About the Role
We are looking for an extremely motivated individual with a proven track record to independently solve problems to work in our Founder’s Office and report directly to the CEO. As a strategist, consultant and implementer, successful candidate will drive multiple projects across growth, technology and product. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in a business consulting role, with a special focus on executive.
Job Description
Serve as liaison between the CEO, executives, senior leaders for project updates, proposals, and planning. Independently lead multiple high stake projects that impact the PnL across Growth, Technology, Operations and Product Oversee daily operations through collaboration with senior management and department leaders, performing an array of administrative tasks from managing calendars, generating correspondence, maintaining hard copy and electronic files, planning, and coordinating annual corporate meetings, and scheduling facilities.
Build and develop relationships with all employees for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new operational strategies, working with CEO and executives on special projects. Willingness to develop and learn subject matter expertise in healthcare, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them, and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications.
Requirements
Ex Consultants from McKinsey/ Bain/ BCG or other top tier consulting firms will be preferred
Undergraduate/ Postgraduate from top tier engineering schools like IIT/ BITs/ IIM/ ISB within 1-4 years experience will be preferred
Minimum 2 years prior experience in strategy consulting or strong experience in leading PnL at a high growth startups or equally analytical roles preferred.
Strong analytical ability, with excellent track record as an independent problem solver. Ability to understand large amounts of data to problem find the issue and crisply communicating to CEO will be a given. Adept at MS Excel & PPT
Extremely agile, and enjoys working in a highly dynamic environment where there is pressure to deliver on business outcomes. Wants to be legendary every day.
Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives.
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About the Company:
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Role Overview:
As a Senior Backend Developer, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and optimization of our backend systems. You will be instrumental in building scalable, high-performance applications that support our business's needs. This role demands a deep understanding of backend technologies, database design, cloud infrastructure, and the ability to integrate a wide range of services and APIs.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and robust backend services and APIs.
- Lead the development of microservices architecture, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
- Oversee the integration of third-party services and external APIs, including notification services like FCM.
- Develop and manage database schemas, optimizing for performance and scalability using MongoDB and Redis.
- Implement real-time data processing mechanisms for live updates and push notifications, utilizing technologies like Firebase.
- Manage cloud infrastructure and serverless functions on platforms such as AWS and GCP, ensuring efficient operations and cost management.
- Ensure the security of backend systems through robust authentication, authorization, data encryption, and adherence to best practices in data security and compliance.
- Work closely with the frontend team to integrate backend services and ensure a seamless user experience.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and frameworks to improve the backend infrastructure.
- Mentor junior developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, with a strong portfolio of projects demonstrating expertise in NodeJS, ExpressJS, and asynchronous programming.
- Extensive experience with database design, optimization, and management using MongoDB and Redis.
- Proven track record in developing and managing REST APIs.
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture and real-time data processing.
- Solid experience with caching mechanisms and SQS management.
- Comprehensive knowledge of security principles, including authentication, authorization, and data encryption.
- Familiarity with compliance and data protection standards.
- Should have worked on scalable microservices architecture
- Experience with Lambda functions.
- Experience working with firebase
- Should have proven experience in mobile application development
- Should have working experience in sqs
- Have knowledge of elastic cache
- Experience with cloud-native development and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS or GCP.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to lead projects and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with a passion for mentoring and driving technical excellence.
- Attach the link of mobile application worked on till date
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to lead a cutting-edge project impacting users globally.
- Work in an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and professional growth.
- Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits.
Job Description
Condé Nast has a huge global footprint across 32 countries worldwide with total monthly visitors reaching more than 550 million. We aim to inspire, inform and entertain our audiences through our portfolio of well known brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest, GQ and many other leading brands.
Condé Nast has operations in America, Europe, South America and Asia. There are long-established operations in major Indian cities such as Mumbai and Chennai across many business areas.
The company is undertaking the biggest transformation in its history, driving towards expanding both its operations and its reach through diversifying the digital business models for our brands. Major areas of focus will include video and streaming platforms, increasing subscriptions and memberships, growing our events business, and ensuring we maintain a high level of standard on the products we are already proud of delivering to our customers. Migrating and consolidating to a more centralised set of technologies and capabilities that can be easily leveraged by any brand or product experience is also a top business priority.
Engineering is responsible for scaling, building, deploying websites that serve over 500 million users globally. The global engineering team includes Product Engineering, Platform Engineering and Core Engineering.
About Brand Engineering
Our mission is to build compelling and inspiring experiences across our portfolio of global brands such as Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, and Glamour which currently reaches over 500 million monthly users. Our goals are extremely ambitious; we are rolling out our brands into new countries and territories and pushing to serve more consumers across web, native (iOS / Android), video and social platforms.
We want you to join us as we embark on further global expansion of our brands, creation of new features to deliver our engaging content to consumers worldwide, and diversifying our revenue models. We believe in fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation, often running hundreds of a/b experiments in production every day!
You will be working alongside international colleagues across US, London, and India. Cross-functional collaboration is at the heart of what we do and you will be comfortable working in close partnership with Product, Design, UX, and Data. The Brand Engineering group works in close partnership with the Platform Engineering group to implement cross-cutting solutions that can be leveraged by the Brands to deliver robust end-to-end experiences for our consumers.
