Development Manager

Who are we?

Kriyadocs is a leading document workflow platform focused on the publishing industry. At Kriyadocs®, we have partnered with prestigious publishing houses across the world for over 18 years and delivered world-class, publication-ready digital & print content by applying cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, and extensive domain expertise. Technology is at the core of our evolution – we’ve consciously striven to always stay ahead of the curve in its adoption in order to provide best-in-class capabilities for our clients and our employees. This ethos is reflected in our vision and mission.

Our Vision: To make publishing all content as simple as clicking a button and become the partner of choice for individuals and organizations looking to share knowledge.

Our Mission: Provide a fantastic experience to authors, content publishers, and our own employees through technology and innovation, by publishing high-quality content seamlessly and quickly. We deliver Happy Authors and Happy Employees.

What is it really like to work here?

At Kriyadocs, every Kriyator is driven by our culture at the core to

• Deliver Excellence - Deliver Delight
• Stay Curious - Stay Driven
• Dream Big - Rise Together

You could also be a Kriyator, if you are

• Fearless in taking on challenges
• Focused in learning, demonstrating new skills and working towards successful outcomes
• Fanatical in taking pride and responsibility in all your work 

Job Description

We are looking for a Software engineer to join our cutting-edge development team as it grows. We want someone who is comfortable asking “why?” The ideal candidate is a divergent thinker who understands industry best practices and has experience with multiple coding languages. They are a team player possessing strong analytical as well as technical skills, and are able to communicate the logic behind technical decisions to non-tech stakeholders. They must be comfortable working in an agile environment and have the ability to “take the wheel” when necessary. They will work with multiple technologies and develop a keen sense of evaluating and using the appropriate technology to derive the best solution.

What you will do?

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging
• Write and test code to ensure compatibility and stability: refine and rewrite as necessary
• Troubleshoot and debug applications
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Follow the spec and its requirement and develop the features/project
• Providing written knowledge transfer material as documents

Requirements

Must have

• 1+ years experience coding in nodejs programming language 
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, Collections, good design principles like SOLID 
• Problem solving & analytical aptitude 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Experience in source code control with GIT/SVN
• Should be flexible to work on a variety of programming languages like NodeJS, React, etc. and on XML technologies like XSLT, XML Pipelines, etc

Good to have

• Experience working in the Node JS stack 
• Unit testing and automation frameworks 
• Experience working in a public cloud environment (AWS preferred) 
• Working with distributed microservice architectures 
• Agile product development life cycle

Eligibility Criteria 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer science or related fields from a reputed institution
• Any internship experience is a plus
• Experience : 1-4 years 
• Location : Chennai. Work from office (Mon to Fri)

• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end services
• Define APIs for front-end and back-end
• Consume 3rd party APIs
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks, and workarounds
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding of advanced JavaScript libraries and frameworks - Angular, RxJS, Internationalization
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and reactive components
• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Familiarity with front-end build tools
• Proficient understanding of Git
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance
• Basic understanding of HTTP requests and proficiency in creating REST APIs using Swagger
• Strong understanding of relational databases and its concepts - MySQL
• Ability to write database queries and transactions using sequalize ORM
• We would prefer it the candidate has an experience of min 1 year but a maximum of 3 years with all above mentioned technologies, libraries and frameworks

Role : Senior Software Engineer/Software Engineer

Experience : 1-2 Year(s)/2-4 Year(s)

Location : Bangalore

Education : B. Tech(CSE)/similar field of study/equivalent practical experience

Minimum qualifications:

• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages.
• Experience working with two or more from the following: 
• Mobile Application Development
• Distributed Computing
• Machine Learning
• Image Processing
• Developing Large Software Systems
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree, further education or experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related fields.
• Understanding of agriTech domain and application of technology in farming
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.