Codec Developer

About FoundingMinds:

We are one of the preferred product development partners in the software industry. We work with clients across the globe to design and develop products for them. We are also an incubator for many startups. As a contributor, you will get an opportunity to work with different ideas, brainstorm with diverse people, widen your way of thinking, learn different technologies, research what you have to do, contribute your best to the projects and take ownership of what you do to your project. If you are passionate, you will find endless opportunities to build your career at Founding Minds.

Type: Consultant to Hire

We’re looking for an experienced C++ Developer with strong expertise in system-level programming and hands-on experience working on the TSL (Transport Security Layer). If you’re passionate about C++, love solving performance and security challenges, and are curious about robotics, this role could be a perfect fit for you.

Type: Consultant to Hire

We’re looking for an experienced C++ Developer with strong expertise in system-level programming and hands-on experience working on the TSL (Transport Security Layer). If you’re passionate about C++, love solving performance and security challenges, and are curious about robotics, this role could be a perfect fit for you.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance C++ applications focused on security and scalability.
• Work on the TSL layer, implementing and maintaining secure communication protocols.
• Optimize code for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust software solutions.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and technical documentation.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in C++ (C++11 or later).
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, multithreading, and memory management.
• Experience with TSL/SSL, encryption, and secure communication protocols.
• Familiarity with networking (TCP/IP, sockets programming).
• Strong debugging and performance optimization skills.
• Experience working in Linux environments with tools like gdb or valgrind.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OpenSSL or similar libraries.
• Interest in robotics or real-time systems — even if you haven’t worked in the field before.

If you’re someone who enjoys deep technical challenges and is open to exploring how your expertise can extend into robotics, we’d love to connect.

Summary

Miko is an advanced consumer robotics innovation lab focused with the mission of Bringing Robotics and AI to every consumer home. Founded by young and dynamic entrepreneurs from IIT Bombay, Miko is a global deep tech company with offices in US, UK and India, and customer base across 140+ countries. Focused on taking Robotics and AI to every consumer home, Miko is the first of its kind "content on subscription" hardware platform for kids powered by patented technology. 

Our flagship products, Miko 3 and Miko Mini (www.miko.ai), are playful companion robots that engage, educate and entertain kids. Their unique approach is to focus on child learning and development through self-initiated contextual topics that encourage conversational learning. It hosts a powerful marketplace for third party content partners to plug their content and connect with Miko users on subscription. 

Miko is powered by a proprietary emotional intelligence and adaptive personality engine, complex conversational and multilingual AI framework, edge and hybrid speech & vision recognition along with an active learning and behavioral analysis engine. All of this is built over an autonomous navigation system, which enables Miko to offer a range of benefits for the user. 

The team at Miko team is an interdisciplinary team consisting of team members from electronics, embedded system, mechanical, industrial, robotics and AI engineering domains, Human Robot Interface designers, UI/UX designers, mobile and cloud software engineers, content creators, artists, mathematicians, neuropsychologists, marketing and sales mavericks, Customer support professionals and knowledge partners. 

The Role

We are looking for a middleware software engineer to join the team. In this role you will be working on designing, developing and optimizing the middleware stack for current as well as new companion robot products.

Work Experience & Qualifications

2 years or higher industry experience in the Software domain. No restrictions on degree/qualifications; only skills matter. (* for Junior role)

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing software on the product to enhance current functionality and add new features. Lead the technical delivery of assigned tasks/projects.
• Consistent coordination and collaboration with the Backend, AI, Product and QA team for efficient development cycles and testing for new features and improvements.
• Operating in an Agile/Scrum environment to deliver high quality software against aggressive schedules
• Ability to diagnose, troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis of critical business and production issues
• Strong technical leadership with experience building software engineering teams. Demonstrate strong ambiguity resolution skills to be able to break down ambiguous problems into simpler milestones and delegate to junior engineers

Requirements & Skills

• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Expertise in C/C++ and Java
• Strong understanding of environment management, release management, code versioning best practices, and deployment methodologies.
• Experience with implementing various communication protocols like I2C, SPI, UART
• Experience working on Embedded Linux OS and Android
• Demonstrated experience in developing multi-threaded applications
• Experience with IPC including socket programming
• Should have hands on experience and thorough knowledge in STL, BOOST understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with using Git as a version control system
• Excellent coding and debugging skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Software Developer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge set to fetch data from multiple online sources, cleanse it and build APIs on top of it
• Develop a deep understanding of our vast data sources on the web and know exactly how, when, and which data to scrap, parse and store
• We're looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.