The Role
We’re looking for a Senior JavaScript engineer to join our team at our Chennai/Bengaluru office.We ideally hire engineers who are comfortable across the full stack, but we know you'll have a preference about being on the front- or back-end. As long as you're happy to work on both sets of tasks – you should carry on reading!
Our tech
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Languages and Frameworks: Javascript, Node.JS, React (and React eco-system)
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APIs: GraphQL
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Data: Postgres, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
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Deployment: Docker, AWS, Kubernetes
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Source Control: Git, GitHub
How we work
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Infrastructure as Code everywhere
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Pairing. We like knowledge sharing and upskilling
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Remote friendly. We work with engineers across time zones & locations
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(Oncall - teams are responsible for their own apps)
Role and responsibilities
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Working on our collection of Node apps; we use a mix of Express, Hapi, and Fastify
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Working on our front-end apps; we use a mix of React and Next.js but as long as you have experience in at least one framework we don’t really mind
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Shipping features and services to anywhere between thousands to millions of customers per day.
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Collaboratively working with our amazing infrastructure team
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Mentoring colleagues at every level, and a willingness to be mentored by them
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Supporting your Tech Lead and Engineering Manager in technical decision making, solutionizing and estimations.
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Pairing with members of your team to identify the most optimal solution. Regularly conducting code reviews to ensure high standards of engineering quality in the code that we write.
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Working within a cross-functional team that includes designers, UX engineers, and product
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Looking at logs and monitoring metrics and responding to alerts; we use Kibana, ElasticSearch and Datadog extensively, but as long as you’re aware of how important observability is, we don’t mind what tools you may have used in the past.
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Taking part in our 24/7 “On Call” rota to troubleshoot any major operational issues out of hours. Teams are responsible for their own apps availability and reliability.
About you - Essential skills
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You have a BE / BTech or equivalent experience
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You’re a software engineer with 7-9 years of experience.
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Expert knowledge of JavaScript and Node.js, good understanding of ES9 and React.js and JavaScript testing frameworks (such as Jest, Mocha etc.)
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Good understanding of Cloud Native architecture, containerisation, Docker, AWS, CI/CD, and DevOps culture. Kubernetes foundational knowledge would be a great bonus, as we use it extensively.
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Practical experience in the use of leading engineering practices and principles.
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Practical experience of building robust solutions at large scale. We serve traffic in the many millions every month so our products need to scale seamlessly to meet our customer demands.
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Appreciation for functions of Product and Design, experience working in cross-functional teams.
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You’ll try to make the codebase nicer for the next person that visits it.
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You’re someone who’ll own every step of the development process; from refining tickets to shipping the code to production.
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You’ll do your best, and ask for help when it’s needed.
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You have an interest or desire to learn about every part of the stack; from the latest JavaScript standards, to GraphQL, to accessibility, and the infrastructure we deploy to (we use Kubernetes extensively, but we have a dedicated platform team on hand to help!)
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Someone who can communicate in a variety of media (through Slack and in person) effectively within their team, outside of their team, and with people in our product and design families, to even our users
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Able to effectively communicate technical concepts to different audiences
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Business proficiency in spoken and written English
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You will be working with a global team and need to be accommodative of different time-zones as required
About you - Desirable skills
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Experience of working with international teams across multiple time-zones
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Mentoring and/or management experience
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Knowing about continuous integration, testing strategies, design systems, software architecture, data and analytics, user experience, accessibility, internationalisation, web performance
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Experience and/or interest in working with digital advertising
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Experience and/or interest in working in publishing
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Experience and/or interest in working with Fashion
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Proficiency working with a variety of third party APIs and developer tools
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Commercial experience using Kubernetes, React and GraphQL
Your Opportunity
You will primarily be responsible for implementing features & building platforms to enable on-device and device/server-side combined ML workflows. You will possess strong skills in object-oriented software design and programming. You are excited about developing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs, and contributing to overall system design.
Your Impact
To design, architect, develop and maintain the backend for AI products by working closely with the Engineering Team. To ensure successful consumption of Saarthi.ai technology by APIs, SDKs, or Applications, thereby enabling productization and monetization of the AI solutions.
What You’ll Do
· Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
· Design server-side architecture
· Along with SAAS application deliverables even the client-side deliverables need to be taken care
· Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
· Write effective APIs
· Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
· Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
· Create security and data protection settings
· Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
· Write technical documentation
· Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
What You Bring
· Proven experience as a Back-End Developer or similar role.
· Experience developing desktop applications.
· Strong working experience with back-end development using Node.JS, JavaScript.
· Strong knowledge of databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL).
· Experience with System Design and Architecture.
· Familiarity with common stacks.
· Familiarity with Parallel Threading, Concurrent calling and Aggregation Queries.
· Ability to write quality unit tests
· Setting up CI/CD, and integrating with logging and monitoring systems for the products or platforms
· Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
· Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field
• Bachelor or Master Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a reputed University
• 5 to 8 years of experience working in eCommerce domain, specifically at-least 3-5 years of experience working in Django and Python.
• React and/or Angular for front end
• Proficiency in MongoDB and MySql
• Technical Skills: JIRA, Gitlab, Rest API, GCP or AWS