Academic Counsellor

**This role requires Core Work Hours from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am IST (will change as per daylight saving in US). The remaining hours are completed at individual discretion.**

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more: www.weatherbug.com

                      www.groundtruth.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here. Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

Role: Senior Software Engineer (Ios/React Native)

Location: Gurugram OR Remote, India

Role Characteristics:

Recognized subject matter expert who knows how to apply theory and put it into practice with in-depth understanding of the professional field with limited oversight from managers. Independently performs the full range of responsibilities within the function; requires deep job knowledge of areas typically obtained through higher education combined with experience. Manages large projects or processes and problems faced are difficult and often complex; analyzes problems/issues of diverse scope and determines solutions. May manage programs that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources; functions with a high degree of autonomy. Influences others regarding policies, practices and procedures.

You Will:

• Design, architect, and document the entire system, down to the details, to meet team needs.
• Code robust iOS solutions to solve current problems, identifying and fixing issues within your areas of expertise.
• Act as a CodeOwner and stakeholder in code reviews within your area of expertise.
• Automate unit, integration, and end-to-end testing solutions, working closely with the QA team to ensure seamless integration.
• Deploy and run your code in pre-production to ensure quality before release.
• Develop and maintain debugging tools to enhance team efficiency.
• Collaborate with vendors to ensure third-party SDKs are properly integrated and functional.
• Perform and monitor mobile releases for iOS, ensuring smooth rollouts and updates.
• Retire outdated solutions and resources when no longer needed, ensuring the system remains efficient and streamlined.
• Provide operational support for your deployed code and all code within your domain of expertise.
• Identify and address team-wide issues, preventing problems from occurring.
• Coordinate across all business teams to resolve technical issues, mitigate risks, and provide actionable solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

You Have:

• 4-year degree in Computer Science or a related field OR 9+ years of experience in software development.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with iOS development tools (Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Xcode, Core Data, Combine, Foundation, UIKit).
• 2+ years of experience with SwiftUI or declarative UI frameworks.
• 3+ years of experience on an Agile team.
• Proficiency in Concurrency, Multithreading, and Swift Combine or other asynchronous programming patterns.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles, patterns, best practices, performance optimizations, and memory management on iOS.
• Ability to effectively communicate across teams to provide and implement solutions.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and execute solutions.
• A strong sense of self-drive and technical expertise to work independently and within a team.
• Mentorship skills to guide junior and mid-level engineers.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills to articulate ideas clearly.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities to handle edge cases and unexpected issues.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (designers, product managers, QA).

Great if You Have:

• Experience using React Native (Function Components, Hooks, Redux, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Artifactory.

What we offer:

At Weatherbug, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.

• Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity
• Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays).
• In Office Daily Catered Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Beverages
• Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents
• Covid home quarantine cover
• Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines
• Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
• Pet Expense Reimbursement
• Childcare Expenses and reimbursements
• Employee assistance program
• Employee referral program
• Education reimbursement program
• Skill development program
• Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)
• Internet reimbursement
• Birthday treat reimbursement
• Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic
• Creche reimbursement
• NPS employer match
• Meal card for tax benefit
• Special benefits on salary account

Synapsica is a growth stage HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective, while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don’t have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as diagnosis.

Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyze medical images and create 2.0 of advanced radiologist reporting.

We are backed by Y Combinator and other investors from India, US and Japan. We are proud to have GE, AIIMS, the Spinal Kinetics as our partners.

Join us, if you find this as exciting as we do!

Description:

We are looking for a skilled computer programmer who is comfortable with both front and back end programming. Hands-on with UI and server-side is highly desirable.

You will get hands-on experience in the latest technologies and skills like ReactJS, NodeJS, MongoDB, REST API etc. This role is ideal for you if you have a background in Full Stack development and are looking for the next level of career growth in a fast paced, learning based and merit driven work environment.

Responsibilities:
- Developing front end app components.
- Developing backend apis and middlewares.
- Designing and scaling databases and servers.
- Ensuring responsiveness and cross-platform compatibility of applications.
- Owning and delivering end-to-end products, features, enhancements.

Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 3-7 years of experience.
- Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Hands on with Reactjs or similar framework/library.
- Proficiency with server side languages such as Nodejs, Python, PHP.
- Prior experience with at least one no-sql database such as MongoDB.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Very high sense of ownership.
- Deep interest and passion for technology

Job description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and build advanced applications for the IOS platform
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design & deploy.
• Work with outside data sources and APIs
• Unit-test code for robustness.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
• Maintain code integrity and organization.

Desired Candidate Profile

• 2+ Years should be required in iOS development.
• Should be well aware about iPhone/iPad application development
• Should be well versed with Core data concepts
• Should be well versed with Swift-UI
• Should be well versed with Network load optimisations & other core networking concepts
• Must be very good with designing pixel perfect UI
• Good to have Core Audio, Graphics & video frameworks.
• Good knowledge of app deployment process & good to have knowledge on build automation.
• Should have decent communication skills to be able to interact with Clients.

1. To handle the full development cycle.

2. To be responsible for timely releases of the projects.

3. To have knowledge of server AWS.

4. Knowledge of W3C standards and best practices.

5. Experience in working on Linux (Installing and configuring packages like apache, Nginx, virtual hosts, etc)

6. Ability to translate business requirements into system design and perform as per the needs

7. Knowledge of Git.