Content Creator/ Content Writer

Backend - Software Development Engineer III

Experience - 7+ yrs

About Wekan Enterprise Solutions

Wekan Enterprise Solutions is a leading Technology Consulting company and a strategic investment partner of MongoDB. We help companies drive innovation in the cloud by adopting modern technology solutions that help them achieve their performance and availability requirements. With strong capabilities around Mobile, IOT and Cloud environments, we have an extensive track record helping Fortune 500 companies modernize their most critical legacy and on-premise applications, migrating them to the cloud and leveraging the most cutting-edge technologies.

Job Description

We are looking for passionate software engineers eager to be a part of our growth journey. The right candidate needs to be interested in working in high-paced and challenging environments leading technical teams, designing system architecture and reviewing peer code. Interested in constantly upskilling, learning new technologies and expanding their domain knowledge to new industries. This candidate needs to be a team player and should be looking to help build a culture of excellence. Do you have what it takes?

You will be working on complex data migrations, modernizing legacy applications and building new applications on the cloud for large enterprise and/or growth stage startups. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly into mission critical projects directly interacting with business stakeholders, customers technical teams and MongoDB solutions Architects.

Location - Chennai or Bangalore

• Relevant experience of 7+ years building high-performance back-end applications with at least 3 or more projects delivered using the required technologies
• Good problem solving skills
• Strong mentoring capabilities
• Good understanding of software development life cycle
• Strong experience in system design and architecture
• Strong focus on quality of work delivered
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Required Technical Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience building high-performance web back-ends using Node.Js and Javascript/Typescript
• Min two years of hands-on experience in NestJs
• Strong experience with Express.Js framework
• Implementation experience in monolithic and microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience with data modeling on MongoDB and any other Relational or NoSQL databases
• Experience integrating with any 3rd party services such as cloud SDKs (Preferable X), payments, push notifications, authentication etc…
• Hands-on experience with Redis, Kafka, or X
• Exposure into unit testing with frameworks such as Mocha, Chai, Jest or others
• Strong experience writing and maintaining clear documentation

Good to have skills:

• Experience working with common services in any of the major cloud providers - AWS or GCP or Azure
• Technical certifications in AWS / Azure / GCP / MongoDB or other relevant technologies

• Expert understanding of On-page and Off-page SEO

• Perform keyword research in coordination with company’s business objectives to optimize existing content and uncover new opportunities

• Provide SEO analysis and recommendations in coordination with elements and structure of websites and web pages

• Provide recommendations and execute/manage strategies for content development in coordination with SEO goals – general and keyword specific

• Develop and implement link building campaigns

• Implement and administer search engine programs (XML sitemaps, shopping feeds, webmaster tools)

• Monitor and evaluate web analytics dashboards and reports in order to develop and recommend SEO strategies

• Track, report, and analyze website analytics and PPC initiatives and campaigns.

• Experience in Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Paid Search (PPC).

• Perform ongoing keyword discovery, expansion and optimization.

• Research and analyze competitor advertising

Athena is India’s largest institution in the premium undergraduate study abroad space. Founded 10 years ago by two Princeton graduates, Poshak Agrawal and Rahul Subramaniam, Athena is headquartered in Gurgaon, with offices in Mumbai and Bangalore, and caters to students from over 15 countries.

Athena’s vision is to help students become the best version of themselves. Athena’s transformative, holistic life coaching program embraces both depth and breadth, sciences and the humanities. Athena encourages students to deepen their theoretical knowledge and apply it to address practical issues confronting society, both locally and globally.

Through our flagship program, our students have gotten into various, universities including Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, MIT, Brown, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, among others.

Our legacy as pioneers in the study-abroad process, coupled with a creative, open environment and professional growth opportunities, makes Athena a perfect place for those looking to build a lasting career in education. 

If you are excited to work in a dynamic educational environment and love expanding your horizons of emotional and strategic counseling, we look forward to hearing from you!

Learn more:

https://www.athenaeducation.co.in/article.aspx 

Overview of the role: We are looking for someone who will support Athena's Knowledge center 

• Helping/ mentoring Athena students to build mobile applications
• Helping build a state-of-the-art web portal and apps for students and counselors
• Support in building Edtech products for Athena

This is ideal for technology enthusiasts who want to make an impact, broaden their skills to learn about project management, client management; who love teaching and mentoring students, and also who love building creative tech products. The ideal person would have a deep, driving desire to make an impact and believes in the power of education.

Key Responsibilities

As a Technology Mentor and Developer, you will play a crucial role in guiding Athena students to build mobile applications

• Mentoring and Guiding Students:
• Provide personalized guidance and mentorship to students interested in mobile application development.
• Foster a positive and collaborative learning environment to enhance students' understanding and skills in technology.
• Collaborate with students on real-world projects, offering technical expertise and guidance throughout the development process.
• Collaboration and Communication:
• Collaborate with consulting teams internally to learn about students, conceptualize projects & take them to fruition 
• Communicate effectively with students, counselors, and other stakeholders to gather feedback and continuously improve technology solutions.
• Own, innovate and support the students with their technology projects 
• Conceptualize the apps, guiding them on coding and stepping them when needed
• Creation of New Algorithms for solving Real World problems.
• Mobile App Development - Android and iOS
• Hybrid mobile applications (both IOS & Android) using ionic, Flutter and react native (preferred).
• Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
• Gather and refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs
• Guiding students to project completion
• Tuned into the latest developments in the desired area including but not limited to application development, database technologies, devops, robotics, etc.

