Creative Designer

Description:

We are looking for a highly motivated Full Stack Backend Software Intern to join our team. The ideal candidate should have a strong interest in AI, LLM (Large Language Models), and related technologies, along with the ability to work independently and complete tasks with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities:

• Research and gather requirements for backend software projects.
• Develop, test, and maintain backend components of web applications.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Implement security and data protection measures.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Complete tasks with minimal hand-holding and supervision.
• Assist with frontend tasks using JavaScript and React if required.

Requirements:

• Proficiency in backend development languages such as Python or Node.js
• Familiarity with frontend technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of AI, LLM, and related technologies is a plus.
• Ability to work independently and complete tasks with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science or related field.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies in AI and LLM.
• Hands-on experience in developing backend systems for web applications.
• Mentorship from experienced developers and engineers.
• Flexible working hours and a supportive work environment.
• Possibility of a full-time position based on performance.
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If you are passionate about backend development, AI, and LLM, and are eager to learn and grow in a dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team as a Full Stack Backend Software Intern.

• Job Title - Senior Product Marketing Manager - PC & Console
• Reports Into - Head of PC & Console Marketing
• Location - Bangalore/ Hybrid

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 1 billion downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join Scathe, Die by the Blade, Robobeat, Space Chef and Wildmender.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm
• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best
• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 
• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA
• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind
• On site gym - take care of yourself
• Relocation support - available
• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars
• Pitch and make your own games on Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a Senior PCC Product Marketing Manager, you’ll manage a product marketing manager and be responsible for launching some of our portfolio of Indie tiles across multiple platforms with a significant focus on building brand awareness, advocacy, Wishlists, community and ultimately (and most importantly) game sales.

Reporting into the Head of PCC Marketing you’ll be hugely influential in creating, executing, tracking and optimising integrated campaigns across both paid media (paid social, influencers and events) and organic media (community, social, influencers, ambassadors, SEO and rich content).  

You will work in close collaboration with the Community & Social Media (CSM) team, Influencer & Media (I&M) Team, PCC Creative Team and Digital MArketing (UA & Growth) Team.  

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

Create and execute product marketing plans (PMPs) that deliver against each game’s pre launch awareness and post launch revenue expectations, from initial signing through to retail launch and post launch - including budgets, KPI sets and beat schedules

• Ability to juggle multiple campaigns and projects across numerous media channels and multiple games at the same time and communicate clearly with multiple stakeholders both within and external to your team to ensure challenging deadlines and Wishlist/ sales KPIs are met
• Collaborating with internal and external creative teams to create best-in-class marketing assets to budget
• Determine KPIs for the PMPs and meaningful metrics that allow accurate analysis of each campaign and track commercial performance so you can optimise your plans in near real time
• Working as the key stakeholder and influencer within the PCC team and primary contact point for those outside of the department
• Setting ‘challenging but achievable’ targets for your team for both quality of output, timely delivery of campaigns and above target results and taking responsibility for meeting these target
• International travel as required

Your Hard Skills

• Passion for games and knowledge of industry trends and key players
• Previous experience on PC & Console games including three years in a product/brand management role for an established video games company
• Highly numerate and data fluent you’ll own your budgets and be accountable to them as well as having the ability to interpret research and analysis and use it daily to make good decisions quickly 
• Strong creative and brief writing skills with an understanding of Google Docs
• A creative flair with an eye for detail when briefing and feeding back on marketing artwork, assets and trailers. 
• You have excellent time management skills and understand the importance of hitting deadlines
• Ability to work with other functional teams in the PC and Console Department, as well as with other Marketing teams within and outside of Kwalee.

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

Your Team Mates

As a part of the marketing team you will ultimately report to the VP of Marketing whilst having P&L accountability to the Head of PC & Console department.

The PC Console Marketing team is mostly based in Leamington Spa HQ and in Bangalore, India. An open, enthusiastic and engaging personality and communication style is essential. You’re incredibly organised, data astute and fluent in process management so tracking numerous campaigns in several languages across multiple media will be second nature for you.

A Little Bit About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game publishers and developers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We’ve also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe. 

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

• 6 to 9 yrs You can write backend code using primarily Java
• You can contribute to frontend code stack in ReactJS or other Javascript framework
•  front-end technologies (ReactJS /AngularJS) experience
• 3+years of experience with web application development
• 3+ years of database experience
• 3+ years of Webservices or API Development experience
• 3+ years of experience with Java development
• Web Framework experience with Spring MVC
• Strong work experience with Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, MongoDB
• Web UI experience with CSS, AJAX, JavaScript, Bootstrap, AngularJS / ReactJS
• Familiarity and working knowledge Docker, Jenkins
• Database and caching experience, SQL and NoSQL (SQL, Postgres)

Technologies & Languages

• Azure
  • Databricks
  • SQL Sever
  • ADF
• Snowflake
  • Data Cleaning
  • ETL
• Azure Devops
• Intermediate Python/Pyspark
• Intermediate SQL
• Beginners' knowledge/willingness to learn Spotfire
• Data Ingestion
• Familiarity with CI/CD or Agile

Must have:

• Azure – VM, Data Lake, Data Bricks, Data Factory, Azure DevOps
• Python/Spark (PySpark) 
• SQL

Good to have:

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Scala

He/she should have a good understanding in:

• How to build pipelines – ETL and Injection
• Data Warehousing
• Monitoring

Responsibilities:

Must be able to write quality code and build secure, highly available systems.

Assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional business requirements.

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc with the guidance.

Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.

Monitoring performance and advising any necessary infrastructure changes.

Defining data retention policies.

Implementing the ETL process and optimal data pipeline architecture

Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.

Create design documents that describe the functionality, capacity, architecture, and process.

Develop, test, and implement data solutions based on finalized design documents.

Work with data and analytics experts to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.

Proactively identify potential production issues and recommend and implement solutions

• Provide accurate translations of texts.
• Attend meetings to translate discussions.
• Continually take language fluency assessments to certify fluency.
• Liaise with colleagues to ensure that translations are true to the original meaning.

As a Software Engineer, you will participate in all aspects of software development (design, development, testing, maintenance, support) of the business’s applications. This is a hands-on development role responsible for design, implementation, and life cycle management of the product built/configured on the Huron platform.

You will also have the opportunity to work with one or more development teams that are responsible for web applications, able contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of applications and technologies owned by the assigned team, be delivering quality client and server-side code, markup, and CSS as needed, while adhering to best practices and standard. In addition, you’d be expected to attend all team meetings while making meaningful contributions and provide regular updates (via tools, meetings, communication, etc.) to the team lead of assigned teams.

You’ll be part of the Huron Higher Education team with opportunities to collaborate, learn and grow while impacting some of the most prestigious higher education and research institutions.

Let’s get to work – together.

• Apply Software Engineering competencies to design and develop software products.
• Solve complex technical problems with help from Lead Engineers
• Interact with key stakeholders from Product Management, Implementation and Support teams
• Develop in-depth knowledge of business processes facilitated by our software products.
• Create and execute a complete set of unit test cases.
• Interact and pair program with other Software engineers on the team to build high quality products.
• Troubleshoot deployment and resolve environmental issues in a timely manner across multiple projects.
• Work closely with the offshore development team to ensure quality standards are being met
• Be part of the scrum for dev team
• Support and update existing internal applications and services.
• Improve and implement modular, well-documented, responsive, and accessible JavaScript frontend components
• Authoring developer documentation and release notes
  
  
  

• Four-year technical degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Information Systems or equivalent professional experience
• 3 + years of relevant experience
• Strong computer science skills and experience
• Highly proficient in .NetCore and Visual Studio
• Familiar with NextJS/React/TypeScript for front end development
• Unit testing experience with NUnit or other testing frameworks
• Familiarity in AWS Cloud Services like CloudFront, Cognito, Lambda, SNS, SES, Elastic Search, Event Bridge, S3, etc
• Familiarity with developing and using Rest API
• Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT required.
• Experience working with Postgres Aurora, DynamoDB, Elastic Cluster a plus
• Familiar in Linux
• Familiar with npm packages
• Authoring developer documentation and release notes
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies
• Ability to work independently or in a group with minimal supervision.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability and experience in design for generality and abstraction.
• Experience is preferred in the following:
  • REST and developing RESTful APIs using the OpenAPI standard.
  • HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, React
  • Aurora Postgress, DynamoDB
  • Developing microservices in Azure or AWS
  • Azure DevOps
  • .NET Core

About the Company:

 It is a Data as a Service company that helps businesses harness the power of data. Our technology fuels some of the most interesting big data projects of the word. We are a small bunch of people working towards shaping the imminent data-driven future by solving some of its fundamental and toughest challenges. 

Role: We are looking for an experienced team lead to drive data acquisition projects end to end. In this role, you will be working in the web scraping team with data engineers, helping them solve complex web problems and mentor them along the way. You’ll be adept at delivering large-scale web crawling projects, breaking down barriers for your team and planning at a higher level, and getting into the detail to make things happen when needed.  

Responsibilities  

•  Interface with clients and sales team to translate functional requirements into technical requirements 
•  Plan and estimate tasks with your team, in collaboration with the delivery managers 
•  Engineer complex data acquisition projects 
•  Guide and mentor your team of engineers 
•  Anticipate issues that might arise and proactively consider those into design 
•  Perform code reviews and suggest design changes 

Prerequisites 

•  Between 5-8 years of relevant experience 
• Fluent programming skills and well-versed with scripting languages like Python or Ruby 
• Solid foundation in data structures and algorithms 
• Excellent tech troubleshooting skills 
• Good understanding of web data landscape 
• Prior exposure to DOM, XPATH and hands on experience with selenium/automated testing is a plus 

Skills and competencies 

• Prior experience with team handling and people management is mandatory 
• Work independently with little to no supervision 
• Extremely high attention to detail  
•  Ability to juggle between multiple projects  

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?

Your bucket of undertakings:

This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility 
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
• Highly organised and efficient.
• Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Experience :

• 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
• Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
• DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Education :

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
3. 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.