Data Scientist

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Details about the job. You will ...

• Work very closely with the Head of Engineering and the CEO directly
• Own major parts of our tech stack (Node.js/React.js) and your job will be focused primarily on backend (Node/SQL/MQs etc.), but with some front-end JS work (React) as needed
• Design, code, and deliver top-quality software that performs beautifully at scale
• Take ownership for your job and treat it like it is your baby
• This job is based in Chennai (NOT Remote). But we have a lot of flexibility for when life situations require you to work from home
• We are only a 40 person company (by choice) - so you will get amazing ownership!

A Bit About You.

• Really strong in Javascript especially in Node.js with at least 5 years of experience - if you are genuinely not super strong, please do not apply as you will find our interviews challenging and it might be a waste of your time
• Also has React.js experience so that you can support the front-end work as needed
• A strong Engineer who LIKES building software - not just someone who knows the frameworks and can code
• We don't care about college degrees or if you are self taught - we only care that you're exceptional in your work and can be professional
• Must have strong communication skills
• Must be organized, and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
• Strong sense of ownership and take pride in your work.

What Will We Do For You?

• Office next to the beach
• "Sports team with a heart" mentality. Even though we work hard, we take care of our people.
• Free breakfast and snacks every day
• Non-hierarchical work environment
• Macbook Pro, free swag etc. of course!
• Huge potential for career growth - the limiting factor will be just your commitment and ambition.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a talented Senior 3D Designer to join our team. The ideal candidate must demonstrate strong artistic and storytelling ability and possess foundational knowledge of processes, tools, and building blocks of XR – AR/VR, Metaverse. They must also have experience in end-to-end modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing and rendering. The candidate should be proficient in a variety of digital 2D and 3D software programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Blender, etc. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about designing photo-realistic virtual worlds and has 3-5 years of experience as a concept artist or graphic designer.

Responsibilities:

• Create avatar concepts, assets, world-building, materials and texture definition, and environments for photo-realistic virtual worlds
• Use traditional tools and technology to create designs in 2D/3D
• Collaborate with team members and work to a brief by understanding creative briefs, then considering elements such as context, timescales, and creative constraints when solving tasks
• Demonstrate an understanding of technical art production and end-to-end modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, and rendering
• Develop assets and designs in line with project requirements and timelines
• Ensure all designs are optimized for performance and meet project requirements
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies

Requirements:

• A portfolio of work demonstrating strong artistic and storytelling ability
• Foundational knowledge of processes, tools, and building blocks of XR – AR/VR, Metaverse
• Excellent sketching abilities for rough conceptualization
• Proficient in a variety of digital 2D and 3D software programs (not limited to Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Blender, etc.)
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines
• 3 - 5 years of experience as a concept artist or graphic designer preferred

Scrum Master(BA)

· Working with customers and product manager to prioritize and validate requirements.

· Coordinate with the work efforts of 8+ person team for various projects and help team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members.

· Should Coordinate and participate in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.

· Develop the crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications.

· Facilitate Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conduct sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement.

· Prepare extensive cost - benefit analysis to support system and process changes

· Meticulously analyze complex data, staffing plans and variances to recommend solutions to improve revenue per call and customer satisfaction/retention

· Should be Responsible for two Agile Scrum teams

· Should be able to guide three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.

· Coach the team members on Agile processes and facilitate  planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.

· Remove impediments and protect team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

· Work closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and story.

· Generate test plans work instructions and procedures from client requirements and industry standards.

· Interface with stake holders and facilitate communication between client and the IT department.

· Prepare use case documents and utilized JIRA to create UML diagrams including use case, activity and class diagrams to extract business process flows and workflows, thereby assisting development and quality assurance teams in understanding the requirements.

· Work on a team environment to finalize use cases to develop functional and detail design specifications of the application.

· Participate in JAD sessions for requirement, feasibility and risk analysis with various stakeholders, including designers, developers, QA and management to identify critical and high risk areas of the application.

· Collaborate with the QA team in reviewing and validating test plans and test cases, ensuring that the final application catered to the user requirements.

· Develop a user acceptance test plan and test case scenarios to guide a select group of key end-users in testing the user interface and functionality of the application.

· Examine and evaluate testing fixtures and procedures for appropriateness in the specific requirements.

· Conduct 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, user acceptance, integration and performance to verify the client’s needs are met.

· Should be able to Communicate client’s business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.

Desired Candidate Profile

Backend Developer - Node.JS - AirFi

AirFi is a market leader in providing portable Onboard Passenger Entertainment and Mobile Crew Sales Solutions to various passenger travel segments. Founded in 2011 in The Hague, Netherlands - AirFi is the world's fastest-growing company in mobile InFlight Entertainment space and in providing ancillary sales solutions to enterprise customers.

AirFi brings disruptive innovations in a cost-effective manner to the airline cabin and other modes of passenger transport mediums and is making thousands of passengers and crew happy every day all over the globe!

Your key responsibilities

• Responsible for ideating, designing, developing, and supporting the backend services of AirFi web apps for different modes of passenger transport including major airlines across the world.
• Manage your components independently, including but not limited to: gather requirements; communicate design decisions to cross-functional teams including data science, engineering, analytics, and operations; proactively seek user feedback.
• You will help AirFi to quickly iterate and scale web app development to different segments of customers with standard processes, automation, monitoring, and rapid quality assurance.
• Proactively monitor the web apps space for continuous improvements and optimisations, looking for new opportunities and challenges.

