CTO/Co-founder

What will I be doing?

• Organized and facilitated project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos and other project related meetings
•  Defining resource requirements and managing resource availability & allocation both internal and third party           
• Preparing a detailed project plan to schedule key project milestones, workstreams & activities.
• Managing delivery of the project according to this plan.
• Tracking projects and providing regular reports on project status to project team and key stakeholders.
• Managing and adjusting for any changes in project scope, schedule and / or budget.
• Identifying and mitigating potential risks.
• Managing the relationship and communication with the client and all stakeholders, ensuring the project is delivered to their satisfaction
• Oversee all aspects of projects. Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of the project. Prepare reports for upper management regarding status of project
• Should be well versed with project management domains: Initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing

What skill do I need?

• Experience in IT industry with 3+ years of proven delivery managing increasingly complex projects
• Proficient in Agile methodology with an ability to adapt quickly to changing technology requirements
• Document the development process, architecture, and standard components.
• Experience as a PHP/Node/Java developer or other technologies to lead a team of PHP programmers Workflow Management, design and implementation in all its stages 
• Remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.
• Leadership competencies for team building, client relations, Negotiation, decision making, problem solving and conflict management
• Proven organizational skills; ability to multi-task and work on several assignments concurrently but still be detail oriented

Required Qualification :

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field of study. 
• Three years of experience in a related IT field
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Experience using computers for a variety of tasks.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Knowledge of file management, transcription, and other administrative procedures
• Ability to work on tight deadlines.
• Hands Knowledge of utilities such as MS Teams, Zoom, Slack
• Analytical and problem-solving skills • Self-motivator and should be able to work in a team.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, self-directed environment under deadline pressures
• Ability to manage own workload independently, multi-task and prioritize effectively
• Detail oriented and proactive
• Excellent time management skills, plan, prioritize, and manage development tasks for on-time delivery with quality as primary criteria. Requirements

• Experience in Microsoft technologies (Microsoft Dot Net, C#, http://asp.net/">NET, MVC, Microsoft SQL, NETcore, Web API, WCF, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Angular JS, Web API, Web services, Rest API)
• Design complex architecture landscape involving API integrations
• Hands-on experience in ASP.Net, C#, MVC, WCF, Restful services, Web API, AngularJS, Entity Framework
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills
• Must have excellent oral & email communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must have a positive attitude and a yearning to get things done and demonstrate ownership of deliverables

DUKAAN - Create Your Online Store in 30 Seconds

Dukaan is an app that allows offline businesses to sell their products and services online. On our app, the users can make beautiful product catalogues (catalogs) right from a smartphone and share with their customers easily on different social media apps such as Whatsapp Business, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram etc. Praised by users all over India, this app has saved declining businesses by helping them transfer their shop online. The journey has just begun and we are on a mission to make India truly Digital.

Dukaan is currently powering over 5M ecommerce stores built by indian small businesses and growing at a crazy rate.  

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team who will be part of our new innovations team.

Requirements:

1. Strong knowledge of Django, Django Rest Framework and their design principles.
2. Strong knowledge of Django ORM, should be able to leverage it to write complex and optimized queries (E.x Q queries, Case, When, Select related, prefetch related, Subqueries, Annotations, Aggregations, Filtering, etc.) .
3. Should be able to override DRF serializers, filters and viewsets completely according to needs.
4. Should have good experience in Class Based Views to write the backend API’s.
5. Sound knowledge of database design patterns and modelling them to Django models.
6. Sound knowledge of how to write test cases for the APIs.
7. Should be able to write optimized pythonic code adhering to python PEP standards.
8. Strong knowledge of python packaging and how to architect a code base that should be easily scalable and not get cluttered.
9. Strong knowledge of REST API design patterns.
10. Ability to write RAW sql queries and further database level coding will be a plus.
11. Good Understanding of python’s asyncio, threading and multiprocessing library, their benefits and limitations along with their appropriate use cases.
12. Hands on knowledge of celery and its corresponding message broker such as RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.
13. Experience with building a CDC(Change Data Capture) pipeline will be a plus.
14. Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka connect and Debezium will be a plus.
15. Experience with open source will be a plus.
16. Good knowledge of Algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities:

1. Understand the ins and out of existing codebase and have a good grasp over it.
2. Write clean, stable and scalable code.
3. Write unit test cases for the APIs.
4. Do whitebox and blackbox testing for your own code and as well as others if required.
5. Understand and implement fast prototype solutions for the business needs.

Project Management

• Develop the integrated project plans to determine time frame, procedures for accomplishing projects
• Assess consolidated project plans for dependencies, gaps and continued business value
• Plan and manage project closure and/or transitions
• Work with stakeholders to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables
• Conduct project reviews to recommend changes to project schedules or resource requirements
• Document and track project scope, changes, issues and risks that affect implementation
• Facilitate the daily stand-up to achieve team consensus
• Eliminate conflicts and assist in developing solutions to manage roadblocks
• Plan and manage testing cycle with customer

Customer Success

• 3-5 years experienced engineer in design; pre / post implementation tracking / successful execution on the following categories:
• Building management systems
• Security systems / cameras; sensors; beacons
• IOT implantation within campuses / buildings
• IT security systems – understanding of the way they work / get implemented
• Comfortable with client interactions and working with client’s vendors / partners

Other Areas:

• Participates periodically in client meetings or business development presentations as part of a Team to help demonstrate our capabilities. Assists with the development of marketing materials and support

Information/data. Maintains a working knowledge of business unit’s available product and service offerings.

Requirements:

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, information systems, technology, engineering are preferred.

Other disciplines are welcome to apply if you have a strong interest or sufficient knowledge in IT domains

• At least 4 years of experience in IT Project Management role and 6 years total professional experience
• Strong communication skills, well-versed in English (spoken and written) to facilitate cross border

Communications and collaborations

• Strong stakeholder management skills to communicate across various departments and levels
• Strong time management skills, detailed and results-oriented
• Familiar with startup environment and understanding of dynamics between design, engineering, product and customer service is a plus
• Experience with agile and project management software like Jira
• Committed to the values of integrity, accountability, and customer centric

Have an experience building backend server side applications in Node.js and Express.js

Have in-depth knowledge and experience of using ES6+ features and Object Oriented Principles

Have sound knowledge and are familiar with databases like MongoDb - (Preferred) and Mysql.

Have good exposure to cloud native technologies (AWS Lambda, S3, RDS, etc) 

Have working knowledge of version control (Git) and continuous deployment 

Have experience in optimising backend API’s and database queries for optimal performance.

You are good at problem solving and have analytical skills 

You are flexible in adapting new technologies and frameworks as per the projects needs

• Defining and documenting best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Providing guidance, thought leadership and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
• Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Developing and implementing technical efforts to design, build and deploy AWS applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling and advanced analytics
• Participating in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
• Troubleshooting incidents, identifying root cause, fixing and documenting problems and implementing preventive measures
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology
• 2+ years of experience as architect, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms
• Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytic
• Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists and subject matter experts
• Self-motivation with the ability to drive features to delivery
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly
• AWS certifications are a plus
• Knowledge of web services, API, REST, and RPC    

• 2-3 yrs of strong experience in building mobile web frontend for b2c products using React.
• Understanding of server side rendering, nextjs.
• Ability to build progressive web applications with optimized lighthouse score.