud Product Company: We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.

2. A Market Leader: Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world’s leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.

3. Move between Roles: We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization

4. Get a Global Exposure: You get to work and deal with our global customers.

5. Create an Impact: Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

Position: Technical Architect

Location: Hyderabad

 Experience: 6+ years

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Technical Architect with a strong background in Python, Node.js, and React to lead the design and development of complex and scalable software solutions. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional technical skills, a deep understanding of software architecture principles, and a proven track record of successfully delivering high-quality projects. You should be capable of leading a cross-functional team that's responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment with Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities:

●       Lead the design, development, and deployment of software solutions, ensuring architectural integrity and high performance.

●       Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and product managers, to define technical requirements and create effective solutions.

●       Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams, ensuring best practices and coding standards are followed.

●       Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools to achieve project goals.

●       Drive continuous improvement by staying updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices.

●       Conduct code reviews, identify areas of improvement, and promote a culture of excellence in software development.

●       Participate in architectural discussions, making strategic decisions and aligning technical solutions with business objectives.

●       Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of software applications.

●       Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements, translating them into technical specifications.

●       Define and enforce architectural patterns, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability of systems.

●       Lead efforts to refactor and optimize existing codebase, enhancing performance and maintainability.

Qualifications:

●       Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree is a plus.

●       Minimum of 8 years of experience in software development with a focus on Python, Node.js, and React.

●       Proven experience as a Technical Architect, leading the design and development of complex software systems.

●       Strong expertise in software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.

●       Extensive hands-on experience with Python, Node.js, and React, including designing and implementing scalable applications.

●       Solid understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful APIs, and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

●       Extensive knowledge of JavaScript, web stacks, libraries, and frameworks.

●       Should create automation test cases and unit test cases (optional)

●       Proficiency in database design, optimization, and data modeling.

●       Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

●       Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.

●       Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to effectively interact with cross-functional teams.

●       Prior experience in mentoring and coaching development teams.

●       Strong leadership qualities with a passion for technology innovation.

●        have experience in using Linux-based development environments using GitHub and CI/CD

●       Atlassian stack (JIRA/Confluence)

As our Full Stack Engineer, you will be developing fast, reliable and scalable web applications while taking responsibility for shipping core backend features.

Roles and responsibilities:

1. Develop smooth, scalable and pixel-perfect web-app products
2. Architect, optimize and scale complex systems like the database engine and APIs
3. Follow TDD and write well designed, factored, and tested code
4. Develop new features and maintain existing code
5. Manage infrastructure and ensure security of applications
6. Solve complex product and engineering challenges alongside the core team

What we're looking for in you:

1. 4+ years of experience in Full Stack Development
2. Extensive programming skills with a proficiency in Java, Spring Boot and Javascript
3. Have strong fundamentals in systems design and RDBMS and NoSQL databases
4. Product minded: Strong UI/UX and design sense
5. Strong understanding of asynchronous request handling and dynamic web page development
6. Experience working with React.js, Next.js, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Redux, TypeScript
7. Stellar problem solving and research skills with the ability to design scalable systems
8. Exposure with AWS/GCP, Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD Setups
9. Experience in functional, L& P and security testing

Benefits of working with Rivi:

• Stock Options
• Flexible work hours
• More responsibilities and more opportunities
• The chance to exponentially grow in your career, as Rivi grows
• Work on real innovation and a futuristic vision
• Enhance your skill-sets and knowledge
• Opportunity to learn about many different verticals
• Feel empowered and change things - We value ideas and suggestions
• Work in an inclusive culture where transparency, creativity, accountability and ownership is encouraged

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work on a remote cross-functional team where you’ll play a critical role in designing, planning, development, deployment and observing your code in production.   
• Develop high performance, highly scalable and accessible web applications. Our web app is used by over 20 million educators, students and parents worldwide.  
• Meet tight deadlines in a rapid application development environment.  
• Collaborate with Product Management, Design, and Operations teams to create and deliver tested features to production.  
• Collaborate with specialists across web, mobile, and operations to achieve a better user experience for our product.  
• Be able to assess and bring in industry information into your decisions and learn new technologies: AWS is releasing new tools every day, there are new open source libraries to vet and you will be a party to helping us vet and pick the best tool for the job.  
• Be willing to work in any area of the codebase if needed, this can include JavaScript/TypeScript/Node, PHP, Java or other technologies.  
• Help staff, build, and form the culture around a team of 5 engineers, a product manager, designer, QAs and associated supporting roles.

Qualifications include:

• Strong CS fundamentals including familiarity with data structures and especially the asynchronous challenges that face JavaScript developers today.   
• Experience developing in at least 2 server side languages (PHP, node.js, …)  
• Experience developing in at least 1 client side JS framework (ReactJS, Angular, …)  
• Experience testing software in alignment with the Test Pyramid.  
• Experience with datastores, either SQL (MySQL preferred) or NoSQL, and the ability to talk deeply about them.  
• Able to identify the source of complex problems occurring as a result of multiple systems interacting (experience with observability tools such as datadog/newrelic is a plus).   
• Experience working on a team of 5 engineers plus supporting roles (e.g. QA, design, etc), preferably as a Senior Software Engineer.  
• Experience with code review, being able to sign-off on another team member’s code ensuring high quality standards.  
• Be self-sustained even when tackling the highest profile, most difficult work across the organization.  
• Willingness to accept responsibility and be accountable not only for your own work but the work of the team as a whole.  
• Experience working with other people’s code, how to dig into it and make tactical changes with minimal side effects.  
• A solid understanding of how to break down user stories and give estimates that include accessibility and security requirements.  
• Be able to see roadblocks far ahead, across many vectors of risk  
• Be a true team player! Ensuring their knowledge and expertise is shared amongst other team members and even cross-team and be willing to seek out opportunities to mentor teammates.  
• A commitment to learning about anything you don’t know on your own and without much supervision.  
• Superior communications, organization and relationship building skills — you’re going to be working on cross-team efforts, so this is essential.  
• Self-motivation as well as ability and desire to learn new technologies, applications, processes, and environments.  
• A belief that delivering code to production is just one step in the process. Observing and owning the code you wrote goes hand in hand with construction.  
• A desire to take on whatever challenge is most important. This could be tackling something you are familiar with, or it could require a deep dive into a whole new world. The key is having the right attitude.   

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