What we look for

• Exposure to product development, self-driven, highly motivated and you must be independent in managing on your own components or features
• You must be extremely collaborative and enjoy working cross-functionally with other engineers, designers, and stakeholders
• You must possess an affinity for metrics and analytics - You must be proactive and must move fast or pivot to meet the changing needs of the product
• You are a problem solver and can use everything from front end to command-line tools to help you identify and fix issues.
• You should be diligent, thoughtful, have an eye for detail and have great oral and written communication skills
• Work with product and engineering teams on different data driven products and help drive/implement the Data flows for the same.
• Designing, integrating and documenting technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis

Must have technical skills

• MUST: Experience in Javascript or any modern-day JS frameworks - 7+ years
• Experience NodeJS, MongoDB or any other NoSQL DB - 7+ years
• Experience on building RESTful services and MVC patterns - 5+ years

You get bonus point for

• Responsive web-frameworks (e.g. Foundation, Bootstrap)
• Experience in AngularJS, React, etc - 2+ years
• Linux skills (we run on embedded Linux)
• Expertise HTML5, CSS,
• Experience on Cloudant, AWS, GCP etc.

• Experience on eCommerce or payments related domains

We promise to provide opportunities that not only satisfy your creative instincts but also let you make a significant impact on the products that we create and ultimately the business we are in. We provide a great platform to take up multiple roles based on individual interests or skills and collaborate with different global teams. We boast of a professional, fun work environment with a flat hierarchy and super supportive people to work with. We also encourage a work culture where - no idea is a bad idea and the team can shout it out to be heard!

Some of our benefits that our employees cherish:

• Flexible work timings, remote working and work from home options
• Liberal employee policies including genuine open-door policy and special focus on keeping the work culture non toxic
• A very liberal leave policy that includes paternity, adoption and sabbatical leaves
• We provide Skill enhancement sponsorships
• Celebratory team events, regular team virtual GupShups and fun engagement activities including the annual team (destination) meetings and the annual family gala dinner!
• Meal coupons and random gift vouchers
• Career longevity perks and so on!

When we're in office some of the things that make AirFi an interesting place to work are - healthy breakfast, snacks and a fully loaded pantry (read: health alert!); we try to keep AirFi as a fun place to work at and have interesting team activities on Fridays with occasional beers. 

You get the opportunity to work and socialise with our global team when they visit or when you visit our customer offices/hangers. Last but not the least, in case you are an aviation geek - the opportunity to be on test flights and learn how the aviation industry works!

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/airfi">LinkedIn
• https://www.facebook.com/AirFi.aero">Facebook
• https://twitter.com/airfi_aero">Twitter
• http://airfi.aero/">Website

Join our team

We're looking for an experienced and passionate Data Engineer to join our team. Our vision is to empower Genesys to leverage data to drive better customer and business outcomes. Our batch and streaming solutions turn vast amounts of data into useful insights. If you’re interested in working with the latest big data technologies, using industry leading BI analytics and visualization tools, and bringing the power of data to our customers’ fingertips then this position is for you!

Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts (that are typically being defined in real-time), and, above all, is a passionate about data and analytics.

What you'll get to do

• Work in an agile development environment, constantly shipping and iterating.
• Develop high quality batch and streaming big data pipelines.
• Interface with our Data Consumers, gathering requirements, and delivering complete data solutions.
• Own the design, development, and maintenance of datasets that drive key business decisions.
• Support, monitor and maintain the data models
• Adopt and define the standards and best practices in data engineering including data integrity, performance optimization, validation, reliability, and documentation.
• Keep up-to-date with advances in big data technologies and run pilots to design the data architecture to scale with the increased data volume using cloud services.
• Triage many possible courses of action in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgment.

Your experience should include

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in data modelling, data development, and data warehousing.
• Experience working with Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis).
• Experience with large scale data processing systems for both batch and streaming technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kinesis, Flink).
• Experience in programming using Python, Java or Scala.
• Experience with data orchestration tools (Airflow, Oozie, Step Functions).
• Solid understanding of database technologies including NoSQL and SQL.
• Strong in SQL queries (experience with Snowflake Cloud Datawarehouse is a plus)
• Work experience in Talend is a plus
• Track record of delivering reliable data pipelines with solid test infrastructure, CICD, data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills with ability to balance competing priorities.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is occurring, and ambiguity is the norm.

Good to have

• Experience with AWS big data technologies - S3, EMR, Kinesis, Redshift, Glue

• Experience with Word press
• Experts in HTML To Word press theming
• Plugin Creation and Management
• Able to develop the theme. Mastery of HTML, CSS, PHP and jQuery;
• Experience with object-oriented programming
• Experience with mobile platforms.
• Experience with the following technologies OOAD/OOPS (Object Oriented Programming) PHP 5, MySQL 5, any framework like Zend/Symfony/CakePHP, etc.
• Strong understanding and hands-on in HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery/Prototype and AJAX.
• Very strong understanding of database technologies and SQL Optimization.
• A clear understanding of product development environment and methodologies.
• Experience in SVN/GIT Hub/Beanstalk
• Familiarity with web technology trends (Web 2.0) and the evolution of the Internet.
• Experience with Word press is mandatory, other CMS/framework experience will be an added advantage.
• Experience with Word Press Theme, Widgets, and Plugin customizing and developing new word press themes, Plugin modification/development, and widgets development.
• Expert knowledge in Word press installation, configuration, administration, security, and optimization.
• Desired Experience in customizing existing 3rd party themes, Plugin.