Desired Candidate Profile

• At Least 1-2 years of experience
• Strong coding experience in Python (knowledge of Javascripts is a plus)
• Strong knowledge of scraping frameworks in Python (Request, Beautiful Soup)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge in Version Control tools like GIT.
• Good understanding and hands-on with scheduling and managing tasks with cron.

Nice to have:

• Experience of having worked with elastic search
• Experience with multi-processing, multi-threading, and AWS/Azure is a plus
• Experience with web crawling is a plus
• Deploy server/related components to staging, live environments.
• Experience with cloud environments like AWS,etc as well as cloud solutions like Docker,Lambda, etc
• Experience in DevOps and related practices to improve development lifecycle, continuous delivery with high quality is an advantage.
• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement

UKG's engineering teams wants to add 4 staff aug consultants (2 in US and 2 in Noida) to support their identity platform infrastructure, deployments to prod, escalations/KTLO, and debugging needs. They'll need to partner with internal dev teams who consume our Identity platform around any issues or new integrations needed. RCA/enhancing our observability.

They need to have the below qualifications:

• Linux (Ubuntu) - Understanding of Linux OS and has experience with troubleshooting complex issues that can be due to infrastructure related around disk/iops, network latency, jvm/gc related, as well as application related defects.

Python/similar scripting language to help automate manual tasks/remediation efforts.

• Ansible

• Identity platforms/technology -

SAML2/Oauth2/Directory server LDAP#python queryquerylanguage/OpenDJ/OpenAM/Auth0/Okta/SSO

• Java - understanding of Java tuning/best practices for high volume applications at scale

• Nginx

• Grafana • PagerDuty

• Postman/API • Kibana/Splunk

Dynatrace

GCP preferred. Azure is good as well.

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Position : Technical Lead (JAVA/J2EE)
2. Salary : As per the Industry standard 
3. Role: (70% Technical; 30% Team Leading Activities)
4. Successfully design medium to large-scale Enterprise solutions using Java technologies
5. Good knowledge of the design patterns like core design patterns, J2EE design patterns and architectural design patterns along with knowledge of UML
6. Lead technical discussion to provide technical guidance and create coding standards
7. Good with architecting and engineering systems independently, would want the individual to be comfortable implementing a significant part of the framework.
8. Provide technical knowledge and leadership on design and development best practices. 
9. Provide technical input on unit and integration tests for server- and client-side applications, build and deployment procedures and standards.
10. Interaction with management and module leads

Required skills

1. 5+ years of experience in developing and testing software using Java J2EE based application
2. Experience in managing team technically.
3. 3+ years of experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design. 
4. 2+ years of experience in developing application using Spring (Spring Core, Spring ORM and Spring Batch), Hibernate.
5. 2+ years of experience in web technologies using Spring MVC, jQuery. 
6. Good knowledge of design patterns
7. Knowledge on SSL, Web application security frameworks
8. Experience in J2EE performance and scalability
9. Hands on experience on Maven, Jenkins, Nexus etc.
10. Proficient in Software development/integration/build tools like GIT, GERRIT, JIRA/BugZilla
11. Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis, Design and Design Patterns especially MVC is must
12. Good Knowledge and hands on experience on different databases.  
13. Proficient in Writing / Understanding PL / SQL objects like stored procedures, triggers.  
14. Knowledge on various Application servers including WAS, WLS and JBoss.  
15. Very strong skills in to Angular, AJAX, JSF, Struts, HTML 5, CSS, Bootstrap.  
16. Implement jUnit (unit testing framework) in the project
17. Excellent Oral and Communication skills.