Key Skills-

• Strong fundamentals and knowledge of hyrbid mobile application (both IOS & Andriod), data structures, algorithms, logical flow, and architecture 
• Good communication skills - Ability to motivate and mentor students
• Extremely hands-on in coding 
• Ability to learn, take feedback, and improve
• Knowledge of programming language and technical terminology
• Able to solve complex problems.

Education and Experience: 

• B.Tech/B.Sc/M.Sc (CS), Engineering, or a related field from a good institute
• Good to have experience in teaching and mentoring students in Computer Science modules
• Experience in Android Development
• Preferred 1 year development experience

Why should you be interested?

Impact

• Working with Athena will provide you with an opportunity to bring about a positive impact in the lives of the best students in the country - the future pioneers of the world.
• Opportunity to mentor budding writers

Team and Culture

• We are a young and daring collection of adventurers dedicated to excellence and growth. We are always efficient and occasionally funny.
• The candidate will get a chance to work in a multicultural environment with ex-pats from different corners of the globe.

Professional Advancement

• We believe in providing opportunities for team members to build their skills and become independent drivers.
• We also offer the opportunity to collaborate across our group organizations- Hora.ai (Tech) and Sitare Foundation (education non-profit)- and learn from like-minded, passionate people who have all come together to create an impact. 

Location & Work Environment

The Vatika Triangle; Gurgaon, India

• We have built creative space in a top corporate building in a prime location in Gurgaon. 
• The office is on M.G. Road, a 2-minute walk from the M.G. Road Metro Station.

Our team comprises of creative and colorful characters, all goal-oriented and hungry for growth (and healthy snacks). The work environment is a mixture of formal and playful, as we all strive to get things done while sipping Italian coffee brewed in-house.

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
• Identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements
• Monitor debugging process results
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

• Knowledge of the quality assurance and testing concepts, methodologies, metrics, automated testing frameworks, and documentation standards.
• Should have knowledge/experience in creating Test Plans, Test scripts, Test cases.
• Collaborate well with others. Ability to translate technical concepts into easy-to-understand terms.
• Preferred knowledge/understanding of different mobile operating systems (Android, iOS)
• Preferred knowledge/experience testing both front-end (GUI)and back-end (database query) applications                                                        
• Experience using Git / Github

• Experience working on React Native.
• Design and build applications for the iOS platform.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features.
• Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs.
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Responsible for building native applications that can run on multiple platforms such as Android or iOS.
• Experience in handling a team. 
• Experience in flutter.

Vah Vah! is an ed-tech company that offers online makeup courses in micro-batches to students across India to learn from the leading teachers in top cities. We provide holistic education with lots of practical training that makes our students job-ready with not just the base skills but also the soft skills for great customer service. Our teachers have more than 15+ years of experience in training makeup and have certified more than 1000+ students. Vah Vah! is founded by executives with extensive experience running consumer business and mobile games at scale (over 100 million players) at Zynga. Vah Vah! is backed by a leading investment firm.

Website Link: https://vahvah.com/

The Mission

Vah Vah teaches professional makeup to budding makeup artists and influencers through live online classes. We have students from Srinagar, all the way to the Andamans. And experienced teachers who have worked in Bridal Makeup, Ramp Shoots, Film and more. We empower our students to join the workforce as fully trained makeup artists. This is the future of vocational education, and you can help build it.

Our Culture

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• We have the right mixture of creativity, analytics and hustle to move fast in the right direction.
• You will work with colleagues who don’t take themselves too seriously but move mountains.
• See yourself evolving every month with new problems to solve and new skill to master.
• Work with the smartest engineers so you can learn from them.
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Great stock options so you can benefit from the company's growth.
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Responsibilities:

• Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with the front-end developers and other team members to establish objectives and design more functional, cohesive codes to enhance the user experience.
• Participating in continuing education and training to remain current on best practices, learn new programming languages, and better assist other team members. Taking lead on projects, as needed.

Requirements:

• Overall experience of 2-5 years in building backend services using languages like NodeJs, Java etc
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, Node.Js, Python, and operating systems may be required.
• Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools.
• Focus on efficiency, user experience, and process improvement.
• Strong problem solving and verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a group.
• Sound knowledge on source control and DevOps

What you get:

• Amazing workplace and colleagues to work with
• Competitive salary at par with the best in the industry
• Immense exposure to new technologies

Skill Set 

• 4 – 8 years of hands experience profiles
• Hands-on Experience in
• .NET Core 2.1 , Asp.net, C#
• Sql Server 2012+ / DB
• Web API
• Ajax / J-query / LINQ / HTML 5.0
• MVC, Bootstrap will be an added advantage