Backend Developer (.NET Core)

About NonStop io Technologies

NonStop io Technologies is a value-driven company with a strong focus on process-oriented software engineering. We specialize in Product Development and have a decade's worth of experience in building web and mobile applications across various domains. NonStop io Technologies follows core principles that guide its operations and believes in staying invested in a product's vision for the long term. We are a small but proud group of individuals who believe in the 'givers gain' philosophy and strive to provide value in order to seek value. We are committed to and specialize in building cutting-edge technology products and serving as trusted technology partners for startups and enterprises. We pride ourselves on fostering innovation, learning, and community engagement. Join us to work on impactful projects in a collaborative and vibrant environment.

Brief Description:

We're seeking an AI/ML Engineer to join our team. As AI/ML Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions to solve real-world business problems. You will work closely with engineering teams, including software engineers, domain experts, and product managers, to deploy and integrate Applied AI/ML solutions into the products that are being built at NonStop io. Your role will involve researching cutting-edge algorithms and data processing techniques, and implementing scalable solutions to drive innovation and improve the overall user experience.

Responsibilities

● Applied AI/ML engineering; Building engineering solutions on top of the AI/ML tooling available in the industry today. Eg: Engineering APIs around OpenAI

● AI/ML Model Development: Design, develop, and implement machine learning models and algorithms that address specific business challenges, such as natural language processing, computer vision, recommendation systems, anomaly detection, etc.

● Data Preprocessing and Feature Engineering: Cleanse, preprocess, and transform raw data into suitable formats for training and testing AI/ML models. Perform feature engineering to extract relevant features from the data

● Model Training and Evaluation: Train and validate AI/ML models using diverse datasets to achieve optimal performance. Employ appropriate evaluation metrics to assess model accuracy, precision, recall, and other relevant metrics

● Data Visualization: Create clear and insightful data visualizations to aid in understanding data patterns, model behaviour, and performance metrics

● Deployment and Integration: Collaborate with software engineers and DevOps teams to deploy AI/ML models into production environments and integrate them into various applications and systems

● Data Security and Privacy: Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and implement security measures to protect sensitive information used in AI/ML processes

● Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI/ML research, tools, and technologies, and apply them to improve existing models and develop novel solutions

● Documentation: Maintain detailed documentation of the AI/ML development process, including code, models, algorithms, and methodologies for easy understanding and future reference.

Qualifications & Skills

● Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications in AI/ML are a plus

● Proven experience as an AI/ML Engineer, Data Scientist, or related role, ideally with a strong portfolio of AI/ML projects

● Proficiency in programming languages commonly used for AI/ML. Preferably Python

● Familiarity with popular AI/ML libraries and frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc.

● Familiarity with popular AI/ML Models such as GPT3, GPT4, Llama2, BERT etc.

● Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms, statistics, and data structures

● Experience with data preprocessing, data wrangling, and feature engineering

● Knowledge of deep learning architectures, neural networks, and transfer learning

● Familiarity with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) for scalable AI/ML deployment

● Solid understanding of software engineering principles and best practices for writing maintainable and scalable code

● Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and propose innovative solutions

● Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and present complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Backend Developer - Node.JS - AirFi

AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.

AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!

Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
• Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
• You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
• Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.

What we look for

• Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
• You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
• You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
• You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
• You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
• Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
• Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis

Must have technical skills

• MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
• Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
• Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years

You get bonus point for

• Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
• Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
• Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
• Expertise HTML5, CSS,
• Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.

• Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains

We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!

Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:

• Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
• Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
• A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
• We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
• Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
• Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
• Career longevity perks and so on!

When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers. 

You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!

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• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a different stream of education.

• Well-versed in and 3+ hands-on demonstrable experience with: ▪ Stream & Batch Big Data Pipeline Processing using Apache Spark and/or Apache Flink.
  ▪ Distributed Cloud Native Computing including Server less Functions
  ▪ Relational, Object Store, Document, Graph, etc. Database Design & Implementation
  ▪ Micro services Architecture, API Modeling, Design, & Programming

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in Apache Spark using Scala and/or Java.

• Ability to write executable code for Services using Spark RDD, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, Spark MLLib, etc. with deep technical understanding of Spark Processing Framework.

• In-depth knowledge of standard programming languages such as Scala and/or Java.

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more libraries & frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Akka, Apache Storm, Apache Nifi, Zookeeper, Hadoop ecosystem (i.e., HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Oozie & Hive), etc.; extra points if you can demonstrate your knowledge with working examples.

• 3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more Relational and NoSQL datastores such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Neo4J, etc.

• Practical knowledge of distributed systems involving partitioning, bucketing, CAP theorem, replication, horizontal scaling, etc.

• Passion for distilling large volumes of data, analyze performance, scalability, and capacity performance issues in Big Data Platforms.

• Ability to clearly distinguish system and Spark Job performances and perform spark performance tuning and resource optimization.

• Perform benchmarking/stress tests and document the best practices for different applications.

• Proactively work with tenants on improving the overall performance and ensure the system is resilient, and scalable.

• Good understanding of Virtualization & Containerization; must demonstrate experience in technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, OpenShift, Anthos, Oracle VirtualBox, Vagrant, etc.

• Well-versed with demonstrable working experience with API Management, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection & Encryption.

  Hands-on experience with demonstrable working experience with DevOps tools and platforms viz., Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Code Quality & Security Plugins, Maven, Artifactory, Terraform, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Spinnaker, etc.

• Well-versed in AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud; must demonstrate experience in at least FIVE (5) services offered under AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud in any categories: Compute or Storage, Database, Networking & Content Delivery, Management & Governance, Analytics, Security, Identity, & Compliance (or) equivalent demonstrable Cloud Platform experience.

• Good understanding of Storage, Networks and Storage Networking basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud environment.

• Good understanding of Network, Data, and Application Security basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud as well as Business Applications / API services environment.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Participate in requirements analysis
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture
• Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages
• Test and deploy applications and systems
• Revise, update, refactor and debug code
• Improve existing software
• Develop documentation throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support.

• Requirements

  • Proven experience as a .NET Developer or Application Developer
  • Familiarity with the ASP.NET framework, SQL Server and design/architectural patterns (e.g. Model-View-Controller (MVC))
  • Knowledge of at least one of the .NET languages (e.g. C#, Visual Basic .NET) and HTML5/CSS3
  • Familiarity with architecture styles/APIs (REST, RPC)
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies
  • Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills